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PEOPLE, Page 97Shades of Meaning
By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
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?