Word: sellout
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...routine. But no one stays at the top of the pop charts for any length of time without twanging chords that reverberate in the teen-age psyche. What sets Elton apart is the fact that his appeal knows no demographic limits. Said British Rock Promoter Mel Bush, watching a sellout crowd of 75,000 file out of London's Wembley Stadium after John's appearance there a fortnight ago: "Elton's appeal is across the board. We had heads, hippies, film stars, lords and ladies here today." Says the star of the huge audiences he regularly attracts...
...most public exposure. An audience would quickly detect anything spurious or stagy in the performance. The acid test has already been passed, for after seeing Whitmore at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, Margaret Truman Daniel gave him her enthusiastic endorsement. Ending a sellout three-week engagement at Ford's, the show will go on to Memphis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
...rattling maracas and a shower of cowbells. A pair of trumpets blasts off in the brass brigade. At the center of the excitement a small, bearded figure huddles over the piano, sweat pouring off his face. Eddie Palmieri attacks the keyboard with fingers, forearms and chin before a sellout crowd at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall...
...playing second fiddle in Britain's Conservative Party these days, but former Prime Minister Edward Heath still calls the tune occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
...Green never threatened, to the disappointment of a sellout crowd witnessing Dartmouth's final home contest in cozy Davis Rink. Next year Davis will be replaced by a new, 3500-seat arena...