Word: folk-rock
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MARRIED. Michelle Phillips, 33, lissome blonde Hollywood actress (Valentino) who was a singer with the 1960s' Mamas and Papas folk-rock group; and Robert Stephen Birch, 30, a broadcasting executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills...
...accurate and honest in its expression that it becomes part of what is going on in the world, rather than just an artful description. But perhaps most amazingly, Street Hassle achieves honesty and creativity without merging with jazz, blues, folk, rock-jazz, rhythm and blues, disco, for folk-rock--it's still just good rock'n'roll...
DIED. Sandy Denny, 31, understated British singer-songwriter who set contemporary lyrics to music rooted in traditional folk themes; of a brain hemorrhage as a result of a fall; in Wimbledon, England. As lead vocalist for the folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Denny became Britain's top female vocalist at the end of the 1960s, respected for her quiet professionalism and musical inventiveness, then left at the peak of her popularity to form another group, Fotheringay, which floundered. After a brief reunion with Fairport, she went on to solo in England...
JIMMY BUFFETT USED TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. His music was just about the first consistent merger of Caribbean rhythms and percussion with American folk-rock pop, and it wasn't just pop to begin with. Buffett grew up in Mobile, Alabama, listening to the same Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers classics that whelped the Grand Ole Opry Empire of the Nashville Moguls, a philistine crew who breed for violin affinity, not for rasp'n'roll or the truckstop gut-wrench. But the Buffett derivation went the other way, toward the fringes. Lotta room out there on the fringes: Willie...
...album, and at 22, Olga Korbut has left her temper tantrums-and her parallel bars-behind. The Olympic gold medalist plans to coach gymnastics rather than perform. She also hopes to travel with her husband, Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with the Soviet Union's popular folk-rock group Pesnyary (Singers). First stop: Cuba, where the couple will have a delayed honeymoon and where Leonid's group has an invitation to warble. As usual Pesnyary will perform jazzed-up Byelorussian songs. A pity, since Olga's favorites are by Stevie Wonder and the Beatles...