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...longshoreman, he grew up on Brooklyn's tough streets and still has the switchblade tongue to prove it. A lean, wary man and one of the few record executives who looks natural in jeans and a baseball cap, Iovine pulled himself up to become a trusted producer for Bruce Springsteen...
...ultimately through his very visible links to the grand and the fallen, the fabulous and semifabulous, that Versace left his most significant cultural legacy. The first designer to use known magazine models at his runway shows in the early '80s and the first to shrewdly place celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Sylvester Stallone in the front rows of his audiences, Versace fused the cults of celebrity and style. The spectacles he created, replete with the blaring sounds of rockers like George Michael and clothes that were just as loud, earned the designer all the publicity they were meant to garner...
...Versace's media room, where the music video of the moment would be playing--often the work of a pop star in attendance. He didn't create his palatial showplaces to let them sit empty. He loved playing host and entertainer, lending the Lake Como villa to Bruce Springsteen and his former wife Julianne Phillips for their 1985 honeymoon, giving impromptu dinner parties for friends passing through Miami and often opening his South Beach doors for charity events...
...town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park did for Bruce Springsteen in 1973. Buckley's rise was tinged with poignancy. Success promised to lift him at last out of the haunting shadow of his father, the brilliant folk singer Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose...
...Shame on You, a wordy, rambunctious number that evokes early Springsteen, Ray sings of restlessly driving the roads only to be stopped by police "looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...