Discos are where it’s happening. With an estimated 10,000 in the U.S. today – compared with about 1,500 just two years ago – discos have become one of the biggest entertainment phenomena of the ’70s.
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When Paul Simon accepted last year’s Grammy Award for best album, he thanked Stevie Wonder for not making an album in 1975. But the competition is heating up: after two years without a new album, Stevie Wonder is releasing a double LP, “Songs in the Key of Life.” Last week, Wonder transported 76 members of the press to a farm in New England to hear the record before it is issued this week. Among those invited was NEWSWEEK’S Maureen Orth.
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek, October 4, 1976 MAUREEN ORTH with LISA WHITMAN in New York and JANE FRIEDMAN in Paris The model in the Fellini make-up and the Ralph Lauren pajamas…
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Newsweek – September 27, 1976 Bernard Bertolucci’s epic “1900” has been in the making for almost four years, and his fans have been impatiently awaiting it as the celebrated director’s…
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Original Publication: August 30, 1976 Six years ago, a former Long Island, N.Y. debutante named Mary McFadden was running a school for native artists deep in the African bush and…
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Original publication: Newsweek, August 2, 1976 Maureen Orth with Janet Huck in Los Angeles Last October, 10-year-old Darrin Barri asked his father for a record of the theme from “S.W.A.T.,”…
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