Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamroller), fellow KFI talk host Geoff Edwards denounced his tactics as "fascist" and refused to air his promotional spots. Edwards lost his job as a result. "You've got a lot of people with questionable credentials manipulating people's emotions," he gripes. "A guy who was a rock-'n'-roll deejay last week ((might be)) calling for the bombing of Iran...
...cynical 1989, when "classic rock" means music from the early days of MTV, when everyone from Bush and Quayle to the Undergraduate Council seems to act as if the 1960s never happened, is the spirit of Hair still viable? Can this hippie happening have any relevance for the none-too-rebellious youth of today...
SIMPLE MINDS: STREET FIGHTING YEARS (A&M). Superb rock with a big thematic reach and the rhythm to boost its high ambitions. Belfast Child, a heart-torn vision of the Irish troubles, is more evocative, and more devastating, than a hundred editorials or a thousand speeches...
SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through Swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll...
...smaller groups and allegedly assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. According to police, they chased her into a gully, then spent the next half an hour beating her senseless with a rock and a metal pipe, raping her and leaving her for dead. When she was found three hours later, she had lost three-quarters of her blood and had lapsed into a coma...