Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most common comment about the Who's music is that it is unclassifiable; attempting to do so does pose special problems because the group's members seem to have dredged up out of themselves a new vein in rock music--one that sounds like no other group for more than the odd fleeting moment. If you can imagine a music that sounds a little like the Beach Boys in their early 'I Get Around' stage but harder, or like The Stones' 'Jumping Jack Flash' but harder, you have the Who at their medium mellowest, i.e. doing 'Out in the Street...
...relish in a wide variety of styles ("They have a nice sense of play' 'a photographer friend remarked) ranging from the chain gang 'Bald Headed Woman' to the baroque Swingles Singers Bach effect on 'Silas Stingy' chanting 'money money money money. . .' in rising and falling strains to harpsichord music...
Once the world's largest talent agency and more recently Hollywood's leading TV film producer, the Music Corp. of America has long been known in show-business circles as "The Octopus." The sobriquet still stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...
...original calling was ophthalmology. A graduate of both the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, Stein helped finance his education first by organizing a band in which he played "schmaltz" violin and saxophone, later by arranging dance-hall bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded in signing up most of Hollywood's top stars, including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Marlon...
Many of those who went to Newport this year did not do so to listen to folk music, and of the ones who did, a significant group found themselves generally bored with what was offered. The people were hungry for electronic devices and instruments, for electric music, and whenever such music was offered it was eaten...