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...case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These would include dance-pop butt wiggler turned contract-breaking auteur George Michael; gentlemanly crooner and former Commodore Lionel Richie, and punk poet Patti Smith. The trio have been lying low for reasons ranging from contract disputes (Michael) to personal problems (Richie went through a divorce in his time off, and his father passed away; during Smith's hiatus, her husband died). Normally, long-term hibernation isn't healthy for pop musicians...
...biggest disappointment in this crop of albums is Patti Smith's. In the '70s, with such albums as Horses, she merged insurgent, thoughtful poetry with heartfelt and jagged-edged rock 'n' roll. She's never been much of a vocalist--she has a croaky, flat voice--but the strength of her music came from what she was singing, not how she was singing it. Unfortunately, on her new album, Gone Again, words fail her. The album deals with issues of mortality (the word heaven pops up in three songs), but the endeavor is marred by one song, Summer Cannibals, which...
...Broadway" and "SAM SHEPARD play" are not words that normally belong together. After all, this is the edgy, reclusive intellectual who collaborated with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan and Wim Wenders. Ah, well, nothing lasts forever. Shepard's 1979 Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child will open April 30 on Broadway. "The play was never designed for Broadway," says Shepard. "It started in a 95-seat theater in San Francisco." But under the direction of another sometime film star, Gary Sinise, things changed. "It's a lot clearer now," the playwright says. "And the humor has been brought out." Fans of Shepard...
...like a six-year-old kid sitting in front of the radio watching my family fall down laughing at Burns and Allen's routines. Now, suddenly, liver spots are popping out all over, crow's-feet are marching across my face, and my best friend is Metamucil. Oh, George! PATTI LAUNDERS Nipomo, California...
...With reporting by Patti Lane/Bogota