Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week the Kids leave home (everyone still lives with his family) for a five-month tour. Starr will show up only occasionally, so the fans, Donnie thinks, will finally learn that "Danny is a great songwriter, Jordan is a great keyboardist, that I am a drummer and singer and dancer." Four years ago, Jordan auditioned for Starr and got told, "Get ready to be great. You are going to be the biggest thing in the world." Replied Jordan: "All I want is a scooter." He got his wish, and then some. Just now, the New Kids on the Block...
Hooper said the group--whose hits include "Rock Lobster" and "Private Idaho"--occasionaly plays college dates while on tour. The B-52's are touring to promote their new album Cosmic Thang, which includes the current hit "Love Shack". Hooper said there is no set ending date for the tour...
...general's gift of being the man you automatically follow," says Richard Briers, who plays Bardolph in the film Henry and will assay King Lear in the Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show...
...performers take the stage, the audience crackles with excitement. Before long, the fans are clapping their hands, singing along and shouting for their favorite songs. One of those old '60s rock groups now on tour? Not quite. The crowd is old enough to be Stones fans, but these tunes are not about getting satisfaction or spending the night together. Instead the two guitarists are singing of spotted owls and acid rain...
Sting may be a dedicated environmentalist, but has he ever toured Alaska? Oliver and Waldeck have. Last year they, along with fellow performer-activists Dana Lyons and Mavis Muller, traveled through the 49th state in a Volkswagen van on their Keep It Wild Tour, giving concerts from Anchorage and Fairbanks to such wilderness outposts as Talkeetna and Girdwood. Preaching preservation in a state where many settlers came only to plunder the resources, they found themselves singing about the evils of mining and trapping to audiences that included miners and trappers. That made for some uncomfortable moments. One night...