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X-GO-GO'S gal
gallops; Kinks jive;

E gators men make

compassion sound swell:
Lenny lets love rule.

Belinda Carlisle — Runaway
Horses, MCA Records 1989
Smitten saps unite: you have
nothing to lose but your dignity.
Carlisle dishes out candy with di-
abolical calculation. Hook-heavy,

MICHAEL
BECKER

record review

lightweight pop cloys in too large
doses. Nevertheless, overindulging
love zombies will certainly appre-
ciate the delicate nuances to be
savored in songs like (We Want)
The Same Thing and Leave A Light
On,

George Harrison and Bryan
Adams check in for the runaway
Passion fest,

The Kinks — UK Jive, MCA Re-
cords 1989

The Kinks try to cut it several
ways on this release and be all
things to all of the kinds of fans
picked up along the rock 'n roll
way over the past 25 years.

The result is a new instalment of
tunes that teases and disappoints.
Thankfully there’s great, clever an-
themic stuff, War Is Over, UK Jive,
for grizzled Kinks diehards.
Regrettably, the strong songs are

Bishop role

From page 19

Despite his successful record,
Bishop wasn’t much of a pilot; in
Gray’s play Bishop says: ‘‘I can’t
fly worth a shit compared to
Barker or Ball (flying aces)."It was
Bishop’s unsurpassed markman-
ship that made him a national
hero.

Before Billy Bishop Goes to War,
Hopkins, 29, appea’ed in major
roles as Tevye in Fiddler on the
Roof and as Chasuble in Oscar
Wilde’s The Importance of Being
Earnest.

Since graduating in 1985
Hopkins has racked up numerous
stage, commercial and film credits,
working with Axis Mime Theatre
Company, Carousel Theatre and
the Freddy Wood Theatre Com-
pany and appearing in minor roles
in MacGyver,

January 17, 1990 - North Shore News

Belinda Carlisle doles out

pop music in

dragged down and diluted by the
sloppy arena-rock included for the
perceived benefit of younger,
tresher tans.

Men Without Hats ~ (The
Adventures Of Women & Men
Without Hate) in The 21st Cen-
tury, PolyGram Records 1989

Hatless men walk with heads
held high in the coming millenni-
um. Men Without Hats place
new-age Compassion forefront and
in the process make the proselytiz-
ing palatable by way of a bouncy
synth-centered sound.

MWH lead singer-songwriter
Ivan Doroschuk parlayed
vegetarian idealism into a suc-
cessful formula with Pop Goes The
World. On the latest, he lobs
missives in the general direction of
xreed heads, sexist pig dogs and
environmental debasers.

Closet Abba fans can come out
and polka to a rousing remake of
5.0.5, To snag MWH dilettantes
who dug Safety Dance way back
in 1983, there’s a gee-whiz,
planet-striding 90s version called
21st Century Satety Dance.

Lenny Kravitz — Let Love Rule,
Virgin Records 1989

The measure of the coming
Kravitz success will in part be
gauged by the growing number of
people opting to pierce nostrils
and cover craniums in dreadlocks.
Yet young Lenny’s unruly look is
the least of it.

The New York native’s debut is

challenges

When the writer’s strike hit in
1987, he left the footlights for a 9
to 5 job at Vancouver Interna-
tional Airport. This fall his wife
gave birth to their first child.

Hopkins confesses he had never
even heard of Bishop before
Gray's play. Now he says he
knows the war hero “as well as
just about anyone else and hope-
fully a little bit better.

“T've spent the last six months
trying to get inside his head. He
was a cheeky bugger— he really
wanted to do things his own way.”

Hopkins is toying with the idea
of remounting Billy Bishop Goes to
War for this year’s Fringe Festival.
He hopes that with the role of
Bishop, he has swooped down to
pluck himself a new career on the
stage.

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large doses

the real thing. Qualitatively it is
axin to Lernon’s earlier post-
Beatles output. Kravitz also hap-
pens to sound a lot like Elvis
Costello.

Apart from two song lyrics co-
written with the Coshy clan’‘s Lisa
Bonet, Let Love Rule is basically a
one-man show of creative dexteri-
ty. The K-man wrote most of the
material, played most of the in-
struments and then produced the
works. Sonically, the disc carries
earthy substance. It sounds like it
could have been made in the early
1970s. It’s heartening to hear an
artist following his own muse,
pounding rock for the goddess of
Jove in a funky cathedral by a
grove.

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BELINDA CARLISLE rides the runaway horse of success with her latest
release, Runaway Horses.

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