July 13, 1985 NEWSPAPER $3.00 v.'r '-I -.-^1 ;3i:v l‘••: • •'i *. •- i-s .{' *. » NE RIAA CERTIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED R.E.M. AFFILIATES LIVE-AID Crass Roots Audience Blossoms TWORK, GEAR FOR Story on Page 13 WEHIND THE BULLETS: TEARS FOR FEARS #1 MTV AWARDS ENTER NEXT PHASE GUEST EDITORIAL: AL KOOPER SUBSCRIPTION ORDER: PLEASE ENTER MY CASHBOX SUBSCRIPTION: PLEASE CHECK CLASSIFICATION; RETAILER ARTIST I NAME VIDEO JUKEBOXES DEALER AMUSEMENT GAMES COMPANY TITLE ONE-STOP VENDING MACHINES DISTRIBUTOR RADIO SYNDICATOR ADDRESS BUSINESS HOME APT. NO. 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We, in the American music business do to home. It took no less than a President’s wife (Betty Ford) to Vice President not take care of our own. erect a retreat for T.V. and movie-star patients. We, hopefully, don’t In England, Pete Townshend and Glyn Johns came to the aid that. it ourselves. J.B. CARMICLE need We can do Vice President of their compatriots Eric Clapton and Ronnie What are we waiting for? As you read this Lane respectively in their times of need. They you must know in trouble DAVID ADELSON someone who could were also able to muster an army of support be saved with the proper help. the Managing Editor When in a surprisingly short period of time. And extremely fickle rock audience moves on to Research KEITH ALBERT. Manager remember, it took Bob Geldof's BANDAID to the next phenomenon, it is necessary for us DARRYL LINDSEY shame us into USA for Africa. to pause a moment and make sure the last RON ROSENTHAL I have been professionally involved in music one (who paid our rent last year) is STEVEN ZAP sufficiently JEFFERY PLATT since 1958. If I’d known the fatality rate of this prepared to withstand this apathy. profession, I might have become the attorney What we have needed all this time is a facility Los Angeles Editorial PETER HOLDEN my parents long for. But now it’s 1985 - most that is industry-funded and maintained. The GREGORY DOBRIN of those I came up thru the ranks with are Betty Ford Clinic has been possibly the only PETER BERK STEPHEN PADGETT gone: Mike Bloomfield, Chuck Willis, Terry alternative for us, but it’s available only to A 27~year industry veteran, Al Kooper is a BOB SHIILMAN Kath, Al Wilson, Johnny Ace, Karen Carpenter, those that can afford it. The kind of facility legendary songwriter, producer and artist. He NADEEN TOOMEY Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin - you recently concluded a one and a half year stint I propose would base its treatment on need New York Editorial LEE JESKE know who I’m talking about. These people did with PolyGram Records as director of west coast rather than ability to pay. The funding should RUSTY CUTCHIN not die in plane crashes; they died in mood A&R. In addition to playing on the new Bob Dylan come from the record companies, agencies album, he is partnered in a company that provides Nashville Editorial/Research crashes. They needed us and we were ill and the artists themselves. complete musical services for feature films and JOHN LENTZ, General Manager prepared to help them. The artists television properties. generate the cash flow that keeps BYRON C. WYNKOOP I have been in the trenches but I’ve been the industry afloat. can’t establish a WILLIAM R. FISHgB Why we lucky. I’ll gladly keep my ulcer and insomnia instead of some 10- fund, taken off of PUBLICATION OFFICES the top our considerable profits, to realize these NEW YORK sentence obituary in the Hollywood Reporter. You just can’t take goals? This, coupled with various dinners and benefit concerts, 330 W. S8th Street, (Suite 5D) someone out of a neighborhood bar and put them in a 20,000 could make this dream a reality. New York NY .10019 problems, physical. Phone: (212) 586-2640 seat arena without be they psychological or Those of you who are in a higher profile position than I am, Cable Address: Cash Box NY Ours is a process that, by its own nature, produces casualties. please band together and bring this idea to fruition. Needless to Circulation We’ve 1958 in ‘n’ I I’ll NINA TREGUB, Manager progressed from that now you can study rock say (but will). do anything in my power to help. roll in higher institutes of learning and progress into a job in the Thank you and God bless you. 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