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Recent weeks have seen television biographies of Judy Garland, Abbott and Costello, Television Reporter and Cancer Victim Betty Rollin, Baseball Player Ron LeFlore, and Sally Stanford, a California madam who was elected mayor of Sausalito. Early next year Elvis Presley, who died only 16 months ago, will re-emerge on...
Transplanted Easterners who started collaborating while they were still teenagers in Los Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs...
Rock Critic Robert Palmer has supplied a fleet, smart text for the book, but Baby, That Was Rock & Roll is made up mostly of lyrics (terrific) and old photos (family-scrapbook evocative). Mike Stoller's wonderful music is necessarily shortchanged in print. Its influences can be traced-boogie, R...
Remember when they hated rock'n'roll? The cameras couldn't see Elvis from the waist down, and parents stood guard in the doorway of their children's vicarious ecstasy. Time has seen rock'n'roll co-opted, legitimized by anal retentive businessmen who learned how to turn the tide...
But those kids stare at artists like Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Nick Lowe and Blondie, and at least they can tell that these groups have as little to do with the Sex Pistols as the Beatles had to do with the Partridge Family. These artists have almost nothing in common...