Red Guitar action A&M stars line up THE RED Guitars, whose National Avenue (Sunday Afternoon) single is released by Virgin on Monday (24) on the One Way label, appear on the BBC2 programme for CD promotion Red Herrings on Thursday next week (27). THE STARS of A&M's CD cata- be available for the life of the logue are to be the focus of a campaign. The company also re- month-long promotion during mains totally committed to achiev- Epic smooch hits March which, the company hopes, ing simultaneous CD release on all will increase dealer awareness of their major albums, as well as the A 16-TRACK "dance floor what it has to offer steady conversion of the catalogue." smooch" compilation, Hits For Lov- Retailers will be supplied with The albums in the campaign are: ers, is being released by Epic on posters, window stickers and dis- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles Monday (24). Tracks include Sex- plays and co-operative press (Sting), Reckless (Bryan Adams), ual Healing, Who's Zoomin' Who? advertising is being bought with Syncnronicity (The Police), Singles and Every Time You Go Away. the chains. 45'$ & Under (Squeeze), Breakfast A total of 1 2 albums are being In America (Supertramp), Track Re- spotlighted, and a spokesman for cord (Joan Armatradmg), Night JULIE WALTERS can hardly contain her enthusiasm as Chrysalis special Tangerine box set the company says; "A&M are And Day (Joe Jackson), Suzanne projects director Roger Watson hands her a copy of the soundtrack to Cor aware that unavailability of stock Vega (Suzanne Vega), Regatta De Trouble, the comedy film in which she stars. Car Trouble goes on general A SIX-ALBUM has been a major problem for re- Blanc (The Police), The Getaway release at the end of this month and the soundtrack features Mated by box-set is being released on the tailers with compact discs and they (Chris de Burgh) and Pearls 1 and David Grant and Jaki Graham, Leo Bayer's current single, Unchained Jive Electro label next month to guarantee that all these titles will 2 (Elkie Brooks). Melody, and songs from Billy Idol, Flesh, The Adventures and Meat Loaf. co-incide with the band's national tour. The set is titled In The Beginning and consists of Electronic Medita- Old Gold IT re-issue series tion, Alpha Centauri, , Atem Eight versions, one song and the previously unreleased RE-ISSUE SPECIALISTS Old Gold the material from just one com- Green Desert. are launching a series of 1 2-inch pany but if the series fakes off then single front Sudden Sway singles featuring disco and rock hits we'd like to broaden the range. The of the Seventies. The first 1 0 re- records all have the original hit re- Damned Strawberries EIGHT MUSICALLY different ver- Rough Trade and the Cartel. leases are all licensed from CBS cordings featuring 12-inch mixes sions of a single by new band Says bianco boss Geoff Travis: and include hits by Herbie Han- where available." STRAWBERRIES, THE Damned's Sudden Sway are being released 'The complexities of the whole op- cock, Heatwave, Santana, the Isley 1 982 album, is to be the first ex- simultaneously on bianco y negro eration have caused a certain Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, REO Bronze product to be released by on March 3. amount of understandable contu- Speedwagon and Bonnie Tyler. Vega gatefoid Legacy, the company which ac- Each version has its own produc- sion but everyone at WEA has Old Gold managing director quired the Bronze catalogue at the er and its own style, the only con- been very patient in putting Sud- Keith Yershon says; "We've had a SUZANNE VEGA's Small Blue beginning of the year. stant factor being the B-siae Six den Sway's wild ideas into prac- lot of success with our album and Thing single is being released by The LP, which will be available in versions of the single, Singsong, tice. Mind you, it's nothing com- 7-inch singles series, but this is a A&M in a gatefoid package with a strawberry-coloured vinyl, is to be are being put out by WEA while pared with the concepts for the new avenue for us. For the initial limited edition live single, Some dealer-priced at £2.75 and is set the others will be distributed by forthcoming album." batch of releases we've licensed Journey/Black Widow Station for release next month.

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