Word: funk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, Clinton blends it all into his beat to produce a record that not only "takes cover in the groove" (as he would have it) but even manages to "funk the bomb" (as the Village Voice proclaimed in a recent review). The salacious echo of "funking the bomb" is in your own mind: We're talking funk, sucker...
...show ran in London. Credit for the rethinking goes to Director Richard Maltby Jr., who also reshaped many of Don Black's lyrics to jape pop culture, and to Peter Martins, whose choreography gives the story of a young man on the town a vibrant blend of funk and wholesome virility...
...Union Station is the work of the Rouse Co., developer of the charmingly urban Harborplace in Baltimore, the charmingly urban Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, the charmingly urban South Street Seaport in New York and several lesser-known charmingly urban shopping-and- eating entities. These profitable developments are distinctly funk free, but they are not ugly. If it takes an artificial heart to save a dying downtown, as Harborplace probably saved Baltimore, why complain? The problem is programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were great, a few more were fine...
...group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain of the first big- time...
...home again, for a night at least. Or so they seemed to be singing, brothers and sisters. A Who's Who of pop music was onstage at the Apollo Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart...