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That torrid little tory with the torch and toga is none other than British Import Elton John. The tinsel troubadour ordered the Statue of Liberty getup from Designer Bob Mackie (Cher's own) to wear during his seven-week concert tour of the colonies that starts this week. "Last year I made Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst-Dressed Women' list, so this costume is in keeping with my image," says the singer-composer, who will sport beaded red and white striped knickers, as they call 'em in London, beneath his robes. Elton's tour, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1976 | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

Part of this remarkable endurance stems from a refusal to treat the short story as a wind sprint. Instead, O'Faolain saunters like a troubadour, chatting with artful casualness about the scenery and weather, the dwellings and garb of his people. Yet he is more than a local colorist. His art disguises artifice. He knows exactly how much to explain and when to remain silent. "Who was it," one of his characters wonders, "said the last missing bit of every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celtic Twilight | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...hard to tell exactly which side Berio is on. Despite the fragmented quality of much of his writing and his preoccupation with electronics, he remains a surprisingly lyrical composer. Paula Robinson, who directed a recent Harvard Chamber Players performance of Differences, likened Berio to "a troubadour being harassed by machines, yet still loving them." Individual lines are full of wide leaps and bizarre, shifting rhythms, but like Jackson Pollock's dribblings of paint, the lines fuse into a seamless fabric when played together. The sound is not thoroughly blended or homogenized like that of a Romantic string quartet, but there...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: A Troubador Beset by Machines | 8/15/1975 | See Source »

...lyrics of Captain Fantastic make clear, the "long and lonely climb" seemed to stretch before Elton forever. Actually, only 36 months lay between his first meeting with Bernie and an August 1970 date at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles, where he won a tough record-industry audience with his showmanship. Says MCA Records President John Maitland: "It was one of the most spectacular openings for an unknown artist I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...usual kind of rockers' bash. On Sept. 23, 1974, after the Scottish group Average White Band's show at the Troubadour, Entrepreneur Ken Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 3, 1975 | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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