Word: hayeses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Isaac Hayes is ready to start a concert, he sings his first song from offstage. Only then do the doors burst open, and a cloaked, bearded, shaven-headed figure strides forward, accompanied by four armed bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this...
He sits down behind the organ and launches into a jazz-styled number called Do Your Own Thing. In the course of two hours he sings only six or seven pieces: long, intricate blends of soul, blues, rock, white pop and gospel, with titles like One Big Unhappy Family, I...
At 28, Isaac Hayes is the brightest new black pop star in the U.S., the composer of the hit song from the movie Shaft (now in the top five on the charts) and a singer whose last four LPs have all been what the trade calls "platinum" disks (earning $2...
Such success enables Hayes to drive around in a Jaguar or one of his two Cadillacs; he has a third on order with gold-plated bumpers. "I like luxury, man," he says, "because it's what I never had."
Last season, Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company wallowed in polemics. Now the company has made a brave new start with the most impressive drama it has yet staged. The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is steeped in the humor, the passion, and the frustration of...