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By RODNEY BURBECKLET ME make it clear from thestart that I have not been on thepoteen before writing thisstory. But did you hear the oneabout the Irish singer, the Italianproducer, the American majorand the English recordcompany?

Listen while I tell you.Johnny Logan won the

Eurovision Song Contest forIreland with What's AnotherYear, right? His Irish recordcompany, Spider, leased the songthrough Release in the Republicof Ireland and signed Logan toCBS/Epic for the rest of theworld.

Are you with me so far?Enter the album. Last week

Pye Records rush -released analbum, Johnny Logan (N129).But wait, a full page ad in lastweek's MW announced anotherJohnny Logan album - exactlythe same as Pye's except this onecontains the hit single -"available now only fromSpartan".

Consternation at Pye and acertain amount of cigar -chewingover at CBS where plans for afollow-up single and a newlyrecorded Johnny Logan album(yes, another) were being

So will the real Johnny Loganalbum stand up please?

Sorry, dealers, but they are alllegitimate. Although there issome chuntering at Pye aboutseeking legal advice on theirposition.

I'll try and explain the next bitas concisely as possible. Italianproducer and songwriterRoberto Danova recorded 11

tracks with Logan before thecontest for his own label Ritz andRelease in Ireland. After thecontest, Logan's new label,Spider, turned down the oldtracks, as did CBS, preferring togo with new material.

So Release added the hit single- for which they have the rightsin Eire, remember - and theresulting album was picked up byexport company Derby Recordswho promptly did a deal withSpartan for this country. .

Nothing wrong with thatunder EEC regulations.Meanwhile, Pye heard there weresome Johnny Logan tracks upfor grabs, leased them for theUK and rushed out an album.They knew CBS didn't wantthem, but they weren't awarethat the Irish album was on itsway across the Irish sea.

So, dear dealer, if you arefaced with a confused customerwondering which Johnny Loganalbum to buy - just tell him theone about the Irish singer, theItalian producer ... The dispute over who shouldmanage Logan was settled out ofcourt in Dublin last week.

EMI replacing RRPwith 'list price' planEMI RECORDS has taken a positive stepalong the road towards abolishingrecommended retail prices with a new pricingstructure which replaces RRP with a "listprice".

At the same time it has held dealer prices of pop albums- although with its last price rise nearly a year ago itwould have been justified in raising them at this time. It isalso reducing tape prices by up to 15p, but singles rise to70p - coming into line with most other companies - andclassical albums rise to £3.29.

In a letter to dealers this week, managing director JohnBush claims: "The overall effect of these measures shouldbe very limited indeed as regards your total costs."

But some dealers may regard the new list prices, someof which are substantially lower than the previous RRP,as being tantamount to a reduction in margin. The newalbum list prices (with former RRP in brackets) are: midprice £3.30 (£3.45), standard pop £5 (£5.29).

Justifying the move away from RRP, Bush writes:"The current extent of discounting against recommended

retail prices clearly indicates that these are not beingreflected in prices charged to the consumer and theirusefulness has inevitably come into question."

EMI is telling the dealer to fix his own prices at a levelhe can live with and by not publishing a RRP it is hopingto discourage "money off" offers.

The company has been able to contain most dealerprices as a result of its cost-cutting efforts of the past year- including swingeing redundancies.

One aspect of EMI's prices package - bringing tapeprices into line with albums - will be welcomed bydealers and consumers. And the second part of thepackage -a re -launch of the "Poundsmashers" discountscheme due to be announced next week - is also expectedto please dealers.

Instant dealer reaction this week came from MartinAnscombe, of The Pop Inn, Thetford, Norfolk: "Sowhat? I see no difference between RRP and list price. I'msure some shops will just change the wording of theiroffers to 'so much off EMI's list price'. And some of thenew list prices definitely represent a cut in margins. Butwe must thank EMI for holding most of the dealer pricesdown."

Boots moving intovideo at low prices

By SIMON HILLSBOOTS HAS committed itself toselling pre-recorded video musicsoftware and is planning a speciallaunch of four music video cassettesretailing at £19.95 Instead ofrecommended prices of between £20and £30.

The sales push has been organisedby the company's equipment buyer,Walter Mirauer, and willfeature Blondie's Eat To TheBeat, Black Sabbath, the AverageWhite Band and the BoomtownRats. Mirauer emphasised that theywill also tie in with album sales.

"Because both Blondie and theAverage White Band connect with arecord so it is very attractive to us,"he said. "We see the combination ofaudio and video as highly desirable.' "We have a view about the pricing

. of pre-recorded video materialgenerally and, as with records, there

are all sorts of crazy price structures."We are looking at a price of

£19.95 as we think it is right in thesame way as albums don't really sellfor more than £4.95."

Mirauer also explained he expectsthe prices of video cassette to comedown anyway and that while peoplehave a better video than audio"memory", the music element willhelp introduce repeatability to thevideo programme.

He went on to say, that videocassette sales will help prepare thecompany for the advent of the videodisc where it sees a mass market.

Plans are also being made to usethe Videad in-store video promotionservice, to promote the videocassettes along with audio albums. Itis due to begin in mid -June when allthe product is on the market. See Video Special, pages 16, 17and 20.

Floyd win the Silver ClefPINK FLOYD have won the 1980 Music Therapy Silver Clef award for services

to British music. Floyd's Roger Waters will receive the award from theDuchess of Gloucester at the Music Therapy annual lunch at theIntercontinental Hotel on June 27.

The charity, which aids severely handicapped children through music,celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.

News of the establishment of a new permanent centre, augmenting the workcarried out at the Goldie Leigh Hospital in Plumstead, will be announced atthe lunch.

Tickets for the lunch can be obtained from Anthea Norman -Taylor, at E.G.Management, 63a Kings Road, London SW3. Tel: 730 2162.

INSIDERetailing p6 International p8 Video p16, 17, 20 Tipsheet/Talent p21 Singlesand albums listings/Select Singles p24 Classical p28 Chrysalis featurep30 American Commentary/LP reviews p34 Opinion/Performance/Dooley'sDiary p35 Capitol advertorial see centre pages.

