This Week the Beatles Anthology, Coming Soon to a TV Set Near You, Is Unlikely to Unleash a New Wave of Beatlemania
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E IN RADIO OCTOBER 2 This Week The Beatles Anthology, coming soon to a TV set near you, is unlikely to unleash a new wave of Beatlemania. But for :hose of us old and lucky enough to have been caught up in that British Invasion of '64, it'll be a nice revisit to those times, espec ally with Capitol's release of the first two of six CDs of Beatles rari- ties. For those who missed out on the Beatles in their prime, this is their best shot at the full story. And for the companies involved in the production- Apple Corps, Inc., ABC-TV, and Capitol/EMI-it's a big -backs bonanza. They are taking no chances, how- ever. As we report inside, the total cost of the market- ing of Anthology will be around $20 million. Our package, put together by our managing editor, Ben Fong -Torres, gives you a head start on all the hype, and includes revisits with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Yoko Ono; with Top 40 at the height of the craziness, and with Dave Rothstein, a Gavin staffer who's not ashamed that, at 40 -something, he's still a Beatlemaniac. In News, Danny Goldberg (top) takes the helm at Mercury Records. Pearl Jam tops a poll of music executives; Entertairment Weekly offers its own power poll, and music loses Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon (mid- dle). In Rap, we remember hip - `THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY' hop activist Funken-Klein. an the GO Chart, Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, Melissa Etheridge (bot- BRINGS THE FAB FOUR BACK... tom), Hootie & the Blowfish, and - BUT WERE THEY EVER AWAY? the Backstreet Boys are stylin'. 141 A f.irrp:-isrH*Me. 1014111\ztzt?..dr.c. , ,, ar 7 A"mir-41'. 11, positive."doingAC"Selena's IMPACT extremely 'Dreaming - Johnny wellDATE: Chiang,Of for You' us. 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We Anthology, it is Paul McCartney who you are today? look at the soon -to -be - stands out among the three surviv- I think if it was ever reunited, ing Beatles. which I don't really see as a big released Beatles Anthology, It is only naturally so. It was strong possibility, I think it'd be and reflect on Beatlemania McCartney who, with John Lennon, good. I don't think there'd be any 30 years later. formed the band, led it, wrote the pressure to be...good. FORMATS great majority of its songs, and per- Or to recapture the past? 11 Top 40Top 40 Can Be Habit formed them. I don't think you can recapture Forming Through the years, they were the the past with anything you do. It Top 40 ProfileGoo Goo Dolls obvious focus for the press, and they doesn't recapture it if Sinatra comes 13 Go Chart Bsn Fong -Torras and Paul McCartney hang acquitted themselves agreeably and on. It's Sinatra now. You don't real- 18 Alternative: out In Toronto In 1976. Who Cares About well. Lennon was the witty, sarcastic ly think of Sinatra as this thin little the Summer Book... Right? one; McCartney the lighter, breezier, didn't think it was going to be the Italian any more. Or I don't. I 22 collegeCaught in the Web more whimsical. last place. But I remember playing accept him for what he is now, and College ProfileSpookey Ruben In the years after the Beatles' here and enjoying it and seeing one you either like his stuff or you 24 RapNickelodeon'sAllThat breakup, it was McCartney who of the motorcycle escorts coming don't. For me, I don't think it'd bea maintained the most successful off his motorbike as he went question of recapturing anything. Rap ProfileDas EFX musical career, solo and with his around our car. It's probably just a hypo...themetical 28 Urban Landzscape band Wings. On tour with the band In all, San Francisco is a blur question. Urban On-lineWe've Had the in San Francisco in 1976, he sat among the concerts you played as (In 1983, I met with McCartney March, Lets Beat the Drum with me for an interview, for a new a Beatle. again, and he spoke about an emo- Urban SnapshotPhyllis Hyman television show, Evening Magazine. Yeah, mostly. It's like any kind of tional "dip" he'd taken after the 30 Adult Contemporary At the time, Capitol had just issued tour. I used to say that girls, when Beatles disbanded.) 34 CountryBorchetta's New Do? a Beatles compilation album, Rock 'N' they came to concerts-it was like fel- I never thought I was gonna feel Country ProfileRon Wallace Roll Music, with a massive-for that las going to a football match. Instead it. But there wdas this huge kind of 38 Gavin Americana TM time$750,000 marketing campaign. of cheering, they screamedthe loud- vacuum. The Beatles were a securi- Finding the Roots of a San Francisco was where the est noise that girls make. And some ty blanket-all those mates of Beatles performed what turned out nights it was a very handy thing, you mine-even though it was tough Roots Band to be their last paid concert-in know, if you were a little out of tune. sometimes. But it came back to the 40 A' Album adult Alternative August, 1966. He hadn't been back With Wings, you still see girls fact that, when we got back in the Whip us,Beat Us, Bite Us, Fax Us in the ten years since, and it was only screaming or in tears. What do you studio, you were with the Beatles, 48 A' Adult Alternative on arrival for the Wings tour, he said, think of what's left over from and that was a very secure feeling. 50 Jazz that he learned of the city's place in Beatlemania? If I wanted someone to comment 51 Gavin RocsHoon's Death the history of his former band. I don't really think about it, myself. on a song, I could run it past John Elicits Mixed Reaction Ididn't realize it was the last You hear the odd person who says, Lennon, who to me was the best. Rock Profile$eplicants place (the Beatles played) until "WHERE'S JOHN?"So you reply, "In Have you gotten over (his death) NEXT WEEK I was coming on tour, and BED!" And that sort of does it. There's yet? The Secretsof someone did an article and said, always a few in any crowd. No. I can't believe it, still. It's Success "The last time Beatles played in Capitol has reissued a Beatles col- a weird one. Still feel as though Forour spotlight on the America was Candlestick Park, ten lection. Does their campaign put he's here, you know. But he is, in Urban Landampe, Quincy years ago." When we did it, we pressure on the Beatles, in that, if a way. 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