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By ROBIN WELLESCopley News ServiceI?HOLLYWOOD - Rush is aptly named. The hard rock trio has been on the run• Iacross the United States and Canada for the last couple of years, first as a warm-up aqt and later as a headliner.The hard work is paying off for drummer Neil Peart,bassist-vocalist Giddy Leeand guitarist Alex Lifeson as they climb the popularity chart that pays off in that lovely rain pf dollars.Like so njany of Air^ericat’s top musical acts thse aajte; Rush is an import — from Canada. Rush won the Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) last year as the most promising new group in Canada.This year Rush suddenly gained recognition with an album called “2112,” a look ahead at a society controlled by computers. But this was no far-out album with electronic squeals and screeches, but the type of thing that Rush does best: hard rod Now Rush is out with another Mercury LP, a two-record set that rounds up some of the best things that the trio did at Massey Hall in Toronto this year before three sellout audiences.. Exciting is the word for “All the World’s a Stage. In thesechael Tilson Thomas and the Columbia Jazz Band. But the piano'part actually is a 1925 piano rollout byGersjhwin. You’d never know it. The blend is perfect'OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN — Don’t Stop BelieVin’ (MCA) — The slender and tendervoice of Tovely Olivia— goes on about loving and dreaming and losing. “Hey, Mr. Dreammaker send me a 4kdream,” sings Olivia, because the old one has worn j pretty thin around the edges. • Soapy'stuff, but if sells.NADIA’S THEME -Instrumental Performances (AM) — Barry Ue Vorzonand Perry Botkin Jr. team up in a moody LP that’s great for late-night listening. Chuck Mangione guests in his “Bellavia” and ‘Chase the* Clouds Away,” ■ Michel Colombie! does the exotic “Emanuel,” and Herb Ohta strums through “Feelings.” You’ll hate to hear the last of this one.,LOU RAWLS ——? Naturally (Polydor) .-r- A powerful, sometimes bitter look at life by one of the finest singers around. Don’t expect. hearts and flowers and happiness tere. Rawls has seen it all, from “Tobacco Road to thatdaysbx many variations Rush “Dead-End Street.’- And hq_is plunging ahead with no- lays it out, warts and all. 1 frills rock that’s nice to hear. THE BEST OF CHARLEY * Also worth a listen: PRIDE * Volume III (RCA) :
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Norco Pony Express
Norco, California, US
Thu, Dec 09, 1976
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