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...Beatles' landmark album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In London last week, Paul McCartney was back at Abbey Road Studios to pay homage to the 20th anniversary of a record that has sold 15 million copies and whose lyrics evoked comparisons with Tennyson and T.S. Eliot. EMI Records, for its part, celebrated the occasion by releasing the album on compact disc. As a group of well-wishers and Wife Linda watched, McCartney cut a cake shaped like the drum on the album cover and listened to the music that for many epitomizes the spirit of the psychedelic...
...Lords: Frontier Days (EMI/ America). When a rambunctious band makes a debut album as good as this, it should be all set. The Del-Lords' influences range from Warren Zevon to Alfred Reed, whose vintage How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live kicks the album off in high style and even higher spirits. The music is all rhythmic rush, and the songs-most of them original compositions by Scott Kempner-combine street smarts with some angry political savvy, as in the caustic Mercenary. There are echoes of the Band here, and of Creedence Clearwater Revival...
David Bowie: Let's Dance (EMI America). Smooth and elegant, like the edge of a new knife, this sharp, soulful album marked Bowie's return to top form...
...will join him in America. They live, with decided privacy and some semblance of serenity, in a house overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. There are certainly rock stars who are richer, but no tears of sympathy should be shed over the Bowie savings account. His new record company, EMI America, paid him between $10 million and $17 million to sign on for five albums. Exact figures are hard to come by?no record company wants its other clients to renegotiate for what the star attraction is getting?but it is a rich deal at either end of the spectrum. Bowie...
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul: Men Without Women (EMI America). Anthems for back alleys and high spirits by the most exciting new band since the Clash...