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...libido is unbolted. Jason is a 19-year-old Los Angeles sales clerk who learned that he was infected at 16. There were AIDS education programs at his high school, but the message never hit home. "You're young, you think you're invincible," he says. "And then--wham! Reality gets...
While more than 750 students danced to the songs of Wham! and the Bangles in the Leverett dining hall, hundreds more tried to push their way in, forcing the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) detail officer on hand to call for backup...
Unfortunately, none of the albums under consideration here are very good. In particular, Michael's new CD, Older, is hypocritical and dreary. The singer has been rebelling against his teenybopper past as co-leader of Wham! for some time now (his last album, which attempted a more serious tone, was titled Listen Without Prejudice Vol. I), but on this new CD he is not only a rebel without a cause, he also lacks energy and wit. On the song Star People he actually sings "Star People/ counting your money till your soul turns green/ Star people/ counting the cost...
...comes with the far less recognizable faces--the Corey Harts and Quarterflashes that dominated the mainstream pop of the late '70s and early '80s. In one segment John Waite performs his only hit single, Missing You, wearing a gauze scarf and looking like David Duchovny digitally reinserted into a Wham! video. If that isn't diverting enough, there are always plenty of women dancing in handkerchief skirts while Dick Clark plays his role of well-preserved geezer-voyeur to a tee. Chatting up a perky audience member with feathered hair, he marvels, "Now how do you do that...
...million, two-record deal. Michael was famously unhappy at Sony, claiming that the label had not supported what he saw as his musical maturation. He sued to get out of the contract, lost, refused to record for Sony anyway and eventually worked out his deal with DreamWorks. The former Wham! singer's first single for Dreamworks, Jesus to a Child, is rather solemn but is starting to get some airplay, especially on adult-contemporary stations. Since the rest of the album won't be out until April or perhaps even later, the jury is still out on his comeback...