Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where the New Kids reign...
...jurors I interviewed seemed less than rock solid in their conviction too. "I don't feel what they did was jailworthy," one juror told me. Said another: "I felt bad about this whole thing, to tell you the truth. I don't feel like we did the right thing." Yet, oddly, one could argue things actually did work out about right...
Hooper said the group--whose hits include "Rock Lobster" and "Private Idaho"--occasionaly plays college dates while on tour. The B-52's are touring to promote their new album Cosmic Thang, which includes the current hit "Love Shack". Hooper said there is no set ending date for the tour...
Markers, scorpions, the code, sideways killers and gypsies are all names Shepard tosses around in his version of the dog-eat-dog world of rock and roll. But what these terms mean never really becomes clear; The Tooth of Crime could be about some sort of competition between rival gangsters or even drag racers. Uncertain references to knives, guns, engines and a deejay cloud the action...
...scary," he muses, glancing at the rock video playing silently on the TV screen overhead. "Someday I'll be the punch line...