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Oance MMusic People Awards, were Works SKG. forming songs especially written and DreamWorks,the US as the whose first recordalbum comp:release by named Dance Act Of The Year, and then presenled the FastLoveMichael, was whose serviced uptempo to radio new singletoday produced by Michael. award for best major label to Deconstruction. Other (April 1), is applying the finishing bumerTrojan ever Soûls since has Michael been on settled the back his haveOstin recently and Lenny added Waronker. acts to the The Di winners included XL's Josh Wink (best neweomer), istouches being toreleased his new Worldwide album Older, on May which 7. légal dispute with Sony Music last July, Works rester, including Henry Roll IndianLondon's s Bjork Goldie (best (best female maie artist).artist) andStrictly One Rhythmlittle was Older is his first album in six years and revivedbut there for releaseare signs by Aegean.that it may be a Michaelvideo for recently FastLove completed at Pinewoo shooting ' named best indépendant label, London's Baby D single mentfollows with the Sonyacrimonious Music last split summer. and settle- Aegean, which is to be distributed by Studios, and he is also working on danc Let Me Be Your Fantasy the best dance tune, while best Michael is also overseeing the launch Virgin/EMI,both signed by currently Georgiou inhas consultation two acts, mixesMeanwhile and B-sides, there is also the prospect dance album was Columbia's Leftfield album Leftism. ment is being handled by his cousin with Michael. Irish/American solo of working again with his former record Andreos Georgiou. A long-time business releaseacoustic début performer material Toby later is expected this year, to Sonycompany. was Partdelivery of the of seulementa Greatest MediaRenamed Monitor Media has changed Monitor its name adds to Music to dataControl Warner's-backedpartner of Michael's, label Georgiou Hardback ran ii the as will singer/songwriter Josie Blues, compilation by July 1997. Michac UK to bring it into line with parent group Music Control îs included Micfc ' ibuted backing vocals to releasesupply inat autumn least two1997. new track Gmbh, which is moving its opération to Dublin. The radioMusic monitoring Weeks airplay opération, charts, which is also supplies running data tests for with Mike Flowers pops up saysMTV, the VH-1 experiment and CMT. withHead the of opérations three music Ray TV Bonicichannels at radio conférence will probably become permanent later this year. The The Mike Flowers Pops will be the main attraction at a FM,company Leicester has alsoSound, added Ram 10 FM stations, and Broadland including FM Melody 102.4, MusicLondon Radio Records 96 conférence, showease whichplanned is sponsoredfor this month's by the to boost its coverage of the independent radio sector. Radio Academy in association with Music Week. UK piracy business slashed by a third roadThe from event the will Bafta be stagedcentre atin theLondon, GC2 venue, where acrossthe Music the The value of piracy in the UK was slashed by more than whichRadio eventis planning is being a held Flowers on April single 18. Londonwithin Records,the next £10m last year, to £24.5m, according to estimâtes month and an album later in the year, staged a show- réduction,produced by from the £38m BPI's in anti-piracy 1994, follows unit an The active huge 12 caseA panelat last examiningyear's conférence the potential to launch of pop Digital act Shiva. Audio months for the BPI, trading standards, police and HM Broadcasting has been added to th('s head of produc- Boyzone were among the biggest winners at Friday's Irma Awards Customspiracy & Exciseinvestigation and the team. first active year of MCPS s tion, will chair the discussion with Radio Authority currentlyshow, staged rehearsing at the Burlington in Dublin forHôtel a 35-date in Dublin. UK tourThe Irishstarting boy on band, May 2, managinghead of programming editor of BBC David Digital Lloyd Radio. and Glyn Jones, won both single and album of the year for Key To My Life and Said & Abbado agréés Mahlersettlement giveReprésentatives delegates at the from event Grundig the chance are also to planning hear DAB to Done respectively. In the international catégories, (Whafs The Slory) withdrawnBerlin Philharmonie from his légal conductor battle Claudiowith Deutsche Abbado has for the first time. Although four stations in London D'EuxMorning was Glory? best