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...debt-ridden and desperate KROQ in Pasadena, Calif., broke the bland playlist. Its new format: then unknown bands like Britain's Duran Duran and the rockabilly Stray Cats (both now megagroups). The reversal was quick. When Berlin's Pleasure Victim played on the station, a surprising 25,000 copies were sold locally. Now KROQ is the No. 1 rock station in the large Los Angeles radio market. Says then Program Director Rick Carroll, who now advises ten other stations on strategy: "I sensed that there was a big audience out there looking for something of their own. Music...
...every Human League "Fascination" (1983) there is a Standells "Dirty Water" (1966) or a? and the Mysterians "96 Tears" (1966). And for every Duran Duran there is a Fleshtones to remind us what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be about--that is, cheesy Farfisas, three chords, a few "Sha, la, la'"s, and at least...
...Duran Martinez...
Most, like Ernie Knox, just die. Cleveland Denny fell in an early preliminary before the first Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight in Montreal two years ago. Most of the ringside seats were empty, and many people who were there did not look up. The men who fight are not the kind people look out for. Nobody really cares...
...Roberto Duran bullied him and took his title in June of 1980, but Leonard retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized...