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.
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…
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.,”…
Original Publication: Newsweek 7/26/76 By Maureen Orth with Lisa Whitman The first thing that the posh New York restaurant 21 did in honor of the Democratic National Convention was to…
Original Publication: Newsweek – June 14, 1976 Angus Deming with Elaine Shannon and Lucy Howard in Washington and Maureen Orth in New York. For the 10,000 or more women who…
In 1976, pop stars are being pursued by some politicians the way
corporate executives and fat cats used to be. Under the new campaign laws, individuals are limited to donations of $1,000, but thanks to a loophole in the legislation, entertainers can donate their services for whatever they can bring in at the gate.