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7 JULY 2006 ISSUE #85

Looking Good, Sounding Better... The Best Is Yet To Come

Parlophone Record of the Week WordsWords JustJust GetGet inin TheThe WayWay Heading up our Parlophone front and back cover double whammy is one of this country’s leading , the man who put the Northern soul into .

Having just appeared on the soon to be much missed performing this track and on the back of a recent sold out show at Manchester’s Old Trafford cricket ground the genius (not madness) of King Richard is only too apparent.

This is the 3rd hit to be released from the seminal . and Break The Night With Colour were both hits, Words Just Get In The Way will be the hat-trick. 2

Hello and welcome to issue #85 of the Hit Sheet! So bird flu developed into world cup fever and we’re now left and should make her the superstar she deserves to be. as sick as parrots. If you look at my editorial last month I Meeting her afterwards was also a thrill as she was both predicted that would lose on penalties in the quarter gorgeous and friendly! 31 The Birches, , N21 1NJ finals and that Wayne Rooney would be sent off, so I wasn’t Finally, gig in Hyde Park was fantastic, Pete too surprised. In my opinion England were doomed as soon Townshend’s playing was an inspiration to all. Tel. +44 (0)20 8360 4088 Fax: +44 (0)20 8360 4088 as the squad was announced. The 8/1 on Germany at the We were hoping to get some response from Mark Cooper Email. [email protected] beginning of the tournament is now looking very good value regarding the demise of TOTP as it wasn’t so long ago that [email protected] indeed. So farewell then Sven. Good riddance to bad he was on record as saying it could be saved. I think it’s a Website. www.hitsheet.co.uk rubbish I say. travesty that the BBC prides itself on its commitment to Publisher – Paul Kramer So let’s get on to more important things that are more music then has the temerity to cancel the best known music [email protected] reliable and happier affairs. The gig circuit has been fairly branded show ever having run it into the ground. Definitely 07932 034750 busy despite the world cup and the festival season is well a case of murder on the dancefloor! and truly under way. We even had a Hit Sheet showcase gig Top of the Pops was good when it used to do what it said Acting Editor Mo Pitkins squeezed in between all the football. on the tin and play the hits at the top of the charts. The [email protected] We were invited guests of Irving Azoff at The Eagles gig at show certainly lost its way in the Andi Peters era and never the newly refurbished Wembley Arena. The new entrance is recovered. Editorial Assistants a real improvement on the original. The gig was fabulous and Let’s hope that the new TV Music series Live From Abbey Scott Baxter [email protected] it was great to hear so many hits from our childhood being Road is a huge ratings hit when it launches in the autumn. sung live. Joe Walsh’s Life’s Been Good was a real highlight While on a BBC rant I am very disheartened with the lack of Contributors as were Desperado and Don Henley’s Boys Of Summer. support that our front and back cover UK acts this week are Bob Lefsetz The Paul Weller gig at Koko was a hot ticket affair and we getting at Radio 1 and ILR stations especially. George Photographer certainly got our fill of dad rock. Both band and crowd Ergoutadis has kindly emailed me to explain that they’ve Kirsten Mavric appeared to have a . Jo Mango and James Morrison at supported Richard Ashcroft previously and there is just so [email protected] the Luminaire was a great double bill. Jo is a Scottish singer much good music around at the moment it’s hard to playlist with a very lovely voice and a super personality; everything. With 50% of the Radio 1 A&B playlist given over Magazine Design – Dennis Adelman Website Design and Co-ordinator, we were very impressed with her songs and her Kalimba to USA acts on a regular basis maybe it’s time we had a Dave Nattriss – playing. Captain at Bush Hall were good too; their sound is debate on this matter? [email protected] made for bigger venues but we’re sure they’re heading to I am not xenophobic or ageist, at the end of the day if a arenas in the near future. record is good enough play it / buy it / love it… Administrator – Naomi Stickler [email protected] We found time in our busy schedule to attend an impromptu The Mercury nominations are being held on the 18th July… gig by The Storys at the Hard Rock Café’s 35th Birthday I expect to see , , Corinne Bailey Rae, CD – Clive Deacon party, which was great fun. As was the Silver Clef lunch , Kate Rusby, and Richard Hawley 07974 316 313 where there were gasps when Gary Farrow was given an among the final 12 names on the shortlist. Hit Sheet Idents – Gordon Loncaster award for his charitable deeds; we never thought we’d ever With the diary filling up with festival dates can I point out to [email protected] see him lost for words and humbled but we did and it was a you that the week commencing 4th September will be a very very pleasurable experience. Congratulations Gary. busy one indeed. Tuesday September 5 sees the Mercury’s Cub Reporters – Joseph Kramer The Muse gig at Shepherds Bush Empire was the loudest gig followed on the Wednesday by the EMI conference by day [email protected] Daniel Kramer I think I’ve been to in years, my ears are still buzzing. I think and the Hit Sheet gig by night and then, on the following day, [email protected] it’s fair to say that they are one of the best bands in the UK the biggest record company in the world will be singing the and will be a big hit in the USA with their new album Black praises of the Xmas #1 album by and a definitive From Hero to Zero Holes And Revelations released this week. greatest hits compilation with 2 new tracks. Wayne Rooney [email protected] My life was enriched last week when I saw twice Hit Sheet featured Regina Spektor live for the first time. What an I’m off to apply for the vacant position of England captain… Hero extraordinary performer and a unique talent, I could have see you on the terrace or the veranda. Matt Bellamy watched her all night. The lyrics are thought provoking and [email protected] every song tells a story in itself. Her new album is brilliant Paul Kramer Zero Craig Bellamy [email protected] The Hit Sheet CD Tracklisting issue 85

SwedeFA 1. Words Just Get In The Way Richard Ashcroft (Parlophone) Svengoraneriksson 2. I Can’t Look At Your Skin Graham Coxon (Parlophone) All material published remains 3. Glorious Captain (EMI) the copyright of Hit Sheet Ltd. 4. Wuthering Heights The Puppini Sisters (UCJ) No part of this magazine may 5. Snow Patrol (Fiction) be reproduced without the prior permission of the publisher. 6. Radio On Heather Small (Private & Confidential) 7. Without (De Angelis) 8. Who Loves The Sun Hafdis Huld (MVine/Red Grape) Love Music, 9. Grocer Jack Camp (Mixed Media/Playground) 10. Jimmy Daniel Powter (Warners) Have An Opinion, 11. Troubled Times AM (Luna) Make A Difference 12. As I Choke Ross Copperman (Phonogenic) 13. I Will Kenny Thomas (Curb) TV,TV, RADIO RADIO ANDAND RETAILRETAIL 3

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10CC In Concert Fri July 7: 22.00 BBC4 Chemical Brothers Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 MOST PLAYED PRE-RELEASE Dirty Pretty Things Transmission Weds July 5: 01.05 Ch4 The Webb Sisters – I Still Hear It Dirty Pretty Things The Friday Night Project Fri July 7: 22.30 Ch4 MOST PLAYED Feeder Transmission Thurs July 6: 00.55 Ch4 Lily Allen – Smile Gram Parsons Fallen Angel Fri July 7: 22.30 BBC4 Jim Noir 4PLay Thurs July 6: 00.40 Ch4 Justice Vs Simian Transmission Thurs July 6: 00.55 Ch4 RADIO 2 RECORD OF THE WEEK V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 Captain – Glorious KT Tunstall V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 ALBUM OF THE WEEK Lily Allen Transmission Weds July 5: 01.05 Ch4 Johnny Cash – American V. A Hundred Highways Maroon 5 V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 Oasis V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 Paolo Nutini GMTV Mon July 3: 06.00 ITV1 BBC 6 Music Pussycat Dolls TBA Fri July 7: 00.35 Ch4 BREAKFAST SHOW SINGLE OF THE WEEK Rooster GMTV Fri July 7: 06.00 ITV1 New York Dolls – Shayne Ward GMTV Thurs July 6: 06.00 ITV1 Gimme Luv And Turn On The Light The Automatic Transmission Thurs July 6: 00.55 Ch4 The Debrettes Road To V Thurs July 6: 00.25 Ch4 STEVE LAMACQ RECORD OF THE WEEK The Immediate Road To V Thurs July 6: 00.25 Ch4 Tapes’n’Tapes – Insistor The Klaxons Transmission Weds July 5: 01.05 Ch4 EVENING SEQUENCE ‘DAILY DOSE’ The Kooks Transmission Weds July 5: 01.05 Ch4 TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me The Long Blondes Transmission Fri July 7: 23.35 Ch4 The Magic Numbers V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 REBEL PLAYLIST WINNER 26/5/06 The Streets V Festival Highlights Tues July 4: 01.10 Ch4 – Russian Futurists Friday Night with Fri July 7: 22.35 BBC1 The Zutons Transmission Fri July 7: 23.35 Ch4 OF THE DAY Monday: TV CHARTS Muse – Black Holes and Revelations MTV2 1. Muse Supermassive Black Hole Tuesday: 2. Wolfmother Woman Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways 3. The Automatic Monster Wednesday: 4. The Kooks She Moves In Her Own Way Love Is All – Nine Times That Same Song 5. Justice Vs. Simian We Are Your Friends Friday: MTV Base 1. Ne-Yo Sexy Love TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain 2. T.I. Why You Wanna? 3. Busta Rhymes Touch It RADIO 1 RECORDS OF THE WEEK 4. Pussycat Dolls Buttonz 5. Christina Milian Say I MTV Dance 1. Til West & DJ Delicious Same Man – Civil Sin 2. Rogue Traders Voodoo COLIN & EDITH 3. Solu Music Fade Primal Scream – Dolls 4. Elysium I Go Crazy SCOTT MILLS 5. Armand Van Helden My My My (Re-mix) Orson – Happiness MTV Hits 1. Pussycat Dolls Buttonz 2. Pink Who Knew? Bugz In The Attic – Move Aside 3. Shakira Hips Don't Lie 4. Unfaithful 5. Fall Out Boy Dance Dance BEST SELLERS Virgin Megastore Times Square Virgin Megastore Union Square TW LW Artist Title TW LW Artist Title 1 NEW Keane 1 NEW Loose 2 NEW I’m Going to Tell you a Secret 2 NEW Madonna I’m Going to Tell You a Secret 3 NEW Nelly Furtado Loose 3 NEW Keane Under the Iron Sea 4 NEW Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 4 2 OCR Boys: Original Broadway Cast 5 2 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere 5 4 Gnarls Barkley St Elsewhere 6 3 Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 6 NEW Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 7 8 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium 7 1 Busta Rhymes The Big Bang 8 5 Regina Spektor Begin to Hope 8 RE All-American Rejects Move Along 9 NEW Fatboy Slim Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder 9 3 OCR The Drowsy Chaperone 10 1 Busta Rhymes The Big Bang 10 6 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium RECORDSOFTHEWEEKRECORDSOFTHEWEEK 4

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Released: July 10 Product Manager: Claire O'Brien Words Just Get In The Way Richard Ashcroft Parlophone 020 7605 5244 [email protected] Management: Jamal Chalabi The first thing we have to say about Words Just Get In The Way is 020 7267 3499 that on first listen we thought it was Neil Diamond at his peak [email protected] warbling away through our in-house speakers. That is a high Press: Chris Latham compliment to pay as far as we’re concerned. This is the third single 020 7605 5314 to be taken from Richard’s third solo album following on from [email protected] previously featured Break The Night With Colour (Hit Sheet April Radio/TV: Emma Guirao 020 7605 5382 2006) and Music Is Power (Hit Sheet Dec 2005). [email protected] With this heart-wrenching ballad Richard reinforces his standing as Agent: David Levy one of the UK’s top singer songwriters. You can see him perform the ITB track on the Album Chart Show on Channel 4 this weekend. MTV will 020 7637 6979 be showing footage of his appearance at the Festival and www.richardashcroft.com BBC TV will be doing the same from the appearance. The track is currently C listed at Radio 2 and B listed at both Capital and Virgin and hopefully we’ll see the album Keys To The World moving back up the charts over the forthcoming weeks.

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Released: July 17 Product Manager: Rob Owen I Can’t Look At Your Skin Graham Coxon Parlophone 020 7605 5000 [email protected] Come on… come on! Hurry Up Graham, come on… Management: James Stafford Third time lucky for Graham Coxon as he finally makes it onto a Hit CMO Management Sheet (back) cover! This tune is perfect as a wake up call and is International never off the Hit Sheet playlist as it re-energizes us on these lazy 020 7316 6969 hot summer days. If you’re feeling browbeaten or just plain tired Press: Murray Chalmers 020 7605 5000 we recommend you play the whole of the album Love Travels At Radio: Kevin McCabe Illegal Speeds. I Can’t Look At Your Skin is currently B listed at both TV: Helena McGeough Kerrang and 6Music. Why Radio1 and ILR are not being more 020 7605 5000 supportive is a mystery to us. A good song is a good song no www.grahamcoxon.co.uk matter the age of the artist or their background. Graham who has just recently found a whole new audience having toured with Kaiser Chiefs is making the short trip from his North London abode to headline at the Rise: London United Festival at Finsbury Park this Saturday (July 8). Rise: London United is a free, one day festival that promotes anti-racism and is organized by the Mayor in partnership with the Assembly Against Racism.

