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Does no one have the guts to call John Lennon what he was: a media-wise, existentialist Pied Piper who helped lead countless kids down the rocky rathole of drugs, rebellion and purposelessness...
...continued presence of engineer Greg Ladanyi and several hold-overs from The Section, including David Lindley. Lindley's fiddle, alas, has no place in the new sound: Bill Payne, with the electronic organ heard out across the wilderness of "Your Bright Baby Blues" is a more likely Pied Piper for the post-adolescent who not long ago was a child in these hills. Though he's rolling down the other side of 30, Browne's voice has grown in strength, range, and balance; without losing their flow and ripples, his vocals have been clipped for an acute terseness: the voiceovers...
...makes it capable some day of becoming a serious competitor to France in the production of fine wines." Some day may finally have arrived. Now three of the proudest names in French wine-making have established West Coast annexes: Moēt-Hennessey, Château Mouton-Rothschild and Piper-Heidsieck...
...latest to join the California wine rush is Piper-Heidsieck. Two weeks ago, the French firm announced a $6 million ménage à trois with Renfield Importers and Sonoma Vineyards that will create a sparkling son of Heidsieck to be called Piper Sonoma. It will sell for $10-$12 a bottle, vs. $17 or more for the company's Continental bubbly...
...growing popularity of wine in the U.S., Americans drink only 2 gal. of it a year per capita, vs. 29 gal. for the French. Europeans are also drawn by the large tracts of California's excellent uncultivated land. In the 86,000-acre Champagne district of northeastern France, Piper, for example, has only seven acres of the precious chalky soil. Now Piper has an investment in 1,200 acres of land in the Napa Valley...