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Members of the Led Zeppelin toss ice cubes out the windows at passing >| police cruisers and dunk mink-clad women in the swimming pool. Alice Cooper's roadies play nude football in the hallway. The J. Geils Band stages mustard and ketchup orgies in its rooms. Instead of tearing their hair, the hotel's youthful staff (average age: 24) smile benignly. The expanded room service is designed to cater to pimpled artists who prefer milkshakes with their chateaubriands. The crazy has become so commonplace that during an Electric Light Orchestra party recently, a zonked-out groupie was propped...
Then there are damages. Some of the Hyatt's rooms have been repainted more times than the Queen Mary. During a recent stay, Led Zeppelin surpassed its 1972 record of $1,700 by racking up $2,500 in damages-destroying paintings, soiling walls, submerging four stereos in bathtubs, and reportedly holding motorcycle races in a corridor. But, like Joe Cocker, who ruined a carpet last spring by stomping his birthday cake into the fabric, the musicians smoothed things over by paying the tab immediately. "Most of these groups just don't worry about damages," sighs Hyatt Manager...
Newport-New England. Now the Newport Jazz Festival used to be held at Newport. But three-four years ago, after George Wein started inporting people like Led Zeppelin to punch up the gate, they had a riot. Nice one, too. About 7,000 stone broke hippies came rolling off the hill overlooking the festival site and rolled clean through the one chain link fence separating themselves from wall to wall music. At which point they clashed with the paying customers and much mangling of flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway...
...wholes rather than parts. In any case, the career that follows is a classic case of a man of long vision in a nearsighted world. Fuller grew up during an age of mechanical wizardry. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower revolutionized building. At the turn of the century Count Zeppelin had, in effect, laid a covered tower on its side, filled it with gas and floated off. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic. The Wright brothers flew, and off the Maine coast a boy named Bucky Fuller Tom-Swifted a rowing device-a combination jellyfish and umbrella that enabled...
...Brother Nesuhi and their friend Jerry Wexler, signed Ray Charles, LaVern Baker, the Modern Jazz Quartet and "Boss of the Blues" Joe Turner. In the 1960s, his firm introduced Sonny and Cher, more recently Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Roberta Flack as well as rock groups like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Also hired young singer released by Columbia Records, turned her into Soul Empress Aretha Franklin. Sold his lively, swinging company in 1967 to firm that eventually became Warner Communications for $18 million, but continued to run it. Lives with wife Mica in Manhattan town house...