Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite everything, it still can't be tightly classified or tied down. It's still a cultural orphan, hiding out on the far end of respectability: it has age, but it has no home. Or, as the greatest rock writer of all put it, splitting the distinction like an atom, no direction home. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling stone...
EVAN JOHNS & HIS H-BOMBS: BOMBS AWAY (Rykodisc). Stand back and let these boys explode: twelve scruffy juke-joint rock tunes as hot as the peppers...
...mean, the Rolling Stones have never been on the cover of TIME? Well, they almost were, back in 1972, when their seventh U.S. tour was taking America by storm. Photographer Ken Regan posed the "satanic majesties" of rock backstage in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the cover did not appear: it was bumped by one on George McGovern taking over the Democratic Party. "I've been waiting 17 years for this cover," chuckled Regan last week, as he arranged the Stones for their portrait, older but still flaunting their stuff...
...boys of rock have definitely mellowed. "Through the years, the Stones have rarely been accessible," says Regan, who has shot pictures for several of the band's tours and albums. For our cover shoot, Mick Jagger and his mates interrupted (for 1 1/2 hours) preparations for their first American tour in eight years. Regan trundled his gear up to tiny Washington, Conn. (pop. 3,700), where the Stones were rehearsing in a former girls school. "They're not terribly comfortable posing for pictures," Regan notes, "but this time they were as loose and relaxed as I've ever seen them...
...closes out the old decade and faces the new one, rock may be too catholic for its newer, younger core audience. Kids, of course, need a music to call their own; they need music that speaks to them while it cruises over the heads of their elders, or, even better, turns them right off. "The sales today are going with hard rock," says Kal Rudman, publisher of Friday Morning Quarterback, an industry newsletter. "Heavy metal is doing well with sales and at concerts in the 14-to-18 age range. Rap is extremely big but is quite racial. That...