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$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) á a IN MUSIC NEWS Ñ 3 W $BXNCCVR ** * * * ** 3 -DIGIT 908 2 1190807GEE374EM00211 BLBD 579 001 032198 2 126 1234 3740 ELMEAVEYAPT A LONG BEACH CA 90807 10,000 Maniacs Are Back With A Geffen CD H ® PAGE 1 3 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT MAY 10, 1997 ADVERTISEMENT IFPI Stats Show Top Jazz Talents Road, TV Key In Virgin Celebrate Monk Top 10 Markets Plan For Winwood's `7' On N 2 K Album Were Flat In '96 BY MELINDA NEWMAN Worldwide. "With all the shows he's BY CHRIS MORRIS doing, whether they be clubs or fes- BY ADAM WHITE NEW YORK-Steve Winwood will tivals, what we really wanted to put LOS ANGELES -Jazz bassist Ron be creating a lot of traffic on the road together on a worldwide basis was a LONDON- Authoritative new figures the new album Carter, who performed briefly with in coming months to plan for people to see published April 29 by the Internation- featuring "Song 2" pianist /composer support "Junction 7," Steve live." al Federation of the Thelonious Monk his first solo release And in cases where Phonographic in 1962, says there since 1990's "Refugees people can't get out to Industry (IFPI) are abiding reasons Of The Heart." The see Winwood, Virgin confirm that, cumu- why Monk's works album will be released hopes to bring him to - latively, the world's remain a corner- June 2 by Virgin them via a slew of TV 10 largest music stone of the jazz Records worldwide, appearances. 1 1 markets did not repertoire nearly except for the U.S., "We feel like we grow in 1996. 80 years after his where it will come out really kicked off the The results can T.S. MONK birth. June 3. album campaign, per- also be seen as the "His songs are "In terms of our formance -wise, with "official" start of a period -perhaps to the library of jazz," Carter says. "His strategy, it's just a his appearance on last several years -in which global songs have the substance and the vital- matter of getting peo- WINW OOD `VH1 Honors' in April," competition between the major record ity and the trueness to have passed ple out to see him, says Berry. He's also (Continued on page 74) through several stages of jazz and still because he's an amazing live per- scheduled to appear on "Late Show (Continued on page 82) former," says Nancy Berry, execu- With David Letterman" June 3 and tive VP of Virgin Music Group (Continued on page 79) Billboard Latin Anglo -Dutch Link Awards Honor Of Royalty Groups U.K. Acts Ready Release Vets, New Acts Sets EU Precedent Of Highly Anticipated Sets BY SANDRA SCHULMAN BY JEFF CLARK -MEADS MIAMI -The eighth annual Billboard "The most accomplis U.K.'s Kitchenware Hosts Capitol, Parlophone Are International Latin Music Conference record of their career. LONDON- Europe's authors' bodies culminated April 30 with the fourth Inrtay. Spin Prefab Sprout's Return Confident In Radiohead are forging a new pattern for business * * ** in the 21st century. BY PAUL SEXTON BY PAUL SEXTON Rolling Stone Not only are the mechanical royalty collection societies now putting the seal LONDON -It took Prefab Sprout LONDON -One of the U.K.'s most sin- reputa- modern rock bands is ready to J Buzz Bin 6 weeks more than a decade to build a gular tion as one of the U.K.'s most popular return with the album that Capitol and and counting! buma .kemra "Song 2" #1 most requeste song at Alternative radio. on a cease-fire ending their most bitter conflict, but a new Anglo -Dutch ¡IL SHAKIRA IGLESIAS Over 150,000 albums ship alliance is set to make unprecedented use of the European Union's single annual Latin Music Awards, which is presented kudos to new and estab- Sold -out American Tour market. This cross -border link the have to lished artists and gave special recog- first time two societies agreed PADDY McALOON OF PREFAB SPROUT RADIOHEAD act in concert and, if successful, is like- nition to community- minded members ly to be the precursor to a range of and cultured rock bands, culminating Parlophone executives feel "could of the Latin music industry. liaisons in the same mold. At first in the top 10 success of 1990's "Jordan: change the way records are marketed." Held at the historic Gusman The- 1997 EMI Records Ltd. instance, it should also create a power - The Comeback." Now its audience is at Such is the level of confident antici- atre here, the awards show was hosted (Continued on page 76) (Continued on page 83) (Continued on page 83) (Continued on page 74) N O L I M I T RECORDS ,ittirrIPttrrt SI'EAI)Y MOBil 'N emm7vl'm8rml ,,,,1; PRE-MEDITATED DRAMA SEE PAGE 33 ïll:tit's1it39i19:19f yai, tk,y x s0i,F',{5,ta 7'i141, ... 