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Stepping Out: Mick Jagger Goes Solo | ARTICLE

Mick Jagger, it seems, cannot sit still. Seated behind a console at the Power Station in New York, Jagger is fidgeting with strips...
February 14, 1985 3:15 PM ET
Jagger Wraps Up Solo LP | ARTICLE

Mick Jagger has completed his first solo album, which is set for release in mid-February. "It wasn't from any great frustration; I was...
January 17, 1985 2:20 PM ET
Madonna Goes All the Way | ARTICLE

Madonna and I are face to face at a corner table at Evelyne's, a cacophonous...
November 22, 1984 4:15 PM ET
Stop Making Sense | ALBUM REVIEW

This is the second live album that Talking Heads have released (the third, actually, if you count a to-the-trade-only 1979 LP). But while The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads was an ambitious attempt to sum...
November 8, 1984 12:00 AM ET
Reagan Knows Who's Boss | ARTICLE

Who's the right wing's latest darling? Bruce Springsteen, to judge from the recent comments of President Reagan and conservative columnist George F. Will. ''If all Americans ... made their products with as much energy and confidence as...
October 25, 1984 8:00 AM ET
Huey Lewis: Playing to Win | ARTICLE

Three-thirty on a Sunny, Sweltering Fort Lauderdale afternoon: tee-off time at the Inverrary Golf Club for the members of what Huey Lewis like to...
September 13, 1984 10:35 AM ET
Mick Fleetwood Bankrupt | ARTICLE

Seventeen years after he formed Fleetwood Mac with bassist John McVie, drummer Mick Fleetwood seems almost unscarred by the passage of time. On...
August 30, 1984 2:35 PM ET
Christine McVie Keeps A Level Head After Two Decades in the Fastlane | ARTICLE

When Christine McVie and her husband, John, moved to Los Angeles in 1974 with their band, Fleetwood Mac, they spent the first few...
July 7, 1984 2:20 PM ET
'Fun' Springsteen Album, Tour Due | ARTICLE

After writing at least sixty songs and spending the better part of two years in the studio, Bruce Springsteen has finally completed his seventh album, Born in the U.S.A. The LP will be released early in June; a single,...
June 7, 1984 8:00 AM ET
Reckoning | ALBUM REVIEW

Murky yet emotionally winning, brainy but boyishly enthusiastic, R.E.M.'s debut album, Murmur, burst onto the pop scene last year with minimal fanfare. Though some critics lumped the Athens, Georgia, quartet with the big-guitar bunch (the Alarm,...
April 9, 1984 12:00 AM ET
Touch | ALBUM REVIEW

A doctor friend of mine who was working in a sanitarium for the mildly insane told me about a card one of the patients made for Mother's Day. "To my mother," it read. "who has always been...
February 2, 1984 12:00 AM ET
Under A Blood Red Sky | ALBUM REVIEW

This Irish band's incantatory power is no more vividly demonstrated than in concert, and this eight-song minialbum, culled from their last tour, gives ample evidence why people have been calling U2 the best live band of 1983....
January 19, 1984 12:00 AM ET
Infidels | ALBUM REVIEW

Infidels is Bob Dylan's best album since the searing Blood on the Tracks nine years ago, a stunning recovery of the lyric and...
November 24, 1983 12:00 AM ET
David Byrne in Love | ARTICLE

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 407 from October 27, 1983. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's...
October 27, 1983 12:00 AM ET
What's New | ALBUM REVIEW

Give Linda Ronstadt her due. From her earliest days, the first lady of rock has been a great technical singer with no interpretative ability, no nuance. What should a singer who needs work on her interpretative ability...
October 13, 1983 12:00 AM ET
Lawyers In Love | ALBUM REVIEW

Hard cases make bad law, lawyers like to say, and no rock & roll case is harder to pin down than Jackson Browne. For many listeners, Browne is the quintessential guilty pleasure, a navel-gazing singer/songwriter whose moony...
September 29, 1983 12:00 AM ET
The Real Macaw | ALBUM REVIEW

Just because Graham Parker has become a most happy fella doesn't mean he's a wimp. The joys of marital life have taken some of the snarl out of Parker's prickly world view, but they haven't taken the...
September 15, 1983 12:00 AM ET
Punch The Clock | ALBUM REVIEW

Well, nobody's gonna call this album a masterpiece. On Punch the Clock, Costello retreats from the no-guts, no-glory stance that inspired Imperial Bedroom and chooses instead to tinker with the basic machinery. Toward that end, producers Clive...
September 1, 1983 12:00 AM ET
Powerlight | ALBUM REVIEW

No surprises here: Maurice White and company are still pumping out the same spiffy horn parts, bouncy bass lines and stacked-to-the-sky vocals that have made Earth, Wind and Fire a persistently platinum act. Unfortunately, the passion that...
March 17, 1983 12:00 AM ET
Trouble In Paradise | ALBUM REVIEW

"Here we are, living in paradise," sang Elvis Costello a few albums ago, and while Randy Newman probably would agree with that statement, he'd be more interested in its underlying frustration: if this is paradise, why aren't...
February 17, 1983 12:00 AM ET