Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person came in saying he was John Lennon and wanted to find out what the '80s were all about," Phil Burke, an employee at Harvard Square Theater, said yesterday. "But we didn't believe him," he added. Burke said he did not know whether the questioner was from the Lampoon...
Watts and the others did not forget their tutelage in R and B; for years they insisted they were not a rock band, and certainly not a pop band, like their rivals, the Beatles. When McCartney and Lennon dropped in on an early recording session and suggested that the Stones play original material instead of just R and B covers, Jagger was caught by surprise, responding "Oh! You're right; that's a good idea." But still the Stones have always tended to fall back on what they know best: Black American blues. For quite a while, Brian Jones favored...
...Before Elvis there was nothing," John Lennon stated in one of his last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained...
Staying in shape and striving for personal improvement regardless of match results are other motivations. Paul Lennon, who like Bridgeland and Kiam is in his last year here, has worked his way up to the varsity several times, only to falter and drop back down to the second string. He's been sitting out this fall with a hip injury, but refuses to rule out a return, saying, "I came to Harvard to play and win, but I also just wanted to see how good I could get. I guess I'm not really sure...
...this time two years ago there would have been no place for Lennon, Kiam, Bridgland, Kevin Skelly, Peter Smith and other strong players to go if they didn't make the first string. Probably strong enough to beat some Ivy League varsity squads, this crew got its chance to stay on the courts and compete when Kiam began working with coach David Fish in the spring of 1980 to put together a "B" team with its own schedule...