femaleby Oasis artist was album group andalbum Michael of the Jackson'syear, Celine HIStory Dion's Grammophon over the Mahler Adagio compilation after teehnologybecame the afirst month to broadeastago, there usingare only the aroundnew digital half the label agreed to pull the CD. Abbado instigated the a dozen receivers in the UK capable of picking up inaction France following last year. the The release label ofwill four also Mahler make symphonies a donation Jugendorchester.tothe Abbado-founded Abbado Gustav will donateMahler his royalties from Cottrell steps up for new McGrane leaves the sale of the CD to a fund for musical instruments for in CHE restructuremt group EMI marketing division Music Week subscriptions riding high EMI Records président and ceo Jean- Harrold and trade marketing director seniorthe company management in a r< line-up. [j of CHE's Music IVeeksubscriptions have hit their highest level Francois Cecillon is making the final John Hazell have left the company and The move, part of a bid to eut over- reachfor three 9,137. years, With increasing newsstand 11% sales over averaging the past year 3,309 to per isdirector leaving of on spécial April markets30. Keith Hilton heads and a top-heavy management week, MWs circulation currently stands at 12,446. mercial marketing division. rewardCecillon for saysthe jobCottrell's he has élévation done in isre- a torrunning Gerry of Donohoe the company. take overOverall day-to-day respon- Cottrell, who takes over as managing organising the company's sales force sibilifcy for the company will be assumed Alanîs'I Alanis Little Morissette's Pill goes début double album Jagged platinum Little yearsdirector after commercial joining the companyopérations as salestwo outfitand the in performance Leamington. of "The the distributionrestructur- directorby Carlton June Communications De Moller. 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Rap Album Other In The albums World....Ever to get awards which clubla, including sales and TV premiums. compilations, licensing, andColdwell, for me it who is a wonderfulwill report experience." to Cottrell, secretarialVan Gaalen andstaff around are also three leaving admin andthe reached gold, Terrorvision s Regular Urban Survivors joinPaul the Coldwelllabel from and Telstar Georgina as général Capp willCapp, oversee reporting the label'sto Coldwell, licensing will teams. man- CHEThe group changes headquarters corne nine in months Elstree. after awards.and Baby Mo D's singles Oeliverance, achieved which certified both awards.attained silver managermanager, respectively.licensing, andBut threecommercial exist- ageThe the new club division and premium cornes businesses.nine months name^Pickwick. McGrane took over in after EMI's Stratégie Marketing CHEautumn reported 1994 afterlosses three of more years than in £20m.which .dotmusic Division was dismantled. From MusicThe latest Week. industry Updated news Mondays On The at Net, 18.00 GMT, ► ► ► ► ► ^ MORE STORES PLANNED FOR VIRGIN OUR PRICE - p5 ► ^ ^ ^ http;//www.dotmusic.com MUSIC WEEK 6 APRIL 1996 3 COMMENT Lessons of the Rajar affair Theof the fiasco dangers over of the tampering Rajar figures with ismarket a s research. RI steps up presence Whileto the musicthe Rajar industry, stats arethey a arematter a matter of increasing of life or interestdeath forcurrency radio programmersof radio advertising. and managers since they are the chartsIn short are they ta theare musicto the radiobusiness. industry what the CIN for Leeds Sound City The Rajar affair suggests that as the record industry by Robert Asbton A&R director Keith Wozencroft, Vital -once problem more of discusses the speed the of verythe charts, real -alheit we should self-inflicted be mÊMMmsamSunday : The Wildbearts, Cecil, CIV, RadioDistribulion's One's Steve Tony Lamacq. Duckworth and extremely wary of any rash measures. SoundRadio OneCity is increasingby staging its apresence sériés atof Feeder-T&C A discussion, on artist development That's not an argument for defending the status quo celebrity interviews hosted by John Peel Monday:Wannadies-T&C Manie Street Preachers, Cast, and careers in the music business will corne what may. Like anything, market research hasto SundaylV). Terrorvision, Whipping Boy, MK13 Virgininclude Recordscontributions director from of Wozencroll. personnel develop and change. If there really is a hetter way of Radio One's controller Matthew