Reb oIintjm Bodaij What if Sharon were one of us?... Author Sharon Oard Warner will be reading from her work tonight at Rackham Amphitheatre. Her stories are described as "the surprising intimacy one can discover with just the right stranger on a long enough bus journey." The free event is scheduled for 5 p.m. .. Thursday March 21, 1996 Taka drive through Detroit and life Meet renaissance student DeAndre, PolyGram rep. and Motown historian Johnny Rotten is clearly happy that the Sex Pistols are touring again. !Anarchy'withiout Sid Legendary punk rockers reunite for multi-nation 1996 concert tour LONDON (AP)-- The Sex Pistols are back, and this time it's not anarchy that drives them - it's money. The seminal punk-rock band formed 21 years ago and released a few singles starting with "Anarchy in the U.K." before disintegrating within a few years. Its members had little solo success, and bassist Sid Vicious died of a drug overdose in 1979 while awaiting trial on charges of murdering his girlfriend. Now the original lineup plans to tour Europe, the United States and Asia. "We have found a common cause, and it's your money," lead singer John Lydon, again using his nom de punk of Johnny Rotten, said Monday. If the inspiration is different, the sneering attitude is the same: Rotten said the group plans no new material for the tour, and won't rehearse. Rotten also said the group won't miss Vicious. His spot will be filled by Glen Matlock, who was bumped from the band in 1976 in favor of Vicious. "Sid was nothing more than a coat hanger to fill an empty space on the stage," Rotten said. The tour begins June 21 in Finland. U.S. dates were not announced. Make $8, 311 ThsSummer This is a clone. It does the same summer job as everyone else. It will never know the adventure of a roadtrip with friends across the country to work harder than it has ever worked and make more money than it has ever made before. It will endure another summer of boredom and repetition. It is stuck. Get Unstuck. Interviews being held today: Thursday, March 21 Michigan Union, Welker Room 2:15pm, 4:15pm Be prompt. Bring pen and paper. If unable to attend, call Dirk at 665-7119 'Ile 5autru eouf BUILDING LEADERS SINCE 1868 By Eugene Bowen Daily Arts Writer He carried me along for the ride. Cruising around the streets of Detroit in his mother's 1995 Honda Civic listening to D'Angelo, to those on the outside we just looked like two brothas chillin', not necessar- ily looking for anything or heading anywhere. But within the vehicle's confines I was interviewing a man, only months older than me, yet whose story made him seem much more ... the word eludes me. He was just much more. "This is the street Florence Ballard (of the Supremes) lived on," he told me as he turned on to the fine home-lined LaSalle Boulevard. He's my personal tour guide of the historical Motown N District of Detroit for the day. "There f are all mansions here, all currently oc- cupied by black people." I'm riding with DeAndre Boldon. I'd ask you to remember the name, but you probably won't. If you weren't reading this story, you'd probably never hear of him. But that's OK; for reasons only he comprehends, he seems to prefer it that way. Twenty-year-old DeAndre is in many ways typical. He grew up in Detroit, sang in the church choir as a kid, and graduated from Cass Technical High School. He originally attended Wayne State as a harp-performance major. He later switched to business because he "wanted a degree with a greater ex- DeAndre Bo panse of possibilities. I didn't want to graduate from college limited to being a harp teacher." DeAndre has typical bachelor-life enjoyments. "I love to clean my apartment. I love to take rides along Belle Isle and play Super Nintendo, NBA Jams mostly," he said. With a pair ofears that could easily rival Martin Lawrence's, a pair of large, round, innocent-looking eyes set into a face complete-with a boyishly-jolly smile and naturally curly faded hairstyle, DeAndre looks like your typical 'round-the-way guy. So why write about him? Although he may be young, DeAndre's attitude projects him as one much older, wiser and. mrture. Although he may seem completely typical, he is, in his own way, different. Yet in the end, regardless of all he does, you will never hear from or about him again. And he prefers it that way. DeAndre Boldon is a black-music college repre- sentative for PolyGram Group Distribution, a com- pany that owns such well-known record labels as Motown, Mercury, London, A&M, Perspective and 50 percent of Def Jam, among others. He is respon- sible for promoting artists and LPs on college cam- one from Boyz II Men to Public Enemy to CeCe Peniston. DeAndre has a voice within the music industry. "I get to work with extraordinary artists," he said. "People take me seriously; they take my point of view seriously. They listen to what I say; they're interested in what I'm saying." "Here we see New Bethel Baptist Church," DeAndre said, breaking from the interview to once again revel at another great historical site. I look up at the impos ing gray building on West Grand Boulevard, and I begin to understand the awe DeAndre feels even after having seen this build- ing many times before. "Here's where Florence Ballard's funeral services were held on February 27, 1976. Know who the pastor was then? Aretha Franklin's father, Rev. C.L. Franklin." DeAndre was chosen as the first ever recipient of the "PGD Colleg Representative for Black Music o the Year" award; he recently received the award, as well as a large bonus check, in New York City:'"Techni- cally, the award is for PGP~b-ut really it's for everybody in theorld," he gloated. "PolyGram is theNo. 