SOME LABELS may be feelingthe draught, but there is plentyof good cheer at Capitol Records- as you can read in the label'sspecial 12 page supplement insidethis week's Music Week. Generalmanager Martin Cox talks abouthis year at the helm, and thereare details of all the bands likeDr Hook, Bob Seger and SammyHagar who have given themweek after week of chart success.

SHAKING HANDS above theirrespective national flags, Larry Page(left) and Takayasu Yoshioka.

Larry Page'sjoint venturein JapanTOKYO: A new Anglo-Japaneserecording venture has been forgedhere between Britain's Larry Pageand Takayasu Yoshioka, presidentof Discomate Records, a subsidiaryof the Tokyo Broadcasting Systemand JVC.

They have formed an operationcalled Union Sun Alliance which isviewed by Yoshioka as "the start ofan enterprise of internationalsignificance to the record industry".

Artists on USA will be producedor acquired by Larry Page .for USAand distributed in Japan exclusivelyby Discomate and in the UK by hisown Rampage Records. Placementin the rest of the world will be atPage's discretion.

Discomate was set up in 1976 andthat year had a three -million sellerwith the Page -produced BeautifulSunday by Daniel Boone. Thecompany now distributes Abba inJapan as well as many other best-selling Japanese and internationalartists.

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three LPsLIMITED EDITION specialprices are being offered byVirgin Records for severalcurrent releases.The first 10,000 of Devo's newalbum, Freedom Of Choice,includes a free colour posterand the first 2,000 cassettes willretail at £3.99.The first 10,000 copies ofHuman League's second albumTravelogue, released last week,also The Records' second LP,Crashes, released next week,and The Immediate Storycompilation, due June 13, areall offered at £3.99 RRP.The first 5,000 cassettes of TheImmediate Story will also retailat £3.99.

President launches new jazzlabel Et country music seriesA NEW mid -price labelaimed mainly at jazz fans,and a new mid -price seriesfor country music - bothretailing at a recommended£3.50 - are being launchedby President Records.

The label, Rhapsody, with prefixRHAP, debuts with selectedrecordings leased from the renowned

Gryphon Records, of New York,and includes albums by Lena Horne,Gabrr Szabo, Mel Torme, RuthBrown, plus a live album, Montreux'79.

Future product will includematerial from producer AubreyMayhew and includes the rights toan estimated 200 never -beforereleased master tapes of the lateCharlie Parker. Also on Rhapsodywill be singer Shusha with her new

Mediaeval sound re -issuedLUGTONS REPORTS that an unusual but steady seller of a few years ago -David Munrow's The Mediaeval Sound, in the Oryx Exploring The World OfMusic series on Peerless Records - is back in stock.

"This has not been available for two years and as there was great interest inthis record when it was available we expect a resurgence of demand," saysLugtons. The album, No. EXP 46, has an RRP of £2.49.

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album, Here I Love You, producedby French record company,Garance.

The country series from Presidentwill carry the prefix PRC 100 andfirst releases include albums byJohnny Paycheck, StonewallJackson, Bobby Helms, LloydGreen and Charlie Louvin, licensedthrough Little Darlin' Records ofNashville.

All product on this series - muchof it not previously available in theUK - will carry a "Country MusicOn President" emblem.

POLYDOR RUSH -release a newIsaac Hayes single, I Ain'tNever/Love Has Been Good For Us,this Friday - both tracks are takenfrom his new LP, And Once Again.A limited -edition 12 -inch version ofthe single, in addition to carrying theB-side, will also feature the full tenminute version of Hayes' remake ofShaft, called Shaft II. The single(2141 262), will feature more than 24minutes of music.THE FIRST 5,000 copies of the newSaga album Images At Twilight,released by Polydor, will beavailable at the special price of£3.50. The band will be supportingStyx on their forthcoming UK dates.ROXY MUSIC'S new album, FleshAnd Blood (POLH 002), releasedthis month, will be supported by alarge press and promotion campaignincluding Capital Radio advertisingand British Rail poster advertising.In addition there will be 700nationwide window displays andspecial video films shown in mainWoolworth outlets.FRANKIE MILLER'S latest single,So Young So Young (Chrysalis CHS2436) will be available in a specialpicture bag, as will The FabulousThunderbirds' Sugar -Coated Love(CHS 2440). Chrysalis is also issuinga limited -edition double single byIan Hunter, with a playing time ofmore than minutes, retailing at£1.15. Tracks include a live medleyand the two records will be packagedin a special gatefold sleeve.Catalogue number: CHS 2434.PHONOGRAM HAS pulled asecond single from the recent 10ccalbum, Look Hear - the first20,000 copies of It Doesn't MatterAt All/From Rochdale To OchoRios (Mercury LOOK 2) will beissued in full -colour picture bags.

THE NEW Con Funk Shun single,Got To Be Enough (Think About It- Don't You Doubt It), will bereleased in a limited -edition pressingof 5,000 12 -inch singles. The song

has already been a US hit and is inthe UK disco chart. Cataloguenumbers: MER 14 for the ordinaryseven-inch version, and MERX 14for the 12 -inch.

CO-INCIDING WITH thecompany's 20th anniversary,Motown releases a double -album onJune 6 featuring 40 of the label's 248UK chart entries. Both album andcassette called The TwentiethAnniversary Album retail at £6.50(TMSP 6010 and TC/TMSP 6010).Promotion will include trade andmusic press advertising and albumsleeves will be supplied to all dealersfor racking purposes. In additionthere will be anniversary T-shirtsavailable.

TOM PETTY'S new single, Don'tDo Me Like That (MCA) will bereleased on June 6 in a limitededition of 7,500 copies with a livesingle recorded at HammersmithOdeon earlier this year. The"bonus" live tracks are SomethingElse and Stories We Could Tell,featuring Fabulous Poodles violinistBobby Valentino.

