Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hard Rock Waltzers...
...three rock bands, two of which include Harvard students, played their own music for about 400 people Saturday night in "The Hate Your Friends Show," named for the Lemonheads' soon-to-be-released album on Taang Records, organizers said...
...crowds in Prague last week could have been greeting a rock star or a movie idol. "I can see him! I can see him! He has on a hat!" cried one woman. "We're all his supporters. I was so close, I could look at him eye to eye." Swooned another: "My heart was thumping!" The object of their affection, though, was not the U2 band or Television Star Harry Hamlin. It was none other than Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was making his first official visit to Czechoslovakia...
EVEN WITH THIS many categories, some of the musicians still got shortchanged. Hardcore and heavy metal acts were lumped together in a single category. Local musicians competed against their national counterparts. Jazz, rock, pop, blues, and country instrumentalists vied for the same awards...
...performances by various local bands, the inevitable acceptance speeches, time-killing exchanges of (ideally) humorous repartee between the two emcees (local comedian Kevin Meany and WBCN DJ Charles Laquidara), and the 45-minute-late starting time that is a tradition of all events involving the appearance of nationally famous rock stars, made the ceremony even longer than the Oscars...