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Had your picture taken with Rizzle Kicks? Wanna show the world what your marketing manager looks like with his pants on his head? Swimming the Bristol Channel for charity and want the industry to rally round? Tell us all about it. And we’ll tell everyone else. Send your out-of-hours snaps and stories to
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Ayo Beatz raises a glass of bubbly as he signs his new record deal with Mission Recordings Limited. His debut commercial release, due in May and called Boom Ayo, is an adaption of the UK No.1 hit Boom Boom Boom by the Outhere Brothers. He has recently been working with the likes of Labrinth, Professor Green, Wretch 32, J2K, Roll Deep and DJ Ironik. [Left to right]: Johnson Akinmoyede (manager), Ayo Beatz (artist/producer), Daniel Ott (producer), Sir Harry Cowell (MD of Mission Recordings Limited) and Lou Mullen (writer).
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF...
SAM SHEMTOB Managing Director, Name PR and Director, Music Tank
First record you remember buying? Of all the great music of the Seventies, I managed to buy Angelo by the Brotherhood of Man. Admittedly I got it for about 5p at a car boot sale. I think it may have been the first thing I actually ever bought that wasn’t a sweet. And there a life of consumerism began.
Last track you downloaded? Tirei o Chaeu by Batida – a lovely High Life / Angolan / Sunsplas- style West African tune, available as a free download from the ever brilliant Soundway Records.
COVER STAR Mari Wilson recently launched her album Cover Stories with an intimate performance at Gibson Guitar Showrooms in London. Fellow artists showing their support included Don Letts, Mike Batt, Barb Jungr plus Janey Lee Grace - whose first singing job was with Mari Wilson and the Wilsations. Pictured left to right: Sue Harris (Republic Media), David Bower (Gibson), Mari Wilson, Janey Lee Grace (Radio 2), Malcolm Prince (Radio 2), Amanda Beel (All About Promo)
ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK April 12, 1986
The changing face of the High Street adorns our cover with record and tape retail set to undergo another transformation as “radical facelift plans” are on the table for Woolworths and a partnership between Virgin and The Burton Group that will see record outlets set up shop inside Debenhams… A world first is declared as
album packaging for the Dave Clark stage musical Time will feature a hologram of Laurence Olivier who plays the production’s main character… A cracker of a pun leaps out on page 3: as Polydor and EG prepare to support new Brian Ferry (pictured) compilation Street Life with a £350,000, five-pronged marketing campaign, Music Week conjures the headline ‘Boat pushed out on Ferry compilation’… BPI director John Deacon is urging retailers to lobby MPs over the issue of CD rental and the 1986 Sony Radio Awards are set to break new ground by recognising music presenters for the first time.
NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 13.04.86
HIPSWAY Hipsway THE BLOW MONKEYS Animal Magic COCTEAU TWINS Victorialand Retailers are told to stock three albums in particular this week. Hipsway’s self-titled album is dubbed one that “cannot fail”. It’s bright and uncomplicated, which apparently, is “this year’s thing”, according to the mag. The Blow Monkeys’ Animal Magic is another ‘must stock’ along with the Cocteau Twins’
Victorialand, which is “at once instantly recognisable as classic Cocteau Twins and as always different from before.”
SINGLES TOP 5 13.04.86 POS ARTIST
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1 CLIFF RICHARD Living Doll 2 GEORGE MICHAEL A Different Corner 3 SAM COOKE
Wonderful World
4 SAMANTHA FOX Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
5 FALCO Rock Me Amadeus
Which track would you like played at your funeral? How about Barrington Levy’s Love The Life You Live? Make ’em bogle I say...
What’s your karaoke speciality? The Sid Vicious version of Frank Sinatra’s My Way. It sounds better the worse you do it, which is good news when you’ve been blessed with a voice like mine...
Which song would be the first dance at your wedding? Would have to be Shirley and Lee’s Let The Good Times Roll... ‘our’ song.
© Official Charts Company
ALBUMS TOP 5 13.04.86 POS ARTIST
1 VARIOUS 2 DIRE STRAITS
ALBUM Hits 4
Brothers In Arms
3 PET SHOP BOYS Please 4 PRINCE AND THE 5 WHITNEY
REVOLUTION HOUSTON
Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard… Afterburn by ‘maximalist’ producer Bobby Tank. Currently getting plays by Zane Lowe and Mary Anne Hobbs among others. The EP is out May 17 on MofoHifi.
Parade Whitney Houston © Official Charts Company
What’s your favourite single track of all time? Mmm... Pixies, Where Is My Mind? Having the Pixies kicking off during my student days was A GOOD THING.
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