The New York Times – Music:
Tish and Snooky Bellomo are still creating wild hair dye colors for the brand, which took off in the 1980s. But they also make time for harp lessons, Italian dinners and the sauna.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Eighties
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Sheena Easton, an ’80s Pop Phenom, Is Glad She Left the Rat Race
The New York Times – Music:
The “Strut” singer had creative relationships with Prince and Nile Rodgers and experimented in different genres. A pair of new boxed sets chronicle her peak years.
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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ Was a Risk. He’s Proving It Paid Off.
The New York Times – Music:
A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one.
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Karl Wallinger, Who Sang With World Party and the Waterboys, Dies at 66
The New York Times – Music:
As a songwriter and instrumentalist as well, he blended pop and folk influences into music that helped define college radio in the 1980s and ’90s.