Word: linda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back. Poth were by veterans of the folk movement in the sixties, but both transcended their roots in range of emotion as well as in diversity of influences, One, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Track, immediately shot to number one on the charts. The other, Richard and Linda Thompson's I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, sold less than 50,000 copies and disappeared until last year when Rolling Stone, "rediscovered" the rerelease on the miniscule Carthage label...
Well, musical anonymity may drain one's bank acount but it certainly does not siphon off one's creative juices. While Dylan has managed to put together only two records of any quality in the past decade, Thompson, now divorced from Linda, has delivered a string of ten killer albums culminating in his most complexly beautiful since Bright Lights: Across A Crowded Room...
This violence recurs in the album's one great misogyay song. "She Twists The Knife Again." The music here is almost upbeat, betraying Thompson's accusations as an act of defense rather than malice. Two years after his breakup with Linda, Thompson is still bitter: on this song, he lets his guitar gently weep in a way that is fat above anything George Harrison could envison in his wildest, rock-and-roli wet dreams...
...packed meetings of her independent congregation in San Diego, and her syndicated TV show was aired in 15 markets. She got an annual salary of $180,000, plus perks that one insider puts at $40,000 a month. Gavin MacLeod (Love Boat), one of her many celebrity parishioners (others: Linda Gray, Lily Tomlin, Eydie Gorme), threw a big bash so she could meet nearly everyone who had ever graced his ABC show. Have it all, said Cole-Whittaker. If you're in an unhappy marriage, chuck it--as she herself has done four times. One of her key postulates: "Prosperity...
...Greg Hubbard, a Los Angeles construction worker, and his wife Linda both converted to Catholicism recently, and they made their first trip to Italy, a two-week tour of Rome and five other cities, for $2,500. "It was nicer than we thought it would be," says Linda, "particularly when you compare it with all that neon we get at home...