Word: ken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rock 'n' roll is about life, and age is a state of mind," he says. "The music's still wide open. All you need is the nerve, the nerve to do what you want to do." It takes more than nerve, though, to get played on the radio. Ken Barnes, editor of the industry trade magazine Radio & Records, figures that at least 40% of what is available to the whole American radio audience is "classic" or "oldies" rock. Demographics restrict station playlists and tie up formats; besides, as Barnes puts it, "the sheer cultural weight of what...
...mean, the Rolling Stones have never been on the cover of TIME? Well, they almost were, back in 1972, when their seventh U.S. tour was taking America by storm. Photographer Ken Regan posed the "satanic majesties" of rock backstage in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the cover did not appear: it was bumped by one on George McGovern taking over the Democratic Party. "I've been waiting 17 years for this cover," chuckled Regan last week, as he arranged the Stones for their portrait, older but still flaunting their stuff...
...region and lease homes in a church-owned subdivision. At the main headquarters, dubbed the "inner retreat," the group is constructing a system of tubular underground shelters for 756 people. The guns, according to former members, are meant to defend the 600 staffers against a Communist invasion. Former bodyguard Ken Paolini charges that members are being told, "If we come under attack, we'll all go into the etheric together...
...while the weenie has spent the summer reading and I have spent the summer procrastinating (between beers, of course), Ken has spent the summer counting the number of minority fans at Fenway. Which, of course, doesn't distract him from Clemens' curve ball, or anything like that...
...KEN isn't the only one with the bright ideas. Terry decided to write his T-thing on revival cults...