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Our heartland spies report John Cougar Mellencamp recently got a long-distance ringy-ding from Barbra Streisand Love? Salami? Nah. Hard as this might be to believe, Babs asked him to write and produce her next album. The sequel to...uh-huh, Yentl.

July 1, 1984

Rock 'n' Roll News

Our heartland spies report John Cougar Mellencamp recently got a long-distance ringy-ding from Barbra Streisand Love? Salami? Nah. Hard as this might be to believe, Babs asked him to write and produce her next album. The sequel to...uh-huh, Yentl. Seems Barb wants some roots V soul this time out.

Nothing whatsoever hew on Michael Jackson this month, which is news in and of itself!

CREEM’s *1. heavy-heavy nattydread rappin’ soulman Afrika Bambaata always wanted to make a single with James Brown. “To bring our two funks together,” or so sez the Bambaata Marahduh. Great idea, said James, but first, my 50.000 pounds production fee. sir. After it was explained to a somewhat disconcerted Mr Bambaata that this was not a remark about his weight, but the way the quainterthan-thou English count their silly money, he decided not to rip Brown's face off For now

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