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...Temptations, Tim Allen, Anita Cochran, Dave Coulier (in case you didn’t satisfy your Full House fervor with “The B.J. Show” this year), and David Alan Grier. Even though the concert was, for the most part, Detroit Diva-free (Madonna and Aretha Franklin are from Detroit, too), my best friend and I decided to drive downtown and check out the scene...
Never mind those world leaders meeting in Genoa. The globe's most potent ambassadors are often its traveling rock stars. With Madonna launching the U.S. portion of her Drowned World tour after a five-city European swing, Notebook looks at how rock's headliners are promoting--and pummeling--international harmony...
...MADONNA On her new tour, the rock provocateur shows a film that depicts her as a battered woman. Some feminists have objected. In London, M cried, "God save the Queen!" but drew catcalls for her high ticket prices. For 85[pounds], a British paper quipped, "you'd expect her to lap-dance for you privately...
...Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia" (Verso Press). Strausbaugh laments the decline of rock music from something that he says was "legitimately counter-cultural" to something that has simply become part of "the nostalgia industry." He cleverly calls the tours of the Who and the Stones and Madonna "civil war re-enactments of rock-and-roll." Indeed, rock-and-roll itself has become a kind of ironic relic, something the newer groups do in inverted commas...
...least those who don't change become classics. Tina Turner was always Tina Turner (well, after Ike anyway) - just the way Tony Bennett has never altered even the cuffs on his tuxedo. Some people don't have to reinvent themselves. Madonna's tour is not about art or music but commerce. Once, though, there was a little bit of edge...