ROXY MUSIC'S latest album,Flesh And Blood, contains theband's new single Over You, andits release coincides with a worldtour. Meanwhile, Paul Carrack,who is featured on the album,releases his own single, Beauty'sOnly Skin Deep, and album, NightBird, on Vertigo.DARTS RELEASE their first singlethis year with a version of the FourSeasons' Let's Hang On (Magnet),produced by Tommy Boyce andRichard Hartley. It features two newmembers - Rob Davis from Mudand drummer Keith Gotheridge. Anew LP is due in August.

THE FRESHIES' single, YellowSpot, on Razz Records (RAZZ 6), isnow exclusively distributed byRough Trade.THE NEW Johnny Guitar Watsonalbum (DJM) is backed by rockpress advertising plus posters,badges, T shirts and instore displaysaround the London area.THE FIRST 10,000 copies of Swissheavy metal band Krokus' newsingle Heatstrokes (Ariola) willcontain a free sew -on patch of theKrokus logo, shrink-wrapped withthe record.THE SEX Pistols' film, The GreatRock 'n' Roll Swindle, whichopened simultaneously in three WestEnd cinemas last week, has spawnedanother record -a single, SteppingStone, taken from the soundtrackdouble album, coupled with PistolsPropaganda, released by Virgin nextweek in a picture bag.

FIRST SINGLE. by SpencersAlternative on Bronze, MumboJumbo, will include a free limitededition bonus single. The doublerecord pack produced by EugeneMoule, will retail at £1.15 (BRO 94),is released this week.

RSO's double Empire LPRSO RECORDS is making available two soundtrack album versionsof the new Star Wars follow-up film, The Empire Strikes Back. TheUS 2LP soundtrack set, retailing at £8.75 and including a full -colour12 -page booklet, will be imported in a limited quantity. The UK singleLP soundtrack album will contain selected tracks from the film andretail at £4.95. A radio campaign, London Underground advertisingand in-store videos, will form part of the RSO promotion campaign.During July the company will be doing a joint promotion campaignwith a dairy company reaching 1.2 million homes.

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Celebrity a new label forthe mid -price MOR marketA NEW label aimed attapping the vast middle ofthe road market with newlyrecorded material retailing inthe mid -price £3.49 categoryis being launched next monthwith initial releases by BertWeedon, Vince Hill andHarry Secombe.

The label, Celebrity Records, willoffer dealers a 35 per cent marginand will be pressed and distributedby PRT/Pye. It is an offshoot ofPendulum Music and is headed byGavin Dare (MD), Mike Ashwell(marketing and sales director), ChrisHarding (A&R director), DaveHorniman (A&R) and Jim Beech(chairman and business adviser).

Ashwell commented: "We havedecided to start a new MOR labelbecause of the state of the market.We believe the time is right andbecause MOR music is too expensiveat more than £5 a record."

New LabelsFirst releases are: While The

Feeling Is Good by Vince Hill(ACLP 001), Heart Strings by BertWeedon (002), This One's For Youby Harry Secombe (003), plus twosingles - Hill's title track (ACS2)and Bert Weedon's Plaisir d'Amour(ACS1).

Celebrity Records can becontacted on 01 359 6067.

Other new labels:CAVALCADE RECORDS, formedby John Fogarty and Ron Liversageof Cavalcade Management, debutswith Satisfy The Citizens, by TheCitizens. (138 New Bond Street,London WI . Tel: 493 9681).

RAMPANT RECORDS has beenset up to specialise in one-offreleases and starts with I'm

Avatar's Plain Jane

AVATAR RECORDS, the new label formed by the Anastasia Group ofCompanies, has its first product released this week via Pye - French trioPolitburo who debut with Radio (AAA 101), and London -based band PlainJane, with One Look (AAA 102).

Politburo consists of Charles Callet, who studied at the ConservatoireClassique de Paris as a singer and pianist and went on to form the group withBert de Chatenay (lyricist and bassist) and Italian -born Dan Leivitz (guitarvocals).

Plain Jane is a six -piece band fronted by Plain Jane herself and their single issupported with a promotional video. The band is signed to Avatar via Guv'norRecords on a worldwide deal excluding South Africa, German-speakingterritories, Scandinavia and Benelux.

Avatar chairman, Jon Brewer, is currently negotiating with a majorcompany for a European deal for the label and more signings to the label areexpected to be announced over the next few weeks.

PLAIN JANE (seated, centre) pictured with her band celebrating signing tothe Avatar label. L to r: Mark (Plain Jane), Annette and David Myers(Guv'nor Records), Geoff (PJ), Jon Brewer, Peter Chalcroft (Avatar), MaxineGeorge (Avatar), Mike Everett (Avatar). Seated: Wayne (PJ), PJ herself,Anton (PJ) and Steve (PJ).

EMI revives HMV logofor 'golden greats'EMI IS re -launching its HMV logoas a singles label during June withthe release of ten 'golden greats'singles.

The label was the company's firstpop outlet, but was phased outduring the late Sixties has a poprecord label and in recent years asbeen mainly used for classicalproduct.

The re -vamped HMV singles labelwill not feature new product,however, but will concentrate on re-

issues. Called HMV Golden Greats,and presented in a gold bag with thefamous Nipper trademark, the firstbatch of releases features suchnames as Norman Wisdom, GracieFields, Johnny Kidd And ThePirates, Laurie London and ShirleyBassey. Both sides of each single willfeature the artist's biggest hits.

Dealers ordering a complete setwill be offered a ten percentdiscount, two sets 15 percentdiscount, and three sets, 20 percent.

Different (Rampant 001) by Londonnew wave band, Embryo. (27Cranbourne Road, London NIO.Tel: 985 0812).

DB RECORDS has been launchedby Tim Hollier of Softrock Musicand the Songwriters Workshop.First DB release is an album, IceCream, Blue Jeans And Diamonds,by Softrock, which includes thegroup's single, Ciao Bambino.Distribution: Spartan.

