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They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...family combo almost as soon as they could walk. The family migrated from Britain to Australia in 1958, where the brothers worked their way up the radio-TV talent-show circuit. By last February the brothers had made it to London, acquiring along the way Drummer Colin Petersen and Guitarist Vince Melouney, and a producer got them into recording studios and out into the world...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass surround themselves with musicians: the Baja Marimba Band, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Liza Minnelli, Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery and Songwriter Burt Bacharach...
Surprisingly, for a burly, blunt-talking child of the London slums, Guitarist-Lutanist Julian Bream seems to have eardrums as fragile as orchid petals. What he calls the "bloody row and chaos" of contemporary life-jangling telephones, whirring machinery, blaring car horns-can make him physically ill. He has been known to get off elevators before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most...
...Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...