Arts & Entertainment 2 A Thursday, May 30,1985 Daily Nexus Past The First Association On the first listen Paul Young’s new album, The Secret of You Go Away.” Like most of Paul Young’s covers it’s Association gets lost in over-production and over-powering ambitious and showy, yet Young’s vocals never hit any details. The blend of rhythm and blues ballads and funky strains. With the contrast of modern instrumentation and dance tunes are, at first, buried in hard-to-follow melodies Temptation-sounding back-ups, “ Everytime” does more and confusing special effects. Give Association a few than justice to the original. It revives, enhances, and blends listens, however, and the lyrical content combined with its older rhythm and blues style into a heart breaking love Young’s incredibly powerful voice sends the album off and song. This song also shows, however, how good the flying. production of the entire album might have been. Most of Association has a sixties* R&B feel laced with modern synthesizers and off-beat effects. Young makes his The strength of The Secret of Association is the com­ first attempts at writing on half of the album with flair and bination of Young’s powerful voice and cutting lyrics. Both surprising depth. The R&B influence of the songs he côvers “ One Step Forward” and “ Soldier’s Things” have haunting clearly inspires his own writing. Most of Association con­ lyrics with images of the desolation of war. Like the soul he sists of fantastically stabbing ballads of love gone awry. put into Band-Aid’s “ Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Young The few dance tunes aren’t quite as potent, especially “ Hot loses no opportunity to use all of his voice. With breezy Fun” which is about as good as the title suggests. changes of octaves, Young can even make my mom sigh. “ Na,na,na” lacks any dance-ability or toleration. Paul Young is one of the few able to pack emotion into every The steal of Association is without doubt the simply word without becoming sappy. gorgeous rendition of the Hall and Oates ballad “ Everytime — Laurie McCullough Vìdeo Rie * MEDIA TALK Duran Duran (yes, that means Taylor and Clash, R.E.M., Men at Work, Style Council, Vitamin Z “ Burning Flame” Paul Young “Everytime You Go Away” Taylor) have not split. They’ve “ reached Rat, and Bob Dylan ... Squeeze has refor­ This is a simple video with a lot of These scenes from a concert performance the stage where (they) could afford the time med! Chris Difford, Glen Tilbrook, Jools character shot in a pseudo rehearsal scene. intermixed with desolate shots of Young to do something different,” said lip-glossed Holland, and Gilson Lavis are almost done They’re a new band, but the song and the alone enhance this incredible ballad. The Nick Rhodes. John and Andy have formed with their album, and word has it they’ll video are promisingly moving and mature. live action is fantastically energetic and the Power Station (on tour this summer) tour the US sometime in late August... What Most of the action occurs through the love fun. Young is completely charming as he with Robert Palmer while Simon, Nick, and happened to Culture Club? Boy George is song’s lyrics and competing stares between dances, jumps, and unflinchingly throws Roger have gone on their own to record an writing his autobiography and “ contrary to the guitarist and lead singer at the same himself into the hands of a screaming as yet untitled album with among others, popular rumor I’m writing it all myself and girl. The looks become heartbreakingly sad crowd. The song and shots of him alone are the sax player from Roxy Music. A lot is the ghost writers of the National Enquirer as the intensity between the three grows. romantically moving and emotional. happening for the pretty boys who are are rubbish” ... Alison Moyet, Dead or It’s a knife wrencher not to be seen by ★ ★ ★ it i presently shooting a film Arena (girls on Alive, Go West, The Smiths, Everything but cheated-on lovers. ★ ★ ★ ★ film?) ... The Police have officially broken the Girl, and Howard Jones all offer bright up, although they have one more album new singles which deserve a listen... Tears Brian Ferry “ Slave To Love” promised to A&M records. Lead stinger for Fears are really a great band, and don’t Don Henley “ Not Enough Love In The The swaying sounds of Roxy Music and Gordon Sumner has completed his solo say they’re not until you’ve seen them in World” Ferry’s taste for the exotic and sleek are all album which he produced due for release in concert (county bowl July 4). Their Shout Henley saves himself from his last present on this new solo. Vogue sexy girls June. Sting collaborated with Darryl Jones video previewed last night ... yet another disgrace with this beautiful song and video, and art begin the video along with airport (formerly with Miles Davis), Omar Hakim, broken band: Tones on Tails ... Mick Jones directed by Timothy Hutton (The Cars shots of Ferry and hounding photographers. Branford Marsalis on sax, and Kenny of the Clash has swung out on his own and “ Drive” ). The camera floats through black Yet what Ferry’s running home to isn’t all Kirkland to form his new band. “ What we’ll has not named his new band or his new and white scenes of Henley warming up for the gorgeous women. Instead Ferry’s slave end up with is something that stretches me album, but they’re both due soon ... There’s an auditorium performance and moves to blonde is a beautiful sleeping four year old and stretches them and is new and fresh,” so much good press about George Michael the actual hall filled show. Hutton turns whom he holds and dances with in the last said Sting, whose next project is a movie, and Wham! right now but what about their commonly used images around by ending scene, it it it it i Plenty with Meryl Streep. On the horn player who stabbed himself on the the video with Henley singing to an audience homefront, wife Trudie Styler gave birth plane headed for a China tour ... Cyndi of just his girlfriend in die auditorium. The Tuesday to a little sting boy, the second in a Lauper has filmed a video with Steven editing and filming are subtle and very well Huey Lewis “ Bad Is Bad” series ... meanwhile drummer Stewart Speilberg for his upcoming movie Goonies. done, it it it it This video shows Lewis and band har­ Copeland just in from Zaire, where he Don’t bother with this one, it features all the monizing in the dusky rising morning light filmed a video The Rhythmatist, is now wrestlers she vehemently despises in the Belious Some “ Imagination” of a city scene. The filming and blues sound composing for the San Francisco Ballet. We ring ... more on Boy George and Marilyn The original video for this song is now are almost too reminiscent of the new Levi can’t forget Andy Summers who’s busy who both appeared at the benefit concert for being considered for airplay on The Playboy jeans commercials, yet it’s still well done writing a screenplay ... The Talking Heads AIDS looking chic with newly acquired Channel. The edited version is, however, and fun to watch. The hazy shots are added are getting ready to celebrate their new crewcuts ... And give a listen to KROQ 106.7 surprisingly tasteful. Most of the action is to by the character of the band and the release >Creatures due to be heard ten­ FM in the mornings for rock jock Richard focused on a strange club scene, the lead layered fading in and out scenes, it it it i tatively the 12th of June. Lead singer David Blade, who may be arrogant, but has a singer, and two back-up girls. The song is Byrne just released his solo album Music for damn nice accent and is a great source of sexy and danceable. it it i the Knee Plays and is currently working on information... — Laurie McCullough a film ... 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