Music
May, 1991
VIC GarbariniWelcome To rock's mid-life crisis. Artists such as Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Sting are being nudged by their muses to explore how rock can remain vital and relevant to their increasingly adult audiences. Sting's latest, The Soul Cages (A&M), falls stylistically and musically midway between Simon's exotic dreamscapes and Springsteen's earthy epiphanies. Soul Cages is a return to the singer's roots---a slow-motion, volcanic expulsion of many of the toxins and torments that he...