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MUSIC NEWS

Lone Justice's latent hillbilly ten-

dencies; the LeRoi Brothers teen-

trance trashabilly; Don Felder,

Eagle flying too close to the ground3;

Simon Townshend on sibling rival-

ry; Re-Flex hires a machine because

it don't talk back; Howard Jones

can't go for that image thang.

..... 8-10

GOLD ISN'T GOOD

ENOUGH

By Steve Bloom . . . . ...15

After some lean years, Kool and

the Gang are thinking platinum

again.

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

By Dan Hedges. . .

Cyndi Lauper (“That's Law-per")

just wants to have fun.

16

20

THE RECORD INTERVIEW:

ROBERT FRIPP

LORD OF DISCIPLINE

By Anthony DeCurtis. . .20

As King Crimson embarks on an-

other tour, we get the Fripperspec-

tive on such topics as the English

music press, punks and dinosaurs,

the magical year of 1969, Eno and

Bowie, frustration and satisfaction

in the current band, and the re-

wards and rigors of discipline. And

as a special treat, some exclusive

and soul-savaging samples of Crim-

son “humor."

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MAY 1984 VOL. 3 NO. 7

PRETENDERS:

LIFE AND LIFE ONLY

By Wayne King. . . . . . . 24

Good times, bad times, you know

they've had their share. This is a

story about survivors. No pretend-

ers allowed. And rounding out our

coverage: an interview with new

band members Malcolm Foster and

Robbie McIntosh on life in the

penthouse; a report on the re-

vamped Pretenders in concert; plus

a chronology listing key dates in the

group's history.

24

ASTASIA PANTSIOS/KALEYEDISCOPE

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ruler; new products make car-tunes

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE,

NORMAN BATES?

By Mark Mehler . .

Thomas Dolby would like to have a

20

31

word with you.

MUSIC

VIDEO

SON OF ROCK VIDEO. 36

Between short- and long-form rock

videos lies an increasingly fertile

middle ground for clips which pick

up story lines and characters from

previous productions. Stuart Cohn

details this burgeoning trend and

rounds

up

all the usual suspects.

A FLY IN THE

OINTMENT..

... .42

Video editor Alan Hecht examines

the sudden impact of 8-millimeter

video. It doesn't make his day.

20 REVIEWS/CHARTS....

CAR STEREO.

Stereo TV may be the thing of the

future, if the FCC is a benevolent

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MUSICAL ELECTRONICS:

KEEPING PACE WITH

TECHNOLOGY.... . . .50

Forestalling obsolescence by up-

grading the software for computer-

based instruments. Craig Anderton

reports.

HANDS ON: INSTRUC-

TIONAL KEYBOARDS,

PART II...

.. 51

Continuing last month's report,

Mike Shea scrutinizes Yamaha's

MP-1, a compact, electronic key-

board with a computerized music

printout system.

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