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BUGE MCA Its First Film Releases Due In Stores Next Month to copy BLUES 41 BY SETH GOLDSTEIN has been reached "in six to 12 weeks." Sondheim acknowledges, referring * UE TO LIE JONNY LANG ABM The Consumer Electronics Manufactur- protection and regional coding standards NEW YORK -DVD is catching on so quick- ers Assn. reports dealers took shipment of that are still being argued by the Hollywood CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN 42 ly among early adopters that PolyGram 35,621 machines through mid -April. Trade holdouts and the computer industry. More- * SHADES OF GRACE BOB CARLISLE DIADEM / BENSON Video president Bill Sondheim predicts the sources indicate consumers have bought over, he says, "I don't think we realized the software vendor will turn a profit on its nearly 50,000 discs, mostly Warner Home steepness of the learning curve" that had to COUNTRY 27 investment -including mastering, replica- Video -distributed titles. be climbed by PolyGram before he was con- * CARRYING YOUR LOVE WITH ME GEORGE STRAIT MCA T tion, and national distribution-by the end of Warner, the prime supplier, limited its fident of the quality of DVD output. O the year. DVD rollout to seven key markets and has PolyGram discs are being mastered, for GOSPEL 43 broaden $25,000- $50,000 per title, and replicated in P * THE PREACHER'S WIFE SOUNDTRACK ARISTA "We may be vastly underestimating made it clear it won't significantly demand out there," Sondheim says. its reach until some or all of the holdout stu- Germany, while Philips is adding a DVD line of Poly - Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal, to its CD facility in Kings Mountain, N.C. A HEATSEEKERS 16 More than 10,000 copies each dios- * SHADES OF GRACE BOB CARLISLE DIADEM / BENSON Gram's first releases, which include "Fargo," and Paramount --commit to the format. Nev- Sondheim admires Warner's approach - And A Funeral," "Dead ertheless, Sondheim thinks demand is push- "They're leading the charge" -but not its B KID AUDIO "Four Weddings 53 Man Walking," "Portrait Of A Lady," "The ing the Warner strategy toward imminent DVD packaging, the paper- and -plastic * THE SIMPSONS: SONGS IN THE KEY OF SPRINGFIELD Media U VARIOUS ARTISTS RHINO Usual Suspects," and "U2 Live From Syd- change. The decision to go national "will "snapper" box developed by Warner M in stores throughout the U.S. on come down shortly," he predicts. "It's a gut Services. He maintains that consumers ulti- THE BILLBOARD LATIN 50 ney," arrive 31 from $25 for feeling I have." mately will reject its "looks, feel, and [lack S * VMR ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FONOVISA June 24 at prices likely to range sell -through to $100 for rental. Last month, For all of Sondheim's enthusiasm, however, of] durability." Although Sondheim won't delivering sources wonder why PolyGram hasn't moved confirm a deal, Laserfile in Englewood, N.J., POP CATALOG 52 parent Philips Electronics began * GREASE SOUNDTRACK POLYDOR players carrying a suggested list of $549. even faster. One executive familiar with DVD is PolyGram's choice. Hardware and software are coming togeth- questions whether the company can stick to a Promotional copies of "Fargo" in the all - plastic Laserfile jewel box have been circu- R &B 22 er in a 7 -foot kiosk that PolyGram will have in schedule that has slipped on occasion. * SHARE MY WORLD MARY J. BUGE MCA stores this summer and fall. It holds a demo Philips and PolyGram "misread the sig- lated in advance of the formal announcement player, a 27-inch television set, a selection of nals about the settling of contentious issues," that Laserfile is being chosen.
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