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TINA TURNER PRIMITIVES ALL ABOUT IVI THI THI AND PASADENA$ LIVI THROUGH THI KIYHOLI WITH + NEWS, REVIEWS, Regir, tPRIMITJVES P8 CTOBER EDITOR Eleanor Levy PROOUCl'ION EDITOR Kevin REGULARS Murphy FEATURES EDITOR Tim Nicholson NEWS EDITOR Robin Smith OESICN Ian Middleton and 4 INDEX: The Primitives, Beloved, Terry Hall, Jim Steinman, the world according to Ja.n,c Phillips REVIEWS EDll'OR loltnny TSP Moore and a daft Tracy Chapman top 10 Dee BABBLE: More pop garbage with the Pop Detective CONTRIBUTORS Tony Beard. 12 J 8 Ben'ISlein. Phil 17 REVIEWS ChL-cseman. L)'SCUC Cohen. 0:urcn Crook. Tony f'arsidcs, Singles: Reviewed by Kevin Murphy Craig Ferguson. Muff Lives: Gloria Estefan, Jesus Jones, The The, The Pasadenas and KC Flightt Fil2g,crak1. Tooy Flcldlcr. (eSl~n George. Malu llal.isa. Albums: Liza Minnelli, The Wonder Stuff, Tracy Chapman, The River Detectives + James Hamilton. 1im Jeffery. Alan Jones. Vic Murshall. more Chris Mellor. TSP Moore. Vision On : Yahoo Serious interview Paul Scxtoo. Tim South¥o➔cu. Andy S1rickland. Lisa Tilst,on, 27 THIS WEEK: Your guide to the new releases, tours, what's on TV, new films, Chris Twomey. Geoff Zeppelin videos + much, much more EDITORIAL SF£RE1'ARY 32 LETTERS Melanie Wiffcn PUOTOGRAPHERS Eugene 33 DANCE: Adeva, Ce Ce Rogers and Ice T amongst others Adcba.ri. No,r:nan Andcn;oo. Viccori.a Bl.ad:ic. Benjamin 37 DJ DIRECTORY: Jammy Hammy and his scitterry jitterry humpy beat thangaround FrCfl(h. John lnglede"'·· Susan 40 THE RECORD MIRROR CLUB CHART ' . Moore. Barry Plummer. Joe Shuner. Martyn Strickland .. 41 X-WORD Sieve Wright DISPLAY & CLASSlflP.D 42 CHARTFILE: More vital statistics with Alan Jones AllVERTISMENT MANAC f.R 43 CHARTS: us 45s, us LPs, us Black 45s, Musie Carole N<>r"cll-Read SENIOR ADVERTISMEIIT Video, lndie 45s, lndie LPs · REPRESENTATIVE Trocoy THIS WEEK'S CHART: Analysed by Alan Jones Rogc~ 46 AD PRODUCTION 47 THE GALLUP CHART MANAGER Tony Dixon CROUP ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Grah>m Bond PUBLISHER Lynn Ked<lie FEATURES l'UBUSHER'S SECRETARY Shelky Sp:nrer MANAGL'1G DIREC'fOR Mikt Shannan. Published weekly by Puncb PublicalioRS. ludgaic House. 16 TINA TURNER: 50 years old and still 'The Best' 245 Blactfriars Road. London 22 ALL ABOUT EVE: Ex-gypsies on the road to their SEI 9UZ. Tclcpl,one: 01·921 ,900. souls fax: 01-928 2834. ISSN 09~082J T)1)CSC t by Pb°"' 24 GLORIA ESTEFAN: At home with the "clean" Communicali(lfl:; nnd prin1ed Madonna by r-kne Ri\'Cf Press Ud. Ptteroorough. Colour by CK Litho. 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At the time, the Beloved was a group with a healthy New Order fetish, but 'Forever Dancing' was a dramatic departure that received critical acclaim as well •t as being featured In the film 'Sammie And Rosie Get Laid' . Such Is the excitement at ,_ towers about the Beloved that their next projeded single, a witty little number named 'Hello', has been greeted with a completely unprovoke display of enthusiasm. Thia Is far cry from the days when members of the banc:f depended on supplementing f,heir l!leagre Incomes by offering their services aa human guinea p!gs. Pumped fl of untried drugs fo y large amounts of Y they came through •~ce relatlv unscathed, ~h orlglnat fine-up ale four TRACY CHAPMAN 'CROSSROADS' TOP TEN 1 'Motel Colifornia' the Eagles 2 'Born Sandy Ric hardson Devotionol' Triffids 3 'Stond By Me' ' Benny' King 4 'My Amy Turtle Is True' Elvis Costello S ' Miss Hugh Mortimer Much' Janet Jackson 6 'Stand And D e live r' Adam Chance & the Ants 7 'This One' Mr Paul M cCartney 8 'Miss Shughie McPhee Nights' Cliff R ichard 9 ' Don't Let Meg Down Gently' th e Won der Stuff 10 'The Doris Luke Of Love' A BC Compiled by the Residents E A R B E N D E R s Andy Strickland I N D E X 'Missing' Terry Hall (forthcoming Chrysalis 45) 'Laughter' Mighty Lemon Drops (forthcoming Chrysalis LP) 'Trick Of The Ligh( The Triffids (Classic oldie LP track) C 0 N T I N U E D Johnny Dee 'Missing' Terry Holl (forthcoming Chrysalis 45) 'Reel Wild House' Raul Orellano (BCM 12 inch) 'Condlelond' Ion McCulloch (Womer Brothers 45) THE WORLDACC ORD ING TO TSP MOORE Tim Nicholson This week TSP Moore dips his hand in the purple pants of 'Standing There' The Creatures (Polydor 45) Prince and finds " a strange combination of erecti- and 'Rent' Liza Minnelli (Epic LP track) resurrection''. 