Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones Apparel Group, which makes her sport sweat line. "When we started getting reorders from Midwest counties not known to jump on a fad, we saw she was a universal trend." Adds Jeff Gersten, co-owner of Chicago's Sugar Magnolia boutique: "Just as there are Bruce Springsteen heads, there now are Kamali heads...
...bare-knuckled and open-hearted approach to country music has consequently created a fair amount of confusion. His manager has compared him with Bruce Springsteen, presumably to get rockers to pay a little heed, and his record company just acts stymied. Ely puts up an almost reflexive resistance to any discussion of categories-"I don't like definitions," he says, "and I write my own labels"-but he has a lively awareness of where he has come from and where country music is going. "Nashville's problem is that it is always filling the air waves, like...
...young director with one movie under his belt (the insipid Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), sold the British recording company EMI the idea for a terrific film--a gut-wrenching Vietnam drama. The Deer Hunter. A hot idea, Vietnam laced with contemporary American pop romanticism. The Vietnam War the way Bruce Springsteen would probably sing about it. Workin' class guys, they go and they fight for their country, 'cause their country ain't so great, you know--it's real bad sometimes--but they go anyway, 'cause it's their country and they're men. So you get tortured in P.O.W. camps...
...studio musicians. Jeffreys employs the talents of such varied strummers and hummers that one would expect the album either to compromise the individuality of the artists involved or to quash any originality on his own part. Not so. Instead, through members of two of the tightest bands in rock, Springsteen's keyboardists and the Rumour's rhythm section, he brings coherence to music from both sides of the Atlantic. He also employs guitarist Adrian Beiew and vocalist Nona Hendryx, fresh from sessions with the funk-ified Talking Heads, and David Johanssen and Lou Reed, two of New York's most...
...high seas has an irresistible disregard for authority and thus great appeal for those who prefer to live and let live. The topical trends of songs like "Manana" and "Why Don't We Get Drunk" have endeared Buffett to a group of fans whose numbers are certainly smaller than Springsteen's following, but whose rowdiness level is equal or higher...