Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superstar. He haunted his contemporaries, like Jerry Lee Lewis, who once showed up outside Graceland waving a pistol and demanding an audience. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty -- all dreamed of him and were daunted not only by his gift but by his destiny. He was the rocker they yearned to be and feared becoming...
...life crisis. By the end of next month, all five of the channel's original veejays (MTV's equivalent of radio disk jockeys) will have left or been let go. Their replacements are a younger corps that includes Britisher Julie Brown, 27, and Dweezil Zappa, 17, son of Veteran Rocker Frank Zappa. A few years ago MTV tried to broaden its appeal by adding the mellower sounds of Lionel Richie, Billy Joel and others; now it has returned to its original emphasis on hard rock and heavy-metal bands, with softer ballads largely relegated to its sister service...
...dead meat, you illiterate punk," said Wordsworth. The class moved, en masse, menacingly toward the cornered rocker-writer...
...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...
...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...