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Little did the young Bill Clinton realize how his fate would prove inextricably linked with the fallen rocker. Little did he surmise that 15 years down the road, he would find that invoking the spirit of this martyred crooner would boost his campaign for the highest office in the land more than any endorsement ever could...
...BOTTOM LINE: After a long hiatus, the cerebral rocker returns with a new, deeply introspective album...
...early work of British rocker Peter Gabriel, whose new album Us on come out on Tuesday, followed all three trends. Gabriel's group Genesis joined solid musicianship to an arty attitude and used both to produce a string of murky, meandering albums. Clinging to rock's new-wave margins, Gabriel subsequently released three solo albums, all self-titled, and then a fourth, named Security. He filled all four with rock philosophy and single-issue politics...
...sees as crucial in Martin's life: that he was the signal showman of an America that was "fulfilling its destiny as the chrome-crowned glory of post- literate, polyvinyl civilization." Dino was what we wanted and deserved. With the cool of a crooner and the leer of a rocker, he straddled two pop eras. He took the styles others created and filtered them, through the screen door of his nonchalance, for a Middle America avid...
...also where we hope to go next. The nice girls adrift in Carpenter's earlier ballads (When She's Gone, Middle Ground) often have the single-white- female blues, and there's a fine one here: He Thinks He'll Keep Her, a sarcastic soft rocker about a perfect wife ("Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design/ Spit and polish 'til it shines") who walks out on her husband only to find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only...