The March 23rd, 1989, copy of Rolling Stone (issue Number 548) was a college-themed affair that featured online writing on agitation at Gallaudet University and physics advisers belief baseball. (Not to acknowledgment El Salvador politics, AIDS, and the Master Musicians of Joujouka.) Ten added highlights:
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1. Madonna smells Prince In Bill Zehme's awning adventure on Madonna, she discusses Catholicism, her breach from Sean Penn, her endorsement accord with Pepsi (her "Like a Prayer" video would end up scotching that), and a assertive ability from Minneapolis. (Read the abounding adventure here.) "Ever back I've accepted Prince, I've absorbed a that appears to smell to him, which is lavender," Madonna said. "He reeks of it."
2. Guns N' Roses' abutting appointment with Whitney Houston Random Notes covered Lyle Lovett's Large Band album, John Cougar Mellencamp's Big Daddy, Yoko Ono's display at the Whitney Museum, and the American Music Awards, area Guns N' Roses played "Patience," but after bagman Steven Adler, who allegedly had pneumonia ("though a reliable antecedent said letters that he'd arrested himself in for detox weren't off base"). Filling in on drums: Don Henley of the Eagles. Backstage, "Slash and bandage acquaintance Duff McKagan were active craning their necks to get a bigger attending at Whitney Houston, who was accepting photographed in the next room."
3. 1-900-MONEY In music-business news, CDs outsold vinyl annal for the aboriginal time in 1988. But the hasty new antecedent of acquirement for musicians was the 1-900 buzz line, area admirers could absorb about $2.50 to apprehend a two-minute recorded bulletin from the brand of Al B. Sure! and Ozzy Osbourne: basically, an big-ticket audio adaptation of Twitter. D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince grossed about $5 actor from their buzz band in beneath than a year (keeping about a division of that). RCA business VP Michael Omansky, discussing the duo's platinum album, He's the D.J., I'm the Rapper, said, "The bigger things traveling for that anthology were pop-radio airplay, MTV rotation, and this buzz line."
4. The boob tube The accompaniment of the art of network-TV censorship, according to Jay Martel: "Actual genitals are apparently out of the catechism for this millennium, although networks did actualization a few chipped sets in the battleground Sistine Chapel documentaries of 1969. A changeable nipple has yet to accomplish a arrangement actualization alfresco of National Geographic specials, admitting a actual authentic contour of one cameoed endure November in the NBC miniseries Favorite Son. (In an breezy survey, TV producers predicted that the aboriginal nipple in the beef would arise three to 5 years from now on L.A. Law.)"
5. Academy rock, chic of 1989 The nine bands profiled in a assembly of the monsters of academy rock: Soundgarden, the Chills, Dinosaur Jr., the Pixies, Drivin' n' Cryin, the Hummingbirds, Miracle Legion, the Silos, and Big Dipper. Inspirational acumen from Black Francis of the Pixies: "I'm just absolutely hyper. I mean, acknowledge god I don't do cocaine or anything." And from Chris Cornell of Soundgarden: "Led Zeppelin is just a agglomeration of brainless idiots who wrote air-conditioned riffs."
6. Glenn Frey gets muscular Glenn Frey of the Eagles active an endorsement accord with Jack LaLanne exercise centers, assuming off his able-bodied body, which he declared as the aftereffect of 1,500 sit-ups a day, 5 canicule per week. What motivated him? "They offered me a shitload of money," he said, and fabricated a active aegis of bartering endorsements: "I do not adhere to this aged hippie mentality that says it's us adjoin them. I alone do not accede Pepsi-Cola or Old Style Beer or the Health and Tennis Corporation to be the enemy. This is the age of developed bedrock stars."
7. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum: A adulation bizarre In 1989, Geena Davis was the apron and common on-screen accomplice of Jeff Goldblum. Bruce Handy acicular out that in The Fly, she had played a announcer in adulation with his scientist (who angry into an insect), while in Earth Girls Are Easy, she was a manicurist in adulation with his blue-furred alien, "which makes them a affectionate of cross-species Tracy and Hepburn." Davis riposted, "Well, it's not like Jeff and I are animadversion on doors asking, 'Hey, heard of any movies area one of us can be bizarre?' It's just array of happened that way. I mean, it would be abundant if we could acquisition a cine area we were both humans."
8. Howlin' Wolf vs. Muddy Waters Blues behemothic Willie Dixon told Anthony DeCurtis how he acclimated to accomplishment the animosity amid Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters: "When I aboriginal started giving them songs, cipher anytime capital the song you gave them. So I begin out I had to use a little attitude on 'em. Back Wolf and Muddy both seemed to anticipate that I was giving them the amiss songs, all I'd accept to do is go to Wolf and say, 'Hey, man, now here's a song I fabricated for Muddy. Muddy's gonna do this.' [Imitating Wolf] "Oh, man, how appear you accord Muddy the best songs?' And Muddy would say the aforementioned affair about Wolf!"
9. Stardom predicted, Washington edition The second-most clear-sighted affair about this affair was that an commodity by Peter Osterlund about advancing Congressional staffers was centered on George Stephanopolous, who at the time had not started alive for Bill Clinton's presidential attack (he would ultimately serve in Clinton's White House as communications administrator and as a chief advisor): he was just the authoritative abettor of Ohio adumbrative Edward Feighan.
10. Stardom predicted, Hollywood edition
But the account that best advancing the approaching was a Random Note about how D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince capital to get into movies. "I accept the abridgment together, and I'm accepting accessible to hunt Eddie Murphy and Robert Townsend to get 'em to apprehend it," said a 20-year-old Fresh Prince. Now bigger accepted as Will Smith, the Fresh Prince has been in movies that accept collectively grossed over two billion dollars; Jazzy Jeff is still cat-and-mouse to accomplish his blur debut.
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