Released: July 31 Product Manager: Glorious Captain EMI Catherine Roe 020 7605 5322 [email protected] We first featured Captain back in April with their previous single Management: Justin Pritchard Broke. That charted at #34 and with Glorious having been made 07748 118 308 Record of the Week at Radio 2, along with all the other key playlist [email protected] additions, a higher placing is expected for this release. Press: Alice Macnabb Both tracks are featured on the superb debut album This Is Hazelville 020 7605 5218 [email protected] released on August 14th. Produced by , it is laden with Radio Tina Skinner anthemic hook-ridden tracks as exemplified on the new single. We 020 7605 5092 saw the band perform both in the small environs of Bush Hall and [email protected] the much wider open spaces of Hyde Park at the Wireless festival. TV: Kate Hiscox We were impressed by both shows and we think that lead singer 020 7605 5447 [email protected] Rick Flynn is an excellent frontman. Comparisons have been made Agent: Ben Winchester with a number of 80’s pop bands, Prefab Sprout etc, we think more Primary Talent Microdisney… Anyone agree? 020 7833 8998 As well as playing at both T In The Park and Oxegene Festivals this weekend the band are also doing at least 6 [email protected] other festival gigs in July and August as well as a huge tour in their own right. www.captaintheband.com Check them out. They’ll definitely be coming to a town near you. Captains of the music industry, they certainly lead by example.

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Released: July 31 Product Manager: Buffie du Pon Wuthering Heights The Puppini Sisters UCJ 020 7471 5104 [email protected] Management: We first saw The Puppini Sisters play in a gay club but knew Darren Michaelson straight away that they had more than camp appeal. We asked 020 8455 2014 them to play a Hit Sheet night and they were a great success. Their [email protected] blend of old boogie-woogie standards, novel reworkings of old TV: Niki Sanderson favourites and highly visual stage show are sure to win audiences 020 8334 9994 over. The girls are all accomplished singers and musicians (ex [email protected] Trinity College of Music) and their backing band join in with the Radio: Jude Mellor entertaining performance. 020 7471 5089 [email protected] It was their version of this classic that had us totally won Agent: Emma Banks over as they faithfully recreated her exact dance moves. See them 020 7376 8501 at the (Southwold July 15 and 16), Fruitstock [email protected] (London Aug 5) or at their residency at London’s Bistrotheque club Online PR: Polly Weeks during August for the full effect. Check out their fabulous website 0117 9707126 for helpful make up and cookery tips and a very useful agony aunt [email protected] column. Very classy! www.thepuppinisisters.com

Released: Out Now Chasing Cars Snow Patrol Fiction Product Manager: Joe Munns [email protected] This is one of our favourite tracks from Eyes Open the current Snow Press: Patrol album that has spent the last 8 weeks in the top 10 of the album Paul Smernicki chart and has sold close to 500,000 copies. The previous album Final [email protected] Straw has racked up close to 1.5 million sales setting some target for the Management: current album which, at the current rate, will surpass that figure in the first Big Life half of 2007. Just as Run (which we featured in December 2003) was the 020 7554 2100 defining track on the last album Chasing Cars is this album’s key power [email protected] www.SnowPatrol.com ballad, and it’s been a long time since we heard an album with so many potential singles. You Could Be Happy and the duet with Martha Wainwright, Set The Fire To The Third Bar would both make excellent singles. Previous single You’re All I Have charted at #7 and with previous singles Run charting at #5 and Chocolate at #3 expect this to be either #1 or #9! The album produced by Garret “Jacknife” Lee (U2, ) bears all the hallmarks of a group comfortable with their sound and an all round maturity that gives us the impression of a band that will be with us for a long time yet. They are scheduled to play a few dates in July including the Latitude Festival in Suffolk on the 14th July and a trip to the Far East later in the month. Then in August they will be doing some very cool one off dates in places such as Belfast Botanical Gardens! They then head off to the USA in September to play at least 16 dates there.

Released: July 17 Product Manager: Radio On Heather Small Private & Confidential Sir Harry/Andy Richmond 020 8977 0632 [email protected] There are certain voices that are instantly recognisable and Heather Small’s is Press: Linda Valentine one of them! 0794 9174811 Radio On is her first single release for six years. Where does the time go? Her [email protected] last hit Proud is currently enjoying a new lease of life thanks to its being Regional Radio TV: Susie Tomkins ‘discovered’ by Oprah and also being adopted by many charitable 020 8540 8166 organizations and it’s the lead track on the new spelling bee film Akeelah and [email protected] the Bee. You don’t have to search for a hero in this film! National Radio: Radio On is currently on the Radio 2 C list where has been very Jeff Chegwin supportive. Heather is also lined up to appear on Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends, 07957 939072 Aled Jones Radio 2 show and Jono Coleman’s show on 94.9. [email protected] TV: Niki Sanderson The single is taken from the new album Close To A Miracle scheduled to be Nonstop 020 8334 9994 released on 24th July. [email protected] Heather has become as an icon for sportsmen and women around the world, Agent: Neil Warnock the black and the gay community also. We last saw Heather perform at the The Agency 020 7278 3331 in December 2004 when she joined 1,500 schoolchildren at a agencylondon@ theagencygroup.com Sargeant Young Voices Christmas Concert. This lady has soul in the true meaning of the word.

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Released: Autumn Product Manager: Without Jack Savoretti De-Angelis Martine McLean 020 8994 4600 Jack Savoretti is the latest in the growing catalogue of bohemian [email protected] Press: troubadours that includes Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice etc. We Sue Harris discovered him on myspace a month ago after being tipped off by Abner Republic Media and Kamma Pastoll and immediately knew he was something special. The 020 8960 7449 missing link between Jeff Buckley and Tom Baxter! With a mixed www.jacksavoretti.com English/Italian parentage and an American accent acquired in Switzerland(!), the legend has it that he was discovered because his hairdresser gave his demo to Anne Barrett (Natalie Imbruglia’s ex-manager) who liked it so much she formed a new record company. Shelly Poole was so impressed that she asked him to work on her album Hard Time For A Dreamer. We hope that his impromptu appearance at our last Hit Sheet night (see page 11) was just a taster for a full performance soon. It was clear to see from one song why guys want to be him and girls want to shag him The video for the single was filmed over four days in the holiday resort of Palma Majorca and directed by Oscar-nominated Bobby Garabedian.

Released: August 7 digital Product Manager: Kerry Who Loves The Sun Hafdis Huld MVine/Red Grape Harvey-Piper 07976 272139 The first time we heard about Hafdis was backstage at a recent Paul [email protected] Management: Anna Randles Buchanan gig when tour drummer Liam Bradley and our publisher CEC Management swapped news about music that they were currently listening to. Liam 020 7837 2517 raved about Hafdis while PK raved about The Feeling and Corinne Bailey [email protected] Rae. We checked out Hafdis the very next day and found that she is signed Press: Beth up to our friends’ Kerry Piper Harvey and Neill MacColl’s MVine label. Best PR Originally from Iceland, at just 15 she toured the world with Gus Gus, 020 7608 4598 collaborated with FC Kahuna, worked with producers Ewan Pearson and [email protected] Tom Middleton, made 2 feature films and modelled clothing for Radio/ TV: Woolfie Extreme Sports. Hungry Media Ltd 020 7722 6992 Who Loves The Sun (originally recorded by the Velvet Underground) is a [email protected] perfect summer pop record. Featuring ukelele and a radiator as percussion Agent: Alex Hardee the track is produced by labelmate and Hit Sheet featured artist Boo CODA Agency Hewerdine and is taken from her debut solo album Dirty Paper Cup 020 7012 1555 released this autumn. It also includes the limited soft release single www.hafdishuld.com Tomoko, which sounds like it belongs on an ad or TV soundtrack as do many of her songs. Hafdis is playing live this Wednesday at the G Lounge in Camden, Thurs July 27 at the Boogaloo Bar, Archway and August 15 at the Betsey Trotwood. We predict a very bright future for this quirky lady.

