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$4.95 (U.S.), $5.95 (CAN.), £4 (U.K.) IN MUSIC NEWS Van Peebles 1BXNCCVR ***** 3 -DIGIT 908 tGEE4EM740M09907441 002 0720 000 BI MAR 2396 1 03 Returns MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE APT A With First LONG BEACH, CA 90807 -3402 Album In 20 Years On Capitol SEE PAGE 8 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN Image Questioned 17 YEARS, ONE OF MUSIC'S NEW RULES ON '95 ROADTRIPS MOST CELEBRATED ARTISTS FLAYS LIVE! For Violinist, 16 Big Tours Aim High STP Eye Tix System Live Taping Allowed BY ANDREW STEWART BY CHRIS MORRIS BY ERIC BOEHLERT BY CRAIG ROSEN LONDON -Child prodigy or child the grand NEW YORK -Add the Stone Temple LOS ANGELES -Following in the exploitation? That's the question LOS ANGELES -After hanging high of the 1994 con- Pilots to the small footsteps of the mark cert season, which but influential list of Grateful Dead and over the career of notched record bands pondering Metallica, Jimmy 16- year-old Sin- vio- grosses thanks to a drastic action in an Page & Robert gapore- born siege of stadium attempt to curb Plant and the Black linist Vanessa - acts and unprece- ticket -service fees Crowes will allow Mae Nicholson. dented prices for and end scalping. fans to tape their The fiddler has tickets, U.S. pro- According to upcoming concerts. attracted unre- moters are con- band manager And they are doing served praise CA PLANT & PAGE NICHOLSON from those who Begins March 3rd in Santa Ana, BAKER fronting the in- STONE TEMPLE Steve Stewart, so without fear that First date sold out in 11 minutes! evitable morning PILOTS when the group the recordings will consider her per- talents to be "supernatural" See the premiere of her new single after, with a hopeful eye on a diverse next hits the road - possibly as early as cut into album sales. forming "Touched By The Sun" slate of solid touring talent for 1995. this spring -it hopes to sidestep Tick - While Page & Plant, like the Dead and "phenomenal." on The Tonight Show only in a Her recordings of the Beethoven This year sees a dearth of stadium - etmaster by creating its own intricate and Metallica, will allow taping Thursday, March 2nd and Tchaikovsky violin concertos on caliber acts, but R.E.M., Robert Plant & ticket -distribution system that would specified "tapers section," the Black From the acclaimed new album fee all Crowes are taking sanctioned concert (Continued on page 44) LETTERS NEVER SENT Jimmy Page, Tom Petty & the Heart - maintain a $2 service and but (Continued on page 81) (Conti,,;,l(I on page 88) (Continued on page 88) ARIL © 1995 Arista Records, 1nc., Iirmdsmann Music Group Company Atlantic's Corporate Offspring Fine-Tune Success of 143 Records); the just - BY MARILYN A. GILLEN change that. continues as president of Big Beat manship Pride and Joy. West "There was a brief moment when I and is promoted to senior VP of At- completed acquisition of eclectic label Mesa/Bluemoon; the be- NEW YORK -The Atlantic Group's heard that we were No. 1 that I lantic Records) and TAG executive Coast Heart and Soul, of a multifaceted alliance with five -year evolution from stolid work- thought, Don't breathe, don't move, VP /GM Leyla Turkkan. The label's ginning Father and Daughter don't even change your socks," laughs first release, an album by Dead Hot Nashville's Curb Records; the debut horse to cutting -edge powerhouse - imprints Celtic which culminated in its position atop Azzoli. "But I know that to stay on Workshop, a new "country- inflected, of new specialty Flesh and Bi.. industry domestic market -share top, we have to keep changing. Only rootsy rock'n'roll band" from Tempe, Heartbeat and Atlantic Theatre; the HILARY so it's Ariz., is expected in April. kickoff of new marketing arm At- /4- 458491 rankings last year on the strength of now, we've built the machine, lantic Classics; and the appointment the New Mum a dizzying variety of new artists -is a Feotrxt Me' & Jute Invar' trt sr s'AAarch 14 KALLMAN FOSTER NASH BLACKBURN COPPS FLOM niche mar- of several new Atlantic Records exec- study in decentralization, Mountain En- keting, great artists, enthusiastic ex- more about fine- tuning it." Other key activities include the cre- utives- former Gold artist manager Janet Bil- ecutives, and a supportive parent Tellingly, the new year for the label ation of new labels under Atlantic tertainment is on board as senior VP with company willing to let its corporate group kicks off with a flurry of new Records senior VP and veteran A &R lig, who to sign and develop artists, offspring go their own way. But most- moves. Chief among them is the for- executive Jason Flom (who adds the a mandate VP/West