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text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 7.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 42.129000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >SAMANTHA </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 307.900000pt; height: 51.400000pt; top: 418.300000pt; left: 21.150000pt;" > <LAYER top=557.733333px left=28.200000px width=410.533333px height=68.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,410,68" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.800000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 220.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 69.750000pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >SAN </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; 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text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.210000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 62.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Bob Marley <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Elvis </SPAN>Costello <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >David Bowie </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180.700000pt; height: 191.100000pt; top: 469.700000pt; left: 21.150000pt;" > <LAYER top=626.266667px left=28.200000px width=240.933333px height=254.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,254" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Samantha Sang (her real name) was born with a gold record in her mouth. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Remember Lulu and "To Sir With Love"? Well, Samantha Sang has the same breathy but powerful chest voice, and she <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >may well be the first robin in a new spring </SPAN>of another Australian (via England) Invasion with her Bee Gee-blessed "Emotion" hit. Barry Gibb wrote and produced the single for his cherub-faced `Australian sister,' who turns out to be a young show business veteran (her parents are two of Australia's most well-known <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >singers) and one of Austrailia's "best </SPAN>female vocalist" in her own right. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Riding in on the Bee Gee wave, she should nevertheless stick. Among the vivid voices she slips in and out of with ease, </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180.700000pt; height: 190.350000pt; top: 469.700000pt; left: 210.850000pt;" > <LAYER top=626.266667px left=281.133333px width=240.933333px height=253.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,253" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 14.400000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Sam sports the clean teen talent contest voice, a coy whisper that erupts into a lioness' love-territorial roar, and a pulverizing giant-killing voice where one can hear and see flashes of a Joplin-gonestraight. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Eight years ago, at 16, she left </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Australia for London and recorded Barry <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Gibb's "Love of a Woman," which was a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >big European hit and might be released </SPAN>here yet. But because of her show business roots, she was always considered a "singing <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >prodigy" bound for a Streisandian career </SPAN>in stage and movies. And with the kind of "Emotion" being generated over <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" >her </SPAN>career now, it's safe to say that with a name like <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Samantha Sang, she'll be unflappable, if </SPAN>not unstoppable. <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >—Phobi Wallibar </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180.700000pt; height: 657.450000pt; top: 320.350000pt; left: 400.550000pt;" > <LAYER top=427.133333px left=534.066667px width=240.933333px height=876.600000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,876" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Q. Your radio show helped turn me into an <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Elvis Costello </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >freak. I missed him the first </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >time around—what are his chances of com</SPAN>ing back to the U.S. this year? </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 120px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >C.K., New York City </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A. <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >He's been back since, and his second album, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >This Year's Model, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >should be re</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >leased late March, early April. The LP </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >will include the sizzling "Radio Radio" </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >which Elvis performed on "Saturday Night Live." His band is the Attractions. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. I'm well aware of how the Sex Pistols ripped up the U.S. on their limited tour <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and what the press thought of them, but </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >what did they think </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >otus? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.890000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 153.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >D.M., <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >St. </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;" >Louis </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A. The group's manager, <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" >Malcolm Mc-</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Laren, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >was quoted in Melody Maker as </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >shrugging off the U.S. "It could be Birm</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ingham for all we care. People are just the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >same." He told the New York Times that </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >he was "disappointed" by the "tameness" </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of American audiences. He told the Times </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >that the group hated the entire tour. It's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >been an eye opener for the band to realize England is freer and more intelligent than America." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. Can you tell me something about the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Tom </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Robinson Band? </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >I heard their version </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >of "I Shall Be Released" </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >but </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >can't find the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >record. What gives? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 144px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >S.G., Los Angeles </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A. The Tom Robinson Band includes songwriter/lead singer/bassist Tom Robinson, singer/lead guitarist Danny Kustow, keyboardist <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt;" >Mark Amber, </SPAN>and drummer Brian <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Taylor. Their "2-4-6-8 Motorway" single </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >was recently released on Harvest in Amer</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ica. TRB has also released a six-song EP </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >for radio use in the States (they're </SPAN>English), with Chris <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt;" >Thomas </SPAN>of Sex Pistols <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >notoriety producing. That's probably how </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >you came to hear "I Shall Be Released." The band's back in the studio recording </SPAN>their first album due here in late April. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >Will </SPAN>Bob <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >Marley's stiff foot keep him </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >off the U.S. boards this year? Has he been </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >able to do any recording while recuper</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ating? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 163.200000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >J.S., Pasadena </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A. Bob Marley has completely recovered <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >from his wounds to tour the U.S. in May </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >behind his new </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Kaya </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >album. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" >I'm </SPAN>a Black Sabbath buff and <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" >I </SPAN>hear <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Ozzy Osboume </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >will not rejoin the group </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >as planned. Does this kill all chances for an album and U.S. tour? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.100000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 163.200000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >S.M., Chicago </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A. <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >Word persists that Black Sabbath's next LP, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Never Say Die, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >with Ozzy Osbourne </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180.700000pt; height: 657.450000pt; top: 320.350000pt; left: 590.250000pt;" > <LAYER top=427.133333px left=787.000000px width=240.933333px height=876.600000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,876" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >back at lead singer, is due in May to be <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >followed by a six-week U.S. tour in June </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and July. Ozzy's return follows a three-month absence due to "musical frustra</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >tion." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Q. I read about Ten Years Later in your newspaper and would like some more information about them if possible. Are they going to tour the U.S.? </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 129.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >G.R., Hanover, Ma. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A. Alvin Lee's first LP since '75, <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Rocket </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Fuel, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >was a March release on RSO Records, with a U.S. tour to follow soon. His band includes drummer </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Tom Compton </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and bass Mick Hawksworth. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. Genesis live was the greatest I've ever <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >seen or heard. Will the band continue as a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >three-piece? Have we seen the last of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Genesis? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 158.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >S. E., Burbank </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A. Genesis is now a five-piece with the ad<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >dition of lead and bass guitarist Daryl </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Stuermer. Ironically, the new album re</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >corded by the trio of Collins, Banks & </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Rutherford is titled </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >And Then Therc </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Were Three. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The new band, including </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >former Genesis drummer </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Chester Thomp</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >son, starts a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >20-city U.S. tour in April and returns again in June. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Q. I <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >heard that David Bowie and Brian Eno are producing a group called </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt;" >Devo </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >who re</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >cently toured L.A. Can you tell me some</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >thing about them? Are they English? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 124.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >S.K., New York City </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A. <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt;" >Devo, </SPAN>from Akron, Ohio, are singer/ <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Moog & Arp synthesizer juggler Mark </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Mothersbaugh, drummer Alan Myers, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >guitarists Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Casale, and singer-bassist Jerry Casale. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Stiff Records in England has released </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Devo's "Jocko Homo" single backed with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"Mongoloid." Devo practices De-Evolu</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >tion, which "takes everything that is not emphasized and emphasizing it in order to create a reflection," a Dada-data rock code where man, myth and computer merge. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 26.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Q. Among all the heavies headlining <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"California Jam" at the Ontario -Motor </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Speedway in mid-March, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >1 </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >didn't recog</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >nize one group, Rubicon. Can you tell me something about them? </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 139.200000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >C.J., Los Angeles </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A. <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt;" >The seven-man high energy Bay Area </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >band is the brainchild of Jerry Martini, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ten years the bandleader and horn core of </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Sly & the Family Stone. Trumpet players Max </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Haskett </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >handles most of the vocals, </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and Bradley Gillis rock guitar for Rubi</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >con, whose first album's on 20th Century Records. </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2.150000pt solid #000000 ; width: 360.250000pt; height: 263.750000pt; top: 702pt; left: 31.450000pt;" > <LAYER top=936px left=41.933333px width=480.333333px height=351.666667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,480,351" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.140000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 34.584000pt; letter-spacing: 7.870000pt;" >R&R&R&R </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Radio & Records, <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;" >the radio industry newspaper, assembled one of the </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >largest in-crowds in music industry history recently for its annual R&R </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Convention '78 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The three-day conclave of seminars and forums attracted most of the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >major forces in the music business, drawing upon record company presi</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >dents, station program and music directors and sales managers, and many </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >other representatives from the industry. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Convention '78 not only succeeded as a contact point and idea ex<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >change, but also in breaking down the natural barriers between radio and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >record people that build up as a result of distance and shifting music pat</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >terns. Bringing together industry tastemakers from across the U.S. is oc</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >casion enough for celebration in music circles, since it rallies music pro</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >moters to a new level of awareness of the music trends they themselves </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >helped create. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Dolly Parton, Steve Martin and the Dirt Band entertained, while media <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >prophet Marshall McLuhan </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >(who coined "the medium is the message" in </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >1957) was the keynote speaker. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; 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