MUSIC WEEK JUNE 3, 1978

D 0 c K n International News every EMI backs week in Music Week — Contact Nigel Hunter, Sheer 'Fire' Hands across the water? Interntional Editor, Music PALM A: A plea for some practical championship and a classical ballet Week, 40 Long Acre, London co-operation from European tv festival. single companies and a hope that they will Although living in Mexico City WC2 (01-836-1522). soon realise the immense markets for the time being to fulfil his HAMBURG: Although Ireen Sheer open to them in Latin America were international role with Mexican tv, finished sixth in this year's expressed during the Musical Marzagao is planning another Rio RCA Germany Eurovision Song Contest with Mallorca song festival here by de Janeiro song festival, for which "Fire", EMI is confident of the Augusto Marzagao. Brazil's own entry will be decided by signs Soja British-born singer's chances with Brazilian-born Marzagao is a a national competition with five the song in the European record prominent name in the South songs from each Brazilian state and HAMBURG: Rolf Soja, Hamburg- American world of festival and a national final to produce the based arranger, songwriler and She has recorded local language music-orientated tv shows, and he is Brazilian entrant. producer associated with the versions in German, English and a member of the Fidof organisation He fully subscribes to the international success on RCA of French, and the single is being of international festivals. Currently iniernationality of music, and sees it Baccara and Lesley Hamilton, has released in Japan and Australia as he is in charge of the international as a fertile prospect for co-operation been signed to a long-term exclusive well as in Italy, Spain, Portugal, side of Mexican tv, based in Mexico between the tv services of the Old contract by Hans-Georg Baum, Greece and the Benelux and City, and anxious to forge some and New Worlds. managing director of RCA Scandinavian countries. productive links with his European "I believe that popular music is a Germany. counterparts. universal language, particularly "We have great interest in more between the world's youth," collaboration with European tv," declared Marzagao. "They Marzagao told Music Week. "Latin A u gust a Marzagao communicate through music. We're Israel determined to America is a new world just living now in a world of beginning to wake up. There are music Journalism and criticism in his communication, and the more some 200 million inhabitants native Brazil, political experience (a countries can be brought near to throughout South America, and spell as Brazilian Presidential each other, the more they will host Eurovision 79 about 80 million of them arc regular secretary), involvement in the understand each other." by BENNY DUDKEVITCH Broadcasting Authority. tv viewers. thriving Brazilian coffee trade which He disclosed that the older JERUSALEM: Israel is determined Although the Israeli tv service "Any collaboration is of benefit brought him to Milan for four years, generations of the Latin American that the 1979 Eurovision Song films and broadcasts in black and to us and, I think, to those who and then a period as Secretary for public like sentimental music, but Contest will be staged here, white only, Livnic promised that collaborate with us. Latin America Tourism back in Brazil. the young people accept everything probably in this city's Binyanei new equipment will be purchased is wide open. We learn from Returning to world of music, he easily, and have a preference Ha'ooma (National Hall). before next year's contest to enable everything, but except for Spain, organised the famous annual Rio de towards North American and British As the winner of this year's April the event to be transmitted in colour. European tv seems unaware of us Janeiro carnival, staged an pop music. contest in Paris with A-Ba-Ni-Bi Israeli tv has transmitted once in and the possibilities." international song festival in the Marzagao acknowledges that performed by Izhar Cohen and the colour hitherto — to celebrate the Marzagao's background includes same city, plus a world piano language is a problem where Alpha-Beta, Israel should be momentous occasion of Egyptian collaboration between European responsible for staging next year's President Anwar Sadat's visit to and South American tv is concerned, event, according to the European Jerusalem in November last year. and drama and documentary Broadcasting Union's rules for the Once again the two major Israeli Boney M goes to Zion programmes would need to be contest. However, widespread record companies, CBS and dubbed into Spanish or. in the case misgivings have been expressed Litraton, collaborated to release an TEL-AVIV: Boney M, currently below the western wall of the Old of Brazil, Portuguese. He does not about an Israeli venue in view of the LP of the 1978 Eurovision Song scoring internationally with Rivers City. consider this a major or Middle East political situation and Contest, presenting 16 songs Of Babylon, appeared with Baccara, It featured the Sirael Phil- insurmountable problem, however, the security aspect. including the Israeli winner. Israel is last year's Eurovision Song Contest harmonic Orchestra conducted and earnestly hopes that European "Israel will not give up her rights the only country issuing a round-up winner Marie Myriam and Afric by Zubin Mehta and well-known tv organisations and companies will to be host to the Eurovision Song Eurovision album of this kind, Simone at a festival staged here to classical soloists such as Isaac soon respond to the interest and Contest for 1979," said Itzhak which is predicted to chart here mark Israel's 30th anniversary of Perlman, Isaac Stern, Jean-Pierre opportunities awaiting them soon. independence. The event was Rampal, Leontyne Price and throughout Latin America. Livnie, director of the Israeli compered by Paul Michael Glaser of Mstislav Rostropovich, and took He defines his own musical taste Starsky and Hutch fame. place before an audience of 15,000 very succinctly. In Jerusalem an open-air concert and millions of tv viewers watching "I like anything that is good." Starship, Baez, ARS was held to celebrate the anniversary it by satellite. Look East, Times are a-changin'... young man for German festival PRAGUE: Tom Dalby, general ST GOARSHAUSEN: The German in the Lorelei amphitheatre on July JUST to keep up with the rumour manager of Swedish Fox