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Stray Cats, Men at Work, and Adam Ant are hardly familiar names to most people over 30. Yet they are among the leaders in the revival of pop music. After a four-year slump, sales of records and tapes have begun heading up again. Says David Geffen, head of Geffen Records, one of the most successful firms: "This is going to be a good season. Things are finally starting to turn around...
...more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes a Semi Legend Most? Next week she will be the host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and on April 18 she will take over the Carson show again for a week. "I think the country is ready for me," she says. "People...
Greg Copeland: Revenge Will Come (Geffen). A rough mix of lilting melodies with wracking romanticism and Christian mysticism...
...attorneys and the accountants; she supervised the buying up of property in Palm Beach, Fla., Cold Spring Harbor, an exclusive enclave on Long Island, and in upstate New York. When the Lennons decided to make another album earlier this year, it was Ono who called Record Executive David Geffen and worked out the deal...
RETAILERS IN YOUR VICINITY should soon have Hawks and Doves by Neil Young; Dirty Mind by Prince; The Wanderer, by Donna Summer, who just wandered from Casablanca Records to Geffen Records, with million dollar lawsuits and counter-suits trailing in her wake; Heart by Heart, a mix of live hits and new studio-recorded songs by Seattle's contribution to womanly rock & roll, All Shook Up from Cheap Trick, who recently left baseball-stadium-sized audiences in Japan in just that condition; a new album from indomitable bluesman Muddy Waters; another from state-of-the-art New Wavers Talking Heads...