Chris Isaak: Teen Idol or Tin Elvis?
Ben Fong-Torres, GQ, April 1987
CHRIS ISAAK, whose first album, Silvertone, drew clusters of stars from critics at the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and many points in between, and whose L.A. nightclub gig attracted another cluster of stars, including John Fogerty, Rickie Lee Jones and Madonna, is showing me a new acquisition.
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