CREEM
FEET IN THE MUD, HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Thank you Simon Frith (to you I will my first born), for that outrageously candid collaboration of society's wealthiest square artist—the Bee Gees! Without the beautiful, the backward and the bald (who, I might say, has more class and style than 25, I repeat 25, Ted Nugents & Patti Smiths), where would all the "astonishingly unhip" rock 'n' rollers be? Where would I be? I am willing to risk ridicule—unlike many closet-listeners.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
AMAZING RYHTHM ACES: "Burning The Ballroom Down" (ABC):: Just figured out why I've always been attracted to Russell Smith's sly , sincere songs and lethargic though hardly shiftless phrasing—he's a kind of laid-back Ronnie Van Zant. Which must be why I don't like him as much as I liked Ronnie Van Zant.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Our favorite Albanian, John Belushi, to cut an album with fellow Sat. Night-er,D«a Ackroyd, as The Blues Bros. Yes they will tour... After a shoot-out at a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Rod Stewart was sipping a glass cognac, Warner Bros. prez Mo Ostin persuaded Rodders to leave the country (he was attending the World Cup soccer play-offs), and watch the games at a safe distance more conducive to conserving his rasp nodes...try TV.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Dave Laing
LONDON—Gerry Rafferty is clearly a man who knows how to wait. It's been four years since his last hit with Stealers Wheel, the group he formed with fellow Scot Joe Egan. Most of those four years have been taken up with legal wrangles after that band's management went bankrupt.
GENERATION X: LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
Kat Gisi
My eyes opened slowly that morning, slower than usual. I shut them, fear pulsing through every nerve ending in my alcohol-saturated torso. I had died.
Stuck Inside A Mobile
Simon Frith
With those Memphis blues again, even, because whatever else the times may be doing around here they certainly aren't a' changing. Consider: Dylan due, the Stones top of the pops, a new album from the Moody Blues and, worst of all, a rhythm 'n' blues revival! It seems (haven't actually seen them myself) that there are great hordes of 60's survivors who've never emerged from their sweaty memories of the days when men were men and sat in cellars keeping cool and counting the Elmore James riffs—the good days of British beat before it got popular and girls were allowed in.
Stars Cars
ACE FREHLEY
STONES TOUR
TOM ROBINSON BAND
Penny Valentine
A chance mid-week gig at a small London pub. The Tom Robinson Band have been together for six months, working infrequently, held together by Robinson's ambition and belief that it is possible to combine rock and political action in a totally unambiguous way— and to make that commercially viable.
Features
NO ZIGGY OR IGGY...JUST A GIGOLO
M. George Heddad
"I was too early for Star Wars, too late for 2001," David Bowie said as he sat on an empty orange crate in West Berlin.
Rewire Yourself
But It Doesn’t Darn Socks
Bill Kanner
The Sherwood Micro/CPU-100 tuner does damn near everything else.
PATTI SMITH STARIGHT, NO CHASER
Nick Tosches
We are sitting in the Tropical, the darkest bar in New York.
BOSTON
Rob Patterson
"We need a new cosmolgy. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink."