Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session had come not a moment too soon. The images of starving Ethiopian children that first flashed across television screens more than a year ago continue to haunt and outrage people the world over. A wellspring of sympathy gave rise last year to Live Aid, the globally televised rock concert aimed at putting an end to famine, and last week to Sport Aid, a 78-country marathon to raise more funds...
...BoDeans, four guys from the Midwest baptized by the fire of good old rock 'n' roll, have just released their first album. Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams it's called, an appropriately no-nonsense title salvaged--for reasons of reverence and resonance--from the lyrics of the Rolling Stones' Shattered. So far, this record stands as the most galvanic major-label debut of the year. Some 35,000 copies sold, and still counting. First single just released. Video on MTV. Band on tour. Fans everywhere. Count...
...songs sound punchy all right, real straight-ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...sounds of rock 'n' roll blared through Moscow's Olympic Stadium last week as some of the Soviet Union's most popular bands belted out their hottest numbers. Tickets for the three-hour event, styled after Western charity extravaganzas, raised about $150,000 for victims of the devastating accident that destroyed a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 26. Money from the benefit, known as Account No. 904, after the special Soviet fund that received the donations, will help provide clothing, household goods and temporary shelter for the 92,000 people evacuated from Ukrainian towns near the dangerously...
LAST WEEK'S New Republic launched a powerful bazooka blast at the heart of Brown University's educational system; the article lampooned the department of semiotics, chortled over a class entitled "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay," and made light of the general superficiality of our neighbor to the south...