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...awaited Talk Is Cheap, Keith Richards becomes the last Rolling Stone to release a solo album. The efforts from the other four Stones have been--speaking charitably--forgettable. In contrast, the high caliber of Talk proves what many listeners have suspected all along--that Richards (and not, say, Mick Jagger) is the primary architect of the Stones sound we know and love...
...unexpected spryness. On one song, the Stax-like "Make No Mistake," he even croons and whispers like Al Green (though without Green's range), curling his voice around each syllable with palpable relish. Keith also proves himself a reasonable blues shouter, in the mold of--who else?--Mick Jagger...
Richards' lyrics are adequate, if not great. "You Don't Move Me"--a swipe at Mick Jagger for his current reluctance to record with other Stones--is a litany of lines like "It's no longer funny/It's bigger than money." The album's best track, the country ballad "Locked Away," begins with the wonderfully terse summation, "She swears that I'm the only one/What about yesterday?" The singer goes on to suggest that she, he and his friends "ought to be locked away"--she for her faithlessness, he for his insane jealousy, and his friends for their insensitivity...
...waters off Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Halicarnas, an enormous open-air disco, pumps music and shoots lasers until dawn. Ertegun, who was born in Istanbul and came to the U.S. as a boy, now owns a sumptuous villa in Bodrum where he entertains such glitterati as Mick Jagger and Oscar de la Renta...
...most extensive estate sales in history and one of the glitziest. Dealers -- British, French, German and Italian, as well as American -- swarmed to it. The event was studded with the celebrities to whom Warhol catered in his life and art, from the King and Queen of Sweden to Bianca Jagger and Dick Cavett. By week's end more than 45,000 collectors and curiosity seekers had milled through Sotheby's showrooms, 10,000 of them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup...