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Penalties--Graeme Townshend, R, (hit from behind) 7:39; Gerald Green, H, (interference) 10:40; John Carter, R, (interference...
...that played 20-minute songs, Dire Straits. Now, thanks to "Money For Nothing," a ZZ Top parody that happened to hit Number One, this small man with a balding John McEnroe "hairstyle" is an arena giant, a jukebox hero and an heir apparent to such names as Page, Clapton, Townshend--and yes, Van Halen. Mark Knopfler just doesn't know quite what to do with his sudden fame...
...City, whose title evokes a Vegas-style entertainment complex stuck improbably in a South African "homeland." Jazz (Miles Davis) is on the record. So is folk (Jackson Browne, Raitt), Latin (Ruben Blades) and reggae (Jimmy Cliff), along with the royalty of rock, both domestic (Daryl Hall) and imported (Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr). Van Zandt's original concept for a single and a dance remix has become a mini-LP of material. Among the tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player Ron Carter and Drummer Tony Williams; a free-flowing political, rhythmic stream...
...Townshend, an editor for London publisher Faber & Faber, can be lyric and affecting, but too often he is portentous: "Almost as soon as the window had misted up, a great blast of steam wafted into the street. Pete felt like the witness to some awesome nuclear test of devastating power . . . We were the frayed rubber band inside the enormous balsa-wood airplane of rock and roll...
Readers looking for the continuity and facts of Townshend's life will be disappointed. Yet there is enough evidence of innovative talent in these pages to indicate that if the author would write acoustical rather than amplified prose, he might have another promising career...