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...nostalgia. That may be the better way. Play the music, keep it up front and don't sweat the future. "Talent will survive," says Aretha Franklin, who mounted a successful tour herself this summer. "People with true talents and gifts will stand the test of longevity, with good business management." Right. Leave the fretting to everyone else. There is, indeed, a good measure of concern to go around...
Peter Case, a wondrous songwriter and singer whose recent album The Man with the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar is good enough to carry like a talisman into the uncertainties of the '90s, sees the difficulty in broader terms. "Rock 'n' roll has just become a new form of Disneyland," he says. "The whole thing has got mythologized to the point where it's just a bunch of rubbish." Greil Marcus, who writes formidably on popular and radical culture (the recent Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold...
...even today. Musicians may cross over a lot, but radio stations seldom do. Vernon Reid, 31, who plays guitar with an ear on Hendrix and an eye on the Top Ten, recognized the problem early on. "Being black makes it tougher," he says. "It helped that we are a good band. But we had to be real good ; -- better than a white band has to be -- to convince radio and record companies to take the risk." There was a significant, and surprising, payoff. Living Colour's first album is still on the pop charts after a year, and after selling...
...justified. Money is an unlikely answer. He still earns $80,000 a year from the State Department, and his wife has additional income. Except for their $328,000 apartment, Bloch has modest tastes. He seems satisfied with his books, the theater, his stamp collection and a glass of good wine. Bloch resented serving under politically appointed ambassadors in Vienna, but his real complaint is with the State Department's failure to consider him for appointment as Ambassador to East Germany, and his later lack of success in becoming Deputy Ambassador to the Hague or Consul General in Munich, even though...
Stevie Wonder toured with the Stones; so did Peter Tosh; last time out, Prince kicked off some concerts for them. It is the Stones' way of reminding audiences of the incalculable debt the band owes to the traditions of rhythm and blues, and soul. It is also good business. Black audiences may turn out to catch the opener and stick around for the headliners. Certainly putting a quarter-century-old rock outfit beside a new band that's hot and soulful gives the Stones a little proximity to the future. Keeps them fresh, you might say. Keeps them young...