THE RISING Star RecordCompany is launched by songwriter

Peter Davies and debuts with a

single, I'm A Computer, by JohnLewis, who played synthesiser forPop Musik, and former ElvisCostello drummer Peter Thomas.Distribution: various, includingStage One, Virgin, Rough Trade. (10Seymour House, Albion Avenue,London SW8. Tel: 720 6680).

.1S0 RECORDS has been set up bythe Mettle Group of companies andkicks off with two singles - arevival of the Chris Andrews' hitYesterday Mat by Hull band TheOdds (EAT 1); and Free To Love-Oid by Jacques Laurent Seris (EAT2). Both singles are backed by dealerleaflets, in-store displays and pressadvertising. Distribution: Spartanand one -stops. (62 Berners Street,London WI I. Tel: 580 4720).

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nousGrundigsponsors EMIto the tuneof £5,000

By NICOLAS SOAMESGRUNDIG INTERNATIONAI,has signed a sponsorshipagreement worth £5,000 withEMI Records UK to support animportant new recording ofMahler's Symphony No 10

played by the BournemouthSymphony Orchestra conductedby Simon Rattle.

The work, in the completedversion by Deryck Cooke, hasbeen conducted with greatcritical success by Rattle inEngland and on the Continent,and will be recorded digitally.

The agreement was signed byJohn Bush, managing director ofEMI Records, and AndrewBaumes, managing director.Crundig International. It followsa number of similar undertakingswhich EMI has made.

Harlequin shopsdeal this weekCONTRACTS ARE expected to besigned this week in the takeover ofLaurie Krieger's 41 Harlequinrecord shops by the Our PriceRecords company. As a result of thedeal - worth £1.1 million to Krieger- the new Our Price chain will total57 shops with a £10 million turnoverand will be the UK's largestindependent record retail operation.

The Harlequin business wasstarted 19 years ago by Krieger andgrew from one shop to a 65 outletchain at one time. Our Price wasformed in 1976 and has grown fromsix shops to 17 and a turnover of £4million last year. Its success has beenbased on an adventurous price -cutting policy.

All existing Harlequin staff are tobe offered jobs within Our Price,although a couple of the Harlequinshops may not be retained. Theacquisition was made possible withthe support of an equity investmentby the Midland Bank.

Our Price is headed by directorGary Nesbitt and Michael Isaacs, andIsaacs estimated that it will takeabout a year to fully integrate thetwo businesses, and he is optimisticabout the future of record retailingdespite the industry's problems.

"High demand does exist forthose with an efficient approach tostocking, marketing and service," hesaid. "However, while some areas ofthe music industry have failed torespond to changing market trends,we have always recognised that itsvery character is one of perpetualmotion.

"Businesses not sufficientlygeared to reflect these changes in themarket, almost before they occur,have little chance of survival."

Laurie Krieger is expected toretire after the takeover and will alsorelinquish his position as chairmanof the GRRC. (See Dooley, page35).

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PRTIPye reduces marginsPR 11/PYE Records becomes the latest major record company toreduce its dealer margin, blaming the "ever -worsening recession"within the record industry for the move. From Monday (June 2) all thecompany's product will have a basic dealer mark-up of 30 per cent.

The reduction will also affect all the company's licensed anddistributkl labels, including BBC Records, Buddah, Casablanca,Magnet and Rialto, with the exception of Ariola, Ariola/Hansa andCelebrity Records whose product will continue to be available todealers at the present margin.

PRT/Pye managing director, Derek Honey commented: "We haveevery sympathy with the dealers' plight and the effect that the currentrecession is having on the retail trade as a whole, but in view of currenttrading conditions we have no alternative but to take the action thatwe have. When the industry returns to the path of profitability, I hopewe will be able to be the first to review the situation again."

More Cut opens London studioA NEW London recording studio opens during June, as a joint venturebetween producer Dennis Bovell, Bill Farley and Brian Hutch, who are alldirectors of More Cut Records, started this year.

Stiff's chrometape firstSTIFF RECORDS is claiming to bethe first UK record company torelease a pre-recorded tape utilisingchrome (CR02) tape which gives animproved playback qualitycompared to the more commonlyused ferrous tape.

Benefiting from the chrometreatment will be Graham Parker'snew album, The Up Escalator,released this week in a specialshrink-wrapped outer sleeve andretailing at Stiff's normal tape priceof £4.99. The LP will sell at £3.99for the first 15,000 copies, then£4.99.

The new enterprise, Studio 80, is

based at 6/8 Emerson Street, SEI(928-9858) and has 16 and 24 -trackfacilities, as well as being theheadquarters of More Cut Records,Hutch's A&R Productions andMatumbi Limited.

More Cut is owned by Bovell andis licensed through EMI. Releases sofar include a single by DandyLivingstone and Bovell's ownalbum, I Wah Dub.

A&R Productions and Matumbiare also licensed through EMI.Hutch said: "The studio is beingbuilt around the producers whowork within the companies.However it will be open to outsidersas well."

Virgin signs heavy metal bandVIRGIN RECORDS has signed its first heavy metal band with Gillan, headedby the ex -Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. The deal is long term and worldwide.

The first release on June 6 is asingle, Sleeping On The Job, whichwill contain a free sew -on patch withthe first 20,000 copies. It is writtenby Gillan and band member ColinTowns. An album, Glory Road, isplanned for simultaneous release inEngland and America in August.

Profile ProductionsTONY SQUIRE and Simon Davies,most recently responsible for settingup the A&R department for EMI'sCobra label, have formed ProfileProductions and are currentlyseeking acts for recording anddevelopment. Profile has the use of24 -track recording facilities andoffices at 86 York Street, W.I. (01-402 2237).

Downtown RecordsDOWNTOWN RECORDS Ltd, theSouth East Essex record shops chainwishes to make it clear they are in noway connected with Downtown ofOxford Street, mentioned in the"BPI Round -up" story (MW May17) in connection with counterfeittape,

Warman joinsDeckstarDECKSTAR HAS signed London -based singer Johnny Warman to along-term management contract andwill be recording him with producerVic Coppersmith -Heaven who hasworked with The Jam and TheVapors. Warman joins TheMembers, Jane Kennaway andproducer Steve Lillywhite onDeckstar's management roster.

