ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Surely you've noticed by now that Tanya Tucker has made a move towards capturing a harder rockin' audience with her latest LP, TNT. Not one to avoid the inevitable, Tanya took her new sound back to her old stomping grounds, Nashville, for a surprise performance at the Grand Ole Opry.
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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Surely you've noticed by now that Tanya Tucker has made a move towards capturing a harder rockin' audience with her latest LP, TNT. Not one to avoid the inevitable, Tanya took her new sound back to her old stomping grounds, Nashville, for a surprise performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite a handful of stalwart C&W fans who almost booed her off foe stage, she finished the set to a, rousing ovation.
Speaking of buff stuff, foe folks at Elektra opted to alter the Queen single "Bicycle Race" by airbrushing a pink bikini on the nude lady cyclist pictured on the sleeve. But if you bought the album, you've no doubt noticed the inside spread of the nude bicycle race is indeed au natural, which has angered the Women Against Violence Against Women group. Naughty,! naughty.
Led Zeppelin are now working full speed ahead to complete their LP, which is putting a damper on Robert Plant's soccer habit. Rumor hasitthat Plant brings his baOs to the studio every day hoping to get some practice in during the bathi oom breaks. Crack that whip, Jimmy...
What do Patty Hearet and Sid Vicious have in common? Besides lots of publicity, the same lawyer— F. Lee Bailey has decided to take up the case on Sid's behalf. Confident that he's got foe best legal advice money can buy, Sid took time off to catch foe recent Johnny Thunders/Mitch Ryder/Biondie Palladium show and mingle with the other backstage guests, including Lenny Kaye, Rory Gallagher, etc. And, according to the Philadelphia «Inquirer, Sid is also working on a film about life with foe Sex Pistols. Make hay while the sun shines, bucko.., Meanwhile, in London, Seditionaries is selling the first Sid Vicious t-shirt which reads "She is dead, I'm alive, I'm yours" over a picture ofMr. Vicious. Shop manager Vivienne Westwood told Melody Maker thatshe's selling it because she cares about Sid, and "I was aware when I did it that some people would think it wasabit sick, and I did it for that reason, too."
Do you remember two nubile clones who emerged last year under the Dylanesque monicker, Monde On Blonde? Well, we didn't either and we'd figured they'd gone back to that big sea of obscurity until they turned up in a copy of Old in a full-color, four page nude spread. Hey, at least they got a chance to showcase their talents r . :
Black Sabbath were forced to cancel a Nashville concert recently after Ozzy Osbourne went AWOL. Fearing he had been kidnapped, the rest of the group called the police and started searching the city for clues. But Ozzy turned up the next morning, explaining he had fallen asleep in s the wrong hotel room and slept through the entire concert when no one came to wake him.
For Byrd loversonly: Roger McGuinn, Gens Clark and Chris Hillman are once again recording together for an album to be released on Capitol.
Believe ft or not, soon you'll find foe Motor City Madman in your favorite pinball palace. But don't start carrying your autograph books around—Tad Nugent will be there every night in the form of a new pinba B game called (what else?) "Nugent" which features a replica of his Weekend Warriors LP cover.
After completing production chores for the Tubes' new LP, Todd Rundgren has agreed to produce the next Patti Smith Group ahum. In other Jersey news, Jon Landau is listening to concert tapes to try and compile a two-record live set from Bruce Springsteen.
The Canadian Attorney Genera! is appealing the Keith Richards decision . Stay tuned...
Seems Bitty Altmans scheme to put Neil Youngf $ house on a flatbed trailer and transport him to NYC will have to wait, since Young's California roost feB to the brush fires that raged through Malibu recently. The house once belonged to F. Scott Fitzgerald, if you're interested in such trivia.
Dolly Parton is penning her first book, entitled Wildflowers. Sez the tiny voice with foe big wigs: "If s almost autobiographical, but sorta exaggerated, with a little bit of truth, a little bit of humor, and a little bit of dirty stuff to make it sell. Sounds very autobiographical to us...
In The Studio
L. A.—Record Plant: Cheap Trick, Stephen Stills, Paul Simon, Ohio Flayers; L.A. — Filmways/Heider. Van Morrison; L.A. —Kendun: Frank Zappa, Marcy Levy, Bifly Preston, John Denver, Jefferson Starship, Johnny "Guitar" Watson; Miami—Criteria: Bee Gees, Toby Beau, Allman Brothers, Roger McGuinn/Gene Clark/Chris Hillman, L A — One Setp Up: A1 Hooper; L.A. —Daulen: Robin Trower; N.Y. —Record Plant: WarrenZevon; L.A. —Britamtai David Crosby & Graham Nash. Ekemhere: Roxy Music, Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Patti Smith.
