Janet Yeo, Music Week, UST 26 , 1985 Greater London House, NEW RELEASE DIGEST
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MUSIC WEEK SEPTEMBER 14 1985 NEW RELEASE INFORMATION SHOULD BE SENT TO; Janet Yeo, Music Week, UST 26 , 1985 Greater London House, NEW RELEASE DIGEST. JULY1 TO AUG Hampstead Road, London NW1 7QZ. Running Trade Artist Title Label Dist. time price This selection, recorded against Holy Land backdrops ALED JONES/ Voices From The BBC CBS ' 60 mins 13.50 BBC WELSH CHORUS Floly Land has already featured on a best-selling audio LP. Second in the series from the famed club, includes ART BLAKEY At Ronnie Scott's Hendring PVG 57 mins 16.50 interview with Blakey. Combines archive material with more contemporary BETTE MIDLER Art Or Bust Vestron PVG 82 mins 16.50 concert footage. 11-track programme from the Sheffield band. Double- 13.91 CABARET VOLTAIRE Gasoline in Your Eye Vision PVG 82 mins Includes Sensoria. Scottish heavy metal band recorded live at London's HEAVY PETTIN' Rock Ain't Dead PolyGram PolyGram 60 mins 13.50 Astoria. A mix of concert performances, location footage and ICICLE WORKS Seven Horses Deep PolyGram PolyGram 60 mins 13.50 graphics from the Liverpool band. Ex-Hawkwind Nik Turner is the front-man for this INNER CITY UNIT Blood And Bone Jettisoundz Jettisoundz 15 mins 5.35 video LP, also out on vinyl. Animalize, Live CBS 89 mins 13.50 Live in concert in Detroit last December. 15 songs KISS Uncensored Embassy including Heaven's on Fire, Creatures Of The Night. Marc On Spartan 12 mins 8,00 Sunken Rags, 1 Love To Boogie, The Soul Of My Suit MARC BOLAN Laser Love Wax & Laser Love. EMI 50 mins Filmed at the New London Theatre in 1972. Includes MARLENE DIETRICH An Evening With PMI 13.50 Lily Marlene, Falling In Love Again. PVG 70 mins Video version of their latest album — Insight into OMD Crush—The Movie Virgih 13.91 how the album was made. Give My Regards The drama fantasy that got panned in the cinema. paul McCartney To Broad Street CBS/Fox CBS/Fox 109 mins 34.95 RCA/ 13.50 11 tracks include Celebrate Youth, Don't Walk Away RICK SPRINGFIELD Beat The Drum Live Columbia RCA 58 mins and Living in Oz, Live performance from London's Heaven club, plus RUBELLA BALLET Freak Box Jungle Lightning 60 mins 11.00 location footage. Through The Compilation of eight videos. Includes the previously RUSH Camera Eye Embassy CBS 45 mins 13.50 unseen After Image promo. PMI EMI 55 mins 13 tracks from rock's sexiest grandmother, David TINA TURNER Private Dancer Tour 13.50 Bowie and Bryan Adams guest. Don't Watch That, PolyGram 90 mins Latest offerings from Dire Straits, Opus, Nik VARIOUS Watch This Vol. 3 PolyGram 13.50 Kershaw, Amazulu etc. Now That's What 1 20 tracks including: Duran Duran, Elton John, VARIOUS Call Music Video 5 PMI Virgin, EMI 80 mins 13.50 Marillion & Phil Collins. One Night With Blue 13.50 Impressive jazz line-up includes Herbie Hancock, VARIOUS Note-Preserved Vol 1 PMI EMI 60 mins Stanley Jordan, Art Blakey etc. Kerrang Video 20 track HM compilation — Kiss, Iron Maiden, WASP, VARIOUS Kompilation PMI Virgin, EMI 88 mins 13.50 Twisted Sister etc. DTV—Rock, Rhythm Classic Disney cuts set to contemporary sounds — VARIOUS And Blues Walt Disney Rank 32 mins 13.50 Marvin Gaye,"Juice Newton etc. Featured sounds include Little Richard, Gladys VARIOUS DTV—Juke Box Rock Walt Disney Rank 31 mins 13.50 Knight & Stevie Wonder. Compilation of all the videos currently on release in VARIOUS DTV-Pop & Rock Walt Disney Rank 90 mins 36.00 this series. More Disney cuts and classic sounds. Strong VARIOUS DTV—Rock'N'Gold Walt Disney Rank 30 mins 13.50 Motown content. WILLIE AND THE Willie and the PolyGram Seven fun tracks featuring Bill Wyman, Ronnie Lane, POOR BOYS Poor Boys PolyGram 32 mins 13.50 Charlie Watts, Kenney Jones. Proceeds to ARMS- I VARIOUS: A Song For Ireland. and brings a nice homely touch Young's career began with time, and this new PMI release RCA/Columbia, Dealer price: to the proceedings. It is he who Wherever I Lay My Hat, Jetti- will be snapped up by her fans £13.50. expresses the true Irishness, Reviews soundz sets the record straight who have been starved of