poet Heinrich Heine was the first 3, 1976, and the programme which mill: Bob Dylan is supposed to have Productions from St. Charles, 150 years ago to praise the Lorelei, a Kuhls has assembled for the summer lost an uncool two million dollars on Illinois, visiting here for business girl who sat on the banks of the season this year includes German his film, Renaldo and Clara, which, U\ NOTES talks, said: "There is tremendous Rhine here enchanting passing star Udo Juergens, the 1,000-slrong suffice to say, did not do well at the growth potential in the Eastern fishermen with her lovely singing. Fischer Choir, Jefferson Starship, ticket counters . . . No, ABC European territories. Those who Concert promoter Werner Kuhls the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Leo Records here is certainly not being from ignore it are missing out. I'm is dispensing a different brand of Kottke, a special Heinrich Heine sold, despite the fact that, as prepared to do my best to make that musical enchantment annually in an Day with Joan Baez, Leo Ferre, previously reported, the whole rack potential known to the West." open-air amphitheatre named after German songwriters Konstantin jobbing business was sold and Steely He makes the Eastern bloc Lorelei. After negotiating a long- Wecker, Reinhard Mey and Klaus Dan. one of their successful acts, has LITA countries a big pan of his annual term lease with the St. Goarshausen Hoffmann, and the third Golden left for Warner Bros. Still, it's not tour. community which owns the land, Summer Night with rock stars still to so. says ABC president Elton Rule, Representatives of the Hungarian Kuhls invested 350,000 be announced. although they have had offers . .. ELISCU Concert Agency showed immediate Deutschmarks to install sanitation Kuhls achieved a capacity 180,000 BMI, the collection agency, sent IN LOS ANGELES interest in Dalby's offers. and build access roads, dressing audience for last year's Golden out a memo to their licensees a rooms and a special roof for the Summer Night, and is confident of couple of months ago basically stage. another sell-out this year with the forbidding Elvis Presley Painter crosses Genesis was the first group to star impersonators from performing co-operation of the weather. more than three consecutive Elvis- associated songs in live vocal 20.7 million dollars. Hooray for t tracks performance. The Elvis Barry Manilow . . . Local promoter VIENNA;™ It is not often .. thath, a Danish imports down, impersonators carried on regardless. David Forrest and his Fun world-famous painter branches out But just before Alan (a kind of Productions are in the middle of a with equal success into the world's pioneer in the clone field) was to creditors meeting, lest you think that of music and theatre, but Austrian but mai-oriSer gram open in Los Angeles with his bigger being a rock promoter in Los artist Arik Brauer, a leading and better Elvis Forever show, a Angeles is a licence to print your exponent of the Viennese school of COPENHAGEN: For years the Ladcmann Publishing deal in local law firm said that they thought own money . . . Mick Jagger, realism, is an exception. local group of International records, though mail-order firms are his performance infringed on the according to his publicist has been His first venture outside an Federation of Producers of not allowed to sell albums until six rights of their (un-named) clients reading more film scripts involving happened in 1971 when his LP Phonograms and Videograms, has months after the first in-store release who nonetheless controlled a lot of one rock-type person only in the last featuring him singing his own songs been disturbed by imported date. Elvis-associated songs. Alan's four months. This statement is overtook the Beatles in the Austrian product from the US and UK of manager, Chct Actis. said that this offered to those who arc wondering chart and won him two gold awards. both discs and cassettes. Imports Recently several new mail-order legal threat also affected the 600 or if this will be the last Rolling Stones Now Brauer has completed Sicbcn accounted for some 20 per cent of companies have tried to get a share so other Elvis impersonators in the tour. The same publicist, Paul Auf Einen Streich (Seven At A the market in 1976. of the market, though without much United States and that Alan's show Wasserman, says that Jagger is not Stroke), a musical based on an old However price increases in the UK success, and the weekly magazine would go on as must the entire Elvis- interested in portraying on screen German fairy story about the now mean that imports from there and Hor has tried one-off mail-order tribute industry. It did. Nothing anything to do with rock music or adventures of a young tailor. have dropped to around 16 per cent, sales of important chart records, but happened, although two sets of anything like the person Jaggcr He has written the book, representing approximately $10 this activity did not affect the lawyers arc meeting to decide what portrayed in the film Performance. composed the music, painted the million. market. to do. It may be a storm in a teacup, Industry sources (a wonderful scenery and done the sleeve design of But there are other areas taking a Piracy is not so big a problem tor but with Elvis such big business right phrase used by publicists to float a their Polydor cast LP to be released share of the market from 1FP1 1FP1 in Denmark as it is in Germany now, somebody will take steps soon rumour out here) state that only this autumn, and will play the me m b e r s. Pladeringen or Holland, but some discotheques to preserve the property rights. Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand and leading role in ihe first performance (Bertelsmann, of Germany, and Arista Records, that is to say, Kris Krisloffcrson have crossed over during the forthcoming Wiener Danish publishing house Berlinske). are offering suspect tapes for sale. Clive Davis, revealed a 34.5 percent from singing to real strength as Fesl wochen, a well-known the Scandinavian Music Club 1FPI figures show there are now profit for the last quarter, to 985,000 acting-type persons. Can Jaggcr- classically orientated festival staged (owned by Polydor/Phonogram), 600 retail outlets for records nau dollars, on 85 percent higher sales of make the jump? here. Gyldendal Publishing and cassettes, but 20 per cent of them account for 80 per cent total sales. PAGE 10