Release: unscheduled Product Manager: Grocer Jack Camp MixedMedia/Playground John Cloud +46 8 615 6780, Apparently we are in the very esteemed company of Ray Davies in +46 703 755090 having the original of this song as one of our personal seminal [email protected] tracks. Originally by Keith West back in 1967 this was subtitled Management: Mixed Media Management Excerpts From A Teenage Opera (we always wondered what +46 40 290 280 happened to rest of the opera!) and has here been given a total [email protected] twenty-first century makeover. There are other mixes but we like Press/Radio/TV: John Cloud this one that stays close to the original. This hops aboard the Mixed Media Management current nostalgia bandwagon and hangs on for dear life. www.myspace.com/campinter Camp are a four piece from Sweden and features musicians with national topnotch ABBA credentials, notably bass player Rutger www.campmusic.com Gunnarsson. Vocalist and producer Dan Tillberg, who has had past success of his own in musical theatre and the European charts, has decided to rework some 60s and 70s favourites. The album Top Ten Once Again also features Chip Taylor’s Angel Of The Morning and the Four Seaons’ Who Loves You. The rest of the happy Camp-ers are front man Andy Sjoberg, who is currently tipped for big things in Sweden, Svante Persson (keyboards), and Rickard Mattsson ().

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Released: August 14 Product Manager: Jimmy Daniel Powter Warners Emma Newman 020 7368 3523 emma.newman@ We have been urging the powers that be at Warners to release this track warnermusic.com for the best part of a year. Jimmy is the 4th single to be released from Management: Gary Stamler the 2 million global-selling, eponymously titled album. We had Bad Day Press: Phoebe Sinclair on the Hit Sheet CD exactly a year ago and Jimmy has the same instant phoebe.sinclair@ melodic hook and catchy chorus. Daniel’s early influences when warnermusic.com growing up in British Columbia and Vancouver, were UK acts such as Radio: Pete Black , and . We’re reminded more [email protected] of early on this future hit. TV: Genny Dwarka genny.dwarka@ We saw Daniel perform at the Academy last December and warnermusic.com we were very impressed with his live show where he won the crowd www.danielpowter.com over with his songs and charismatic personality. Daniel has been constantly touring throughout Europe promoting his successful album and he is back in the UK this summer making his Festival debut playing at V. His debut US tour starts on July 17th, where we think he’ll cement his position as the doyen of hat-wearing singer-songwriters.

Released: tbc Product Manager: Troubled Times AM Luna Tam Coyle 0141 353 3030 We first featured the AM track Gone Away back in the Hit Sheet in [email protected] April having seen him and his band perform on the same bill as Press: Christina Murnin Corinne Bailey Rae on the 18th Floor at Capitol Place as part of a Blueprint Media www.AMsounds.com KCRW sponsored night at SXSW. Last week AM was over for some shows in London and we saw him perform 3 times in as many days. He’s that good! Voted Best Singer/Songwriter for 2005 by LA Weekly, when you hear his album you’ll understand why. Troubled Times is the first officially released single and it’s taken from the self titled album which is released in the UK on July 10th.

Released: Sept 18 Product manager: Ben Karter As I Choke Ross Copperman Phonogenic 020 7384 7561 [email protected] Management: Bill Deutsch In our last issue we featured a track from Ross called That’s All She Wrote Comcast that will see the light of day as a single release later on in the campaign. [email protected] As I Choke is release #1 and after having seen Ross perform it with his Press: David Frossman band at last months Wireless festival we thought it would be rude not to 020 7384 7969 feature this splendid track. Ross’s performance at the Hyde Park event was [email protected] TV: Leighton Woods easily one of our favourite memories of the 5 day event. He has amazing 020 7384 7584 stage presence and was at ease with the audience, totally engaging them [email protected] right from the start of his set. As I Choke evokes memories to us of Radio: Dylan White Radiohead in their prime when they sold in large quantities. Listen to this Anglo Plugging single and you’ll swear it’s ! Agent: Paul Fitzgerald Concorde 020 7602 8822 Ross will be playing the Borderline on July 10th and also playing at our next [email protected] Hit Sheet showcase gig on August 2nd. This will be another sellout so book www.rosscopperman.com now at [email protected].

Released: July 24 Product Manager: Drew Hill I Will Kenny Thomas Curb 020 7401 8877 [email protected] We wrap up this week’s CD with a perfect summer tune. I Will is an instant Management: Ken Grunbaum classic and deserves to be a #1 hit. With hints of Womack & Womack’s 07957 421896 Love Wars, The Real Thing’s You To Me Are Everything, the Average White [email protected] Band, and the jazz funk undertones of a Shakatak tune, this is a perfect soul Press: Louise Malloy-Harris Quite Great PR record. Taken from Kenny’s new album Crazy World, his first release on 01223 410000 Curb, this is, in fact, a reworking of Garden Party, a top 20 hit for Mezzoforte [email protected] in 1983, with a slowed down melody and added lyrical content. Kenny has Radio/ TV: Karen Leslie been away from the charts for far too long, it’s 15 years since his top 5 07941 476415 album Voices and timeless single Thinking About Your Love. His new tracks [email protected] have had a fantastic response from the connoisseurs of the northern soul www.kennythomasmusic.co.uk club scene and with endorsements from tastemakers such as Tony Blackburn, Dave Brown and Rosie Kendrick we expect to hear a lot more of Kenny on both BBC and ILR stations. Kenny has soul coming out of every pore and bump!

