Original Publication: Newsweek, February 10, 1975 Gil Scott-Heron is a man with a plan. At a time when mindlessness and recycled rockers dominate the hit charts, his Midnight Band’s jazz-based…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – January 13, 1975 Let the glitter fall from your eyelashes, all you Alice Cooper freaks. After you read “Billion Dollar Baby” –taken from the title of…
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Original Publication — Newsweek: January 6, 1975 If the nation has a trauma, it’s a good bet that hustling young literary agent David Obst has 10 per cent of it….
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Original Publication: Newsweek, January 6, 1975 Image has been almost as important to rock music as sound, and Annie Leibovitz is one of the key image makers in rock and…
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Original Publication – Newsweek – November 25, 1974 “Give me a minor chord, Nino.” Seated at an editing machine in Rome, director Francis Ford Coppola is scoring reel 23, the…
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I had to threaten to resign from Newsweek to get Godfather II on the cover! This story came out just before its release and I did gloat when it won…
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