Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 5, 1992 TAG: 9203050288
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Bruce Springsteen released his first new music in 4 1/2 years Wednesday, a pair of singles from a pair of new albums: the title track of the "Human Touch" album, and "Better Days" from the "Lucky Town" album.
The albums are due in stores March 31.
Springsteen, 42, has gone through a lot of changes since he released "Tunnel of Love" in 1987. He's been divorced and remarried, become a father and moved from New Jersey to California.
His biggest change musically came when he split with the E Street Band, the seven-piece group which spent most of the past two decades touring with The Boss. Its departure explains why the music on the new songs sounds like nothing Springsteen has done before.
The only E Street Band survivors are his wife, Patti Scialfa, and pianist Roy Bittan.
Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday he feels liberated now that he's no longer a world leader. But his wife said she hasn't noticed any difference.
"I'm a free man now. I can express myself with considerably more freedom," said Gorbachev.
Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, had a dissenting opinion.
"I haven't noticed you're a free man," she said.
"A freer man," said Gorbachev, correcting himself.
"Not according to your appointment calendar," bantered Raisa Gorbachev, referring to a busy schedule in Germany that included talks with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Actor James Woods used a flower pot as an ashtray after the fire department agreed to let him smoke in the City-County Building in Pittsburgh.
Woods was filming scenes Monday for an HBO movie called "Citizen Cohn." The film is about the late Roy Cohn, a conservative lawyer who worked with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist hearings of the 1950s.
The building went smoke-free three years ago, but Woods smokes, and so did Cohn.
At the request of Lew Borman, a spokesman for Mayor Sophie Masloff, the fire department agreed to let Woods smoke if no one in the room objected.
No ashtrays could be found, so he gave Woods the flower pot from his office.
by CNB