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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For its part, Living Colour could use a little of the Stones' legendary entree. Theirs has not been an easy road. They were a hot club band on the East Coast, "really quite well known," as Mick Jagger says. "But they couldn't get a record deal because they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Directions for The Next Decade | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

To open for them on their new tour, the Stones have chosen hard-rocking Living Colour for a slot that has, over the years, taken on a fair amount of significance. Opening for the Stones has come to be not just another lucrative gig but a way for musicians (black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Directions for The Next Decade | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

And he has wise words for anyone fretting over the graying of rock, for whoever freaks out on musical fashion and obsesses over obsolescence. "To be a rock 'n' roller isn't like being a football player," he says. "There are brilliant jazz and country players and classical guys in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Directions for The Next Decade | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Back in Berlin, the Nazi authorities were fretting over another problem. In the early years of Nazism, one of Hitler's goals had been to harass Germany's half a million Jews into leaving. Now he was planning a more extreme policy: rounding up and killing every Jew in all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

By that time the Luftwaffe was bombing and strafing the beach, and Dunkirk was in flames. R.A.F. fighter planes raced across the Channel to defend the departing soldiers, who often had to stand in water up to their necks while machine-gun bullets spattered around them. A paddle-wheel steamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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