Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I'm going to need them?" asked Diana, Princess of Wales, 22, as she and Prince Charles arrived at London's Royal Albert Hall for a gala charity rock concert featuring, among others, Drummer Charlie Watts of the ever scruffy Rolling Stones, along with Singer Steve Winwood and Guitarist Eric Clapton. Not to listen to Satisfaction, perhaps, but the svelte, silver-clad Di might have wanted to use the stoppers elsewhere. For weeks, curious Britons have been chattering about whether the Princess is pregnant again. London's tabloid Daily Mirror reported that the Princess had announced...
BORN. To Debby Boone, 27, wholesome pop singer and daughter of Pat Boone, who recorded a 1977 hit single of You Light Up My Life, but has not lit up the charts since, and Gabriel Ferrer, 26, her manager, son of Actor José Ferrer and Singer Rosemary Clooney: twin girls; in Hollywood...
...incident that vividly illustrated the divisions within the party came as more than 100,000 people gathered around a rain-slicked outdoor stage to hear Singer Robert Charlebois. Halfway through a chorus of Je veux de l'amour (I want love), he suddenly stopped and told the crowd, "This song has one minute to go, but I won't sing it. I will dedicate it to those 269 souls who are absent today." His words drew loud cheers, along with a smattering of catcalls...
Thicke, 35, who settled in Los Angeles in 1970, is a man of many hyphens: comedy writer-producer-singer-songwriter. Until last December, he still commuted to Vancouver to tape his highly popular Canadian daytime talk show. Thicke is a performer who can do everything, kind of. On his new show he sings and plays the guitar like a grownup Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with...
Browne is among the premier singer-songwriters of his generation. But that was the '70s, and the world is a few months shy of the most dreaded year of the '80s. Browne is ready for it. Lawyers in Love is full of dark Orwellian visions, leavened by some bright comic asides and lightened by some of Browne's most danceable music. The author concedes that the title track is "pretty sarcastic and maybe a little haughty," but its weirdly resonant images ("I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon/ As vacationland for lawyers in love") give...