Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's starting to change. One reason is that those rock-era composers are getting older, and Broadway looks more enticing than it did when they were churning out Top 10 hits. But it can be tougher than it looks: telling a coherent, musically integrated story onstage is not like choosing songs for a concept album. Newman, for example, has written some of his richest, most antically likable music for Faust, but the jokey, sophomoric book doesn't serve it well enough...
...logical turn of the wheel. In Broadway's golden era, the songs Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others wrote for the stage were the same ones that sat atop the nation's hit parade. But with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop and show music diverged. Though a stray Broadway hit might get radio airplay (Don't Cry for Me, Argentina), and a whiff of something like rock occasionally stirs the Great White Way (Rent), Broadway became a separate and self-contained musical domain, irrelevant to the most creative musicians of the rock generation...
Iovine intervention is more like it, as in Jimmy Iovine, head of Interscope Records. Prodded by its new owner, Seagram, Iovine and partner Ted Field are remaking Interscope from a high-risk purveyor of gangsta rap into an imposing presence in rock, R. and B. and gospel, gobbling down an ever bigger slice of the $12.5 billion U.S. record market. God's Property--which went on to sell a heavenly 1 million copies three months after hitting record stores--helped slingshot Seagram's Universal Music Group last summer from fifth place to third place among the six top record companies...
...since Geffen Records in the early 1980s has a record label so dominated the industry. This year five of Interscope's albums have hit the Top 10, including the bland pop-rock act the Wallflowers, smooth R.-and-B. quartet Blackstreet, and shock rocker Marilyn Manson. "They keep things lean and focused," says Geoff Mayfield, charts editor of Billboard magazine. "They don't have a ton of acts, but they have a very high batting average with the ones they...
...addition to business ability, and I helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary labels, including Trauma Records, through which Interscope signed multimillion-seller Bush; Nothing Records, which brought Manson and industrial-rock innovator Trent Reznor; and Death Row, through which it co-financed discs by Snoop and producer...