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Stained Class, heavy-metal album by Judas Priest ... shotgun suicide/maiming in Reno, Nevada...
SENTENCED. LARRY NEVERS, 53, and WALTER BUDZYN, 47, white former police officers; for their second-degree murder convictions in the beating death of black motorist Malice Green; in Detroit. Green died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they...
Only three years ago, Eddie Vedder was working the night shift at a service station in San Diego, sometimes telling people he was a security guard to impress them. He doesn't have to worry about that anymore. Today the 28-year- old singer and lyricist for the alternative-metal band Pearl Jam is rock's newest demigod. His group's debut album, Ten, has sold nearly 6 million copies and still ranks in the Top 30 of the Billboard album chart more than 90 weeks after its release. This week the Seattle-based quintet will release its second album...
...that bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard split from that band because the lead vocalist wanted to stay true to the experimental spirit of alternative rock, while Ament and Gossard wanted to become big-time rock stars. The band they formed, Mother Love Bone, combined a heavy-metal sound with bouncy tunes. Just as the group seemed ready to break through in 1990, its lead singer died of a heroin overdose...
...characterize the modern game. Norman's combination of altitude and distance allowed him to be the first to move successfully from a golf ball made of Balata rubber to two- and three-piece synthetic balls that offered greater distance but less spin - a change as revolutionary to golf as metal racquets were to tennis...