Archival Buffalo News feature articles 1980s

  A show that also was a homecoming. As kids, the Roches used to come for summer visits with their relatives here. Feb. 2, 1980 review Roche Sisters Put Spark into Folk          One is a harlequin in red, yellow and blue. One is a scruff wearing a Buffalo Blizzard T-shirt. And one is a vamp in black with feathers in her hair.          They’re Maggie and Terre and Suzzy. Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche. Their name is spelled R-O-C-H-E. Along with Steve Forbert, they’ve been breathing fresh fire into the fallen form of folk music.          Antic harmonies are one of their strong suits. Another is funny lyrics. In one song, they sing about begging to get a job back in a restaurant.          “I’ll get down on my knees and scrub behind the steam tables,” they promise.        ...

  Nothing like a milestone to make us newsies look back at how far we’ve come. In the case of the ‘70s, those 10 years made quite a difference! Jan. 13, 1980 The Decade in Review          Virtually everything on the face of American culture since World War II came to a head and popped in the ‘70s. It was an era when popular music lost its innocence. The ‘70s were the decade in which the Beatles broke up and Elvis Presley died.          Presley’s death in 1977 was the most earth-shattering passage, but he wasn’t the only one to cross over to Rock ‘n Roll Heaven in the ‘70s. The obituary list reads like a Who’s Who: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Duane Allman, Keith Moon, Ronnie Van Zant, Jim Croce, Donny Hathaway, Mama Cass Elliott, Sandy Denny, Phil Ochs, Lowell George, Ron “Pig Pen” McKernan of the Grateful Dead.          For the record indus...