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...unlikely history will forget the period, thanks to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf War. But in music, you'd think there was a jump from the upbeat Top 40 of Reagan's America--epitomized in Madonna's "Material Girl" (1984)--to the brooding alternative explosion of Clinton's '90s, marked by Nirvana's breakthrough hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991). In making that leap you'd skip both the George Bush years and the apex of a key musical genre: the power ballad...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Time Before Nirvana | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...MADONNA Says selling pix of her kid was a big mistake. Like it's her first. One day a publicity hound, the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Picture the bullnecked jailer in Cool Hand Luke, throw in some of former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, add a touch of Yosemite Sam and you get Sheriff Joe. And right now the boss hog, who averages a speech a day and makes Madonna look like a media wallflower, is wowing the retirees with lines about how he'd hate to be in a top bunk tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...with the President. Erbland, who has known Lewinsky since they were both students at Beverly Hills High School, is part of a family well known in the entertainment business. She arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her father, Freddy DeMann, the record producer who co-founded Maverick records with Madonna. Her husband Chris Erbland is a writer for the NBC sitcom Mad About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Heat | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Callbacks sang three songs: Madonna's "Like a Prayer," "Scarborough Fair," by Simon and Garfunkle and "Tempted," by Squeeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Capella Group Wins Second Place | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

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