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...good news is the eponymous Del Amitri (Chrysalis). At first glance, these four Scotsman would seem to fit in with the U2 Alarm mode of loud banal political folk songs. This debut effort abounds with youthful metaphors about pollution and nuclear war and all the things that are so gosh--wrong with this world. Most of the time these societal barbs are more embarassing than effective. All of this only goes to prove that it takes time to learn how to write lyrics. Fortunately, the ultimate success of Del Amitri does not depend on its words but rather its presentation...
Following 1984 singles "Another Silent Day" and "Send My Heart," The Adventures is their album debut. Avoiding the politics that often pervade the music of bands with similar roots (Gribben, Gribben, and Sharpe hail from Belfast) the band instead opts for stock song themes like love, sex, and relationships. Though lyrics are easily accessible, they at times become slightly monotonous, if not boring...
Simon F, a London native, has been interested in music since he was young. His debut LP, Gun, is the fruit of his 1984-85 songwriting done in collaboration with semi-namesake and London doppelgang Simon G. His material is claimed to represent an attempt to describe his past by relating what he considers to be both "the two biggest concerns in pop music" and "two of the key things in life": sex and violence...
DIED. Anne Baxter, 62, throaty-voiced actress whose stage and screen career, from her 1936 Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard to her current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based...
...some to compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good for someone who got into singing only...