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$5.50 (U.S.), $6.50 (CAN.), £4.50 (U.K.) Seal Album IB?WCCVR ******** 3 -DIGIT 908 000 GGEE4EM740M099074# 002 0659 BI MAR 2396 1 03 Takes Off MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE APT A LONG BEACH, CA 90807 -3402 On Wings Of `Batman' Soundtrack SEE PAGE 8 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSäC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT JULY 15, 1995 ADVERTISEMENTS h 'TO DESERVE YOU" BROADWAY L 5 R(.DUI.ID 3Y ARIF MARDIN HONKY-TONK BEAT: NASHVILLE'S LOWER wild. Tootsie's Back Room On Front Burner Dial BR5 -49 For Alternative Country BY CHET FLIPPO Tootsie's, and in turn, Lower Broad- BY JIM BESSMAN City. way. People still talk about the night Every week, Wednesdays through NASHVILLE -The joint is jumping, that Marianne Faithfull showed up to NASHVILLE -They're doing what Saturdays, from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. and the room is packed. The Back Room duet with Garing on Hank Williams' countless guitar- toting dreamers with no breaks, the quintet -garbed at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge is vibrat- "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Gar- have been doing in thrift store ing to a strange new sound that was ing started playing Tootsie's Back since the glory Western outfits actually last heard in this room some Room around the same time last sum- days of the old and named after Ryman Auditori- the consistently um: playing pure, flubbed phone hardcore country number in the music for tips at late "Hee Haw" one of the de- great Junior crepit bars bor- Samples' comic dering the for- car -salesman CARROLL GARING mer home of the routine -packs a Grand Ole Opry capacity crowd 40 years ago. Welcome to honky-tonk mer that the same sort of phenome- in Nashville's BR5-49 of 200 wildly ec- beat, the subculture that has led the non was going on night after night Bowery-Lower static fans into way in Nashville's burgeoning Lower with BR5 -49 three doors down at Broadway. (Continued on page 89) Broadway scene downtown. History Robert's Western World (see story, Except that the Ryman's been re- hangs heavy in this joint, and Toot- this page). stored, the tip jar's full, and so is sie's legend is a big reason for this A new scene has developed on its Robert's Western World, home of Beenie `Blessed' scene. own in Music City, away from the BR5 -49, a band that has single - Holding court are singer Greg Gar- usual alternative music venues, away handedly transformed Lower Broad- With Island Debut ing and his band, who have revitalized (Continued on page 88) way into the hippest place in Music BY ELENA OUMANO Finds Brayed in a hoarse, boombox voice, Maverick God Save The Queen: U.K.'s "God Kno- o -o -w!" can mean only one in Top reggae rapper Smooth Going For thing Jamaica: Christian Music To Dance To Morissette's `Pill' BY TONY CUMMINGS with dance artists like the World BY CARRIE BORZILLO Wide Message Tribe, 65dBA, and the LONDON -The sacred and the sec- Wades coming from the U.K.'s small LOS ANGELES -While many new ular are standing together before the but growing contemporary Christian female singer/songwriters offer frank musical altar here, music scene, while BEENIE MAN tales of love, sex, and betrayal, Alanis as gospel and dance Christian artists music tie the knot such as Eternal, Beenie Man is in the house. to produce one of Nu Colours, and Beenie is making a strong bid for the the most unlikely TRUCE are re- North American audience with his Is- musical fusions. cording dance mu- land/Jamaica debut, "Blessed," a col - The sanctified sic with specifical- (Continued on page 97) SEEKERS dance scene has ly gospel lyrics for thrown up a clutch mainstream com- ,FEATURING of new dance artists, panies. It's a scene ALBUM II SORES . ULY 11 MORISSETTE underground club that crosses all the ON TC1JR WITH LIVE STARTING JULY 21 hits, and, with artists like Spirits and dance subgenres: house, techno, Morissette's U.S. debut, "Jagged the massively successful Eternal, R &B, hip -hop, rave, and even jungle, ( MANAGEMENT To lo -ns1Cn Mgmt. Little Pill" (Music To My Ears, Bill- even occasional mainstream pop. as Christians increasingly perceive ON EASTWEST RECORD AMERICA COMPACT DISCS & ®7' =v CASSEIiEI SPOTLIGHT board, May 13), goes far beyond The movement has a dual thrust, (Continued on page 86) TIRE BILLBOARD (Continued on page 16) SEE PAGE 45 IN THE NEWS Not all soundtracks are created equal Dept. Justice Drops r- ;Lr,tritT,r,r, rrrnrrrrr,rrf rrrr,,rr (,Ï !!r( ,rre<rrr rrr'avrrrr ;:rr; r_:.I=nh S3311W` ( .1 dOd ONI>IOWS Ticketmaster Probe r HOII SEE PAGE 3 1. h JlM013A 31118OS T1Ir S3NO1SS08 A1H9I14 AlHhIW SA 18 3I1SV38 2 8> NOS>l)Vr Sf10DSfl1 HOIaVN SselGnlQ SMOH) ONIIJNIflI HOM a3>pVsl )tsnw Awau uianiea} gT ,cinf saaois ve.upunoS uouoW o 09281 025 52 8 tq pampoid Aunqw >he.upunoS ADVFRTITEMENT www.americanradiohistory.com THE SHOW MAY BE OVER, BUT THE APPLAUSE CONTINUES... 6(114;J -Kt 4ped Piz ittoim Now - 1111 A FOUR -CONTINENT SELL -OUT Si JOHANNESBURG & DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA SINGAPORE JAKARTA, INDONESIA BANGKOK, THAILAND PERTH, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE & SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA SANTIAGO, CHILE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA LIMA, PERU CARACAS, VENEZUELA SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO HONG KONG FUKUOKA, TOKYO & YOKOHAMA, JAPAN TAIPEI, TAIWAN MANILA, PHILIPPINES °, CONGRATULATIONS, PHIL AND THANKS TO THE SPECIAL AUDIENCES (& CREW!) WHOSE ENTHUSIASM MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE. WARNER MUSIC wa3 INTERNATIONAL Management: Tony Smith, Hit & Run Music, Ltd. www.americanradiohistory.com No. I IN BILLBOARD ó: VOLUME 107 NO. 28 U.S. Drops Probe Of Ticketing Business THE BILLBOARD 200 Dept. No I Finds HISTORY: Fault; Ticketmaster PAST, PRESENT Justice Prevails * AND FUTURE BOOK 94 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC BY ERIC BOEHLERT like all high -profile Washington, D.C., insti- quiring disclosure of service fees on tickets, tutions, by necessity possesses a well -tuned as well as calling for a Federal Trade Com- CLASSICAL 35 NEW YORK-By ending its yearlong in- political antenna and that staffers may have mission inquiry into the ticketing business, * CHANT BENEDICTINE MONKS ANGEL vestigation into the ticketing business, the detected important shifts in the wind. Capitol Hill's silence on the ticketing issue U.S. Justice Department effectively named The first is that Pearl Jam, by canceling has been deafening. CLASSICAL CROSSOVER 35 Ticketmaster the winner in its highly con- and reinstating shows at a dizzying speed "If Democrats were still in [control], I * PAVAROTTI & FRIENDS 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS LONDON tentious heavyweight bout with Pearl Jam. last month, coupled with talk of lead singer have no doubt something would have hap- Few should be surprised that even after the Eddie Vedder's health woes, simply became pened on the Hill to [prod] the Justice De- final bell rang, supporters in both corners an unattractive and unreliable vehicle for partment," says an industry veteran. T COUNTRY 31 * THE HITS GARTH BROOKS CAPITOL NASHVILLE were still fighting it out. the Justice Department to rally around. According to those in contact with de- O "It makes Ticketmaster stronger to have (Last summer band members were stars of partment investigators, following a winter- P weathered this storm," says one concert ex- a congressional hearing on the ticketing in- time lull, the Ticketmaster probe regained HEATSEEKERS 18 * FROGSTOMP SILVERCHAIR EPIC ecutive. "I think it's a damn shame," coun- dustry.) momentum this spring when a new batch of ters another. "It's not a level playing field, A second force possibly at work was the interviews were ordered with artist man- A JAZZ and the hope was Justice would make it Republican landslide last November. Capi- agers, box -office bosses, and ticketing exec- * THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY 36 one." tol observers suggest it wasn't so much that utives. The information gathered- focusing B SOUNDTRACK MALPASO One thing is for sure: The battle royal will newly empowered conservative legislators on contracts and the economics of service not soon be forgotten. By pitting the world's were fiercely in Ticketmaster's corner. fees -was brought back and presented to U JAZZ / CONTEMPORARY 36 hottest rock band -Pearl Jam -against the Rather, ever since last fall, when Rep. John senior Justice Department officials. They M * BREATHLESS KENNY G ARISTA concert circuit's most entrenched player - Dingell, D- Mich., introduced legislation re- (Continued on page 97) Ticketmaster-the music industry enjoyed S ringside seats to an unusually public and POP CATALOG 64 * LEGEND BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS TUFF GONG freewheeling business dispute (Billboard, July 8). R &B According to Attorney General Janet Warner Answers Morris Suit, * HISTORY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE BOOK I 23 Reno, the Justice Department's announce- MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC ment, which had been expected for weeks, was driven by the fact that new businesses THEHOT100 92 were entering the marketplace. That, she Cites Atlantic CD Scandal * WATERFALLS RC LAFACE says, convinced Justice officials "this was BY DON JEFFREY 5, 1994. The compensation package includ- not an appropriate time to bring a case." ed a $5.5 million signing bonus, a guaran- ADULT CONTEMPORARY 83 "Just because someone develops soft- NEW YORK- Warner Music Group plans teed annual salary and bonus of nearly $5 * I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU THE REMBRANDTS EASTWEST ware and technology capabilities ... does to file a countersuit against fired executive million, stock options, a deferred- compen- not mean competition in an industry is pos- Doug Morris, charging that he was dis- sation package, and such perks as a per- COUNTRY sible," says Ray Garman, president of Fill - missed because he was co-chairman of At- sonal chauffeur and use of a company jet.

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