November 1981
It was late on Saturday morning. The sound on the TV was off, and the radio was quietly blaring "Janitor" by the Suburban Lawns. I was lazily looking through a stack of albums, when I heard a knock at the door. I glanced around the room, and saw that no one was there.
ROCK 'n' ROLL NEWS
Fleetwood Mac has settled out of court with Carol Hinton, a songwriter from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who claimed that portions of her poem "Sarah" were used verbatim in the Stevie Nicks composed hit, "Sara." Hinton and her lawyers settled for $1,500.
No Heavy Breathing Please: Rick Springfield Is Serious
Toby Goldstein
PHILADELPHIA—There was a time when the idolmaker world saw Rick Springfield as its next big thing...while Springfield saw himself as Alex, A Clockwork Oranges purveyor of ultra-violence. "A stewardess would come up, to me on the plane and this photographer friend and I would go ˜lovely little groodies on the devotchka, eh? Bit a the old in-out, in-out..." Springfield laughs so hard at the memory he knocks over a bottle of Perrier.
Makeup Secrets Of Five Wild & Crazy Girls
Toby Goldstein
THEY THINK THEY’RE GO-GO
WAS (Not Was) IS (Not Is) GOOD! (Not Good!)
John Neilson
I'm on the phone with Donald Was (nee Fagenson), who with partner David Was (not Weiss) forms the core of the Detroit nouveau funque ensemble, Was (Not Was). The purpose of my call is to set up an interview, but this is proving to be difficult, as Donald obviously has other things on his mind.
THE ABC’S OF ZZ TOP
J. Kordosh
A couple of months ago, one of the editors noticed that the typeface on my typewriter looks like a computer print-out.
GHOST TOWN JUJU
Penny Valentine
When you think your toys have gone berserk/It's an illusion you cannot shirk/ hear laughter cracking through the walls/It sends you spinning/You have no choice. —Spellbound" Siouxsie Sue, no longer a punk but not fitting quite comfortably into neo-Romanticism either, has returned with Ju Ju, two new Banshees, and the sound of tribal, drumming courtesy of Budgie (devastatingly bleached blond, quiffed and more art school, than Springsteen t-shirted).
Creem Profiles
IAN HUNTER
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
HOTEL BALTIMORE’S (NOT JUST) FOR CHILDREN
Richard Riegel
Nice Girl Finishes First & Demands Recount
THE SECOND ANNUAL creem DUBIOUS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Rick Johnson
Fantasy Records discovered that their Creeaence Clearwater Revival live album, The Royal Albert Hall Concert, was actually recorded in Oakland. Ken Russell, For One Funniest of the year: Who can forget the Townshend masterpiece Tommy?"
OZZY's BLIZZARD ,Motorhead Roars, Etc.
Gregg Turner
I get thousands of letters from people all over the world.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Calendar
CALENDAR
MY FAVORITE STRINGS
Allen Hester
Guitar players, collectors and enthusiasts spend a lot of time talking about the legendary rare models, the fantastic sunburst finishes, the faded colors of days gone by, and soon ad nauseum, and many of them (us) overlook a component of guitars that is crucial to the most important aspect of any instrument: the sound.
LEAVE IT TO PEAVEY
Allen Hester
A few months back I took a look at the Peavey T-15 guitar; the little two-pickup axe that only costs $199.00. After seeing what other new goodies Peavey had to offer at the NAMM convention this year, I feel obliged to share some new information with you.
THE PRETENDERS vs. The Dreaded Secind Album Syndrome...
Chris Salewicz
Late one cloudless summer afternoon, Chrissie Hynde can be found in the historic English West Country town of Bath.
Metal Gods From Plutonia
Gerald Potterton, director of the National Lampoons big-budget animated production. Heavy Metal, considered the peculiar personality change which overtook several of his films illustrators. Guys who were used to drawing bunny rabbits really liked killing thirtgs and drawing naked women," he stated with a degree of astonishment.
Confession of a FILM FOX
BLONDIE IS NOT A HAIR COLOR: Debbie Harry has decided to forego Clairol and go back to her brownette roots. Perhaps unsure about the effect of this cosmetic change on her fans, Debs been resorting to blue and green wigs in public lately. YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST! Detroits own Jerry Vile is soon to grace the big screen in a film version of a Kurt Vonnegut story directed by Jonathan Demme...CREEM breaks the big ones! (And how...) Not giving up with Escape From New York, Adrienne Barbeaus hubby John Carpenter has the hots to sign Kurt Russell to star in his next movie, a remake of the 1950 sci-fi flick The Thing... De frocked Angel Kate Jacksons new beau (she and Andrew Stevens parted company) is Rock Brynner—you guessed it, Old Baldys son.
CREEM DREEM
KIM CARNES
Stars Cars
ROBERT GORDON
Rewire Yourself
RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES
Richard Robinson
Portable electronic equipment has a hidden operating cost.
WE GRIMACE, THEREFORE WE ARE
Like the countless cruel-belching flotskies who sit in the countless unferned and uncedared bars of this one-horse universe grimacing into mirrors, not so much at themselves, reflected in those mirrors, but rather at the idea of those mirrors, and even then only because no more palpable object for their grimacing can be found, and even if it could, well, fuck it; like-them, the Rolling Stones make it extremely difficult to perceive their—I borrow here from Dear Meg—nice sides.
A Date With Soul
ROCK A RAMA
PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS—As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (ECM):: The title track (and first side of this album) is mainly a feature for Mays synthesizer with guest rhythms by Nana Vasconcelos—pretentious, maybe, rambling, definitely, but it shore is purty.
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down
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