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...Peter Gabriel...
Well, this season's big moneymaker appears to be a Motownesque ditty called "Sledgehammer" by erstwhile art-rocker Peter Gabriel. As summer swill singles go, "Sledge" is a real doozy, the slowed-down tempo perfect for dancing (or doing anything else) in a sand dune. Perhaps if "Sledge" was a Van Halen song, I could really get excited. But coming from Gabriel, one of few rock performers who writes intelligent and adult material, this song and most of So hit me about as hard as a three-day-old Miller Light...
Ever since leaving Genesis about eight years ago, Gabriel has become an innovator and an active conscience in rock. His early single "Biko," which sets lyrics about South African repression to eerie synth guitar and tribal rhythms, proved to be a big hit at the recent Amnesty International benefit concert. But old Gabriel fans are going to hear little or none of his former complexity on So. Instead, Gabriel has filled this album with a bunch of love songs that are equally pretty and banal. In short, this will probably be the best Phil Collins album ever made...
...Roman Catholic Church to members of his own junta. Yet far from smoothing the ! transition to democracy, Pinochet seems intent on proving at whatever cost that the lessons of the Philippines do not apply to Chile. In the process, critics charge, he is further polarizing Chilean society. Says Gabriel Valdes, leader of the moderate Christian Democratic Party: "Pinochet is a good machine for producing Communists...
...AFFAIR: THE CASE OF ALFRED DREYFUS, Jean-Denis Bredin LESS THAN ONE, Joseph Brodsky RAIN OR SHINE, Cyra McFadden THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR, Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE TENDER PASSION, Peter Gay WISEGUY, Nicholas Pileggi