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...Gunners' success is giving the kiss of life to a moribund record industry, and has kept rock 'n' roll from doing what it keeps threatening to do: expire. Veering between creaking dinosaurs like the Grateful Dead (the hottest concert act of the past summer), pious scolds like Sinead O'Connor, and mopey '60s retreads like R.E.M., rock 'n' roll is in need of the juice that only true believers like Guns N' Roses can supply...
...quite. Over in England, where authorities are mulling a ban on the new album, Sinead O'Connor has backed off her previous vigorous support of the group. She told the New Musical Express that N.W.A.'s "attitudes have become increasingly dangerous. The way they deal with women in their songs is pathetic...
When Unplugged was launched in January 1990, it started out by presenting such offbeat performers as Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young and Squeeze. Then an appearance by ex-Eagle Don Henley "upped the ante," according to MTV creative director Judy McGrath. Now the show regularly ranks as one of the network's best-performing programs. In April it scored a coup by snagging R.E.M. for one of only two concerts the band performed in the U.S. to promote its No. 1 album, Out of Time. Last month Unplugged broke musical ground by offering an acoustic jam headlined by rappers...
Popular music would not be the same without the influence of Van Morrison, the social consciousness of U2, or the refreshing, if controversial, frankness of Sinead O'Connor...
...pedestal, represent? A souvenir of a TV extravaganza. A talisman of mainstream commercial success. A bit of show-biz immortality that, since this is show biz, after all, is more tenuous and suspect than other varieties of eternal fame (anyone remember 1980's five-Grammy grand slammer Christopher Cross?). Sinead O'Connor is right: the Grammys probably do "respect mostly material gain." But in the words of a very prominent Grammy wanna-grab, we're living in a material world...