ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
The Queen Fan Is Dead Dept.: Thomas McGuigan, 21, was stabbed to death during a Queen performance at the Knebworth Festival in England. The incident occured during a fight near the front of the stage; four people were arrested. According to an ambulance crew member, help was delayed by the sheer mass of humanity near the stage (over 120,000 in attendance) and the festival was “badly organized” and “too crowded.”
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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Circle Jerks’ drummer Keith Clark wed Joline Benis recently at the Knollwood Country Club in Grenada Hills, California. Such is Clark’s love for the game that the couple made their vows on the course itself, between the green and a sandtrap by the first hole. We, of course, refuse to make any first hole jokes, since this was an affair sacred in the eyes of the Lord, Lee Trevino and others.
Meanwhile, Jerk bassist Zander Schloss—he of the guest appearance in the Ramones’ vid, “Something To Believe In”—will be appearing in the new Alex Cox film, Straight To Hell. Others appearing in the western/comedy are Joe Strummer, the Pogues and Sandra Bernhardt.
The Queen Fan Is Dead Dept.: Thomas McGuigan, 21, was stabbed to death during a Queen performance at the Knebworth Festival in England. The incident occured during a fight near the front of the stage; four people were arrested. According to an ambulance crew member, help was delayed by the sheer mass of humanity near the stage (over 120,000 in attendance) and the festival was “badly organized” and “too crowded.” According to a spokesperson for Queen, the show was one of the bestorganized and good-natured she’d ever attended.
According to Queen, the band is “horrified” and “distressed” by the murder. For more in-concert hassles, see Toby Goldstein’s feature on Run-DMC in this issue.
THE FARMER & THE COWMAN, 1986!
66-year-old Bruno Cipriani was working his field near Genoa, Italy, when an enraged wild boar bolted out of the woods and began tearing him to shreds with its deadly tusks. The episode would’ve surely spelled finis for the aged Bruno, had it not been for the quick thinking of his beloved old milk cow, Carletta, a distant relative of legendary rockin’ cow Buttermilk. Carletta “let loose with a moo that stopped the boar in its tracks”
—and then, “without regard ^ for her own safety, the old cow charged, 4 gored the beast,” and chased it back into woods, where the piggish brute vanished.
“The man’s life was saved by a cow,” police officials noted.
And still no plans to release Atom Heart Mother on CD.
Simple Minds have been recording shows on their current world tour and plan on releasing a magnificent double-live album in early ’87...Working on his second meaningless solo album for CBS is Mick Jagger...Also in soloville, Boy George has been recording in Montserrat; R&B-slanted Stewart Levine producing...Matt Hurich has replaced bassist Tim Gaines in Stryper; Gaines is reportedly pursuing “other interests,” possibly real life...Drummer Marcus Gilvear has left Gene Loves Jezebel and been replaced by Chris Bell, ex of the Thompson Twins..
Who’s had the most Top Five singles of the ’80s? Tied with eight are Madonna, Lionel Richie and Air Supply.
Music is a great way to kill some time.
ROWN-EYED HANDSOME MAN
MCA Home Entertainment is financing a feature film on Chuck Berry, tenatively titled Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll! The film is being produced by Stephanie Bennett (The A Rockabilly Session With Carl Perkins And Friends) with Keith Richards acting as musical director and Robbie Robertson the creative consultant. The movie will include Berry concert sequences, “shot in a very stylized, brightly lit fashion," according to director Taylor Hackford, but will "be a complex film, a lot more than a concert film Chuck Berry has the attributes of an actor He's moody He has phenomonal presence I want to get that on film 1 The concert will be shot sometime in the fall, with an April, 1987 theater release planned.
Erratum: The October, 1986 issue of CREEM mistakenly called the new Triumph album Generator. The correct title, as we all know, is The Sport Of Kings. Our apologies to Triumph and MCA Records.
Erratum, The Sequel: The October, 1986 issue of CREEM inadvertently omitted Jon Young’s name and top four albums from our “Ten Best Albums Ever” feature.
His complete list: (1) Meet The Beatles (The Beatles); (2) Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds); (3) Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan); (4) We Want Billy!
(Billy Fury & The Tornados);
(5) Are You Experienced (The Jimi Hendrix Experience); (6) You’ll Lose A Good Thing (Barbara Linn); (7) The Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley); (8) Live In Europe (Otis Redding);
(9) Stranded (Roxy Music);
(10) White Light/
White Heat (The Velvet Underground). Our apologies to Mr. Young.
Oops! The April, 1986 issue of CREEM erred in quoting Mike Scott in Dave DiMartino’s story “Something About The Waterboys.” “It’s about time I wrote a bunch of real great,” we had Scott saying—as if he deliberately forgot the subject of the sentence! Ha ha ha. Actually, Scott said: “It’s about time I wrote some really great songs.” Our apologies to Messrs. Scott and DiMartinq.
We Goofed! The October, 1986 issue of CREEM accidentally garbled J. Kordosh’s incisive review of a Prince concert in our Centerstage section. The fifth paragraph should read: “Here I’d gladly list some of the songs Prince performed (and didn’t perform), but—even if I do, the page will probably be laid out again and no one will let the editorial staff proofread it, rendering it a hopeless mish-mash, dreadfully embarrassing and all that, so what’s the use?” Our apologies to Mr. Kordosh.
Why, guess who just called? None other than perkette Martha Quinn, who’s requesting a copy of our October 1986 issue—that’s the flawless one, in case you don’t remember. What’s that? She only wants the calendar, because it’s a snazzy shot of her boyfriend, Stiv Bator and his amazing Lords Of The New Church? And she wants it without staples?? The He’p Desk, agreeing you do indeed need he’p, will be getting back to you, Martha.
GROOVING, GROOVING BACK AGAIN
Now what? The phone be ringin’ again?? Is it Karen Schlosberg? She never calls! No, it’s Robyn Hitchcock, who tells us his new studio album, The Raining Twilight Coast, will be out shortly. Ten songs, says he, including a few he played on his last American tour— “The President” and “Ted, Woody And Junior.” Then it’s another tour of our fine country, ’round about November. So how’s the album sound, anyway? “It’s quite good,” says he. Thank you, Robyn.
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