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- May 17, 1993: From Here to Humility
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- From Here to Humility
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- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> An afternoon spent with the Monarch Notes to a few key
- Greek tragedies could have preserved his stardom. Hubris,
- TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY might have gleaned, can really kill a
- career. The soulful rocker--whose 1987 debut album sold 8
- million copies--quickly bored fans silly with his declarations
- of inflated self-perception: "I am a genius," he told one
- journalist. "I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as
- Michael Jackson." But his second album, Neither Fish nor Flesh,
- failed miserably, making him as massive as Eydie Gorme. "I was
- trying to calculate the best way to draw attention to my music,"
- says D'Arby regretfully. "I didn't think it would come back to
- haunt me." Now, after four years of ego-shrinking obscurity,
- he's returning with Symphony or Damn, an album that already has
- critics groping for superlatives. His current self-promotion
- tactic? Cut the hype and be direct. "I'm doing a U.S. tour.
- Would you print that?"
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