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SO FAREWELL THEN TOTP. part of Pop/Rock tv history. Katie Conroy, Adventures For me the most exciting moment was Rik Blaxill booking the for me WE ASKED WHAT WAS YOUR seeing the Kursaals appear with the washing doing 2 numbers straight in a row – nothing FAVOURITE EVER TOP OF THE machines for amps – but so many memories better for a plugger than getting your act on POPS MEMORY? and what a library of brilliant performances TOTP when you were least expecting it! too numerous to mention. TOTP2 – bring it And two numbers!! Even though they were Rick Parfitt & Francis Rossi, Status Quo back for the re-runs… everyone will watch only 2 and half minutes long – not the "We have very fond memories of the Top Of and keep Mark Hagen in a job forever. point!!!!!!! Everybody guaged their success The Pops shows. We performed on it over on whether they got TOTP – I can’t think of one hundred times and at least now it has Zita McQ, Z Management another tv show in its time that meant that gone we know that no one can ever beat our When I was on it in the early 90’s as a much – and the only one the American acts appearance record! The last time we backing vocalist for a Stephen Hague had heard of and wanted to do!!! And performed on the show, production for Jimmy Somerville of There’s memories – Pans People, , Carter was also there and he joked that he wanted More To Love Than Boy Meets Girl! My the Unstoppable’s Dream the Impossible to eclipse our record, well now he can't! brief was to sound breathy like I’d been Dream, Take That, Mariah insisting no dry The show lasted for 42 years and Status running round the park with a dog!!!!... My ice and everyone out of the studio in Quo has just celebrated our fortieth so now lyrics were in Italian and my stage name was rehearsals… Fab… we have another milestone to aim for!" Rozita W!!! Scarey!!!! My favourite bit was when it was over!!! Steve Lillywhite, Sony BMG Cat Hockley - Fifth Element PR Like everyone, it has to be Jocky Wilson My favourite ever TOTP memory was when Lindsay Wesker, MTV Europe behind Dexys!! I performed on the show with the likes of playing mandolin in the middle of Danni Minogue, , East 17 and The Maggie May. Paul Roberts, Phil McIntrye . It was a record for Hot Gossip and Dexys performing with Childline called Gift Of Christmas. I was in a Max Rushden, BBC Jocky Wilson as a backdrop! truly awful band called A.S.A.P – we were Easy - the Roses and the Mondays on the managed by Tom Watkins – thankfully my same show. A cultural watershed that still Alan McGee pop career died before the show did! resonates today. The KLF with Dolly Parton (wasn’t it Tammy Wynette? – Ed) as she sang "We're justified Kevin Milburn, Mercury Music prize Paul Smernicki, Fiction and we're ancient and we an ice cream REM for the gusto of Michael Stipe’s It is obviously Jocky/Jackie Wilson... van" she is from Texas!!.Bill Drummond not megaphone-wielding performance of as good as Mac or Wylie but fucking Orange Crush, and Japan for the glacial Phil Knox-Roberts, Redemption Records, amazing sense of the absurd. Best ever stillness of their rendition of Ghosts. Bowie and Ronson’s Starman. 6th July 1972. performance on TOTP. Absolutely life-changing. Steve Gallant, Granada Venture Gary Levermore, For me probably the most iconic/important Tilly Rutherford ... Denis... say no more... performance was Bowie’s appearance in Recording Bad Manners after show in 15 and I’m sure my Dad agrees! about April 72 singing Starman with Mick mins for Special Brew insert in cooking pot Ronson and the rest of the Spiders – it !!! WOW – That was fun and on the show Phil Nelson, First Column maybe benefit of hindsight but it seemed looked fantastic. Me shitting myself. Debbie Harry singing Denis definitely made even then to be the start of something me go all funny in a way that I didn’t bigger than all the glam pop stuff that was in Jono Coleman, Broadcaster understand at the time… the charts that year. INXS on the show and Crowded House... and early Kylie. Sir Harry Cowell, P&C Rob Challice, Coda Agency Dee Dee Wilde from Pan’s People dancing The surprise of seeing my younger sister as Brian Berg, UMTV every Thursday evening. one of the TOTP crowd, with the hairy Telling the BBC that moving it away from it's cornflake's arm resting (worryingly) on her traditional Thursday peak slot to Friday Paul Scaife, Record of the Day shoulder. against Coro would eventually kill the brand. Old memory – Madness, Bad Manners and Not the sort of memory you were looking Pirahnas on one show. My music was taking Paul Conroy, Adventures for from a sad prophet! over the world. TOTP was THE programme to appear on for Recent memory – Gnarls Barkley. new and breaking artistes. It was the key Steve Tannett, Blujay piece of the jigsaw in selling of records. The For me it was getting The Alarm on to , Broadcaster excitement of seeing new acts you worked perform 68 Guns and feeling like we had My most abiding memory of TOTP isn't with, the camaraderie backstage, the buzz. arrived! It was always the benchmark. really music related. I was told by the gay With the move from its regular time on Equally I remember the most frustrating totp wardrobe assistant at TOTP that both Paul BBC1 and the birth of the video and satellite moment was when our artist Timbuk 3 King (King) and Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) had shows it lost its importance. reached 22 in the charts and got the call and the biggest genitalia he'd ever seen. What a brand to disappear – for numerous turned the show down!!! Whatever way you Imagine what was going through my mind generations, it was essential viewing – now look at it it will remain the most important whenever I've seen either of them since! it joins the ranks of 6.5 Special, Juke Box vehicle ever for UK sales. (Past tense) Jury, Ready Steady Go, The Tube etc – TOP OF THE POPS 2 9

