Brit Acts Hope to Reconquer the Hot 100
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The country's artists in recent years whose success encouraging schedule of releases in BBMak, Beth Orton, Badly Drawn Cher and Enrique Iglesias -and cultural relations with the U.S. have flies in the face of such a reaction. the coming months by artists with Boy, Morcheeba, and Doves are revis- Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis, com- always been newsworthy, and nothing The chart run iting the U.S_ with posers and producers of Kylie unites the U.K. media like a negative began when U.K. new albums, while Minogue's "Can't Get You out of My news for first Caravelles hopefuls Ed Har- Head" (Capitol), which peaked at No. story. So the that the time duo the ********* in almost 40 years there were not any debuted on the ********** court, the Music, 7 on the Hot 100. U.K. Al, LostProphets, Minogue's continuing presence on artists on The Billboard Hot 100 Hot 100 in the wlb> for two consecutive issues dated April Nov. 2, 1963, issue and the Electric the Hot 100 represents a hit very fin-ANTI( 27 and May 4 generated reams of prob- with "You Don't Soft Parade are much made in Britain, and the Aus- ISSIN ing headlines, column inches, and the Have to Be a Baby ( among those try- tralian artist's resurgence in fortunes collective gnashing of teeth about the to Cry" and came to a pause in the substantial U.S. track records, in- ing to establish fan bases in America. owes much to the hard work of Par - "death" of British music. April 27 issue. But just two weeks cluding Coldplay; the Prodigy; Mas- Several initiatives backed by the lophone in the U.K. Andy Slater, who "Americans celebrate success; we later, the drought is over, as "Days Go sive Attack; seasoned campaigners U.K. government aimed at boosting became president of Capitol U.S. one tend to celebrate failure," says Colin By" from Capitol's U.K. act Dirty Vegas David Bowie, Phil Collins, and the British presence in the U.S. are (Continued on page 70) Dead Live On In Touring Legacy BY RAY WADDELL the subsequent breakup of the band. NASHVILLE Over the course of the long, strange his- Its devoted followers-the celebrated Deadheads who tory of rock touring, there has never been an act quite not only followed the band from concert to concert but like the Grateful Dead -a band which, largely also built a cottage parking -lot industry-still without the benefit of the Internet, hit exist, as evidenced by an active Internet pres- .. albums, radio airplay, music videos, or ence, plentiful album reissues, and a con- t, even mainstream acceptance, grew tinuing audience for surviving band ,iiiiirtifitt, álfflii steadily for 30 years to become one of member projects. the top touring acts ever. But a multitudinous live mani- Spawned from San Francisco's festation geared toward one band, Geffen'sWeezei' On `Maladroit' 1960s counterculture scene, the Grate- such as the Dead enjoyed, does not ful Dead had built a touring industry currently exist. Rather, the ongoing BY WES ORSHOSKI comes in on another phone. unto itself by the mid- 1990s. Stadium - legacy of the Grateful Dead is a thriv- NEW YORK-Weezer frontman Ri- "Wait, here's the record company level stalwarts reliant on neither current ing yet splintered "jam band" scene vers Cuomo is on the phone from Los now," says Cuomo, who has managed albums nor popular whim, the Dead grossed led by such artists as Trey Anastasio, his Angeles, listing the positive results of the band himself for roughly a year, stop- $285 million from 1990 to '95, well more than band Phish (currently on open -ended hia- both a recent spat with the band's la- ping mid -sentence to put his phone's any other act during that period. Nearly 8 million peo- tus), String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, bel, Geffen/lnterscope- concerning receiver to the speaker of his answer- ple saw the Dead's 530 -plus concerts in the five years Dave Matthews Band, and others. 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