Tuesday:- Sleeper, Metropolitan Shed 7,60ft University Dolls -T&C and opérations Jill Berry and Poly- Butdoing as it, the let's radio hear industry it. has discovered, somelimes the sessionsBannisterwiU with akick speech offthe on In Monday, Discussion fol- Garbage, Placebo - Metropolitan LocalGram bands'personnel démos officer will Melanie be assessed Hicks at cure can be worse than the disease. lowed over the next three days by inter- Wed; TheT&C Cardigans. Northern Uproar- a demo jury by GHQ/Arista's Martyn Weddingviews by Peel.Present's His guestsDave Gedge,will be The Ash, Scarfo - Metropolitan Watson,and Chrysalis Anxious Records' Records' Dave Diane Wibberley. Young The only 'new' sound of the Fast Show producer Charlie Higson and Tburs; -T&CPrésidents Of The USA, Audioweb The live programme, backed by the How long is it since you heard a record which really MarkFall member Riley, whoformer now plugger co-presents and Mark The Dodgy, Dubstar - Metropolitan Union,BPI, Radio is proving One andsuccessful the Musicians' with four Justsounded about like everyone nolhing who you'd has ever been heard in my before? office this Radcliffe's Radio One show. Head of pro- Friday: Orbital, Wedding Présent Bis - gigs already sold out. More than 150 weekhasdone just that they've been subjected to the ductduction a further Trevor interview Dann is expected on Friday. to con- Radio One, following controversy ove bandsThe arelive now fringe in Leeds. has been expanded Photek test This involves having Photek's new single Describing Sound City as the "Proms recordsthe station's by Status décision Quo and not The to Beatlesplaylis localsince bandslast yeaFs playing event at in four Bristol city with centre 92 ItKJZ s hard (out toin describeMay) played the music,to them and at high it does volume. polarise station'sof Radio One'sown sessionsyear", Bannister are designed says the to The sessions, at Leeds' West York venues. To bring increased A&R focus people. Your neighbours almost certainly wouldn't like idd to the debate aboutto Radiomusic One.and give shire Playhouse, are scheduled alonj soldon the for event,£20, allowing an "A&R the pass" holder is accessbeing fallingit. Commenta into a drumvary from kit". The'avant-jungle' track is uncompromising. to 'like someone It l oppor- to ail performances by unsigned bands. takescranked music up loud into itplaces hits you you right didn't in theknow guts. existed. And newIfs a breedreminderthat of guitar despite bands overthethe hoo-haa pastfew over years,the UK's the Rajarcallshaltonits onlyNineties genuinely has been new drum musical and bass.form to emergeSteve here Redmond in the new survey System troversialRajar has bowednew survey to industry method. pressure by dropping its con- PAULS QUIRKS thatThe it radiowill return research to itsorganisation original System announced from Aprillast week but willOctobcr develop 1998. aHowevcr, new style the of décision diary for will introduction have no effect in TheWho volatility would of the be current a buyer? singles chart has increased on the second quarter figures which will be based on the, the pressure on singles buyers in stores throughout the innow June. rejectcd, new System. They are due to be announced over-hypedcountry. One-hit pop groups wonders, ail unknowncombine to dance make acts a buyers and wasRtgar not executivetaken lightly, director but dismisses Roger Gane concerns says the about décision the life difficult and sometimes nigh on impassible. If you the1996 increasing first quarter number figures. of stations,Introduced the to new help System deal withapp- add to this scénario the fact that some of the telesales eared to under-represent "light" listening. Although a Ulauncfied In n al new,llr purpose-builtr ni recordingr [f n complex lf |- last week. The recipestaff are for young disaster. and inexperienced then you have a forprocédure the 1995 to fourth upwcight quarter such figures deficiencies - which was were introduced announ- facility, which has been funded through sponsorship from Album buyers for independent stores, on the other hand, theced reliabilitya fortnight of ago the -figures radio stationsproduced. raised The newdoubts sampling about companies including audio desk manufacture rs Soundtrac, face différent problems and often have to commit System replaced the existing blank survey diaries and partPeavey of the Electronics BA Honours and course Larking in Audio, commercial