Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unending battle to top each other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl, Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has already starred Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, David Bowie and the Miami Sound Machine...
...been black and still able to live in that elegant fantasy world, their shows might have looked a lot like this: rows of tap dancers in tailcoats or scarlet evening gowns; vast sets like lacquered jewel boxes gliding across the floor and opening to reveal a kick line; a singer in a swing, wearing a cloak that billows 18 ft. down to the floor...
...peak and avoid the valleys. I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. But today I'm quite at home wandering those valleys and occasionally climbing a peak." So does he regret anything? "No." An actor's delicious pause. "Well, sure. I'm not a French singer...
...Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours. His most recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy...
...former concert-booking agent, de Passe started as Gordy's creative assistant when she was 21 and produced several hit records in her 13 years in the music division. Her masterstroke: persuading Gordy in 1968 to sign the Jackson Five, an unknown group starring nine-year-old singer Michael Jackson...