o traditional way. And Ozzy Osbourne put some humor, in w hat- Overview 1982 ever taste, into the creaking heavy metal scene. H But if you heard much about the old guard over the ye r, it Continued from page TIA -8 was about splits and suits. Rod Stewart, Meat Loaf, Air Sup- Stones, Chicago, Rush, Loverboy, Kenny Loggins, etc., had ply, Kiss, Barry Manilow, Styx and AC /DC all split from t heir managers, their share of hits and, in fact, dominated the airways and amicably or not, while the Eagles and the Do(Do charts. But they had to make room for some newcomers, Brothers just split up. some playing new, and some playing not so new music. Also calling it quits, sort of, was the Who, whose "fir"fi Notable among the groundbreakers were the technicians series of concerts was this year's megatour, rivaling the Roll- and the women. In 1982, the English technopop bands finally ing Stones, who took their own show to Europe. It was also the broke most commercial -as in advertisement. Sponsored by Sc hlitz through, notably the Human League, A Flock Of Sea - Beer, the tour has resulted in guls and Soft Cell. Playing (mostly) diluted r &b through their product identification betw een banks of synthesizers and computers, these bands managed group and product just short of actual endorsement. That no doubt, is the next step. to be commercial enough for the radio and to keep a beat steady enough for the clubs, thus offending no one. In other rock news: The US Festival attracted about a qiuar- Their success has not been overlooked by record com- of a million fans. It still lost money, but computer v hiz panies and the onslaught has already begun of such new and Steve Wozniak wants to do it again. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young older English bands as ABC, Culture Club, Spandau Ballet, both signed to Geffen Records, but Yoko Ono left tc go Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Ultravox, Associates, Depeche Mode, to PolyGram. The Plasmatics finally got signed to a resp ect- Yaz, Shakatak, and others. able record company (Capitol), while Stiff Records all but stiffed. The Jam broke On the more human side, 1982 was also a breakthrough up. R.I.P.: year for female or female -led acts, especially for the Go -Go's Murray the K, Alex Harvey, John Belushi, Le! >ter and Joan Jett, who Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band laughs it up with WOR -AM Bangs, James Honeyman Scott. finally laid to rest any doubts about New ROMAN KO; AK whether the girls could play rock'n'roll York TV personality Joe Franklin. Joining in the fun as hard as the boys. In are two Rock Ed itor fact, there has never seemed to be so many female voices, "Centerfold" contenders. with such a diverse group of artists as Laurie Anderson, Miss- ing Persons, Toni Basil, Laura Branigan, Vanity 6, the Motels, homes across the U.S. with its promotional videoclips. It has X, Romeo Void, Bow Wow Wow and the Waitresses discovering shown via sales and requests that there is a desire for new and broadening their audiences. Coming over the horizon are music in the American heartland, especially when it is well Disco/Dance '82 the Camaros, Girlschool, Bananarama, the Flirts, Catholic presented. And here new wave had an advantage, inasmuch Sirls, Bangles, Helen Schneider, the Triplets, Jail Bait, Vice as it has always been more visually oriented and its concept Oh, so disco's dead, right? Well, believe that not only h ave Squad, and no doubt more. videos, however, pretentious, always tend to look better egg but the whole flaming henhouse on your faces. But men have been working too, especially Men At Work, made, more stylish and sexier than cliche shots of old hippie Try Chas Janke!, A Flock of Seagulls, Haircut One Hundr ed, Nho came out of nowhere -well, Australia actually -to hit the guitar heroes. the Clash, the Go -Go's, Prince, Thompson Twins, Hunian top of the U.S. singles and album charts. Men At Work were KROQ -FM Los Angeles was the big surprise in rock radio. League, Afrika Bombataa and the Soul Sonic Force, Soft C ell, the most successful of what has become a mini Australian in- Starting out with almost no rating at all, but playing the best David Bowie, Tom Tom Club, Billy Idol, Yaz, . . . asion with U.S. audiences subjected to such Australian acts of new wave and new music in tight top 40 rotation, KROQ in But that's not disco, it's new music. That guy on TV told me as Split Enz, Icehouse, Cold Chisel, Heaven, Mental As Any- the last year has become the top rock station in the market, so. thing, Rose Tattoo, and of course, Rick Springfield, who has spawning imitators whose success or failure this year will af- Okay, then try the Time, Rick James, Imagination, C 3ap parlayed a TV soap opera career with a modest talent for fect the future of new music for a while to come. Band, Dazz Band, Patrice Rushen, Evelyn King.. . 'ock'n'roll into teen stardom. But don't count the old guard out. Significantly, Asia and But that's funk. It's hip to be into funk now. All the rm. sic On the more serious side, the Clash finally have a gold al- Survivor were new groups, although Asia is a group formed papers say so. Besides, I mean, I still play "The Heat Is On' to bum and top 10 album in the U.S. with "Combat Rock." They from the remnants of various defunct supergroups, while Sur- death. That can't be disco, it has too much guitar. Doesn't i t? led a small but hardy group of uncompromising rockers who vivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" is an artful amalgamation of aging Be that way. But try Laura Branigan, Cheri, Larry Elgart nd scored notable breakthroughs during the year. Others were arena rock cliches. His Manhattan Swing Orchestra. . . the Stray Cats, the Blasters, Squeeze and Marshall Crenshaw. Nevertheless, both Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel made 1982 was the year that Jermaine Jackson teamed up a ith As it was noted in the New Music Seminar held in New York their most mature, if not best, LPs during the year. J. Geils Devo. 1982 was the year when it seemed everyone and his in July, new wave has become the mainstream." And noth- finally had its long- deserved mass breakthrough. Fleetwood mother were doing 12- inches of that, extended versions of ng contributed to that happening so much as MTV and Mac and Steve Miller both bounced back after disappointing that, you know, all that disco stuff. KROQ. MTV, for all its shortcomings, now reaches six million albums. After four albums, John Cougar finally made it the Yeah, but... (Continued on page TIA 46)

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