has been music. established Pictured as are thousandshearing a note of pounds of music to buyingor seeing one a albumreview. without In many requiredAtlantic samplc station members manager to useand pre-printed programme labels. director (from back) Soundtracs managing director Todd Wells, Norton cases the only discount deals available on these new happyHenry atOwens the décision. says he is disappointed at the U-turn but is YorkeRock School - the man - and behind Larking the Audiocourse managing and the founder director of Don Brighton's Larking. albumreleases buyers are offered are gifted, during but the few pre-sell can claim period. more Many than a handful of successes when it cornes to spotting ma jor Pulp and Radiohead share Harp LP launches bynew established artists like artists Alanis when Morissette ail you or have absolute got to turkeys go on is Holmes TV label a page of the company's sales and marketing notes. star billing atT In The Park aGut TV Records' marketing Guy labelHolmes in ispartnership launching Thiswith isdiscounts the way onlyit has being always offered beendoneinour on the pre-sell business and no Radiohead and Pulp will headline this director Stuart Clumpas. with former Dino Records director Don deal on repeat orders after the album has hit the streets. year'stival which third Ttakes In The place Park in weekend Strathclyde fes- ingDF up Concerts with promoters and MCD SJM are also Concerts team- • —TRe^êw"International, company,will release Focus its Music own thatl've alwaysdealers thought who order that a this reasonable was totaliy quantity unrealistic of a major and this July. and Metropolis Music for three summer albums as well as working with other album on pre-sell should have an option to place a on Withlast year,capacity more increased than 60,000 by one-fifth people concertsSupergrass featuring in ChelmsfordPulp, Cast and Reedman.labels on TV album concepts, says second order at the same discount when the album is motedare expected by DF to Concerts attend the and event, MCD, co-pro- over Warrington,the town's Victoria The Warrington Park on August show, 18at "The TV marketing business has released.placed in twoThis différantnot only spreadsmonths butthe also cost lets if the the orders dealer are the two days of July 13-14. The line-up will be preceded by two concerts planned says.changed "Now in thethe majors, past 18 who months," have most he hear the finished album and gauge public reaction. alsoFrank includes Black TheCast, Amps, The BareBluetones, Naked forThe Hylands shows Park, are the Chelmsford, latest addition in Essex. to a of the prime repertoire are keeping it One lasl thought if companies still feel the need to set Ladies, Bis, Octopus and Geneva, with busy outdoor concert season this sum- nichefor themselves. for companies Guy and creating I feel thereconcepts is a sales targets then surely it makes sense to persuade Radmhead playmg on Saturday (13) mer;lf,8t weekThe Meanann uFiddler Organization and working with those companies." dealers to take 20 différent albums ralher than 20 of just fiOOOcannrit! Tw een show at L ° nced a Paul WeUer The first release on the Focus label is one album. Some record company sales departments addedZw t uVf f ™don's Finsbury Park on turesthe concept electric nlbum harp playerHarpbeat, Rupert which Parker fea- I returnsshould readand buildthat again it into slowly, their future think sales about strategy. the long-term ScottmhflavoupMysSeol tlh fl help DF remforce managing its JuneMadness 9, in shows addition at theto its nark Sex in Pistols June. and and will be TV-advertised this week. Paul Quirk's colunin is a personal view ► ► ► ► WILL THE STRINGS HANG GINA G? - p6 ► ► ► ► 4 MUSIC WEEK 6 APRIUggg The buoyancy o( Iho British music sccne is NEWSFILE refloctod in the ncw Roebok TV ad campaign JP Kennedy duo in spin-off practice whomwhich arefaatures from the21 calebrilies, record business. a quarter In the of ad, Richard Bray and George Babbington, of John Sheffield Wednesday fan and Pulp singer Kennedy'sBabbington JP And Kennedy Bray Solicitors, praclice, arefollowing establishing the Jarvisother musiciens Cocker (piclured) and singers, lines including up wilh sériés former of departure of Kennedy to become the new PolyGram UK Take That star Robbie Williams and Dave chairman. Bray says he will take his existing clients Stewart, te proclaim their passion for football andincluding the Chemical