Howes to RCA directorJOHN HOWES, currently RCARecords' manager of commercialmarketing, has been promotedto divisional director ofmarketing, with effect from thisweek.

Paul Northcott to promotionmanager for the Rocket RecordCompany; formerly with RocketPublishing he will now beworking closely with thePhonogram promotions teamand with independent promotionman Alan James on all Rocket'scurrent and forthcoming product

Formerly in charge ofRadio Two promotion at Decca,Andre Leon has joined theCarlin Music Corporation as

head of promotion RecordMerchandisers has appointedGeoff Thompson as field salesmanager. He will report directlyto commercial director David

Hammond 411U will beresponsible for the company's 27salesmen, and expanding team oflocal merchandisers and six areamanagers. Thompson iscurrently field sales co-ordinatorwith the company NancyPhillips has joined Cracks 90, themanagement company whichrepresents The Undertones andTenpole Tudor, frompromotions and international co-ordinator with Warner Brothers

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byTERRI ANDERSON

TOL catering for the specialistsANYONE WHOSEambition is to work a seven-day week while carefullyavoiding making muchmoney out of it, could tryrunning a specialist recordlabel and import/distri-bution company - with theboard of directors and thestaff making a grand total oftwo people.

Ron Barron and Paul Acott-Stephens have been doing that for ayear and seem to have retained theirsanity, optimism and good humourso far.

The Other Labels distributioncompany sold its first record onMarch 31, 1979. The business was"a dining table operation" inBarron's flat. It was from there thatTOL sent out its steadily increasinglist of titles to an increasing numberof retailers. But the partnerspromised themselves that they wouldmove to proper premises in a year.and they made their move to 63Salisbury Road, Kilburn, in NorthWest London, twelve months laterto the day.

The modestly -sized warehousecarries a stock of about 35,000albums (which TOL expects todouble over the next few years) andcurrently serves about 200 shops.Titles are all within the definition ofspecialist product - ethnic and folkmusic, mainstream and modernjazz, classical and some choice rockfrom new independent labels ("butnot new wave, and no pop").

TOL's customers are, predictably,

mostly independent dealers, butsome chains order regularly fromthem - mainly Virgin and HMV.

Barron and Acott-Stephens metbecause the former started his ownspecialist jazz label, Ogun, and thelatter worked as stock controller forthe late CRD, which distributedOgun.

"When it was becoming obvious,towards the end at CRD, that it wasnot fulfilling what we both hoped itcould have done and should havedone, to service labels away from thepop scene, we became steadily morefrustrated - and TOL emerged assomething we felt we had to do".

In their field of interest, both areconvinced (as are many whose areais pop music) that the best musiccomes out of the indie labels.

"We both had contacts with otherlabels. We drew up a list of labels wefelt were important and neededservicing and set up distribution forthem.

"One of the most importantaspects of TOL is that it's not a WestEnd distribution set up. The mainthing we are trying to do is set upnationwide distribution for theselabels. We are not in competitionwith companies like Spartan.

"We obviously have to makemoney to be able to carry on doingour kind of distribution, but we willtake on labels with low profitpotential, because our aim is aservice to dealers."

TOL gives a full 33'/ per centdealer margin and has no minimumorder level - something they arerightly convinced is necessary toserve small specialist dealers (orsmall dealers of any persuasion)

SORTING OUT an order at The Other Labels' new distribution HQ are thetwo directors - and sole members of staff - (left to right) Paul Acott-Stephens and Ron Barron.

properly."They can come to us for their

customers' special requests and wesupply these records. Our policydoes work, because they come backto us with repeat orders. Selling onerecord does not make us any money,but we will do it when necessary,because it is part of the service."

Barron and Acott-Stephens areobviously enthusiasts who also knowwhat they are doing, hence the factthat they are still in business. Whatis more, that business is expanding.They know what to expect from theproduct they stock, but are happy toreport that there are occasional nice

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surprises. An album by JohnPlayford on Chant du Monde hassold about three times the expected

figure, because it has appealed toboth folk and classical specialistshops: a Panama Francis LP on theFrench Black and Blue label andFree Bird's recording of harmonicaplayer Sugar Blue have also doneexceptionally well.

Other labels which TOLdistributes, a number of themexclusively, include Cezame, MoersMusic, Cantate, Musicaphon, PlantLife, Atmosphere, Incus, Owl,Vinyl, Bead and, of course, Ogun.The intention is to take on morelabels from abroad.

"The list of labels we'd like to dois practically endless," they say.

Pricing of the imports is done onagreement with the labels, and themain price code at TOL is £4.85 -which accounts for about 60 per centof the albums handled - and thereis a higher level of £5.15 and a lowerone of £4.35. For dealers in theLondon area TOL offers a 24 -hourturn round on orders; elsewherethings become less certain becauseorders are posted and so are at themercy of the GPO.

TOL can be reached at 01-6241843.

Microcomputers thelatest aid for dealersA MICROCOMPUTER in every sizeable record shop, with programmesdesigned for record retailers by a record retailer, could be a picture of thefuture. Such a system is now being launched.

Several dealer chains already use computers for central buying, stock controland ordering and at least one big chain abandoned using one after deciding itwas too expensive to run, but Stuart Wilkinson of Citicenta Records andCiticenta Computer Service, believes that his system will increase turnover andprofit in individual shops.

The system is called Music Manager (Musicman for short) and has beendeveloped in collaboration with the System Simulation Ltd computerconsultancy.

Musicman uses floppydisc storage and is built into an advancedmicrocomputer system called Proteus. Wilkinson stresses that the software hasbeen specially designed for the record business to give the retailer a fast andreliable method of keeping accurate, day-to-day records of stock levels, saleshistories, order positions and summaries of that information, for up to 13,000titles.

