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...abundant fall for rock. Springsteen and Michael Jackson already, the first solo effort by the Band's Robbie Robertson and another album of guitar magic by Ry Cooder due within a month. The momentum does not stop with the big names, however. Some of the best music around is coming up from below superstar level...
Crom's appeal came particularly from his use of the piano, students who attended the show said. Students said they found his three renditions of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"--in the imitative styles of Stephen Sondheim, the Bee Gees and Bruce Springsteen--particularly entertaining...
...such firm loyalists, ideology knows no borders. "I think Bruce Springsteen is a blind nationalist," proclaims the former trooper in the easy drawl he has copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as they seem. In the ex-soldier's spacious home off once splendorous Fifth Avenue, a picture of Che Guevara stares across at an equally large poster of Barry Manilow. Downtown in central Havana, a 15-year-old schoolgirl goes him one better. On top of her dresser she has carefully fashioned...
DIED. John H. Hammond, 76, jazz and blues enthusiast and legendary musical talent scout who helped popularize, among others, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen; in New York City. An heir to the Vanderbilt fortune, Hammond haunted night clubs and jazz joints for some 50 years, unearthing and promoting his musical discoveries, who also included Billie Holiday and Lester Young, mostly for Columbia Records...
...expectations. He did not invent rock 'n' roll, but he forged it and focused it, and he was the first great rock superstar. He haunted his contemporaries, like Jerry Lee Lewis, who once showed up outside Graceland waving a pistol and demanding an audience. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty -- all dreamed of him and were daunted not only by his gift but by his destiny. He was the rocker they yearned to be and feared becoming...