Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since their birth in the mid- '70s as the art school brats of the Manhattan punk family. Talking Heads have been the living epitome of progress for progress's sake, the petulant seekers of the edge of accessibility simply because it was there Things got started with the paranoiac minimalism of Talking Heads '77, but expanded exponentially in experimentation and generosity of spirit. The musical odyssey culminated in the pan-cultural celebration of African polyrhythms and Enofied guitar blips and wails of Remain in Light quite possibly take away one song. "The Overload" the most seamless piece of sound...
...sweaters and pantyhose. Not tonight; we were wearier, more wrinkled and better acquainted than most plane populations, but we were not bizarre. As Newark fell away behind us like a beer can thrown out of a car window, we rediscovered each other ("Hey, there's Noam!" "The punk kids made it!") and pondered whether, at a price, to order coffee, tea or gin. Back at North Terminal, only a grubby memory now, veteran squatters were getting comfortable in front of the stand-by counter, and newcomers were wondering how they would live through the night...
BORN. To Mary Steenburgen, 30, Oscar-winning American actress (Melvin and Howard), and Malcolm McDowell, 40, British actor best known as the cherub-faced punk in A Clockwork Orange: their second child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Charles Malcolm. Weight...
...Music, by stars like post-punk Adam Ant (Goody Two Shoes) and Boy George (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?), unknown to most people over 30, is moving millions of adolescent feet. Indeed, all pop music, from heavy metal to soul, is sharing in the revival. Poly-Gram Records Executive Jack Kiernan notes that the recording studios are booked solid again, a sign of long-term stability. Says he: "We're spending for the future...
...Channel is the have for national and local punk and hardcore mavens. It packs in a lot of people, but it is a real dive, and is not recommended to those allergic to excessive sweat and flying bodies Slam dancers, take note of dates set for the Anti-Nowhere League, UB40, and Echo and the Bunnymen...