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1957 Lancs. Evening Post 3 Apr. 6/4 The Blackpool Tower company..come forward this summer with the news that Britain's top rock star, Tommy Steele, is to appear for a four week matinee season, at their Palace Theatre.

1960 Billboard 9 May 12/2 Last headliner was a British rock star Emile Ford, but in the last month both Duane Eddy and Johnny Preston have topped weekly bills there.

1976 New Yorker 17 May 125/2 A rock star with a limp feather boa draped around her shoulders.

1978 G. Vidal Kalki vi. 153 Deafening was what H.V.W. would call the din from the rock stars' dressing rooms where electric guitars whined.

1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes (1989) 15 Having long since replaced sessions musicians and back-up singers with VoxBox cyberwizards, Muzik, Inc., had turned their cost-cutting attention to automating out rock stars themselves.

1996 Raygun Nov. 44/1 Smith, along with perhaps Siouxsie and the Banshees, was the seminal gothic rock star, puzzling, brooding, suffering, and serious in a pop-musicky, video-friendly, almost goofy sort of way.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Oct. f2/5 Mr. Young..seems less like a rock star than an aging, paunchy mechanic, while Mr. Kruger and Mr. Goodwin have the lean look of guitar heroes.

1973 Texas Monthly Oct. 89/2 And now he's a Christ, a Buddha, a rockstar.

1986 N.Y. Mag. 24 Nov. 31/1 These men [sc. successful financiers] are the rock stars of this decade.

1993 Playboy Jan. 60/1 He had become, as Carl Reiner said, ‘the first rock-star comedian’.

1994 Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. 3 Mar. 7 d Snowboarders in Japan are total rock stars.

2005 Wired Dec. 60/2 In the world of physics, Richard Feynman was a rock star.