Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allison is a waitress at CBGB's a punk rock club in New York. She also plays rhythm guitar in a band called Revenge. "Groupies think it's so glamorous to get a job here. On a good night, you don't sit down! You don't sit, you have to carry this heavy tray, clean up, take abuse...I've had half my hair pulled out already! I'm not one of those girls that dyes her hair pink and orange and crawls all over the band members. I think that's disgusting. They think it's in 'cause...
...Always a Woman" has a bright arpeggio guitar part in the background, but the song lacks the vitality that comprises so much of Billy Joel's work, and never goes anywhere...
Walk down Columbia Street at night and the chances are good you will hear music with a Latin beat escaping from the windows. Winter has driven the guitar-strumming, beer-drinking knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks...
...British-born Costello may look a bit like Woody Allen with a guitar, but there is nothing timid about his music. With a three-piece band behind him, he blasts out a stream of riffs that recalls the piston rhythms of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock...
...then picked Costello from his mum's side of the family. A couple of singles recorded during his days off led to his only album so far, My Aim Is True. When CBS Records executives came to town last July for their international convention, Costello grabbed his guitar, rushed over to the London Hilton and staged a street-corner audition. Although the police promptly arrested him, the Columbia execs eventually offered him a contract...