Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experimental bands keep rock and roll moving forward In the late sixties and early seventies, "art bands" like The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, and David Bowie emerged. Then punk rock rejuvenated the private angst of teenagers across the western world and rock saw the eruption of new and even more apocalyptic bands such as Joy Division, the Talking Heads ("Remain in Light" era), and especially Bauhaus, led by Peter Murphy...
There's token rock and roll number, and one hilarious swipe at the last gasp of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as Buck and his singing group, the High Hopes, don spangled over-alls for "Put the Blame on Mamie (She Painted the White House Pink)" from the smash film that should've been, The Mamie Eisenhower Story.But the show never strays too far from its home, the nite-club, where "Song-stylists" moan torch songs and members of a capella groups strive, in the true spirit of the age, to be utterly indistinguishable from each other...
...wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year to promote development and erase poverty. Groups offering assistance range from behemoths like the World Bank, which annually lends some $16 billion to developing countries, to Irish Rock Singer Bob Geldof's Band Aid, which so far has managed to raise nearly $80 million...
Recent famines have spotlighted Africa's woes and the difficulty of providing help. When pictures of starving Ethiopian and Sudanese children appeared around the world, there was an outpouring of aid. Rock Musician Geldof was among the first to become involved in raising money, followed by USA for Africa, an American outfit that produced We Are the World, the smash- hit record...
...gleefully exaggerated costumes are not the only stars of a Lacroix extravaganza. Take the music. Not for him the standard melange of rock and wailing chanteuses. At last week's show the models moved to an eclectic assortment of tunes suggested by the show's escapist, vaguely Caribbean theme. The selections ranged from a thrilling recording of zarzuela by Teresa Berganza to a down-home rendition of the old round "Down by the station, Early in the morning/ See the little puffer bellies, All in a row." The room went wild...