"NOT SERIOUS" SEZ JOAN A.
By all appearances, CREEM magazine and Joan Armatrading have very little to say to each other. You know the cliches about us, what with your nose buried in an issue right this minute. And the cliched CREEM reader probably knows only the cliches about Joan Armatrading, if he/she knows anything at all.
"NOT SERIOUS" SEZ JOAN A.
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Laura Fissinger
By all appearances, CREEM magazine and Joan Armatrading have very little to say to each other. You know the cliches about us, what with your nose buried in an issue right this minute. And the cliched CREEM reader probably knows only the cliches about Joan Armatrading, if he/she knows anything at all. Well, listed up, riff-raff. Preachers driving Cadillacs know that you don’t try to convert the converted.
Religion? Ah, funny you should mention that. More than a few Joan Armatrading fans couch their ardor in the posture of somber-faced church-pew podsWith fans like Sunday morning television, who needs detractors? Well, maybe we distort a little here, but rabid Fans of Fun are hardly drawn to Armatrading by the party-hearty vibes.
“During my first gigs I used to get very, uh, fed up when on stage, because everyone was so serious looking at me. I really hated it. I almost felt like they’d take a notebook out any minute. 1 didn’t want to look at them because it wasn’t like having fun, and that’s what 1 was up there for, that’s what I wanted to do.”