Anthony Dunning, Antman Music The thing about TOTP is that, yes, it was ill. to appear on the show hosted by Simon There's no particular one, though the Pet Not terminal.Just needed a specialist that's Bates because there was a strike on - no Shop Boys with Neil singing at the front and all. But most of us are aware that a certain audience; no live acts at all - everything on Chris standing behind his keyboard and recent producer came into the patient's tape except Bates and I. Atari seemed an almost weekly occurrence room, tripped over the saline drip, I had gone into a shop in New York to get a in the '80s. disconnecting it, fell onto the ventilator's prop and saw this colourful little toy at the The ever changing set, development of the plug,pulling it from the wall, before back of the store. I bought it (nobody else TOTP logo, the onscreen graphics, the accidentally suffocating the patient with a had, the assistant told me) and went on different theme tunes and the raft of pillow, unaware of the damage caused even TOTP telling Simon this Rubiks Cube was the presenters make for the memories. Again for when the solid tone of a flat-line rang out. big new thing in America (it wasn't but me it's probably the 80s when it looked it We all know who that is and we don't even interest exploded in the UK after I was on). was being filmed in Magaluf nightclub, the need to mention his name. After the show I got hundreds of letters chart was counted down to Paul Hardcastle's about the cube including one from a The Wizzard and the likes of Steve Wright Nick Stewart, Korova schoolboy enclosing an exercise book with and Gary Davies were there to oversee it all. Pans People. the solution of how to solve it, asking for It's one of the elements that always made Musical highlights: First appearances from advice on getting it published. TotP2 so watchable. and Procul Harum. I sent it back to him with, I think, a nice letter Wizzard were also always good value. explaining no publisher would be interested Neil Ashby (I knew all my talk about popularity was Jocky Wilson behind Dexys… you couldn't Andy Saunders, Velocity PR rubbish). make it up. Obviously Ossie’s Dream too Kurt Cobain doing a fucked up, slow motion Then Rubiks Cube exploded and bloody version of Smells Like Teen Spirit with hell; a US schoolkid got his solution Nirvana in 1992 (I think it was '92 anyway...) published and sold millions of copies. James Sandom, Supervision Management I felt awful! Teardrop Explodes Reward featuring Julian Pierre Perrone, Journalist Dear old TOTP! I was in the very first London Cope on Acid. As a child I remember Good riddance too… based show. thinking what a strange performance it was, In my book, it lost it when the Musicians' "Dad why's that chap jumping on the Union stopped forcing people to rerecord Mel Brown, Impressive PR "?... around 20 years later I read his the tracks before they could appear to mime Nick Heyward forgetting his words on his No book "Head On", he was loaded full of Acid. to them… 1 hit Whistle Down The Wind – a classic Priceless TV moment from the Arch Druid. Procol Harum doing Whiter Shade Of Pale as the footage was used to promote the single Joel Harrison, Universal Gordon Loncaster internationally and turned up on French TV Gotta be the Jocky Wilson moment!_ Memories as a kid: in 1967. Thankfully, the film still exists Dexy's Midnight Runners doing Jackie whereas a lot of other classic performances Lewis Jamieson, Hall or Nothing Wilson Said in front of a giant back drop of were wiped by the BBC… , What Difference Does It Make, fatty darts player Jocky Wilson coz some tons of gladioli and puzzled faces. researcher got confused. Ruth Rothwell, Universal Publishing Disinterested heroin chic (before it was chic) I was in the audience when Vienna by David Massey, Sony BMG waifs swaying like dead willow trees. Ultravox was at no 2 and Joe Dolce was First Wham performance of Young Guns Kid Jensen's accent. What exactly was that no1 with Shuttupayouface (Whats a matter and first Frankie performance of Relax. then? Mexican with a hint of Urdu? you!!) I was trying to hide!!!!!!!!!! Joe Dolce v. Ultravox Jon Kutner, Pop Oracle Memories as a warm-up man: Nick Raphael, Sony BMG Seeing myself appear between B.A *Madonna going through the effort to mime Adam And The Ants’ Charming. Robertson's legs whilst he was singing a synched pre-rec vocal to a 10 piece band To Be Or Not To Be in 1979. who were actually playing live. Paul Bolton, Helter Skelter *Eels smashing the whole world up. Chris Gotta be the Jocky Wilson backdrop… Alex Gilbert, 14th Floor Cowey on talkback saying: "I guess that's I never did hear whether it was an ironic Nirvana’s Teen Spirit... Those glasses. the take we're going with then." statement or a fuck up. *Gary from Reef buying everyone pints at Rob Davis, Songwriter the bar. JK Being on it January 1974. Tiger Feet was *Paula Yates side of stage with babe in arms My favourite ever Top of the Pops memory no1, Beat that! watching Hutchence in rehearsal adoringly. was when I was doing a live performance *Theakston unable to remember the 3-line and noticed there was no drive at all to the Jamie Spencer, Liberation Management links. rhythm feel. I sneaked a look over at the Michael Hurll after each Madness performance *Trying to get the kids to go from the Steps band (remember, this was broadcast totally would say “Never again, they’re banned’ but stage to the Def Leppard stage. live) and noticed the percussion player had would always have them back only to say *Lopez doubling the population of Elstree gone to sleep and was holding the ‘never again’ after the show. with her staff. tambourine upright and silent in one hand *Robbie being a really regular bloke. as he snored! *The Tea/Coffee/Uniquench generic brown My other fave memory (am I entitled to two liquid available at the canteen. since I have been in every decade of TOTP until this one?) was when I had come back FORTHCOMINGFORTHCOMING SINGLESSINGLES 10

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Our wildly successful Hit Sheet ASCAP sponsored Night on June 26 at the Here are just some Cobden Club featured, AM, The Orange Lights, an impromptu performance by of the glowing reviews we received Jack Savoretti, Tom McRae and . Another great evening of music! in our inbox the next day.

“It was an excellent night and a great set; two interesting new songs, an old b-side, a rarity and a bizarre cover. Very much unlike any Tom McRae gig I’ve been to.”

“The gig was fabulous! Had a really good time:) I’ve never heard any of Joe Purdy’s stuff before, The future is bright for The Orange Lights but he was amazing!”

“Tom McRae was amazing, and so were the other acts” AM. His real name is LA Confidential! “I went for Tom and as per he was stunning, and it was nice having a little chat with him later, but I was really impressed with Joe Purdy (who was also very friendly) and AM.”

“We thought the gig was fantastic. It was a fairly short set but we have absolutely nothing but great things to say about it. It would be worth it for one song! It was well organised too. Thank you very much Jack Savoretti fulfilling our quota of for squeezing us onto eye candy for the evening Who’s a Purdy boy? Tom McRae is a contented man the list.”

“Please pass on the news that the audience thought it was brilliant. The supporting musicians were great too.”

“Best gig I’ve been to for quite a while”

“It was great. All the acts were spiffing!”

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The Wireless festival was a real hit and our star turn of the night was Ross get on our tzitzis and we really enjoyed miss affair. Turning up on the first day, Copperman who played a great set in the his song Jerusalem. With what appeared to Wednesday, it soon became clear that 02 Blueroom Bubble tent. This young man be the whole of the population of Essex there were too many Indians and not oozes star quality. By Sunday night the in Hyde Park, Depeche Mode wrapped enough chiefs. grass in Hyde Park was looking very up the event and had the best response of Having secured our wristbands around our ‘forlawn’! The hosepipe ban doesn’t appear the night, if not the whole week’s wrists we were sent from pillar to post in to have affected the neighbours over at proceedings. the attempt to actually get in. Having spent Buckingham Palace though. Wireless is never going to be seen 40 minutes being sent from one entrance The Sunday line-up was our favourite (in as a real festival, it’s more like a glorified to another we managed to miss 2 of the between watching England on the big picnic in the park with corporate branding acts we had wanted to see, namely Milk screen, thoughtfully provided by the at every turn. We’d be interested to know Kan and Gogol Bordello. Getting in did organizers, struggle to a 1-0 win over how many people were there on a freebie become easier as the week went on. The Equador). Cord now look like the real deal as at the Silver Clef lunch we attended the calibre of the acts was odd, there were and lead singer James has matured into a week before every goodie bag had a well-known names headlining but there fine front man. Also vastly improved are pair of free tickets for one of the days were also acts we hadn’t even heard about Lorraine who, with the addition of a of the festival; that’s a couple of thousand on the lesser stages, some of whom I don’t drummer, have a much fuller sound and for starters. If Wireless is to improve think were known outside of their are set for huge success. On the acoustic lessons need to be learned. Let’s hope immediate families! stage young Roxanne sang her heart out that next year’s line-up is stronger and The weather improved throughout the and we wish her luck on the current perhaps condensing the festival into week as did the quality of acts. On tour. With no time for a cuppa or a a 3 day event would be better. And 16 Thursday night Ray Lamontagne, James kippah we headed off to see the ‘rocking different wristbands does seem excessive! Morrison, Joan As Policewoman and The rabbi’ Matisyahu, who played a 30 minute Weepies all caught our eyes and ears, but set that got better as it went on. He didn’t Mo Pitkins

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Hit Sheet Gig One Of These Men Is An Imposter! at the Cobden Club Wednesday August 2nd Featuring 5 great acts • New Lost World (from Denmark) featured in issue 82 • Dollface issue 80 • Lord Large issue 83 • Ross Copperman issue 84/85 • Jack Savoretti issue 85 Email [email protected] Names...Names... Names...Names... Names...Names...