MCA, M Brothers People, Nigelto the Martin-Smith,new firm, The newSleeper spokesmanend Manchester for the Unitod's ad agency, Ryan Lowe Giggs. Howard- A practice, which will also include Babbinglon's long- Spink, says the décision te use musicians term client Van Morrison in its roster, will launch Markbefore Krais Kennedy will alsoleaves be onjoinîng June the1. JP new Kennedy partnership. solicitor HMV is médiamoving its buying £7m média goesto buying business BMP from CIA Virgin chain expands to BMP DDB aftera four-way phchforthe account McCann.between theBMP two joint companies. média director TMD andDerek Universal Morris says planning,BMP DDP, will which take will over provide the account média inbuying June. and to take Our Price sites TheOasis légal légal battle betweenbattle Oasismoves and atheirformer step doser by Martin Talbot Our Price outlets in the I 200around Our 160 Price Virgin outlets. stores The and chain around cur- drummer, Tony McCarroll, moved a step doser last expansionVirgin Retail in itsis launchinghistory over the the biggest next rently has 48 Virgin stores and 270 Our week (25) when a preliminary hearing confirmed a full month, in a move which will see the Our - mark PriceMcGinley stores. says that the consolidation ishearing owed toa fifth take of place ail royalties after May from 13. record McCarroll sales says after he PricePlans chain to scaledopen down.more than 30 new for the ofPrice Virgin stores Our adoptPrice hasEpos seen in-store ail the Ourand leaving the group in April last year. 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Tring's will reworkedbe relaunched on thanTring International. And, April 10 and include newly- often than not, it is the Drumslicensed From titles The such Caribbean as Steel sindustry-ratherthan-which holds a low Islands, The Art Of Boogie- opinion of the Buckinghamshire- WoogieSymphonie Piano Rolling and TheStones. basedIt is company'sundeniable activities. that such New releases of between 10 titudes are changing. The andbetween 20 a monthnew super-budget will also be splitlabel copyrightcompany survivedinfringement the slew légal of QED and Aardvark, which will be wrangles which beleaguered it artistlaunched packages in May by with the singlelikes of in theofthe early most Nineties successful to launch Slim Whitman - who tours the public flotations of 1994. releasesUK in May by - The as well Suprêmes as new and with"The the City litigation," never had says a problemone T two volumes of Beatles tracks stockbroker. 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As well as when the title demands it" November after working in carry a £4.99 retail price, is a expecl profits to fall from £5.8m budgetplanning labels, at least Tring two is new also Frey,FoIIowing who remains the departure a non- of catalogue marketing at BMG, factor in Tring's strategy to build 1994/5 to £3m in the current venluring eut of its £2.99-£3.99 executive director, Joe Bollam Sony"l'd and, always latterly, felt thatTelstar. the Tring its business through traditional year, which ends in March." stronghold into mid-price marketingmusic outlets. of low-price Having pioneered music fundMeanwhile, the Royal PhilharmonieTring's deal to territory,Chief executive with price Phil tags Robinson ol£4.99. chairman. Bollam is also surgery," says Simmonds, who through petrol chains, Orchestra over a sériés of 100 stresses that the company is enairmanFirst Leisure. ot entertamment Meanwhile group claims, "l'm happy to announce releases has gained the reacting to the maturing Bernard Blann has been theget toopération grips with was the a success."400-title To supermarkets, Robinson says, companycircles, while plaudits the signingin classical of demands of the budget market recruited as head of the Tring catalogue he listened to every traditional"We wanl tobusiness maintain but that increase non- Classic CD a ward-nominated shareholdersrather than any in pressurethe wake from of the Video offshoot and Max Brown Irack on every title, a task which the traditional side. You can pianist Ronan O'Hora has further public float. specialislhas joined Mindscapefrom interactive to oversee took months. "This was the only expect announcements of more boosted the company's standing. "The market has altered new CD-Rom division Ergo stayway andI could what décidé had to what go," could he traditional retail deals this year." partnerRecent Mark news Frey that