Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City was not only the boldest political anthem of the '80s, it was also the funkiest. Besides writing the song, Van Zandt was the main man behind the album, the video and the documentary about Sun City, which brought hard rock together with hard facts about South African politics. Freedom -- No Compromise continues that same tough tradition of humanist ideology and high steppin'. "The trickiest part is not to be rhetorical," Van Zandt says, "but to make the songs into an emotional, human communication...
...Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert tour. The dozens of Four Seasons hits, including such Gaudio tunes as Big Girls Don't Cry and Who Loves You, have sold more than 100 million records and tapes...
...Physical Society's annual meeting that was so turbulent, so emotional and so joyous that the prestigious journal Science felt compelled to describe it as a "happening." AT&T Bell Laboratories Physicist Michael Schluter went even further, calling it the "Woodstock of physics." Indeed, at times it resembled a rock concert more than a scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that number of seats set up in the ballroom; the rest either watched from outside on television monitors or, to the dismay of the local fire marshal, crowded the aisles. For nearly eight...
...lasted. Then the national enthusiasm for folk music faded to its customary polite murmur. Rush was still fairly successful, but that was fairly disastrous in the platinum-or-bust pop-music world. Punk was big; should he dye his hair purple and wear Spandex? Or mess around with country rock? A couple of years before, he had bought a shaggy, overgrown 600-acre farm in the southern part of New Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years ran out in the early...
...ambition, low energy, he says now of this period. Low results too; he kept his guitars tuned, but the none-too-healthy pop-music industry, then as now, was preoccupied with selling rock 'n' roll to teenagers. Listeners, when he had listeners, cheered his Drop Down Mama and Rainy Day Man and laughed at his New Hampshire jokes. But in one of the gutsy blues yowls that he had begun to sing in his twangy weathered baritone, he complained about feeling "like some old engine, lost my driving wheel . . ." And that described his stalled career...