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Been snapped with the Bay City Rollers on your iPhone? Got photographic proof of your promotions chief slaying the karaoke machine? 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
runoffgroove@intentmedia.co.uk
ON YER BIKE PPL’s Chief Technology Officer Mark Douglas and Chief Financial Officer, Ben Lambert just outdid the Proclaimers. 500 miles? Pah! Try 1,000: that’s how far the pair cycled to reach John O’Groats from Land’s End, all in the name of charity. We’re told the nine-day challenge with 700 other riders took months and months of hardcore training, but it was all worth it – between them, Douglas and Lambert have raised nearly £10,000 for PPL’s Charity Of The Year, Great Ormond Street Hospital, with the help of corporate sponsors Rackspace, GSC, Market Makers and Measure. To top up their total, visit
uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/PPLCyclesBritain.
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL Henley’s MBA for the music industry is underway with a crop of trade lecturers and students, and celebrated its commencement by inviting breakfast presenters Trev and Richard from Oxfordshire’s Jack FM – part of the Absolute Radio Group – down for a live broadcast at the start of term. Here they are pictured with, amongst others, Martyn Ware of Heaven 17, Wall Of Sound founder Mark Jones and MBA programme director Helen Gammons.
ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK October 7, 1989
BMG chairman John Preston has taken a swipe at the “unrealistic prices” paid for record company acquisitions. Preston said: “EMI came in late with their chequebook flapping and overpaid by as much as $30m”. He added a better long-term strategy for the industry would be to invest in creative people… Billy Joel (pictured) is
suing ex-manager Frank Weber for $90m, charging him with pledging his copyrights as collateral for loans against his wishes… The Kinks’ Ray Davies says the world has “never wanted The Kinks, from when we had two flop singles before You Really Got Me. It’s a question of educating people, some people are instantly marketable because they were created, whereas we were self initiated”… Reflecting on a year in which “practically every significant independent record company” has been sold either “completely or in part”, Richard Branson says he would “never dream of taking that route,” adding: “Just as I’ve always said about the airline, we don’t necessarily want to be the biggest, we want to build it into the best.”
NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 07.10.89
TRACY CHAPMAN Crossroads THE LILAC TIME The Days Of The Week Album spotlight is on “last year’s most-quoted success story” Tracy Chapman for Crossroads. Despite the “hefty sentiment” of “preservation of the soul, avarice, love and oppression” the LP is “instantly charming”. The acoustic instruments of “outstanding ballad” This Time add “beef to Chapman’s distinctive voice.” The Lilac Time’s single of the week has a “wonderfully bright, plectrum plucked, killer chorus” with “harmonies to a shuffle back-beat”. A track which “absolutely pleads for radio play”.
POS ARTIST
SINGLES TOP 5 07.10.89 SINGLE
1 BLACK BOX
2 TECHNOTRONIC 3 SYDNEY
FEAT. FELLY YOUNGBLOOD 4 ERASURE Ride On Time Pump Up The Jam If Only I Could Drama! 5 RICHARD MARX Right Here Waiting
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF
KIM BAYLEY
Director General, Entertainment Retailers Association
First record you remember buying? There’s lots of people who wouldn’t admit it these days, but I can’t be the only one whose first record purchase was Gary Glitter’s Leader of the Gang.
Which song was the ‘first dance’ at your wedding? Van Morrison’s perennial Brown- Eyed Girl – and my affection for it has long outlasted the marriage.
Which track would you like played at your funeral? I’m not planning for it to be played for some time yet, but Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan.
What’s your karaoke speciality? I know my limitations enough to avoid karaoke, but in the solitude of my car there’s the occasional burst of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline.
What was the best artist meeting of your life? An autographed bus ticket (complete with a winking smiley face) remains to this day a lasting memory of an awestruck teenage encounter with Simon Le Bon in a Bournemouth coffee shop!
© Official Charts Company
ALBUMS TOP 5 07.10.89 POS ARTIST
ALBUM
1 TEARS FOR FEARS The Seeds Of Love 2 TINA TURNER
Foreign Affair
3 GLORIA ESTEFAN Cuts Both Ways 4 EURYTHMICS
5 MADONNA Like A Prayer © Official Charts Company
The song that turned me into a committed music fan – Don’t Stand So Close To Me by The Police.
What’s your favourite single/track of all time?
Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard… Any track from Fitz and the Tantrums, an LA soul band I discovered at the NARM retail conference.
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