Music

December, 1979

MusicFamiliarity Breeds Contempt Department: We've never understood, quite, why the Sunset Marquis has been a legendary home for two generations of rockers doing time in Los Angeles. Could it be the absence of room service? The emphysemic air conditioning? The sweaty pool? It's some ineluctable appeal or other. When we were there last, Paul Butterfield was wandering poolside among occasional topless honeys. And it was the hottest new New Wave Brit group in a room below us that decided to crank u...