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- <title>
- Apr. 06, 1992: Gimme a Break
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Gimme a Break
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> Their latest heavy-metal compilation bears the aromatic
- title Break Like the Wind and includes such appallingly inane
- lyrics as "We are the guests who have stayed too long."
- Furthermore, they demanded that the CD be packaged in an
- extra-long cardboard box so that environmentally aware listeners
- would have a real reason to visit the local recycling center.
- Oh, no, it looks like Spinal Tap is back in town. Rock parodists
- Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, first heard
- in Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap, are once
- again perpetrating pop at its very worst, now aided and abetted
- by such legit stars as Cher, Slash and Jeff Beck. Break Like the
- Wind is also inspiring a Spinal Tap concert tour and a TV
- special as part of what has surely become the most elaborate "In"
- joke in music history.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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