ROCKPIX
Platinum may only be a steel-gray metal to some, but when it comes in the form of a platinum album award, it’s worth a million to fans and musicians alike...and they'll bleed to get their hands on one. 1987 was a banner year for platinum and gold records that have instantly become classics; records like Michael Jackson's celebrated Bad, U2's triumphant, triple-platinum The Joshua Tree and Whltesnake's self-titled comeback.
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ROCKPIX
Platinum may only be a steel-gray metal to some, but when it comes in the form of a platinum album award, it’s worth a million to fans and musicians alike...and they'll bleed to get their hands on one.
1987 was a banner year for platinum and gold records that have instantly become classics; records like Michael Jackson's celebrated Bad, U2's triumphant, triple-platinum The Joshua Tree and Whltesnake's self-titled comeback. Both newcomers and veterans shook up the charts. Poison earned not one, but two platinum awards for their debut, Look What The Cat Dragged In, as did the Bangles for Different Light and Heart for Bad Animals. Def Leppard's long-awaited Hysteria and Motley Crue's gutsy Girls, Girls, Girls instantly turned polyvinyl into precious metal, too,
However, even these great achievements were overshadowed by the brightest stars to shine in ages: the Marilyn Monroe of the '80s, Madonna took the world by storm and earned seven platinum awards. But clearly, the top bananas of the year were Bon Jovi with a stupendous eight platinum awards for the U.S. market alone. So 1987 was a tremendous year for rock, offering the biggest and the best. Can it be topped in 1988? ROCK-PIX predicts that the 30 musical stars profiled in this special review issue will be the top platinum stars of the new year. Do they have what it takes to attain new plateaus this year? Where did they come from, where are they going and what makes them tick? Find out in the following pages of this ROCK-PIX special.
Vicki Arkoff Editor
