Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that there is yet to be a rock lyricist who writes nearly as well as Pope or Dickinson, but some of these citations are just embarrassing. There are lyrics with more literary merit and more social impact than, "You are the sunshine of my life/That's why I'll always stay around." (Stevie Wonder...
...Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might make them as rich as they think. The production hit a long dead spot in the second act, where Julianne Moore could not find much real in the underwritten role of a rock star...
...course an underground rock scene flourished. Concerts were often a clandestine affair, staged on the spur of the moment in out-of-the-way auditoriums. And despite official discouragement, a few groups like Time Machine, the first band to sing openly about social problems, and the Leningrad-based Akvarium managed to thrive...
When the State Concert Agency relaxed its regulations in 1986, rock bands suddenly could play their music in big halls, with thousands of screaming fans in attendance. The effect was electrifying, and the kids knew whom to thank for the lighter touch. One of the new bands, a Moscow-based group called Grand Prix, introduced a song last year called simply Gorbachev. The haunting chorus ("I understand! Gorbachev!") is less a tribute to the man in power than a defiant youth anthem, undoubtedly the first to use a Soviet leader as an emblem of teenage aspirations...
...night huddled in drafty railway stations. Elsewhere, gaudy hookers and teenage toughs prowl pedestrian tunnels, and beggars -- old women, mostly -- hold out quavering hands for kopecks. Black marketeers hustle even in Red Square, and on a green fence near city hall someone has neatly painted, in English, SEX! and ROCK...