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...Reed: Growing Up in Public (Arista). Wherever Lydon and all other assorted punks, new wavers and no wavers may have come from, no matter where they are all headed, Lou Reed has already been there. Public Image owes a debt to the saber-toothed experiments of Reed's late '60s band, the Velvet Underground, and Reed still remains several furlongs ahead of anyone in laying down jagged fragments of autobiography that cut like pieces of a shattered mirror. Growing Up in Public is a collection of primal assaults and tentative love songs that all together are like...
DIED. Stanley Reed, 95, Supreme Court Justice from 1938 to 1957; in a nursing home in Huntington, N.Y. The lanky, aristocratic Reed made his name as a farm cooperative law expert in his native Kentucky before Herbert Hoover tapped him to be general counsel of the Federal Farm Board in 1929. Named to the high court by Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was known as a quietly reliable supporter of New Deal and civil rights legislation, and a wild card on most other issues...
...Happy!!, Elvis Costello pays homage to his American musical influences--soul, blues, much Motown and Stax, as well as reggae. Costello, in Lou Reed's phrase, "wants to be Black." One of the two covers is an old Sam and Dave song, the rousing, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down." Charmingly, it comes out sounding like Graham Parker and the Rumour. Influences being what they are, maybe it was supposed...
Lyons and Reed said their blood symbolized the "blood of innocents" that would be shed in a nuclear war. Ashes, they said, would be all that would remain after a nuclear holocaust...
...students picketed in the morning, held a prayer service at noon, and then two students, Paul E. Lyons and Thomas Reed, spilled ashes and pint bottles of their own blood on the door of the office where the TRW recruiters were conducting job interviews...