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...Frampton, 26, a multimillionaire in a mere 18 months. Frampton Comes Alive! has sold 11 million copies, earning the transplanted British rock star $6.4 million; in addition, he grossed $3.5 million in S.R.O. concerts across the U.S. last year. It took the wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 120 lbs.) guitarist ten hard years of experimentation and road tours before he hit platinum. Says he: "I would never have believed 18 months ago that I'd be driving around in limos, own a Rolls and live this...
...While Pierre stayed home in Ottawa with the children, Margaret celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary by partying it up in Toronto with one of her favorite rock bands, Britain's raunchy Rolling Stones (TIME, March 21). The group's lead guitarist, Keith Richard, had just been charged with possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking. Margaret subsequently flew off to Manhattan and launched a freelance photographic career...
...personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland. How that rabbit runs...
...pattern of notes that flow from Coster's moog on "Reach Up" enable him to separate his personal style from Carlos' domineering presence, a real rarity in this band's history. Until now, Santana has featured five accompanying musicians who have provided a virtually faceless backdrop to the lead guitarist...
Carlos weighs in with easily the most diverse collection of styles that a major rock guitarist has assembled in a while. The fuzzed-out vibrato of his riffs on "Let the Children Play" provides a sharp contrast with the intricate acoustic guitar performance that highlights "Verao Vermelho," a song that somehow seems incomplete without a castanet-clapping flamenco dancer and a few serenading gitanos strumming away in the background. "Revelations" unveils still another Carlos Santana, a Carlos who has lent an attentive ear to the mournful strains of the great blues guitarists like B.B. King and Muddy Waters. This eleven...