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...Garland Jeffreys will never be a superstar. But that can't stop him from trying, or keep me from liking him. There are many problems with this live set, though there shouldn't be. Jeffreys' tour with the Rumour this summer blew away his studio (and studio musician) versions of his reggae-pop-rock mini-anthems. And Adult was taped at the two places in the world that love Garland Jeffreys, New York and Paris. But something rings false. Maybe it's that the opening song, his classic "Wild in the Streets", was played last in concert, and most...
...Garland Jeffreys (and the Rumour...
...deal with new confidence. Grown-up Jeffreys mindlessly runs through R.O.C.K., his paean to his draft which sounded so heartfelt on last year's Escape Artist; the new version is like hearing 101 strings playing the Who's "My Generation." And "96 Tears" does not belong on another Garland Jeffreys album. He's been in the business for a decade, proclaims his allegiance to Frankie Lymon, so why doesn't he play something else to show...
...look hard around the house to find other signs of big spending. Shyla Irving, a professional photographer, now has a well-equipped darkroom; she recently put a $1,000 lens on an old camera. The kitchen is dominated by a cast-iron Garland, a gas stove prized by serious cooks. Outside on a lawn, surrounded by a neighbor's fields and orchards, there is something that at first appears to be a helicopter landing pad. It is a wrestling...
...billion U.S. computer industry has for months been anxiously awaiting the entry of International Business Machines (1980 sales: $26 billion) into the hot new market for personal computers. Said Garland Asher, director of financial planning for Tandy Corp., one of the leading sellers of the television set-size machines: "Some people were convinced that IBM would be unveiling a new Holy Grail." Last week IBM finally showed off its product. Priced between $1,565 and $6,300, the desktop computer can store documents that once would have required a roomful of filing cabinets; it can also produce graphs in four...