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This show is so big we're throwing latest Album two parties to celebrate its new season. %.; Though it passionately questioned the inger/songwriter Janis lan, best re- LA mores of the era, it was viewed as a mili- RD S membered for the seventies hit "At tant protest instead and was banned from FRIDAY, JUNE 23 Seventeen," which earned her two Grammy play lists thoughout the country. When Win T-Shirts, Caps, Awards, is back with a new release, Leonard Bernstein heard it, the conductor/ Revenge. The girl who "learned the truth Books, Posters and More composer decided to feature it on a CBS at seventeen that love was meant for television special and the tune became a beauty queens " proves that she's no Come dressed as your smash hit. The album, Janis lan, was longer lost in the hell of adolescent low nominated for a special Grammy despite favorite Ab Fab character. self-esteem and has transformed herself the shouts and cries of hecklers who called into an independent woman of the '90s. her a "nigger lover" at her concerts. The new CD, a mellow yet uplifting collec- 810 PACIFIC .•. HOUSTON .•. 713.521.9123 At 17, Ian moved to Los Angeles where tion of songs both written and performed she taught herself orchestration and pur- by lan, reflects upon self-love, sex and pas- sued song writing. "Jesse," the first of her sion in relationships, and the state of the songs to define her distinctive style, GAY PRIDE SUNDAY, JUNE 25TH world and our collective responsibility to it. became a top-ten hit for Roberta Flack in Recently interviewed by Melissa Ether- 1973, two years prior to lan's own rise to A JR's Exclusive idge in The Advocate, Ian is today very out the top of the pop charts with the haunt- and certainly no stranger to controversy. After the Parade, come see an ing and beautiful Single "At Seventeen." The forty-something performer rose to na- She was recognized by her peers with all-new Ab Fab episode tional prominence in the '60s as a young "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" never before aired in the U.S. teenager with a ground breaking song she honors at the 1975 Grammy Awards. The plus the behind-the-scenes special wrote and recorded, "Society's Child," album, Between the Lines, then went to which chronicled the pressures of a white number one on the charts. "How to Be Absolutely Fabulous" adolescent girl dating a black teenage boy. It was during this era that Ian collabo- and giveaways galore PAGE 14 TWT JUNE 16 - JUNE 22 1995 beginning at 6pm. rated with aspectrum of performers, writ- There will be no peace ers and musical innovators, from Chick No angels at the door Corea, with whom she has recorded piano You are ready for the beast duets, to Mel Torme. The depth of her and we are ready for the war songwriting talent has since been recog- In strong contrast is "Take Me Walking nized and utilized by such artists as Bette in the Rain," a lighter, spirited love song Midler, Amy Grant, John Cougar Mellen- that is probably the closest thing to a pop camp, Lee Greenwood and Kathy Mattea. single on Revenge. Its soothing, toe- Ian has neverrecorded asong that she has .tapping melody, which makes you want to not at least co-written. hold someone and hum, could easily have In the midst of a career still rapidly on come from a Carly Simon collection. the rise, Ian walked away from it all to study Forfolk fans of lan's, there are also cuts other art forms. "I was tuming into an idiot here that will satisfy your '60s hangover. who could only discuss music and busi- The campy folk tune "Davy" is the most ness," she said. Embroiled in financial. interesting of this genre. Accompanied problems created by a former business only by piano, Ian sings of newfound hori- manager's negligence, Ian studied acting zons and confidence after the end of a re- with Stella Adler, ballet with Dora Kranning lationship with a man.