Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dusted off 18 Sheppards sides and made an album released this summer. While the record has not made the charts, it has delighted Sheppards buffs and ensured the group a rightful niche in rock history. The tunes are mostly sweet, short love songs delivered in two basic styles: what Singer O.C. ("Perk") Perkins calls "that good old gospel harmony"; and a harder, more sinewy sound that took gospel harmonies and made them sweat and work for a living, in the manner of Wilson Pickett. The Sheppards made these disparate approaches into their own distinctive style...
...world is deteriorating morally, and if there is a chance of doing something beautiful, I want to do it," said Singer Joan Baez of her determination to give a Christmas Eve concert in front of Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame. But doing something très belle can be très difficile in France, Baez found. To arrange her hour-long concert, to be attended by 50,000 and televised on both sides of the Atlantic, she spent four years negotiating with Paris' city hall, archdiocese and police. "In the end they were genuinely excited about...
Soldier, poet and singer, with a whimsically ironic acceptance of his fate, Breaker approaches the dimensions of a Renaissance grunt. If the film that bears his name is perhaps a bit too much cut on the square, if its technique does not quite match its fine eye for moral distinctions, it is nonetheless another distinctive achievement from the fast-rising Australian film industry. -By Richard Schickel
...JAZZ SINGER...
...Bronx to the Hollywood Bowl, and a wonderful human being to boot. So where's the dramatic tension? It comes from an unlikely source: the 1925 Samson Raphaelson play and the Al Jolson movie version that ushered in the talkies. There is no Mammy in the new Jazz Singer; there's not even a momma. But the plot is the same: a young Orthodox cantor wants to become a singing star, straining to break the shackles of tradition even as he yearns for the blessing of a parental embrace. And Diamond has adhered to one other aspect...