has long-term opted oui dramalically since we launched Software, which has a £9.99 adds. "Many of our CDs had, say, majorLarge-scale traditional acceptance retail players by the i of the company to pursue his havein 1989 to and,reflectthat," to remain he on says. top, we ; point for titles such as The 28 tracks, and eight of those just one ofthe keys to Tring's interests in the US has combined "Consumers expect higher A Multimedia Expérience and downwould we be fillers.could produce By paring a them future success. As the City overhaulexecutive of the company's reshuffle, an quality from their budget Space S h utile. quality, 20-track product" ouistockbroker on the changes says, "The at Tring. jury isIt catalogue, and the launch of an termsproduct of theseprésentation days, both and in The most comprehensive As a resuit 150 titles have will ho a while before we see division to give the content. They are also Tringchanges by Leehave Simmonds, been rung who inside 250been have deleted been and remastered. the remaining de- the benefits of the management [impression of a company putting prepared to pay a little bit more joined the company last noised and declicked, while restructuring,—Tofwait and so see." our attitude is 1 32 MUSIC WEEK 6 APRIL 1996 Ve"HE combine PAN PIPES the ever-popular COLLECTION pan pipes AREGGAE host of quintessential UP! 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CHAS DE WHALLEY REPORTS ITATf iMidPrice 1 hen EMI launched Collection its Mhoping ■ toB steal campaign a march in August,on its © wouldarena, endUtile the did year it realise with a that it fivestranglehold best sellers. on the sector's top A emergeNot only as the did number Blur's Leisure one mid-pricealbum, with sales more to itsthan crédit, 75,000 but poweredRadiohead's in at Pablo number Honey three and Thunder'swould bave Behind scooped Closed fourth Doors place, mid-pricehad it not cassettebeen thwarted version by of the The releaseCharlatans of the otherwise self-titled full- The price InsteadCharlatans Thunder on Beggars settled Banquet. at 4 PolyGram numberremarkable five, performance, but overaU it and was in a hijackeddoing so EMIthe mid-price somewhat name. cheekily andcombination effective ofcommunication careful planning supportcoupled withand the excellent right product," trade marketingsays EMI director John Hazell. of trade albums in the the Top 10 byof one two globallyIn the case from of aBon price Jovi réduction. we knew "AU our research into a 111 have to look a ; with which the PolyGrara'sact, Bon Jovi, carefully proved thatconsidered hitsthat collectiona new album would and stir a greatest interest m thees UlCs charts total to find once dismissedv regard as a what moribund was toapproach pay dividends, to repertoire continued in the band's back catalogue, so ecided to go for it and us theBlur's mid-price Leisure champions clawed to of a 1995. high recordand mediocre market. sector of the UK performance"We keep a of close our fulleye priceon the Radioheadof 282, with not Chapman so far behind at 291 at and market'sPolyGram traditional is the mid-price leader and catalogue,"Stewart, PolyGram explains headNick of group mid-priDespite BPI figures which 312.units, Each exceeding sold more the than12 month 60,000 withfinished a healthy in front 19.4%, again Althoughin 1995 marketing.March 1 and Twice September a year, 1, on we by member companies shrank in sales of the latest albums by hit décidé which titles would benefit overall1995 by UK 1.5 market,%to 12.6 major %of labelthe ninatedce charts, the helping top of securethe mid- the EMI: ON THE GOLD RUN increase.drives into the sector were on the ' a strong 14% of 1995' High calibre artists are the most Meanwhile PR company Beer soughtBMG to was make another a new which assault on such was th importantnew EMI Gold selling label point launched of EMI's in Davies will be sustaining a the High Street with its Stop! 