Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grace Slick, 40, rock vocalist with the 1960s Jefferson Airplane (later Starship), on the apolitical content of lyrics in the 1980s: "If you wanted to write a song that directly affected the problems of today's college student, it would deal with the perils of being a preppie...
...next album will include a song written for the great jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, and yes, when he plays the tune live, he is often asked whether Samba for Carmen was inspired by the star of those '40s musicals who wore fruit on her hats. He is also exploring the tricky intricacies of Venezuelan music, which remains relatively insulated from outside influences and whose rhythms he describes as "very complicated, very interesting...
...intriguing combination of talents. To film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction bestseller Dune, Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 63, has attracted the likes of Director David Lynch (The Elephant Man), Special Effects Wizard John Dykstra (Star Wars) and a cast that includes Sting, 31, the leader and vocalist of rock's hottest group, the Police. In the established tradition of such rockers turned actors as Mick Jagger and Deborah Harry, Sting brings to Dune his own past credits, from Quadrophenia and Brimstone and Treacle. Not to mention an ability to whip himself up into a manic frenzy...
Like their musical brethren, the Romances and the Cramps, the Fleshtones ransack almost everything in rock'n roll history from Little Richard and James Brown to Motown and "Nuggets" period psychedelic garage rock Vocalist Peter Zaremba--who on stage makes Mick Jagger look like Perry Como--yells his "yeah, yeah"s and "hey, hey"s with more gusto than anybody since the Kingsmen, and with just as much humor...
...staged in his mind; it may even be the real thing. And Stoppard is, as always, ready to forget about his juggling act long enough to give an entertaining lecture on politics, language, sex or music. (Henry much prefers the Supremes and Herman's Hermits to "this female vocalist person .. . called Callas in a sort of foreign musical with no dancing.") Henry could be an intellectual popinjay or, worse, a nag. But through the frail magnificence of Roger Rees, last seen heading the R.S.C.'s Nicholas Nickleby, Henry becomes compassionate, troubled, ardent-the best of the rest...