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9. "Isn't Always Love" – Karla Bonoff 22. "Sand In My Shoes" – Dido "Well isn't it always love that makes you hang The second most played track in my iTunes Bob Lefsetz your head library, with 205 spins. But really, number one, And isn't it always love that makes you cry since "Sand In My Shoes" is 4:59 and "Jeannie's Yesterday was Mike Marrone's fiftieth birthday. And isn't it always love that takes the tears away Diary" is 3:37. And he had the idea that I should substitute for And you wouldn't have it any other way" Don't dismiss Dido. Buy "Life For Rent". It's every him on the Loft. So, when I was at XM two bit as good as the singer/songwriter albums of weeks ago, we created six hours of Unknown by today's generation, but not the seventies. programming. I couldn't turn on the radio forgotten by we who bought her debut When you hear Dido sing "But I want to see you yesterday until about four, an hour after I started, Columbia album. Truth and vulnerability. Better again" you'll feel that pitter-patter in your heart but when I pushed the button on my boombox, than any Ronstadt record, a MUST HAVE! you get when you fall in love. I was shocked. Because it was my choices. And then me, coming over the airwaves. 10. "This Is Us" – /Emmylou Harris 23. Jay Ferguson – "Real Life Ain't That Way" I can't burn out on it! Heard first on the Loft. This is the kind of song Now Mike has got 13,000 plus songs in his you can play ALL DAY! Kind of a cross between library. And I was rushing to catch a plane. So, 11. "Hide and Seek" – Howard Jones Pablo Cruise, the Doobie Brothers and Chicago. I quickly picked tracks. After hearing myself The best song off his debut. So quiet, so A sax, but so much rock energy. The kind of I was so elated that I fired up my Inno and meaningful. chorus Journey popularized, but here, without recorded what was left of my show. People Steve Perry's bombast, you feel so ALIVE! always ask me what I listen to, well, here you go. 12. "Today" – Jefferson Airplane So beautiful as to almost not believe it's real. 24. "I Am So Ordinary" – Paula Cole 1. "Over My Head" – Fleetwood Mac Forget the hairy armpits. Forget the hits. This is They say it's about Stevie Nicks, I've always 13. "Jeannie's Diary" – Eels from the debut. been in love with Christine McVie. She's more The most played song in my iTunes library, Maybe you're self-confident, but for the rest of accessible. And when she sings about being in presently at 225 complete spins, never mind us who've felt we weren't good enough... love, I feel like it could be me. iPod plays. "And when your mother came to boston "I don't have a chance at writing the book you disappeared 2. "White Ladder" – David Gray I just want to be a page, in Jeannie's diary And then I saw you three together I don't think he's equaled this effort on his last One single page" I guess she makes the best impression two albums, but the album from which this With her charming femininity..." is the title track is enchanting. Not just the 14. "Magazines" – Duncan Sheik hit "Babylon", but stuff like "My Oh My" and My favorite song by him. Heard it first on 25. "Oh Yeah" – Roxy Music "Silver Lining". the Loft. If you haven't heard this, your life is lacking.

3. "Never Stop" – Jackson Browne 15. "Baby Come Home" – J.D. Souther 26. "Dirty Work" – Ian Matthews From "The Naked Ride Home". Mike believes "Black Rose" is the best A cover of Steely Dan's truly most famous work. I like Jackson when he's acoustic. But this album singer/songwriter album of 1976. Not as good as the original, but such a is more rock. But the heartfelt lyrics and groove "If you could trust me great song. here, if you're a fan of his DOWNLOAD THIS! Try to believe me There's a change almost all the way through that Listen to me when I say 27. "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" – will not only put you through the bends but will When I say that love is a burning fire Paul Simon connect you with everybody you've ever been in And it will not fade away Have you played "Rhymin' Simon" recently? Talk love with. It's just that magical. No it will not fade away" about HOLDING UP!

4. "A Long Time, A Long Way To Go" – You can break up with them, but you can never 28. "Carolina Day" – Livingston Taylor Todd Rundgren forget them. Remember when we bought every album with The best Runt song ever. All the talent, all the "Taylor" on it? beauty, encapsulated in just over two minutes. 16. "Between A Laugh And A Tear" – Brings me right back to September 1970. And John Mellencamp I LIKE IT! 5. "New York Tendaberry" – Laura Nyro Best song he ever did. With Rickie Lee Jones I've been meaning to write something about duetting. Really, "Scarecrow" was as good as the 29. "Carolina In My Mind" – James Taylor "Save The Country" for weeks now. Not only Springsteen albums of those years. The original, from the Apple debut. With an where is the antiwar protest, where are the elation as opposed to the remakes PACIFISTS? But that's a rocker, and this is so 17. "Give Me An Inch" – Robert Palmer contemplation. Makes you feel so ALIVE! intimate and vulnerable... There's heart in this You never hear this on the radiio anymore. This that you'll never ever see on television or in the sold me on him, so smooth, so sexy. 30. "Riding On A Railroad" – James Taylor movies. As I said on the show, I put the CD in an endless 18. "Drawn To The Rhythm" – Sarah McLachlan loop. This, "Machine Gun Kelly" and "You Can 6. "Sixty Years On" – Elton John From BEFORE she made it. Magical. Close Your Eyes". "Take Me To The Pilot" got me hooked on Elton. We are sailing away on a river to the sea, when But all these years later it's "Sixty Years On" and 19. "The First Cut Is The Deepest" – I hear this I believe you and me HAVE met again. "The King Must Die" I keep listening to. The definitive version, even better than the Cat 31. "I Used To Be A King" – Graham Nash 7. "Seasons" – Steve Miller Stevens original. We didn't expect much of Willie. But he put out Hearing this track on DeepTracks in January the best debut solo album of the three. Doesn't 2003 sold me on XM. You think Steve Miller is 20. "The Road" – Danny O'Keefe quite hold up, but I still love this song. the dittymaster? Then you haven't heard THIS! You probably only know the cover on Jackson EXQUISITE! Browne's "Running On Empty". You'll LOVE the 32. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" – Joni Mitchell original. She gets the concept so right it's almost 8. "Heart Of The Night" – Poco CREEPY! Do they love you or don't they? Will Funnily enough, Poco didn't have hits until all the 21. "Bitter Creek" – Eagles you ever be able to fall asleep? Or will you have key frontmen were gone. Even the SUBSTITUTE I could do a whole post on this. I believe I have. to debate it ALL NIGHT? You need them, do they frontmen, like Timothy B. Schmit. Great looping Oh, what a middle of the desert late at night feel. need you? groove here. OH PEYOTE!! EMAILEMAIL FROMFROM AMERICAAMERICA 15

