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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only does The Who's old material sound vital now, the new songs are as powerful as anything the punks or the new wave set down. There are other supergroups, like the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac, who turn out a kind of well-tooled pop that beats The Who in the charts. There are even other hard-rock groups, like Led Zeppelin, that lay down a kind of sugar-lined bombast that can razzle-dazzle the record buyer. The Who's cumulative sales exceed 20 million records. The members' individual wealth?Townshend, Entwistle and Daltrey are all millionaires several times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Green Ripper, Mac Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...soon as I knew for sure that Ron would not be able to play the season I invited him to work with the freshmen," freshman football coach Mac Singleton said recently. "He proved himself as a coach right away and this year when he was told not to play again we put him on the payroll...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Jellison Finds Niche as Frosh Coach | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

Lyrics have always been less important to Fleetwood Mac than strong melodies and close harmonies. The subject matter of their songs is nearly always the disappointments of love. On Tusk these disappointments are explored in even greater detail than they were in Rumours; virtually every cut deals with lovers leaving or leaving one's lover. Only the final song on the album. "Never Forget," relieves the pervasive gloom; in this otherwise typical song, love finally triumphs: "Come on baby now don't you be cold/just remember that love is gold/could we ever forget tonight...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...radio play. A strong percussion solo (performed by the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band) punctuated by shrieks of "Don't say that you love me," it gives an entirely wrong impression of the rest of the album. Listening only to this song, one would think that Fleetwood Mac is finally experimenting with less formulaic, more outrageous and chaotic forms of rock. In fact, Tusk is probably the most tightly polished album the group's yet produced. That's the problem...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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