any SENTIMENTAL, MAWKISH even, dangling over the Liffey, downing with this live feature of Young in public appearances during the but still thoroughly enjoyable. A the auld Guinness (he sups an his previous incarnation as lead last decade. Song For Ireland, a pictorial and uncomfortable half) and explain- but effective, shots of Derry. A singer with The Q-Tips. An Evening With was recorded musical guide to Irish ways and ing the significance of each song. sense of the sadness and tragedy Filmed in Nottingham in 1981, at the New London Theatre in Irish lore, sticks firmly in the The music, as is to be expected, of Ireland, which underpins much it's a no-frills affair (apart from 1972, and later shown as a televi- idealised romanticism, in the is rich in historical reference, of its music, is finally realised Paul Young's shirt) of raunchy, sion special. It is a straight- beauty and emotion of Ireland. further amplified by wonderful here. pub-rock R'n'B. The only thing forward Dietrich concert perform- This is a world far removed shots of Irish scenery. The va- But Murray's commentary that remains the same about ance, and even some of her dia- from The Wolftones, The Dublin- rious aspects of life are highlight- does try to play down this aspect, Young today is that superb voice logue is exactly the same as she ers, Christy Moore or even Planx- ed: the romance, with The Fureys citing the war as only a very small — and it's set off well by The was featuring in her act 10 years ly. More it is The Fureys, Foster And Davey Arthur (When You part of a greater whole. One be- Q-Tips' sassy brass. Featured earlier. However the lady's char- And Allen, popular, essentially Were Sweet Sixteen) the travell- gins to suspect that A Song has tracks include Some Kind Of isma and aura of sophistication MOR music. The concerns of A ing and the leaving, with Irish the dual purpose of being a Wonderful. You Are The Life, comes across, and no one can Song are not the war, the rebels Mist performing The Mountains celebration of Ireland as well as Please Don't Stay at Home, Emp- deny her star quality. or the politics, but the romantic Of Mourne (which even features being a promotional film, almost ty Bed, A Man Can't Lose and Get Many Dietrich favourites are fe- spirit and simple love. The Sir George Robey pub, a fine aimed at potential holiday mak- 'Em Up Joe. atured including See What The As a result the odd embarras- little Irish outpost in North Lon- ers. Clearly an international mar- Not the most thrilling live video Boys In The Backroom Will Have, sing interview ensues and the don) and the trials and tribula- ket is in mind, but this should not ever, but one which erstwhile Q- Lola, Lili Marlene, Honeysuckle occasionally trite clip. But Irish tions, as seen by De Dannan and deter, nor worry, all those with a Tips' fans and Young fanatics Rose, Falling In Love Again and music, much like country music, Mary Black on Hard Times and A love for the country and its may well think is worth the in- features her moving interpreta- depends on a suspension of be- Song For Ireland itself. music. DH vestment. DVE tion of Pete Seager's Where Have lief, a love of the heritage and an Foster and Allen pop up with All The Flowers Gone. empathy with the sentiment. It's the perennials, A bunch Of MARLENE DIETRICH: An Evening Marlene Dietrich is one of the not that hard to bridge the gap of Thyme and Maggie, but it is left cretiulity, and once in, the video Q-TIPS FEATURING PAUL With Marlene Dietrich. Picture last film legends and this video is a rare and simple pleasure. to Phil Coulter to really encapsu- YOUNG, Jettisoundz JE 141. Dis- Music International. Dealer price: will always stand up as a splen- Bryan Murray, aka Flurry Knox late things with The Town I Loved tribution: Lightning/Gold/ £13.50. Now living as a recluse in did testament to her uniqueness of the Irish RM, plays the link man So Well. It is here that the war is Pinnacle. Dealer price: £10.14. Paris, Marlene Dietrich has be- in the annals of showbusiness. touched on with fairly standard. For those who thought that Paul come a legend in her own life- CW PAGE 32 .