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(Jan. 01, 1990) Music
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 01, 1990 Man Of The Decade:Mikhail Gorbachev
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MUSIC, Page 83
BEST OF THE DECADE
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<body>
<p> Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 1980). Born in the
U.S.A. was the record that made the Boss a legend, but the
bleak majesty of this two-LP set shows the bedrock of his
talent.
</p>
<p> The Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch, 1981). Acerbic rarities
from the composer of The Threepenny Opera, sung by opera's
sexiest soprano, Teresa Stratas.
</p>
<p> Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia, 1983). The
award-winning album of a trumpeter who was jazz's hope of the
decade, as well as its hottest, coolest talent.
</p>
<p> Bob Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley
died in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was
no epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul.
</p>
<p> Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (Warner Bros.,
1984). Not only the best rock sound track ever written, Purple
Rain is the most contained and passionate work to come from this
protean regent of R. and B.
</p>
<p> The Mapleson Cylinders (Distributed by Metropolitan Opera
Guild, 1985). Calve sings! And so do Nordica, Sembrich and De
Reszke on these treasures from the Met, recorded on wax
cylinders by the company's librarian between 1900 and 1904.
</p>
<p> Bob Dylan: Biograph (Columbia, 1985). A premature but
timely career retrospective of rock's most formidable writing
talent, Biograph was also a welcome reassertion of Dylan's
primacy. Was great, is great, will be great.
</p>
<p> U2: Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988). In which the rockers
with the decade's biggest reach and most tender conscience
discovered America, and outdid themselves, besting even their
breakthrough The Joshua Tree album of 1987.
</p>
<p> John Adams: Nixon in China (Nonesuch, 1988). The decade's
most exhilarating and accomplished new opera: a waltz across the
Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and his missus.
</p>
<p> Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that
boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark
American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark
American opera as well.
</p>
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