NEWS have in a particular country. upertramp Hall Of Fame (Continued from page 20) The departure of Roger Hodgson mtinued from page 13) was an important turning point in And then there was Mike Love. people were hissing, people wet" - til the last minute it was a ques- the soimd of the band . What were the After a lovely speech by Brian Wil- yelling things like, "Get off the stage n of getting the right guitars, reasons for the departure, and will son, Mike Love took the mike and schmuck." Mike Love ended b’ ams. We always knew it was a Supertramp perform any of his songs put a charge into the evening. The saying that, hell, all anybod/d b ad song." anymore? "On stage, for the mo- Beach Boys were about harmony, he able to say now is that Mike Lx)ve i latin Fhe new album has a lot of ment, we just do The Logical Song' said, and all Paul McCartney could crazy and, "they've been saying th^ ged feels in it. Helliwell explains, and 'School'," says Helliwell. "We do was send a message through a for years." Afterwards, A1 Jardin seems to have reared it's ugly don't do a lot of Roger's songs, be- high-priced attorney that he went over to apologize to Ringo Star id this latin business (smiling). It's cause we can't do them justice. Some wouldn't show up. He challenged and George Harrison. And thei aroduct of the jazzier influence of them are so much his voice. Like the "moptops" (the moptops?) to do everybody was able to get a laugh a >re predominate now since Rodger 'Dreamer' for example. 180 dates a year like the Beach Boys, Mike Love's expense. •dgson left. 1 think it might have "With Roger and Rick writing the challenged "the Boss" (pointing his Bob Dylan talked about forgive in Rick's writing with a drum numbers, and Supertramp making finger at Springsteen) to dare climb ness. Muhammad Ali took a bov ichine that inspired some of the an album every couple of years or so, the stage with the Beach Boys, chal- BiU Graham hustled people on ani in feel. It's also the first album each writer had four songs every two lenged Billy Joel and Mick Jagger and off the stage. Paul Simon and Swift; 've done with a horn section, and years. Roger was so prolific, he had a anybody else he could think of to try Lazar schmoozed around the rooir ;ives live feel.' 30-50 a library of songs or more and he to cut it with the Beach Boys. He Ramblin' Jack Elliott finally showe( i’art of the appeal of the new wasn't getting his material out. He ranted on. A1 Jardine, Brian Wilson up. 'um Free As A Bird is it's excellent could have continued and done a and Carl Wilson quietly slipped off The 1960s entered the Rock an( aduction values. The band solo album on the side, but ever since the stage. People were booing. Roll Hall of Fame in proper fashion )ught in Tom Lord-Alge who had Breakfast in America he was hankering irked with Peter Gabriel and Steve to leave, really. He thought Super- nwood to help with some mixes, tramp had run it's course, while we Brazil Record Sales Hold ^e work so slow... we'd go out and didn't. When he left, the other band of coffee and he'd done ve a cup members had a choice of calling it a Ground ather mix. He is a wonder at the day, or carrying on with Rick. We felt brought in special ef- boards, he the band was still a viable and valid Christopher Pickard ts that we'd hadn't thought of. entity." len you're working a year on an Supertramp's first album after RIO DE JANEIRO - Despite Alegria (one million imits), Micha* 'um it's hard to see the big picture. Hodgson's departure was the darker Brazil's roller-coaster economy, 1987 Jackson's Bad (700,000 units), an

: comes in and punches you in the Brother Where You Bound. "We had turned out to be a better year for the Madonna's True Blue (680,000 units id and knees you in the balls and made a couple of light albums before record companies than they could Besides Jackson and Madonnj ikes you wake up, then presents making the last one with Roger, have possibly expected, with sales other(250.000)international albums to ring u (200.000) u with this startlingly different Famous Last Words which was only dropping 12% from 1986, which healthy sales in Brazil included Juli (125.000) ind. We liked it. It put life into the another kind of light album. We just was a boom year. Iglesias' Un Hombre Solo (600,000 (180.000) cks." wanted to do something a little more According to figures recently Supertramp's Autobiograph

^ree As A Bird uses the talents of serious. However on this tour we felt released by the Association of , Police's Greatest Hii ne new sidemen. "Mark Hart, that the 'Brother Where Your Bound' Brazilian Record Producers, 55 mil- , Sting's Nothing Like the Su lo was with us on the last tour and piece would be too heavy, so we lion albums were sold in Brazil in , U2's The Joshua Tre

