ROCK ’N’ ROLL NEWS
In this month’s exclusive non-tour news, let it be known that David Bowie has no intention of doing any 1986 shows, preferring instead to be seen on the big screen. In addition to his appearance in Absolute Beginners, Bowie has a role in Labyrinth, a George Lucas/Jim Henson film that should be playing as you read this.
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ABSOLUTELY NO BOWIE
In this month’s exclusive non-tour news, let it be known that David Bowie has no intention of doing any 1986 shows, preferring instead to be seen on the big screen. In addition to his appearance in Absolute Beginners, Bowie has a role in Labyrinth, a George Lucas/Jim Henson film that should be playing as you read this. The soundtrack LP includes five Bowie compositions.
WASTED LIVES &THE BIRTH OF TWINS
Love is back! Not the group, but the subject—that according to John Flanagin, a sociologist at the University of South Dakota, who has made a study of Top 10 pop songs dealing with amour. According to Flanagin’s figures, 87 percent of the Top-1 Oers in 1965 deaft with love as their niä~n subject, wIth the numbers dropping to 85 percent (1960), 76 percent (1965) and an alarming 63 percent (1970). Since then, it's all been uphill, with 1985 showing a commen dable 80 percent love quotient. No word on how Robyn Hitch cock figures in alt this.