'The Sun Rising' Beloved (WEA 45) ne day in June 1958, a demonstration that Prince's bosic Prince wos 'Cock O' The North', re11rlu11 ('nJkrr i,,; heavily pregnant Ms Mattie arithmetic leaves a lot to be whose strange combil'lotion of fHIP of //,()."/(' O Nelson awaited delivery of desired. Coll me old-fashioned, but erection ond resurrection caused one • 11111.'lfriaus 11•/,o lnul her holiday snaps in a Minneapolis where I come frpm "two thousand critic to dub him "a $Chizoid little lo l't'lllflill ill lftt' maternity wgrd. J~$f before her mo zero" is 200000, making his twit with The 6ible in one hand ond IJ11ckp,ro1111tf poppi,,f! up contractions began her husband New Year celebration in 1999 his dick in the other." Golly. A 11011· mu/ fl{!ai11 to lu•/11 heard her mutter "One day my hopelessly premature. backlash hod been brewing since he out tlu• bip 1u111w,.; ,rltilr prints will come''. II was a simple In 1985, walking with bodyguard refu,ed to contribute lo 'USA For rPln1si11J! 11·rll n 1 r~fr,,(/. misunderstanding on his port that Thick Lumpsbury, Prince hod a Africa' unless they wrote it but l111rd(1· millimr .w,lfiu/f., hos kept a generation of music mystical vision. In it, a man in a 'uso4ofrico', He was olso criticised r<•c·m·th,· i11 !,;,.., owu ri;d1t. writers in hackneyed sove,eign block cape and o funny pointy for entering some dubious musical ,llo11f! willt hi.-; luuul llw derived headlines. eared mask told him to lock himself alliances, such as the time when, S O 'Cl,wk Shflt/011·,,, At the age of away in his Po isl ey Scarf studios, looking up Sheila E in the phone :z; llrr11du11 lta1t br,•11 five he ran away never give infervfows, write songs book, he arranged by mistake lo dOJtJ!Ptlf1· .,;fuf'k iu 11,,, rm from home and about God, gather o huge harem worlc with Sheena E. Still, it wos -== iutlrprmlt'III f,P l'f1,11rl of moved into the of recording artists named ofter worth it just to hear the wee lassie ~ fafp ll'itl, his 1•1um,1·1110111,· basement whe,e, spacecraft like Appollonio and trill the line "come inside my sugar Z di.«· of l'fllfter uip,· over the next Vanity 6. first fruit of the new walls". t·o1111t1:li/olkl rm·k 11.·!til'I, month, he would c:.::i JN1/11r1•.,;, w11h11p>.·/ <>llu•rs. acquire = f:'rir ( '/((p/fJu • .llurk proficiency on 20 /,11111,fft•r """ Tfluila instruments, all ~ TikftJ-rtt11! but one of them I musical. Todoy he ploys 23, although it is frankly best not to ask about the new ones. It wos in the basement !ha t he absorbed his later influences: lhe mania of Jomes Brown, the erotic dondyism of Hendrix, and from George Clinton the towering platforms tfnat would enhance his 4'6" frame. Before reaching teenogerhood he hod already released two studio albums, o double live LP, a four•port TV mini•series and a range of proticol yet stylish loblewore. The following year the world was treated to lhe first real Prince LP, 'RU24AQUICK1 i•, with extensive coverage of self-abuse, and utterly bormy lyrics, The trend was continued in "N-n-n-1999", with seagull nois-es, o blistering cover of 'Little Red Rooster', and a 6 R Iv\ I N D E X C 0 N T I N u • D careers are made and destroyed," soys Tig as we survey the dozens of gold ond silver discs that surround us. Perched of the end of a canferen<e table in the boardroom of RCA headquarters, Tracey, Paul and lig search for a plaque bearing the na me of The Pnllllltlves. "I could do with another one of the.e," smiles Paul. "Mine's looking o bit lonely on the living room wall." Coventry's finest first achieved cha rt succes.1 wilh 'Crash', o top five hit in February 1988, follo....d by •~•, "'9ir debut al,um descqbed by Paul os "obit disjoinled because of inlerfenlnce ffl)ffl oulsiden".