BRITMETAL: Take Your Clothes Off!

BRITMETAL: Take Your Clothes Off!

Sylvie Simmons

Here it is again, the column that came in from the cold. Summer's just around the corner but there’s a bigger nip in the air than a JAL 747. So you’re not going to get me taking all my clothes off, uh-uh, no way. Even if in Maggie’s new Enterprising Britain we know this is the way for even the biggest tits to pull themselves out of the dole-drums and get ahead. PP^amantha Fox; is she stuck ^^^^^naewriter in three free sweatshirts trying to put the beans on the table? Indeed not! The courageous woman braved the cold, took off her clothes, thrust out her bosom, and from Page Three of The Sun she’s gone to: ROCK STARMDEO with a former STATUS rist! A SINGLE with a current MOTORHEAD bassist! Where will it end' Where will it begin? Here, with Lemmy. Sam and Lem, who met on the judges table of a spaghetti-eating contest, are this very moment working on a duet titled “Beauty And The Beast” (the warted one has had plenty of experience working with unclad women; remember the W.O.W. business?) A man who believes in being generous with his gifts, Lemmy joined Frankie Goes To Hollywood onstage in London for a rousing rendition of IRelax.” Frankie, out of the closet, wore

_torhead T-shirts; Samantha Fox,

^^^^Lemmy locked in a closet at the didn’t.

Corrupted doubt by the Frankie video that led British police to warn that

it encouraged locals to steal cars, drive drunk and gene reak The Law. Rick

Parfitt of Status Quo was nicked on

the way home from a party to Celebrate le new-look (positively memorbiliamuseum) of the London Hard Rock Cat (Ozzy was there. Jeff Beck was there,

Dave Gifmour BUI Wyman Eric Burdon Big Country Stewart

Copeland Klraty MacColl, that ressed person, Koo Stark—he was there except Lemmy!) Brougr he magistrates, Rick was of drunk driving (at leaa didn't: I the car), banned for fined almost ed for som to pay up. citing a huge overdr W ■-old '? love him for his money. “He’s ' she lofd The Sun, ^tet when Rick | p buy a bar of I

Colleague Francis 'Samantha Fox into apTe video for his solo single 'Romance.”

HERE’S LEMMY AGAIN! Bottle Tiand at Siouxsie & The Banshees'

party following their anti-smack benefit gig. Sioux and the boys handed over a check for several thousand dollars to Pete Townshend, who’s been raising funds and consciousness. Other antismack stars in attendance: Steve Strange, Heaven 17, some Damned, Adam’s Ants, Human League, Midge Lire and Fish from Marlllion. If you’re wondering what to do now that you’ve gotten off heroin, take Townshend’s advice (which got the British police into a positively FrankieGoes-To-Hollywood frenzy) and take up something more constructive, like “sex and house-breaking.”

Meanwhile, a bunch of top H.M. people are getting together under the banner of Hear ’N’ Aid to raise money for Ethiopia. It was Dio bassist and guitarist

Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell's

idea—they’ve written the song, “Star” (with help from Ronnie James Dio on the lyrics) and are rounding up recruits in L.A. and London. Names like: Scorpions, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Night Ranger, Queensryche, Spinal Tap, David Covei^ dale, Glenn Hughes, Sai Hagar, Def Leppard, ZZ T

Halen and Gary Moore, if'4 cording to plan. The rec$ for July, with aone-of a video to follow^

Gary Mooj ed up for^ Fields^ toe

3-air as FredTd the papers: “I rriends.” Don’t bother Look at Phil Collins ipton, true-blue bosom bud^ven produced EC’s last id to be remixed. As iirror: “There was me and Phil. )ut we did

Ltic corsets-300 to be precise-in the video for Freddie's first solo single off Mr. Bad Guy, the debut album he spent 14 months recording in Germany. He's going to be doing a "Thriller"-type "making of the video" opus on the thing, out late sum-mer. And what's the rest of Queen been up to while all this is going on? Roger Taylor's produced Forge! Sharkey, Scots band Sideway Look, and cult comedian Jimmy Nail (Rog and Rick Parfitt pranced around in the video), he and John Deacon have been giving Elton John a helping hand, and John Deacon’s been doing a solo album as well. So’s Brian May, who’s been promoting the custom-built guitar he designed that’s just come on the market.

A 99-minute video of Queen at the Brazilian festival “Rock In Rio” is out, so’s a four-song video EP of fab Scorpions stuff, “First Sting,” and Iron Maiden’s 30-minute video “Behind The Iron Curtain.”

His Royal Christhood Bruce Springsteen is finally gracing these shores with a papal visit—six dates, praise the Lord. But almost five, thanks to some ungrateful Irish villagers who, thinking he was a mere Human like Bob Dylan— whose show at Ireland’s Slane Castle caused a “riot”—tried to get Bruce’s concert at the ancestral home of Lord Henry Mount Charles banned. The ole thing was smoothed over after the promoter agreed to give vast sums to a local chkjity—quite affordable with the price BruceBte charging for tickets.

Ozzy Osbourne is up in the Highlands, locked away writing songs for a new album. A reworking of “Hit Me With Your Best Scott” maybe?...Former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner has a solo album underway, Roy Thomas er producing...Rock Goddess working on a new album...Marillion have just finished one, a concept album callsed Misplaced Childhood, produced by Chris Kimsey of Sex Pistols and Stones fame...Inside reports that Steve Lillywhite will produce the next Stones album...

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Fast Eddie's apparently rounding up the members of his vocalist Dave King’s old Irish band, Stilwood, now that half of Fastway has left him. Jerry Shirley’s gone to drum with Waysted, Charlie McCracken has left to play bass with Bronz...Rumors fill the air of a one-off collaboration between UFO and Waysted—the latter contains two former UFOmen, Pete Way and Paul Chapman.

Peter Gabriel’s latest hit album’s a reworking of a lot of old stuff that he did for a movie by Alan Parker about Vietnam; there’s a warning sticker to that effect on the front cover...A couple of Tysondog tracks and a snippet of Venom show up in the movie Chain, starring Leo McKern and Warren Mitchell...A new short-but-sweet live H.M. show has turned up on British TV, ECT.

Vandals broke into and trashed Dave Vanian of the Damned’s pet hearse... Pete Townshend, next in line behind Bob Geldoff for sainthood when Pope Bruce I hits the shores, is flogging anti-heroin T-shirts at major gigs—he’s already booked a spot at the London Springsteen concert...And finally a word of advice from the wise Mick Jagger. Asked in a TV interview what he’d say to his daughter if she wanted to get into rock, he replied, no hesitation: “Don’t sleep with the producer!”