Musicman anticipates the end of RRP by allowing the shop to put into thesystem its own price code. Knowing the profit level wanted on a title (eg: lowprofit, full profit, etc), the dealer price and any extra discount which mayapply, the computer automatically prints out a correct price ticket for everyrecord being put into stock at any given time.

At a time which is still regularly seeing record dealers go under because theyhave been unable to keep track of gross profit margins, Wilkinson feels thatMusicman's ability to work this out at whatever interval is required, could savesome businesses from trouble.

The microcomputers and the software, plus running and maintenance,would cost about £10,500. Purchase or hire cost of hardware (one is needed ineach stage of a chain), would lessen with additional units taken.

The unit has the latest kind of plasma screen, which was developed to bemore easily readable from different angles and to be less tiring to the eyes of anoperator.

Wilkinson, who can be contacted at 01-228 2275, believes that Musicmancan earn its keep and make a profit for any dealer whose turnover is about(150,000 per year or more.

MUSICMAN will be demonstrated at the MTA AGM at the Cafe Royal on the4th June.

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Loose shrink wrapping cuts returnsFrom RICHARD FLOHIL

TORONTO: Canadianrecord companies have takena firm lead over theirAmerican counterparts in aNorth American packaginginnovation - loose shrinkwrap - and returns as aresult of warpage have beendramatically cut.

The experiment began lastsummer when Capitol released theAlan Parsons' Project Pyramidalbum in the loose wrap afterhundreds of returns from stores.The standard tight shrink wrap, inthis instance, had been too tight, anda large proportion of the recordsreleased were badly warped.

Encountering relatively littleresistance from customers ("Theway was paved by top -of -the -lineimports which were often marketedin loose shrink wrap," commentedWarner-Elektra-Atlantic executivevice-president Ross Reynolds),almost all the companies in Canadahave switched most of their productto loose wrap.

An early problem, however, wasthat the wrap was too loose, and

companies received a number ofreturns with torn shrink but nodamage to the record itself. CBS,with one of the largest pressingplants in the country, has beenexperimenting with a slightly tighterwrap made of slightly strongerplastic, and, according to AlexPaterson, Epic/Portrait/CBSassociated labels product manager,this has cut returns out almostcompletely.

Added Paterson: "With warpage,it's traditionally been a half-and-half problem - half the time youcan blame the manufacturer andhalf the time you can blameincorrect handling along thedistribution chain. And it is nothelped by the extremes of theCanadian climate and the way someretailers pack the records into wireracks."

So far, Paterson pointed out,there has been little interest in looseshrink wrap in the US market,although some American companiesare watching the situation in Canadawith careful interest.

"Right now," he said, "I thinkthe American companies have gotother problems that are worryingthem. But I think that the consumeracceptance of loose shrink wrap, as

TEL -AVIV: Supertramp have sold over 50,000 copies of their Breakfast InAmerica album in Israel, thereby qualifying for a platinum award. CBS Israeltook the opportunity of a visit by some A&M top brass to pass the trophy over.Seen from left are A&M Europe MD Marcus Bicknell, marketing managerEurope Russ Curry, CBS Israel marketing manager Ronnie Braun, CBS Israelinternational A&R manager David Kriss, A&M senior VP and European talentand A&R director Derek Green, and Chuck Kaye, president ofAlmourving/Rondor Music, the A&M publishing wings.

Argentineawards

From JORGE ALBERTIBUENOS AIRES: Prensano, theArgentinian music industrymagazine, presented its 1979awards at a celebration heldrecently here at the Bauen Hotel.

Winners were the duo Candela(newcomers of the year),Gianfranco Pagliaro (malesoloist), Maria Martha SerraLima (female soloist), Katunga(pop group), Daniel Altamirano(folk music), Manuel Fraga(jazz), La Banda (rock music),and Pedro Favini (composer).

Special awards went to singersPalito Ortega, Alberto Cortezand Susana Rinaldi, folk groupLos Chalchaleros, andimpresario Sandro for theircontribution to the promotion ofArgentinian music in othercountries.

The awards ceremony wascovered by the main TV channelshere, and was attended by a largecross-section of music industrypersonalities.

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well as the retail acceptance now thetearing problem has been solved,indicates that we're on to a goodthing. And anything that cuts downreturns is worth doing from ourpoint of view."

A&M CANADA is meetingconsiderable success in themarketing of what it calls"affordable superdiscs" and nowCBS Canada is moving into themarket.

A&M began its Audiophile seriesin mid -1979, with seven albumsfrom its catalogue, remastered athalf speed in Japan, manufacturedthere and shipped to Canada forpackaging.

Using best sellers from itscatalogue, with original tapes sent toJapan for the processing, A&Mreleased Crime Of The Century,Break fast In America and Even InThe Quietest Moments fromSupertramp, plus a greatest hitspackage by Cat Stevens, GinoVannelli's Brother To Brother,Grand Illusion by Styx and Feels SoGood by Chuck Mangione.

Retailing at $16.98 (£6.33), A&Mhoped to find a market in specialtyhi-fi stores, but encountered lesssuccess in that area than it expected

and considerably more favour infull -line record outlets.

Explained an A&M spokesman:"At $16.98, the profit margin is byno means as high as the 40 or 50 percent mark-ups hi-fi stores expect onmost of the equipment they sell."

Generally, however, sales haveranged from 30,000 (Crime Of TheCentury) to 5,000 for the lesspopular items.

"We're really happy with that,"said A&M vice-president JoeSummers. "After all, these arerecords that have already doneextremely well for us in their normalconfiguration. We've created a newmarket."

In celebration, A&M has addedfive new titles - Supertramp'sCrisis, What Crisis, Herb Alpert'sRise, Spanish Train by Chris deBurgh, Cornerstone by Styx, andRegatta De Blanc by the Police.

And now CBS Canada has movedinto the field with its newMastersound label. Again, the line-up includes some best-sellingcatalogue product, as well as someclassical titles, and the retail listprice is $16.98 (£6.33).

The CBS titles, however, are beingmanufactured (again at half -speedfollowing remastering) at the

company's plant in suburbanToronto. A CBS press release claimsa "30 per cent quality differentialbetween the Mastersound series andother products".

