«n ^ LJS\k . o i m jgeG&seimtV- tJ'i'iW" imi'ipifMiiiiiyi 5^ E'/zm TV advertising MUSIC WEEK campaign and more \ New Product 3 Another boost for indies 4 TV ban begins to hit video production companies 6 • 1 Indie chart 8 Wp. Opinion; The Emperor Strikes Back 9 Country: chart, news 12 Disco: chart, news and James Hamilton 13,14 |p Albums, singles charts 15,18 Indie news 16 : , New steps, new s^le M¥ L#J THIS IS the new look ol HMV, the that time. style that will eventually take over Says HMV managing director A&R: Stephen Duffy from the "fax 'n' frottage" format Ian Duffell: "Ultimately, we will (pictured) up to Something that was introduced at the begin- move away from wallpapering our Special, plus The Book Of ning of 1 985. shops but that could take some Love story and reviews, The company is spending £5m time. We cannot convert our 40 publishing, performance in the next 1 2 months on convert- shops to the new style overnight so and folk chart. Starts 17 ing its existing stores and plans to fax 'n' frottage will be around in Music On Video: chart, open a further six, 6,000 square some places for a while but will news and review 17 ISSN 0265-1548 feet shops around the UK during eventually be replaced." £1.5© U.S.$5 HMV opened the first of its new stores — its 42nd in total — in 4:->- Peterborough on Saturday. Desig- ner Richie Irvine comments; "We want to demonstrate HMV's under- standing of the product and the / Radio One/Two sale: customer. This is achieved by using The younger face of MOR a flexible approach to promotional (Aled Jones above). material incorporating stage, stu- Easy Listening suppleme^ dio and theatrical effects, creating starts an environment which is repre- Classical: UK debut 34 MW says 'hands off sentative of music studios and per- Who's smiling now? 35 formance areas." HANDS OFF Radios One and in a way which would be impossi- To back the campaign, write to Two. That is the clear message ble in a privatised form. Certainly your MR and preferably the Home which the BBC is unable to deliver no commercial organisation would Secretary setting out the disastrous Our Price/CBS singles row as it awaits official details of the make such a commitment to live effects of privatisation of Radios Peacock Committee's report into music and the employment of musi- One and Two on a UK music indus- OUR PRICE is faking only fop 20 Our Price managing director the financing of the BBC. cians, and the service would slip try which has made such a valu- product from CBS in a row over Garry Nesbitt says; "We are hav- And because the BBC finds itself into a latter-day "housewives' aole contribution to the country's the chain's decision to no longer ing a dispute with CBS and I cannot hamstrung and unable to comment choice" format. economy and world prestige. stock singles from outside the top deny it. It's no secret that CBS and until it has sight of the report, now 40. Our Price do not see eye-to-eye in the hands of Home Secretary on a number of issues and this is Douglas Hurd, Music Week is this one of those issues." week launching a campaign to Asked when the dispute is likely save the music networks, writes to be resolved, he replied: "I've no David Dal ton. IRS resigns from BPI idea. It's up to CBS." It is in the interests of the whole Nesbitt explains the decision to music industry to get behind the restrict Our Price's stock of singles campaign. Imagine these dire con- with: "Sales of singles have not sequences if Radio One, for inst- over vidte® dip ban been inspiring and we have now ance, were to be privatised: decided to cut down our stocks. & Nine minutes less music per MILES COPELAND's IRS is to res- whether a payment should be We run our business on the basis hour to accommodate ads; ign from the BPI in protest over the made for showing video clips. It is that there are not going to be any © A safer, more bland format organisation's handling of the being backed by PPL and general over-stocks. We will fake the new concentrating on the upper video clips dispute and is declaring manager John Love comments; releases that we believe will chart. reaches of the chart, that its own promos are available "IRS could withdraw from BPI "Eighteen months ago, we went © Fewer opportunities for new to anybody who wants them. membership but as PPL members from stocking the top 75 to the top artists and fresh music; However, Phonographic Per- they have had to assign to us the 50 and we have now reduced that 9 More pressure on existing ILR formance Ltd believes that IRS rights on their sound recordings, to the top 40." stations and their music content as would also have to withdraw from and that includes video sound- CBS declines to comment on the they compete for ads with a that organisation before its videos tracks. issue but it is understood that the national network. could legally be used on indepen- "If they want to resign from PPL, company is making a stand be- And Radio Two, while its light dent television. they are entitled to do so but they cause if feels it will be harder for all music format does not sell records, The BPI is in dispute with the ITV would lose the benefits of mem- companies to get product into the complements Radio One's output FOR SALE: one careful owner companies and Channel Four over TO PAGE FOUR ► chart under the new conditions. 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