That snarling, hyperventilating army of HE readers who constantly put me down when I mention the word “peaked” in one of my HE obits…these same people need to start circulating an online petition that calls for the immediate termination of Variety‘s Chris Morris.
Morris needs to be slapped down but good for using the “p” word in a 2.24 report about the passing of the once-great Roberta Flack.
Paragraph #5 in Morris’s story reads as follows: “[Flack] reached her peak with the 1974 pop and R&B smash ‘Where Is the Love’, which claimed the apex of both charts.” If the HE firebrands want this shit to stop, they have to nip it in the bud…seriously.
HE sincerely mourns Flack‘s passing. She had a glorious three-year run in the early ’70s (’72 through ’74). Clint Eastwood put her on the map when he used “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” in Play Misty For Me (’71).