Coast GM Ron ly it is a study in embracing change. mation of a new "cutting- edge" label, title of president of Lava Records) and senior who is to relocate to New And success, says Atlantic Group TAG Recordings, which will be head- and Atlantic Records VP /producer Shapiro, on page 90) president Val Azzoli, is not about to ed by president Craig Kallman (who David Foster (who adds the chair- (Continued AWARDSECTION S MIKE RUTHERFORD (GENESIS) AN EXPANDED PAUL CARRAGK (SQUEEZE) SEE PAGE SS PAUL YOUNG (SAS CAFE) 09 Catch them on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, March 6, v and soon on LIVE FROM THE HOUSE OF BLUES on TBS Featuring J MEA CULPA, OVER MY SHOULDER & ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE PRODUCED BY CHRISTOPHER NEIL & MIKE RUTHERFORD 1 11 /HIT & RUN MUSIC LTD. o 71486 02552 8 MANAGEMENT: TONY SMITH ADVERTISEMENT www.americanradiohistory.com Made in England AVAILABLE 3/21 MLSIC BY Elton John LYRICS BY Toupin MANAGEMENTJobn Reid PRODUCED BY Greg Patny AND Elton John Rocket Records, manufactu-Ld and :racketed by Island Records, Inc. A www.americanradiohistory.com No. 'I IN BILLBOARD PG VOLUME 107 NO. 9 Levy: PolyGram's Gains Make It No. 1 THE BILLBOARD 200 94 * THE HITS GARTH BROOKS LIBERTY Bon Jovi, Boyz, Sting Help It Net X4.9 Bil Income BY JEFF CLARK -MEADS I do believe we were the No. 1 company in in Mandarin and Cantonese markets, CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN 44 * HOUSE OF LOVE AMY GRANT MYRRH 1994. That is my own view." huge quantities of sales were lost because LONDON -PolyGram experienced a 16% The company's biggest -selling album of pirate product from China, he said. COUNTRY 36 increase in net sales and a 20% increase in worldwide was the 8- million -unit Bon Jovi Levy reiterated the call made by inter- T * THE HITS GARTH BROOKS LIBERTY net income in 1994, which president /CEO compilation, "Cross Road," closely fol- national labels body IFPI for the Euro- O Alain Levy says qualifies it as the biggest lowed by Boyz II Men album "II," and the pean Union to take the firm line on Chi- P GOSPEL 45 company in the world. 4.5- million -selling Sting hits album, nese piracy that has been adopted by the * THE UVE EXPERIENCE HELEN BAYLOR WORD record The company's net sales reached $4.9 "Fields Of Gold." U.S. (Billboard, Feb. 25). He argued that is particular- A HEATSEEKERS billion in 1994, while its pretax income In geographic terms, PolyGram said a strong stand from the EU 27 as a Dutch L * DEFINITELY MAYBE OASIS EPIC rose 16% to $619 million in 1994. Net in- sales in its North American subsidiaries ly appropriate for PolyGram come rose to $424 million. were up 30% in local currency terms; company and a significant contributor to B BILLBOARD LATIN 50 11 %, and in Asia the European economy. THE 41 Speaking at the announcement of the sales in Europe grew U * SEGUNDO ROMANCE LUIS MIGUEL WEA LATINA company's 1994 results here Feb. 21, sales were up 13% over the previous year. The highlights of PolyGram's forthcom- M Levy said comparisons were difficult be- PolyGram's historic European powerbase ing release schedule include albums from S NEW AGE 65 cause not all its competitors release com- still contributes 50% of all the company's Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Sting, Stevie * LIVE AT THE ACROPOLIS YANNI PRIVATE MUSIC prehensive figures. However, he added, revenues, while 25% comes from North Wonder, Elton John, Dina Carroll, Stereo Bjork, Ugly Kid Joe, Wet Wet Wet, R &B "Looking at other people's market share, America, 20% from Asia, and 5% from the MCs, 29 Def Leppard, * MY LIFE MARY J. BUGE UPTOWN rest of the world. Extreme, Soundgarden, Levy said PolyGram's figures were as- Zucchero, Luciano Pavarotti and, possi- REGGAE trading bly, Lionel Richie. 65 sisted by healthy pre- Christmas * DESTINATION BROOKLYN VICIOUS EPIC STREET in both the U.K. and U.S., but added that PolyGram reports in Dutch guilders. Clegg Helps Push For PolyGram out -performed each of those The exchange rate used here is the 1994 WORLD MUSIC 65 markets. Its performance on continental year -end figure of 1.74 guilders to $1. To * THE LONG BLACK VEIL THE CHIEFTAINS RCA VICTOR MTV South Africa To Europe was "mixed," but there were allow direct comparison, 1993 guilder fig- slight increases. ures also have been converted using this THE HOT 100 PolyGram's Japanese sales were affect- ratio. * TAKE A BOW MADONNA MAVERICK / SIRE Expose Native Acts ed by the dearth of domestic product, and ADULT CONTEMPORARY 84 JOHANNESBURG -South Africa's * TAKE A BOW MADONNA MAVERICK / SIRE resurgent music industry will get a new television outlet when MTV starts broad- COUNTRY casting here.