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...reggae reveries of Garland Jeffreys make a fine record...
...performances (on TV, in movies and concerts) and home movies shows, Presley did it every which way but his. He began as an original-a white man who sang like an angry black and moved like a bad woman-and ended as a bloated amalgam of Liberace and Judy Garland. It was the standard show-biz tragedy, which Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo document in delicious detail. Today Elvis remains a thriving industry, like Disney; this film is both a comment on that industry and (through the authorization of Presley's mentor, Colonel Tom Parker) a part...
...solo work. Their first, the bluesy Max can be had for a mere dollar at Beggar's Banquet in the Square, a comment on its popularity; and the second. Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts didn't sell here either. Their problem lies in that after playing under Parker and Garland Jeffreys, they are, in comparison, devoid of poetic direction. They seem to have so sense as to what covers work and what don't. The new album contains Randy Newman's "Have You Seen My Baby" (which has also been covered by Ringo Starr) and "Rubber Band Man", a song...
...album lie not in the cover songs like Rockpile, but instead in the writing of Schwarz himself. It must be a comedown to go from a band with Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm named after oneself to front a band always known as "Graham Parker and the" of "Garland Jeffreys and the", but Brinsley has held up fine. The mix of his Brylcreem look and Martin Belmont's paunchy, fish-blowing-bubbles look are reflected in their complementary guitar styles, crafted pop and raunchy reggae...
DIED. William Meiklejohn, 78, Hollywood talent agent who during his 60 years as a scout, first for vaudeville and later for Paramount Pictures, used his self-avowed "seventh sense" to discover and promote such stars as Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and, in 1937, a young sportscaster in Des Moines named Ronald Reagan; after surgery for a perforated ulcer; in Burbank, Calif...