Among the line's first batch ofrecords is Billy Joel's Stranger,Springsteen's Born To Run, the firstof two albums from Boston, and thelone Canadian representative, BruceCockburn's Dancing In TheDragon's Jaws.CBS CANADA, which at one timewas the country's leader in countrymusic and then pulled right out ofthe field, is getting involved again.

It has announced the signing ofEddie Eastman to a worldwideagreement. Eastman, a native ofNewfoundland, has been winningimpressive country awards inCanada, but the signing is a majorloss for Toronto's Boot Group,which has nurtured the artistthrough several singles and a best-selling album. Boot also lostclassical guitarist Liona Boyd toCBS after a number of strong -sellingalbums with the Boot label.

Eastman is finishing his first CBSalbum for June release, and willactively promote it on a long tour ofCanada's eastern maritimeprovinces starting at the end of May.

Discount supermarket setto start SA retail war

From JOE BRONKHORSTJOHANNESBURG: South Africa'shigh LP and tape prices are expectedto dip soon as a new retail price warlooms on the horizon.

Joy Music Market - billed as"the largest discount recordsupermarket in the southernhemisphere" - is about to make itsdebut. The store will open inJohannesburg, offering a choice ofsome 50,000 records and tapes in anarea approximately half the size of afootball pitch.

Sensing the competition, existingdiscount stores have startedpromulgating various special offers,but it is doubtful whether they willbe able to match the £1.20 discountthat Joy Music Market haspromised.

The men behind Joy's sharpeningof the discount battle are Ian Tuke

Swiss mags start labelZURICH: Juerg Marquard,publisher of Pop magazine and theGerman edition of Penthouse, andElias Froelich, local pop magazineeditor, have joined forces to set up anew Swiss label, FM Records, whichwill be distributed here by Polydor.

Their ARG organization alsoincludes FM Music as its publishingarm. On the magazine publishingside, Marquard and Froelich havebeen extremely successful, addingGerman magazines Rocky andFreizeit to the company, and the new

Pop/Rocky publication will have afortnightly circulation of around900,000 copies, putting it nearmarker leader Bravo.

This concentration of pressimpact gives the local recordindustry added interest in the futureof FM Records. First acts signed areFranco Carloni, a Swiss/Italiansinger -songwriter, and Vic Vea, whois both songwriter and guitarist andnoted racing car constructor,formerly with top rock band Toad.

Disco dispute with SACEMPARIS: Despite reports to the contrary, discos in France continue to grow andso too does the long -running dispute with copyright society SACEM over thepayment of performing rights.

At the last count, there were some 3,952 discotheques in the country, the vastmajority of whom, as the society is keen to point out, are happy. Professionalorganisations representing around 70 per cent of them have signed agreementswith SACEM, and most of the remaining independent discos also havecontracts with the copyright body.

Even so, about four in every 100 are currently involved in legal action,including many of the best-known, like the Palace, France's most famousdisco. Court decisions are slow in coming, and findings vary, though SACEMsays 84 decisions have recognised its rights.

and Dave Hatcheul, both of whomhave had considerable industryexperience, ranging from productionto marketing and retailing.

It has always been considered thatlocal prices are proportionately farhigher than those in the UK, USAand Europe, and the reason to whichthis fact has been attributed is thelimited size of the South Africanmarket.

The hope is that, should theJohannesburg store click asanticipated, Joy will expand into achain, gaining a considerable slice ofSouth Africa's f25 million annualrecord market.

An ambitious plan for promotionalvisits by overseas and local artists,plus video shows and prize give-aways, should help Joy towardsmoving its target of 25,000 unit salesper month.

LONDON: Motown Internationalhas signed a long-term licensingagreement with RPM GroupRecords (Pty) of South Africa,covering all Motown catalogue. Seenat the signing are, from left,Motown business affairs managerPatrick Muncaster, MotownInternational vice-president PeterPrince, and RPM Group chairmanand MD Matt Mann.

THE UK record industry is not theonly one experiencing problems attop management level.

Here on the local scene, Tru-ToneRecords has raised an obscuringsmokescreen as Tim Rooney stepsdown from the top chair.

Nobody is disclosing anythingabout what must be a major internalupheaval, but there will not be agreat deal of surprise if Tru-Tone'snew chief comes from the directionof Holland.

DENNIS LOTIS has returned to hishomeland after many years' absenceabroad which began with his vocalresidency with the Ted Heath Bandand then his solo singing career andfilm work.

Lotis is here for a nine -week louraround the Southern Sun Hotelscircuit.

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FRANK SINATRA: TRILOGY

CAPITAL: PEOPLF'S CHOICENEW AMSTERDAM - Elvis Costello

CLYDE: CURRENT CHOICE

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LUXEMBOURG: POWERPLAYTO BE OR NOT TO BE - B.A. Robertson

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MANX ALBUM OF THE WEEKLET ME LOVE YOU ONCE - Kenny Johnson

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BAKER, ADRIAN Crazy About You Polo 3 (C/ CR)

BOND, RONNIE It's Written On Your Body Mercury MER 13 (F)

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COCKBURN, BRUCE Wondering Where The Lions Are RCA FB1786

CHALLENOR, JACKIE Mama WEA K 18207 (W)

DARTS Let's Hang On Magnet MAG 174 (A)

DETROIT SPINNERS Body Language Atlantic K 11392 (WI

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DOLLAR Love Street Carrere CAR 148 (W)

DICKSON, BARBARA InThe Night Epic EPC 8593 (C)

DUPREE, ROBBIE Steal Away Elektra K 12450 (W)

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA I'm Alive Jet 179 (C)

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FIALKA, KAREL The Eyes Have It Blue Print BLU 2005 (A)

FLEETWOOD MAC Think About Me Warner Brothers K17614 (W)

FITZGERALD, ELLA Every Time We Say Goodbye Verve 2009 017 ( F)

