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Stars of the Forties are back with this year's crop of nominees for the 37th annual Grammy Awards. Among the nominees announced today: Tony Bennett, 68-year-old crooner and a Generation X darling of late, received a nomination today for album of the year for his "MTV Unplugged." (He'll go up against "The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994," Eric Clapton's "From the Cradle," Bonnie Raitt's "Longing in Their Hearts," and Seal's self-titled album "Seal.") Frank Sinatra, whose first albumful of digitized duets with rock stars such as U2's Bono was released...
...still under investigation for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old boy, the self-designated King of Pop married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King, in what many perceived as an attempt to cleanse his tarnished image. However, only a few months after the newlyweds kissed steamily at the MTV Video Music Awards, gossip columnists buzzed that the marriage would soon be nullified, a rumor the Jacksons deny...
...turn your head away from a train wreck. By the end of her bleepathon, even the studio audience was hooting her off the stage. She tried to salvage the p.r. disaster by acting like Little Bo Peep on Jay Leno's show and cooing with Dave at the MTV awards. No sale. Terumi Matthews in Madonna: Innocence Lost was more...
...sweet pangs of adolescence and the seemingly endless , wait for adulthood. In Stage 2, the rock star screeches churlishly about the unbearable pain of megacelebrity and the seemingly endless wait for room service at the Four Seasons. And in the third and last stage, the rock star goes on MTV Unplugged and performs all the songs from the first and second stages, only this time with acoustic instruments...
...group has sung about restless youth (the song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done? Not exactly. Pearl Jam's vigorous new CD, Vitalogy, shows that, having come to the end of one rock-group cycle, the band still...