March 17, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 112) • Page Image 63
… people of destroying them- selves-you deny them the compassion that comes out of tragedy." Blades admits that music like this creates a marketing problem-"It isn't your tradi- tional format-oriented album," he says-but he has hopes that it will gain mass acceptance. "The promise that it holds is, it could be a breakthrough-not just for a Latin artist doing his first English record, but for English-speaking musicians as well. Why does every so...…