33. "Diamond In The Rough" – Shawn Colvin 40. "Really Wanted You" – Emitt Rhodes 52. "A Pirate Looks At Forty" – Jimmy Buffett Second song, the one that hooked me on the I wanted to play "Love Will Stone You", but this The bedrock that allows Jimmy to get 110% advance tape, from my favorite album of the will do. of the gross. nineties, even if it did come out in the fall of '89. It's this song that enraptured his hard core. 41. "Streetlife Serenader" – Billy Joel 34. "My Thanksgiving" – Don Henley Buy Billy's "Songs In The Attic", it will convince "I've done a bit of smugglin' Nobody has heard this, it's like Henley's "Inside you that he's not a sap. I only knew this from And I've run my share of grass Job" never came out. But it did just as baby that live album. Then I discovered the original, I made enough money to buy Miami, boomer acts could no longer get airplay, just which has got a street corner feel, but rocks. But I pissed it away so fast tour. And if they did happen to get airplay, it Never meant to last wasn't with rockers. I LOVE THIS! 42. "The King Must Die" – Elton John Never meant to last" Here's that other Elton track. 35. "Hearts In Your Eyes" – The Records 53. "Your Turn Now" – J.D. Souther Forget the first album and "Starry Eyes", the 43. "Stranger In A Strange Land" – Leon Russell My favorite song from "Black Rose" second is where it's at! With the girl in the When you dropped the needle and heard this golden disc! opening track on Leon's second solo album, "The moon was yellow your draw dropped. Where did he get that And the sky was cool 36. "Thirteen" – Big Star voice? And when everybody but the kitchen The night can make you a promise of love "Won't you let me walk you home from school sink comes in at the end you're completely Or it can make you a fool" Won't you let me meet you at the pool OVERWHELMED! AND Maybe Friday I can "How would anybody know it Get tickets for the dance 44. "What Now America" – Lee Michaels If the real thing shined And I'll take you" Once again, where are the antiwar protest We've seen so many movies songs of today? You'd probably think it was a line" Won't you tell your dad, get off my back Tell him what we said about "Paint It Black" 45. "So Far Away" – 54. "What Can I Say" – Pousette-Dart Band Rock and roll is here to stay "So far away I wanted to play "Freezing Hot", but I couldn't Come inside where it's okay Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?" find it! And I'll shake you 46. "You Can Sleep While I Drive" – 55. "Hollywood Ending" – Brian Vander Ark Won't you tell me what you're thinking of My last song before I took off on that jumbo jet Would you be an outlaw for my love Melissa has become a caricature of herself, but for my hometown, tinseltown. If it's so, well, let me know this song has got the lesbian on the run in her If it's no, well, I can go secret universe vibe DOWN! To the point where Meawhile, I just want to write about one more I won't make you" it doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight. song, that played before I fired up my Inno.

36. "Motel Blues" – Loudon Wainwright III 47. "Sossity, You're A Woman" – Jethro Tull "20th Century Man" – The Kinks A live version cut at XM. You might not believe it, but thirty five years The way this blends acoustic and electric ago, Jethro Tull was an arena act that went elements, it could almost be a Zeppelin song. "In this town television shuts off at two clean everywhere. Nothing else sounded quite From a skiffle beat to pure rock, this has got What can a lonely rock & roller do like Tull, the exotic intimacy, like reading a THE energy of rock and roll. This is one of the Oh the bed's so big and the sheets are clean Sherlock Holmes story. many reasons Ray Davies is a god. And your girlfriend said that you were 18 The styrofoam ice bucket is full of ice 48. "$1000 Wedding" – Gram Parsons "Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned Come up to my motel room treat me nice The song that stuck out on his second solo I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna album, which I bought after he died, when the be here I don't wanna make no late night New York calls reviews were so good. My mama said she can't understand me And I don't wanna stare at them ugly grass mat She can't see my motivation walls 49. "Wasted Time" – Eagles Just give me some security Chronologically I know you're young "So you can get on with your search, baby I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth But when you kissed me in the club you bit my And I can get on with mine century" tongue And maybe someday we will find I'll write a song for you, I'll put it on my next L.P That it wasn't really wasted time" That's who I am. I don't think I fit into this Come up to my motel room, sleep with me ! modern world. ut when these tracks come out Why the Eagles are the biggest selling band in of the speakers, the unfiltered ones, not the There's a Bible in the drawer don't be afraid history, why they sell out every venue. You ones written to advertise the wares of I'll put up the sign to warn the clean-up maid might think it's about the hits, but it's the truth in corporations, I feel like I fit in. Yeah there's lots of soap and there's lots of towels the album tracks. When you go to a show and Never mind them desk clerk's scowls Henley sings these lines every other baby I'll buy you breakfast, they'll think you're my wife boomer looks up into the sky and sings along, Oh come up to my motel room, save my life thinking of all the heartbreak and breakups Come up to my motel room, save my life" they've endured. And wondering if they've gotten it right, if they'll ever get it right. 37. "Last Night Of The World" – Bruce Cockburn Also cut live at XM. 50. "My First Night Alone Without You" – With this song, and this song only, you could Bonnie Raitt travel a continent for a MONTH! I play this after every breakup, after every woman moves out. Positively creepy. 38. "Big Sky Country" – Chris Whitley The track that built his reputation. 51. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" – Simon & Garfunkel 39. "She Talks In Stereo" – Gary Myrick They say that "Waterloo Sunset" is the most Remember that guitar sound??!! beautiful song ever written. It's no prettiers than Bob Lefsetz is a freelance journalist writing from Santa Monica. this. California. The views expressed are his alone and not necessarily endorsed by The Hit Sheet www.hitsheet.co.uk

7 JULY 2006 ISSUE #85

Looking Better, Sounding Good... The Long Tail

Parlophone Record of the Week II Can’tCan’t LookLook atat YourYour SkinSkin Graham Coxon Life’s more than just a blur for Graham. This is his 3rd release from his latest album Love Travels At Illegal Speeds. The limited CD and DVD version of the album is available now. You And I and Standing On My Own Again have already troubled the chart compilers and this double A sided single will do the same.

Graham’s album is a constant travelling companion and we’ve passed through several speed cameras at more than 30mph due to the fact it makes us drive faster than we should. Can we send our speed ticket fines to you please Graham? Seriously, if this album doesn’t get a deserved Mercury nomination we’ll eat our hats.