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...time is right for fighting in the street, boy")? Coincidentally, Fighting Man was released as a single during last month's Democratic Convention and was promptly boycotted by most Chicago radio stations. Perhaps the best track is Sympathy for the Devil, in which an intriguing Mick Jagger lyric rides over a sizzling Latin beat...
WEST (Epic). West spent eight months rehearsing in a deserted theater in Crockett, Calif., before coming up with this album. The music they found there is warm, lyric and natural. Its sound is country-western flavored strongly with folk. Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what...
...Parable of the Monkey"--have nothing going for them and should be ditched on that count. The first is corny, the second ludicrous, the third irrelevant, the fourth bad, and the fifth incomprehensible. By way of compensation, I'd suggest that if ever a name deserved to light a lyric, "Ftatateeta" does; that Caesar and Rufio might voice their contradictory opinions of vengeance and clemency in song; and that Caesar might urge Cleopatra to be a proper queen likewise. As long as Drake doesn't appear overly concerned about the incongruity of Shavian speeches and standard musical comedy numbers...
...credit, there are several first-rate tunes and some pretty fair lyrics in Her First Roman. I like a number called "Rome" for both elements, especially the following lyric: "Rome: I long to be at her side, a groom with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals for a home." And "Many Young Men From Now" has the added virtue of relevance, not only to the show but to the original play and to Cleopatra as Shaw conceived her. Drake would do well, however, to drop such hack-work as (from a song called "The Wrong Man"): "The world...
COUPLES, by John Updike. One of America's most stylish novelists turns his lyric imagination loose on adultery and the search for salvation in a richly plotted story set in a New England small town...