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...dead meat, you illiterate punk," said Wordsworth. The class moved, en masse, menacingly toward the cornered rocker-writer...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Rocker Dead in Writing Class | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...LATEST LIVE RELEASE, I Hear You Rockin,' British rocker Dave Edmunds performs an almost unimaginable feat. Here, the former member of Rockpile gets away with covering both Elvises, Presley and Costello, on the same side of the same album. Rather than taking the advice of another famous rocker, whose trademark is "Cover me," Edmunds has here adopted as his motto, "Cover everyone...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: VINYL | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...Columbia has released Rockin', in an effort not only to sum up all these facets of Edmunds' career, but to do so with a "live" recording, a la Bruce Springsteen, Edmunds' labelmate and fellow retro-rocker. Of course, since Edmunds is a lesser star, Columbia has allotted him only one disc instead of five to encapsulate his long career, but surely the idea is the same...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: VINYL | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...originals. And even those fans accustomed to Edmunds' proclivity for non-originals will be pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" and Dion and the Belmonts' "The Wanderer." With these songs and others, I Hear You Rockin' shows that you can judge a rocker by his covers...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: VINYL | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...Europe and will be released in the U.S. next year). It seems that the dilettante Princess was smitten with Rod Stewart at a show during his latest tour and, after a photo shoot that will appear in the December issue of the American Elle, asked the veteran rocker for an on-the-record chat. Stewart obliged, though the results are less than Pulitzer material. (Sample question: Do you think you're sexy? Answer: Hmmmm.) "She's got a lot to learn," confides Stewart. "First thing she has to do is stop giggling. The interview lasted about 15 minutes, but most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1986 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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