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Entertainment PAGE 6 t;iic (5amCC0Ck Friday, November 3,2000 November 9,1981 He writes the songs by Amy Hunter The Gamecock Barry Manilow’s perform ance Thursday night at the Carolina Coliseum left no doubt in the mind of his audience what the term “superstar” means. When Manilow came on stage, he was wearing a long sleeved shirt, a pullover sweater, pants and a tie. After he energet ically delivered his opening number, “I Write the Songs,” he turned to the audience and yelled, “Okay. You’ve seen the sweater. You’ve seen the tie. Now I can take the damn things off!” Manilow obviously was having a good time performing and teasing his audience. One moment he had the audience hanging on to every romantic note, as during “Weekend in New England,” and in the next he had them rolling with laugh ter. This was especially true when he was reminiscing about his childhood and early career. He told the audience he could play the clarinet. He played some music on it, and when the audience applauded, he took a bow. However, the clarinet kept on playing. He quickly tried to get the real musician to stop playing. He then told the audience, “Seriously, I do have one measly song I can play, but I’ve been told not to play it in this neck of the woods.” Naturally the audi ence begged to know what it was and begged for him to play it. After a couple of minutes of suspense he finally explained, “ The only song I know is ‘Hold That Tiger!” To this the crowd heartily responded with cheers and a standing ovation; only a small number of boos could be heard. The highlight of the evening came after intermission. Manilow came on the stage (which was complete with two tacky-looking palm trees that had sprouted from the floor) in a ruffed, silver shirt to lavishly perform “Copacabana.” After the song, he removed his shirt with a flair ro reveal a Geoige Rogers football jersey. The crowd, which had just given him a standing ovation, gave him an even more enthusiastic one. But he really brought down the house as he stood with 12 inches of his shirt on either side of his lean body when he quipped, “They told me I was the only one who could fill out George’s shirt!” The Carolina fans loved it. Overall, the concert Barry Manilow gave was superb. Few musicians sound as good in con cert as they do on an album. Manilow is definitely an excep tion. He sounded as good or bet ter live. He brought the audience to its feet many times during the evening and he left it wanting more. It was over too soon for many. John Parnell The Gamecock (Above) Manilow donned a baggy Carolina football jersey. (Below left) Tina Turner will light up the stage at Carolina Coliseum. November 4,1987 Tina Turner to bring hits to Carolina Coliseum Special to The Gamecock BY FlRDOUS BAMJI The Gamecock Tina Turner is bringing her latest album, Break Every Rule, to Carolina Coliseum Sunday, and at 48, she still never fails to baffle, perplex and please. When she walked out on husband Ike Turner in 1975, it seemed as if one of the strongest voices in rhythm and blues was going silent. Everyone knew Turner’s husband was the key to the band’s success, writing a lot of the music, choreographing the vibrant stage shows and taking care of business. Jointly, they had put out classic tunes such as her debut, “A Fool In Love,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” “Come Together” and a Grammy-award version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary.” For a while after that, Turner played a riorous nightclub cir cuit around the world with spiked high heels and shining cowboy tassels, shaking her way through Australia, the Middle East and Europe. Everybody thought I was struggling,” Turner said. “But I was having one good time.” Finally, in 1982 she met Heaven 17’s Greg Walsh and Martin Ware, who later produced Turner’s cover of A1 Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” on Capitol Records, which sold a million copies in the U.S. Capitol Records had redis covered a gold mine and “raked it in” in 1984 with the release of the multi-platinum Private Dancer, an album full of hits, including the Grammy-award winning “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” A decade after her role as the Acid Queen in The Who’s rock opera Tommy, she landed her second role as Aunty Entity in George Miller’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderstorm, playing opposite Mel Gibson, and the movie’s soundtrack offered another hit, “We Don’t Need Another Hero.” Later, in 1985, Turner joined a choir of celebrities to sing in USA for Africa’s “We Are The World,” also donating her own track, “Total Control,” to the album. In early 1986, Turner went back to Europe to make her latest LP, Break Every Rule, collabo rating with Grammy-winning songwriters Terry Britten and Graham Lyle (“What’s Love Got To Do With It”) on five tracks. On the first single of the album, “Typical Male,” Phil Collins contributed the drum line. Steve Winwood played syn thesizer for “Afteiglow.” The LP also includes the eerie track “Girls,” written and produced by Dire Strait’s driving force Mark Knopfler. So now, while the man she seemed totally creatively and professionally dependent on has lost his fortune and become “the man Tina Turner divorced,” she is entrenched waist-deep in hit songs and is aiguably the reigning queen of rock.