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2SO YORK ROAD, B ATT ERSE A, LONDON SW1 1 3SJ FOR CD • CD ROM • VIDEO CD • CASSETTES • /INYL, TEL. 01 71-924 1661, FAX 0171-924 2147 1333, FAX Ol 71 -924 2148. DOOLEY'S DIARY Bemeniber where you heard it: A reverential crowd turned out for the April 21, with Sharp End Promotions pjjyjV/Nordoff Robbins football directors Ron McCreight and Robert Lemon both turning out in dinnex- at the Grosvenor last aid of Nordoff Robbins (pledges Thursday, where execs fawned over please on 0171-439 8442). The pair legends such as Jimmy Greaves, have apparently eut down their John Charles, Johnny Haynes, smoking and only light up now after Liam Bx-ady and Stan Bowles. It eating - they're down to 30 meals a turned out to he the biggest Nordoff day...And another "Good work fella," Robbins event to date, with more to MCA director of press Ted than 900 people turning up. There Cummings who runs in aid of the was plenty of cash flowing at the Philip Hall Mémorial Trust for event, which raised £50,000 for the What's this? The Virgin recruitment early start programme? Cancer Research and has lost half a music therapy charity. Among those theNah, label's dummy, boy it's wonder Newton Ashley, Jnr, the putting eight-year-old in some work offspring on her of. stone in training. Pledge dosh by fax who walked away from the raffle with Easter project (well, that's what she probably told her teach- on 0171-957 8566...Keep your eye signed footballs under their arms ers anyway) schmoozing backstage at Lenny Kravitz's open for Epic's Julie Bland and were Columbia MD Kip Krones and WembleyCooper, Ken Arena Berry, gig Ashley, a few weeksHarley, ago. Lenny From and left, Paul Virgin's Conroy. Ray Vbx's Johnny Dee who are due to MWs very own Andrew Brain (who Awards at London's Forum thanks to make an appearance on This some spanking live performances by Moraing later this month after being the likes of Baby D and Shiva...More cajoled into giving an impromptu célébrations followed the showing of nosh review during a schmoozy the Brits Uncut show on Monday. It lunch at London's Mezzo ...The four i' lÉ'y# S may not have been shown in staff at ZYX have been swamped by r Yorkshire and Granada, but it the success of DJ Dado's X-Files, H 1 attracted almost lin viewers in which stormed into the charts on London alone, according to initial Sunday. Because the label handles 1 estimâtes...Not surprising then that ail distribution for its German w Brits chairman Paul Burger got an parent, it has fallen to sales manager Jimmy Greaves demonstrates the way tackles used to be per- enthusiastic vote of approval at the Jon Richards and his team to race formed before those nancy boys at the RFA stamped out over- BPI Council meeting on Wednesday... round the shops filling the massive . ~ thethe-top receiving infringements. end at the Ex-Rolling first annual Stone Football Bill Wyman Extravaganza was on As its deal with PolyGram ran out orders against the clock. "It's gone staged by Nordotf Robbins and HMV as part of the retailer's yesterday (Sunday), the question is berserk," says a harried Richards.... 75th anniversary this year. From left, HMV's Brian whether Go! will live up to its name... StuartMclaughlin, McAllister Nordoff allow Robbins' play to go Audrey on. Ballour and HMV's Belated congratulations to the Bee is offerinig his signed Aston Villa Gees and BMG Music Publishing bail to the highest bidder, with ail who, thanks to Take That's - now proceeds to Nordoff Robbins - offers deposed — number one version of How tofax; 0171.792 1 5927, please) while Deep Is Your Love, have scored Sue McLaughlin, wife of HMV MD number one songs in each of the last Brian, picked up a signed Wimbledon four décades...Not everyone is keen to FC shirt for their son James. Highest have the Sex Pistols visit their bid in the auction was for an shores apparently. Both South executive box at one of Manchester Africa and Greece have said no to United's games next season, which ITG's John Giddings. One Greek was scooped for £3,800. And congrats promoter even snapped off a letter to Paul Conroy for his £2,900 steal: requesting no advances be made to an executive box hosted by Frank other promoters because of the fear A&Mof the isLook hoping Of Love for similar compilation things produced with a Best by Of PolyGram Burt compila- TV. Skinner for a West Brom game next of riots "which shall be tion which is outtoday (Monday). Let's hope it makes him as season...On the same evening, a top inévitable"...Seems there will be an happy as the success of his horse, Sout Of The Matter, which night was had by ail at the unprecedented music biz turn-out in comfortabletrotted in second 25-1. inBurt last is week's pictured Dubai right World with Nick Cup Stewart,race at a International Dance Music this year's London Marathon on head of PolyGram group catalogue marketing.

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