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...company, busy turning out some 1.7 million copies, has kept the lid on tight, so very little has been known about Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 until now. It is a 40-song live set, spanning the past decade in the performing life of America's greatest rocker and the country's hottest band: that rumor is right. It wholesales for about $19: right again...
...Seeds, a workingman's testament of pride, helplessness and hopelessness from the 1985 tour that is one of his best tunes, and certainly one of his angriest. With all this, there is one more thing. Just incidental, of course, considering that Springsteen is now a certifiable sociological phenomenon, a rocker who is written about by political columnists and cultural essayists who live far from the nearest jukebox. But good to know, anyway...
...child dressed up like a young punk rocker, with hair streaked red and green and an earring dangling from his left ear, strolled by pulling a German shepherd with a patch over one eye, Gilmore commented, "this event really is the first of its kind...
...activities was accurate, if overblown. The sources for the Wall Street Journal story, they said, had glossed over the relative value of the intelligence information and the U.S. military's readiness to respond. The Journal story quoted a "top official" as saying Gaddafi "seems to have gone off his rocker again." Other officials claimed he was involved in terrorist plots in Cyprus and Berlin. But the Poindexter memo contended that "Gaddafi is temporarily quiescent in his support of terrorism." The Journal wrote that Administration officials were convinced the U.S. air strikes had "sparked several mutinies in the Libyan military...
...music is the sound track for the movie of the mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...