Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rocker has ever fused stage and private personalities with such dedication and calculation as David Bowie. The painted perversity of Ziggy Stardust spearheaded Glitter Rock and Glam Rock back in the early '70s. But as the centerpiece and major instigator of all this, Bowie was after something more than a shock and a trend. He wanted a confrontation with the innate theatricality of rock. In 1972, when he first hit the stage as Ziggy, decked out in makeup, dye job and psychedelic costume, the rock world was ready. Too much karma, too much good vibes, too much hippy dippy: audiences...
...parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano Michelle Harman-Gulick) in a flared short skirt and visor cap, giggling and jawing gum like a Tokyo Valley Girl; and the Mikado himself (Bass Donald Adams), arriving onstage, with all appropriate ceremony, in a Datsun...
Closing a mini-panel on the art and utility of video, video producers, RockAmerica, offered a sampling of their wares. After segments by Red Rocker and Brian Brain they unfortunately aired a piece by the Surf Punks, title "Shark Attack" Boston Rock's Music Seminar issue had reviewed this particular piece and the audience supported their verdict "It looks like it was made by the same people who make porno flicks," the hosting publication read. "And to top it off, the song is awful...
...knows what he is. "I'm a rompin', stompin', piano-playin' son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. But a great son of a bitch." Here's to you, then, Jerry Lee Lewis, unreconstructed rocker and mean-mouthed, sweet-souled Louisiana country singer. A new twelve-album set, Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years, covers the glory years from 1956 to 1963 and is assembled with the kind of reverence and archival zeal usually reserved for the cantatas of a J.S. Bach. The collection, sold in this country for under...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...