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- Dec. 03, 1990: Shades Of Meaning
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 97
- Shades of Meaning
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- <p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Who would ever believe that 20 rock stars could style Cole
- Porter's music to their tastes? Or that anyone would want to
- hear the result? But just that will be done in a 90-minute
- ABC-TV special and album featuring Porter's music and called Red
- Hot + Blue. The stars, including Iggy Pop and Deborah Harry,
- above, plus U2 and David Byrne, do their unusual bit as part of
- the Dec. 1 World AIDS Day, with royalties earmarked for AIDS
- charities worldwide. Porter's tunes were chosen, says
- entertainment lawyer John Carlin, who spearheaded the project,
- because "his lyrics resonate with many shades of meaning. He was
- a homosexual on the fringes of society. He was an outsider
- looking in." Pop and Harry take those lyrics and rock it up
- royally in a duet of Well, Did You Evah! while U2 gives its own
- soulful rendition of Night and Day. A song by Neneh Cherry even
- gets a safe-sex rap plugged between the notes. Fun stuff, but
- will Porter be tapping his toes or spinning in his grave?
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