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Tired of working at odd jobs around London, songwriter/guitarist Pat Gribben, once of the Starjets, founded the Adventures in 1982. With the addition of Terry Sharpe on vocals, Spud Murphy, former Starjets producer and then road manager for Stiff Little Finger and The Boomtown Rats, on percussion, Pat's wife Eileen on backing vocals, tambourines, etc., and Tony Ayre on bass, the band began writing, rehearsing and touring...
Following 1984 singles "Another Silent Day" and "Send My Heart," The Adventures is their album debut. Avoiding the politics that often pervade the music of bands with similar roots (Gribben, Gribben, and Sharpe hail from Belfast) the band instead opts for stock song themes like love, sex, and relationships. Though lyrics are easily accessible, they at times become slightly monotonous, if not boring...
Along with their common record label, these bands also share a common attempt to launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...
...dangers and mysteries of cholesterol include those of Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, who wrote the story, and Washington Correspondent Patricia Delaney; other contributions came from Correspondents Dick Thompson and Elizabeth Taylor and Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter. The credits also include the names of two stringers: Chicago's Sheila Gribben, a 6½-year general-assignment veteran, and Los Angeles' Cheryl Crooks, a stringer for the past five years. Another stringer who helped report the story was Houston's Lianne Hart...
...this story, Gribben sought out experts at the University of Cincinnati Lipid Research Clinic, interviewed food-industry spokesmen and talked to Milwaukee doctors studying heart-disease risk factors such as smoking and job-related stress. Crooks interviewed scientists at universities and medical centers, spoke with teachers participating in a health-improvement scheme and talked to National Institutes of Health researchers about the amazing Pima Indians, who have very low heart-attack rates. Since last year, when she covered the progress of Artificial Heart Recipient Barney Clark for TIME, Crooks has become something of an expert on medical subjects, although...