It came to us out of a Krystal clear sky: The shocking news that the Silvor Bullet Band (of Jlob Seger fa me) had been kidnapped in Richmond, Virginia during the fall leg of their perpetual tour. It seems an alien limo driver dropped into the driver's seat and took pff with tine musicians. Silver Bullet Ba nd security chief Piut and the other limb driver, an ex-FBI man, pursued the runaway vehicle in a high speed chase through the streets of Richmond, the ex-FBI operative with his .38 drawn and ready for action. When they forced the limo to a stop, both were shocked and stunned to behold none other than Bullet Bob Seger hisself at the wheel. Seems the road-weary band, fed up with countless experiences with "wrong way Goldfarb" limo drivers, had decided after a half-hour wait to take matters into their own hands and let their road-experienced leader take the wheel (Bob of course being the main driver bade in the band's salad days crisscrossing the States).
You can't tell the players without a scorecard, Runaways division: Vicki Blue, who replaced Jackie Fox in 1977, has now been replaced by 21-year-old Lanxie McAllister, a native Californian who has never before played in a band. Sounds like a reasonable choice...
Hot on the rollered heels of Lips Ronstadt, none other than £lvis Costello is forsaking Great Britain for the streets erf New York. Geez, what is this, an epidemic? Seems there are so many rock stars holed up in NYC these days that Ronstadi is able to pursue her affair of the heart with Saturday Night Live's Bill Murray with nary a New Yorker so much as turning a head. No word yet on whether Bebe Rundgren Stewart Pettyis following E! , ||»|$|1
Who's next? Temporarily, former -Faces drummer Kenny Jones will fill the spot in the Who fine-up
1 vacated by the demise of Keith Moon. Jones, whoplayedonthe Tommy studio sessions and Roger Daltrey's solo efforts, will be lending a hand on the soundtrack for the upcoming Quadrophenia flick.
With tine arrival of the new Roxy Music LP eagerly awaited, Phil Mansanera waxed confident to Record World: "Roxy never did split up, although everybody seemed to make the assumption it did. We all did other projects, most of which were with each other. Recently, we all found ourselves relatively free and we all seemed to ring each other up at the same time. " We now return your television set to your control
A number of Southskls Johnny gigs had to be cartceted recently when John boy fell offstage in Sacramento, slicing open a wrist artery (ouch!). Fortunately, he heals quickly and the tour resumed a few weeks later.
Rumor has it that Iggy is cutting a new album in Berlin for Virgin records with the help of Tangerine Dream drummer, Chris Franke.
Our news desk received a late flash that our own JaaaUheiaskL Hungarian-Serbian-Polish princess of the pen, has tied the knot with boyfriend Matthew Kaufman, Preside nt of Beserkley Records. That's right, everybody's Creem, Dreem is now a Mrs,
Oh, Philadelphia, you wicked, wicked town: Aerosmith has now vowed never to play Philly again after Steven Tyler caught a bottle in tire face during a recentshow in that town.
Abba plans to do their first American tour (yes, they really do exist) sometime this summer. You jppve been warned. 1
That's tellin' 'em: The Clash had agreed to dp two shows at Glasgow Strathclyde University recently on ohe condition^$ha t the tickets would be available to the public, not just the students. However, during a Glasgow record shop appearance, lead singer Joe Stxnnuaer heard rumors that ticket sellers were demanding student I. D. cards before tickets cou Id be purchased. Joe quickly motorcycled to the scene of the crime and indeed was asked for a student I.D. when he tried to buy a ticket. Joe told the salesperson that he had no I. D. The salesperson told Joe he couldn't buy a ticket, Strummer replied, "Well, then, you can't have a concert!" Democracy triumphs again
brings me roses like a regular guy, " Who was Cynthia Rose of Toronto's B-Ghrletalking about? None other than skinny Romeo Stiv Baton of the Dead Boys, who Cyn's been comparing scars with for almost a year now. Not only that, but the wily blond should be Mis. Stiv Bators by the time you read this; atp'resstime she said they'd be wed by Christmas.
Cynthia a nd Stiv met two years ago in NYC atCBGB's, although the Future Mrs. B. hadn't seen any of Stiv's onstage a ntics at the time. Gushed Cynthia: "I was worried that my family wouldn't like Stiv, but they loved him!" (But will the children be Canadian?)
On Tour
Queen; Blondie; Rolling Stones; Rory Gallagher; Abba; Peter Tosh; Southside Johnny; J. Geils; Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Ban,d; Firefall; Rush; Bruce Springsteen; EricClapton; Moody Blues; Ted Nugent; The Cars; Hall & Oates; A Captain Beef heart; Foreigner; Golden Earring; Atlanta Rhythm Section; Alice Cooper.
