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...left by the Harlows and Gables. Any number of the pop world's scores of superstars could serve to illustrate the process. Four who exemplify its various aspects as vividly as any are Balladeer Carole King, Hard-Rocker Ian Anderson, Pop-Jazz Songstress Roberta Flack and Fey Troubadour Harry Nilsson. Not exactly household names, they nevertheless enjoy more status with the young than a Newman or a Taylor. They are more lavishly remunerated than, say, Redford or Mac-Graw. Indeed, everything about the music industry of the '70s is reminiscent of Hollywood in the '30s and '40s: moguls, superstars...
...manic-impressive group for which Anderson is lead singer and flutist, are still artisans right down to their self-mocking codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style of Flack...
RICHARD PERRY, independent producer for Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Harry Nilsson and Carly Simon, among others. At 30, hottest freelance in business. Discovered both Tiny Tim and Captain Beefheart. Conceives albums in manner of Hollywood director. Added drum crescendos that give Simon's You're So Vain special contemporary sound. Has loved pop music ever since he attended one of Alan Freed's rock-'n'-roll shows as a kid in Brooklyn in 1954. Earnings from sales and royalty percentages are well into six figures a year (last year: about $250,000). Sometimes agrees...
LIFE's final years were journalistically spectacular. One prime example: an investigative series on Abe Fortas resulted in his withdrawal from the Supreme Court. First and last, science enjoyed LIFE's most extensive and memorable coverage, from the birth of that controversial baby to Lennart Nilsson's incredible photography (1965) of a life before birth. Ironically it was scientific explorations that helped to close LIFE. For once a satellite flew, pictures could be swiftly bounced from one part of the world to another. Ten days to bring back the coronation in color? Ten nanoseconds for the next...
...made a showing. He presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Les Troyens. He was the first to put such now celebrated Europeans as Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Geraint Evans on the American stage. He has also led in giving major roles to relatively unknown U.S. singers, among them Leontyne Price. Says the grateful Price: "I sort of grew up in San Francisco, both vocally and professionally. It's definitely equal to the Metropolitan...