1 mu- sic distributor and the No.l distribu- tor of black music. "I don't feel any different receiving this award. But it does add to the pres- sure. It's a prestigious title,;It'l ltakea immense amount of additional hard NYA BROAD/Daily workjust to maintain that status.Every- oundtrack. thing I do from now on will be seen not TOn idon cherishes his award for the platinum "Jason's Lyric" s puses throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and parts of New York. A full-time student, DeAndre contributes well over 40 hours per week to PGD alone even though he's only paid $6 per hour. There's a good chance you've enjoyed his work. If you attended Bronze Elegance or the Kappa Alpha Psi talent show last year you probably saw recording artists Joya or Black Sheep. DeAndre organized these appearances. Working with the Wayne State chapter of the historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, he brought Red Man and Method Man there last year as well. He's done giveaways and worked with every- just on a regional basis, but on a na- tional basis." As we continued our drive, I wished I could see the city from his eyes. I wanted to better understand the intermixing of hope and despair that filled every word uttered from his mouth. He took me to Barry Gordy's splendorous mansion, then took me to thp next bloc to show me the run-down buildings that lined the ne, street. "Ijust drive around sometimes and thing abouthow short life is. How this city could go from being a Mecca of something to a Mecca of nothing. This shit can have unprecedented wealth if somebody would See DEANDRE, Page 11 Emmylou brings country to 'U' By Jennifer Buckley Daily Arts Writer Throughout a career spanning three decades and 24 records, Emmylou Harris has always been somethingofan outsider to the country music establishment. The singer emerged in the late-'60s and built a reputation as a staunch tradi- tionalist just as mainstream Nashville products began sounding slicker. Initially established as a backup vocalist by her early-'70s work with country-rock icon Gram Parsons on "GP" and "Grievous Angel," and later on Bob Dylan's "De- sire," Harris asserted her individual bril- liance with her 1975 major-label solo debut, "Pieces of the Sky." She has since proved herself a fine song writer in her own right (1985's "The Ballad of Sally Rose"), but Har- ris' real genius lies in interpretation, in her uncanny ability to take the songs of others and make them wholly her own. With her latest release, "Wrecking Ball," Harris gets daring (even more of an anomaly in Nashville these days), choosing songs from different genres to create a masterpiece that's essential country and essential rock. The fact that the record just received a Grammy (Harris' seventh) for Best Contempo- rary Folk recording testifies to its lack of musical boundaries; she interprets songs by writers as diverse as Dylan, ,imi Hendrix, Lucinda Williams,Steve Earle and Neil Young. Producer Daniel Lanois (who also wrote two tracks and played guitar on the album) surrounds Harris' rich, throaty voice with powerful, echoing drums and ringing guitars. "Wrecking Ball" definitely creates a mood, which is exactly what Harris, with Lanois on hand, hopes to do at 8 o'clock tonight at the Michigan Theater. Tickets are $20, $25 and $30 and are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office or by calling Ticketmaster at(810)645-6666. Country music outsider Emmylou Harris plays at the Michgan Theater ton CANCER The only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask. Come hear experts from the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center during Cancer Awareness Week organized by University Students Against Cancer. Monday, March 25 -4 pm "Minimizing Your Risk of Cancer" Vic Strecher, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director of Cancer Prevention and Control Chemistry Building, Rm. 1300 Tuesday, March 26--1 pm "Coping with Cancer" Rita Petrovskis, R.N., Cancer AnswerLine Resource Nurse SATURDAY, MARCH 23 7:00 PM ?I 4> EPIC 1925 FILM WITH A LIVE ORCHESTRA PERFORMING THE RESTORED SCORE CREATES'A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME SIGHT & SOUND EXPERIENCE[ $19.50 & $14.00 TICKETS AT SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS-523 E. LIDERTY 1MI 403FMLI A i I ffAeb 'j: * - - - - - - - Eu I I I c~dL ~! m