Word: mick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scaggs opted, not surpisingly, for the change. "Silk Degrees," arguably the biggest hit last season by an artist or group not including Mick Fleet-wood, was a monolith, spinning off three hit singles and booming Boz Scaggs squarely into the Top 40 spotlight. His concerts, never before especially noteworthy, were suddenly sellouts. The days of the six-piece Texas blues band and the scruffy cowboy threads were gone forever; Boz was fronting a full orchestra and twirling stylishly onto the stage in silk scarves, Cardin suits and Gucci loafers. The image, after all, fit the music--slick and seamless...
...ALISON," as in "I'm Not Angry" and throughout My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello anticipates our reactions and responds by ringing changes on them. Comparisons are inevitable--to Presley, from whom he took his name; to Springsteen, and Mick Jagger, and Graham Parker, like all of whom he sounds; to the r&b revivalists, of whom he is certainly one; to the punks, of whom he is not. The comparisons will be made, but they will be unfair. They'll be easy handles for people who will be scared away by outward appearances and won't recognize this album...
...inflates so much, in fact, that she at one point ridicules Flynn as a "greasy mick lawyer" and claims she can do better as her own defense. She dismisses the warnings of the worldly Flynn who says, "You're a phony celebrity Roxie, a flash in the pan--in two weeks nobody'll know who you are kid.... That's Chicago." But after one of Velma's girls is convicted and receives her just desserts at the end of a rope, Roxie agrees to dress up like Susy Homebody and bring a bit of vaudeville to the jury...
Buzz and Blast. Up on the stage can be found a numbing array of groups and soloists whose names dramatize the nihilism and brute force that have inspired the movement: Clash, Thunder-train, Weirdos, Dictators, Stranglers, Damned, and the demon-eyed New Yorker who could become the Mick Jagger of punk, Richard Hell. The music aims for the gut. Even compared with the more elemental stylings of 1950s rock 'n' roll-which it closely resembles -punk rock is a primal scream. The music comes in fast, short bursts of buzz and blast. Some groups have...
...accompanied the present era of family breakups, to look back on this other dream of marital eroticism. Such a daring dream, really, or at any rate one of great challenge--or foolishness. To dream that we were back with Dorothy in Kansas when in fact we were watching Mick Jagger get his first guitar; when Kansas itself was already changing, subtly, beneath the surface; when in fact everything was changing, getting ready to change, bursting forward, and only we, the well-meaning inheritors of our time-cube, now joined with our parents--parents always coalescing with parents, another divine joke...