Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homage to those who advance that creed through testimonials, tributes, fame and adulation. We scramble for tickets to fill the stadiums and fieldhouses of those institutions and organizations that adopt the win-at-all-cost philosophy...
...King. Things've come full cycle for the King of the Blues. He was a highlight of Newport-New England, finally reaping the musical benefits of his gradual rise to fame: he had a band that fit his talents. Which is nothing against the old Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals, because in the old days (like at the Regal), they just cooked. It's just that now B B has a band that's not only good, but it's big five horns, and piano augmenting the standard rhythm section with a rhythm guitarist as icing. Upshot? I've never...
...wife. He would, it seemed, sing no more songs of easy domestic bliss. Preview echoed the troubled times masked by "Brown Eyed Girl," and more accurately described by "He Ain't Give You None" and "TB Sheets." Morrison's wife, Janet, was quite a stabilizing influence; his aquisition of fame (artistic) and comfort (financial) came during his marriage. Their divorce was finalized this year...
...simplistic arrangement is plodding; guitarist John Platania's work is indecisive, given to noodling. (His work throughout the album is inconsistent, remarkable from a man responsible for the opening lick to "Domino," something that is in my Guitarists Hall of Fame next to the beginning of "Smoke on the Water.") The song's bitterness stands out, and it is a measure of the artist's bitterness that he is unable to articulate...
...album, throw away the record, and hang the cover on my wall. Instead, I discovered that Escher had produced a collected works, and in paperback. I bought it, instead of Mott the Hoople. I filed them away, at the time with people like the Kings, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more or less stormed back onto the music scene at the tender mercies of David Bowie, who'd decided to Do Something with these boys. The single was "All the Young Dudes," maybe a homosexual anthem...