ROCK AND DROLL
Charlie Singleton, much of whose exultant pop funk compares favorably to Prince’s, and Jermaine Stewart, who’d like to (and surely will) be very big with New Edition’s audience, both look like a million dollars on the covers of their recent Arista record albums.
ROCK AND DROLL
FLEGANZA
John Mendelssohn
Charlie Singleton, much of whose exultant pop funk compares favorably to Prince’s, and Jermaine Stewart, who’d like to (and surely will) be very big with New Edition’s audience, both look like a million dollars on the covers of their recent Arista record albums.
That alone wouldn’t get them into the first paragraph of the column that’s second in the hearts of the fashion-conscious rock-loving youth of America. But telling us in the liner copy not only who played on, recorded and produced their albums, but also who did their make-up and hair and designed their eye-pleasing duds did, as anyone can see. Jermaine even wants us to know where he likes to shop, though he neglects to specify which, if any, of the Jean-Paul Gautier, Yahji Yamamoto, Pour Gibo-Homme, Marithe Francois Girbaud of Paris or Claude Montana creations he wears on Frantic Romantic he actually bought at any of the several boutiques he lists.