They Came From Detroit (Columns)

From Marshall Crenshaw looking spiffy in a powder gray suit with matching fedora to ... Carnival Cruise ship reggae?

Crenshaw Brought Us to Life You may remember Marshall Crenshaw. In 1982, at the late-in-pop-years age of 28, he released his self-titled debut, an absolute pop masterpiece. The album did not reach the top of the pop charts as it deserved, but it did earn Marshall a loyal following. For the rest of the '80s, he continued to release respectable pop albums but never broke through the old-fashioned radio and MTV airplay ceiling. Marshall intermittently released albums over the last two decades. He returned to prominence a few years back when he wrote some of the music for the John…