Dved to be a very valuable asset to won't be doing it live. The new 1987 and 7.5 million tapes. This is , A-ha's Scoundrel Dai

2 band, is on the album and as a album is a lot lighter again, and that against 33 million sold in 1985, a (180,000), Carly Simon's Comir itter of fact collaborated with Rick will be the vibe on the tour." figured which had remained rela- Around Again (80,000), Suzann ivies on the song 'Where 1 Stand'. Use of live films will remain an in- tively stable for nearly a decade. Vega's Solitude Standing (50,000), an

; also sings answer lines with Rick, tegral part of Supertramp's live The top-selling artist in Brazil, for the soundtrack to Im. Bamba (254,000 j nice to have another voice on the show. "We view ourselves as eight the second year running, was Xuxa, The success of the recent Sting an )um when one man is doing most (with sidemen) musicians, not ego- an attractive model who hosts a Tina Turner tours and a Hollywoo the singing." superstars with the spotlight on children's television show on the all- Rock Festival, has firmly place

Supertramp will embark on a them. The personalities are back a bit, powerful TV Globo network. Xuxa Brazil on the tour map, especially £ )rld tour starting with Canada and so what you watch is the stage, lights has two albums in the top ten: Xegun- large multinational sponsors ai 2 U.S. on January 30, 1988. Appear- and visuals which consists of a num- do Xou da Xuxa, which has sold coming forward to bank the show g live with the band will be ber of different films we've put 2,639,000 units and Karaoke da Xuxa, Coca-Cola in the case of Sting, Peps itarist Marty Walsh, keyboard sax together over the years. We update which has sold 627,000 units. Cola for Tina Turner, and Britis lyer Brad Cole, and percussion the films with each tour so they are a Roberto Carlos, who used to reign American Tabacco for Hollywoo lyer Steve Reed. Supertramp has little different. We'll still have the supreme in terms of record sales, sold Rock and the Free Jazz Festival. vays had a large international fol- well known train sequence for 1 .8 million units of his 1986 release in Brazil has also managed to estal A^ing. In support of the new album, 'Rudy'. We have a new film for the 1987, and 1.5 million units of his lish the credentials of its promoter 2 band recently returned from their new album cut "An Awful Thing To newest release. especially Manuel Pladian, wh St trip to Brazil and the turnout Waste," which is a song about wast- The fifth-largest selling album in looked after Sting and Tina Tume IS impressive. "Our first concert ing talent." Brazil in 1987 was the soundtrack to and Mills & Niemeyer, who pi as performed just after a Concludes Helliwell, "The real test the Globo soap opera, O Outro (1.7 together Hollywood Rock. understorm before 70,000 soaked of a group is what you do live. With million units), followed by Trem da It avid fans in Rio. Soundwise it help, you can make almost anything IS difficult, but we went over very work in the studio. But live... that's 2 ll. A week later we played in Sao different." lulo to 137,000 people at a soccer adium. As you can tell by the jures, we're quite popular in Brazil, we plunged right in at the deep d. Nothing like a couple of gigs to

!t you sharpened up!" Helliwell talked about IF ipertramp's audience. "Originally JACK CAN'T COME TO THE MOUN- DIRTY DANCING PARTY- Triple platinum awards marking the success of the Dirty Dan TAIN...- ...Then the mountain will come to the middle to late seventies the ing soundtrack were presented to Vestron associates and star Patrick Swayze at a recent coc Jack. Jack Bruce (c), that is. The former Cream tail party hosted by execs. Shown here (I to idience was a college crowd. With RCA r): Mitchell Cannold, senior vp, production bassit recently joined former Mountain Vestron Pictures; Austin Furst, chairman of the board, Vestron, Inc.; Alan Grunblatt, produ e success of Breakfast In America it guitarist Leslie West (r) and Twisted Sister director, RCA Records; Jon Peisinger, president, Vestron Video; Bill Quigley, president, Vestre :panded quite dramatically to drummer Joe Franco (1) to lay down tracks for Pictures; Bob Feiden, A&R constultant, RCA Records; Patrick Swayze; Mike Omansky, v )ung and old. It all obviously an album called Theme to be released this marketing, RCA Records; Lisa Niemi, Swayze’s wife; Dave Wheeler, vp, sales, RCA Record spends on the current success you Spring by Passport. Bob Buziak, president, RCA Records; and Rudi Gassner, president, BMG International.

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