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GOLD, ANDREW Kiss This One Goodbye Elektra/Asylum K 12441 (W)

GRIFF, ZAINE Ashes & Diamonds Automatic K 17610 (W)

GENESIS Duchess Charisma CB 363 (F)

GRADUATE Ever Met A Day Precision PAR 104 (AI

HAYWARD, JUSTIN Night Flight Decca F 13888 (S)

HARTMAN, DAN Free Ride SKY 8562 (Cl

MAR, SAMMY Heartbeat Capitol RED 1 (E)

HOWELL EDDIE Hatcheck Girl Gem GEMS 27(R)

HOLLIES Soldiers Song Polydor 2059 246 (F)

HUANG CHUNG Isn't It About Time Re -Wind RE -WIND 1 (P)

HALLIOATES Running From Paradise RCA RUN 1 (R)

HYMAN, PHYLLIS Under Your Spell Arista AR 1ST 343 (F)

HOLMES, RUPERT Partners In Crime MCA 600 (C)

IAN, JANIS The Other Side Of The Sun CBS 8611 (C)

JAGS Party Games Island WIP 6587 (E)

JOHN, ELTON Little Jeannie Rocket XPRES 32(F)

JOEL, BILLY You May Be Right CBS 8643(C)

JOHNSON, AL I'm Back For More CBS 8545 (C)

JOURNEY Any Way You Want It CBS 8559 (C)

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KORGIS Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime Rialto TREB 115 (A)

KINNEY, FERN I Want You Back Atlantic K 79136 (W)

KENNY, GERARD Fantasy RCA PB 5256 (R)

KNIGHT, GLADYSIPIPS Landlord CBS 8542 (C)

KROKUS Heatstrokes Ariola ARO 233 (A)

KAHN, CHAKA Clouds Warner Brothers K 17617 (W)

LAING, SHONA Don't Tell Me EMI 5053 El

LAWS, RONNIE Every Generation United Artists UP 626 (El

LAST, JAMES The Seduction Polydor PD 2071 (F)

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LAINE, DENNY Japanese Tears Scratch HS 401 (A)

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MANHATTAN TRANSFER Twilight Zone Atlantic K 11476 (W)

MALCOLM, CARLOS Bonanza SKA Island WIP 6563 (E)

MOTORS That's What John Said Virgin VS 349 (C)

MARSH, PETER Don't Be Foolish Polydor

MARLY, BOB Could You Be Loved Island WIP 6610(W)

9 BELOW ZERO Homework ABM AMS 7531 IC)

ODDS Yesterday Man JSO EAT 1 (P)

ONLY ONES Fools CBS 8355 (C)

PAT TRAVERS BAND Is This Love Polydor POSP 144 (F)

PRELUDE Platinum Blonde EMI 5046 (El

PARKER, GRAHAM Stupefaction Stiff BUY 72(C)

PETERS, BERNARDME Gee Whizz MCA 590 (C)

PHOTOS Irene Epic EPC 8517 IC)

ROBERTSON, B.A. To Be Or Not To Be Elektra Asylum K 12449 (WI

RAYDIO Two Places At The Same Time Arista ARIST 344 (F)

ROGERS, KENNYICARNES Don't Fall In Love UA UP 625

RAFFERTY, GERRY Royal Mile UA BP 354 (El

REGENTS See You Later Arista ARIST 350 (F)

RONSTADT, LINDA Hurt So Bad Asylum K 12444

SEDAKA, NEIL Letting Go Polydor 2059 248 (F)

SAD CAFE Nothing Left Toulouse RCA SAD 4 (F)

SPRINGWATER Move A Little Closer Fabulous JC 6(A)

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Tin Soldiers Chrysalis CHS 2424 (F)

SPIDER New Romance Dreamland

SISTER SLEDGE Easy Street Atlantic K11455 (WI

SLICK, GRACE Dreams RCA PB 9534 (131

SQUEEZE Pulling Mussels ABM AMS 7523 (C)

SHAKIN' STEVENS Hey Mae Epic EPC 8573 (C)

SHO NUFF It's Alright Ensign ENY 37 (F)

SHARPE, ROCKY A Teenager In Love Chiswick CHIS 128

STYX Lights ABM AMS 7528 (C)

TEENA MARIE Behind The Groove Motown TMG 1185

TOUCH The Spirit Moves You Ariola ARO 2090 (A)

THIN LIZZY Chinatown Vertigo LIZZY 6 (F)

THREE DEGREES Star Light Ariola ARO 228 (A)

STEWART, ROD If Loving You Is Wrong Riva 23 (El

VALLI, FRANKIE Passion For Paris MCA 572 (CI

WARWICK, DIONNE I'll Never Love This Way Arista ARIST 276 I F)

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'MCC It Doesn't Matter Mercury LOOK 2 (F)

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A hit singerout ofoffice hoursDON'T GIVE up your day job.Not yet anyway. That's thefeeling of Bobby Thurston, a 36 -year -old government analystfrom Washington DC, who hasbeen enjoying UK chart successwith his Epic single, Check OutThe Groove.

But Thurston did take a fewdays off work to pay apromotional visit to the UK, do afew interviews, make a video andgo through the old routine.

His story goes something likethis: he began studying musicseriously while still at highschool, joined the school bandchoir, went to work in thestates department and formed hisfirst band, Spectrum Ltd.

"I initially played the congasand sang backing vocals," heexplains, "But after a while theband's personnel changed and Itook over on lead vocals."During one of the band'sengagements, Thurston wasintroduced to producers WillieLester and Rodney Brown andthe three have worked togethercontinually since that time.

The current single is takenfrom Thurston's debut album,You Got What It Takes, and thetitle track will be the next UKsingle.

Thurston adds: "I just want toconcentrate on music. I've stillgot a lot to learn." So, for thetime being at least, it's back tothe office, to await futuredevelopments.

Why Denny Laine went toScratch to go it aloneWINGS CO-FOUNDER DennyLaine, pictured right, has released anew single, Japanese Tears, but on anew independent label as opposed toone of the big record companies.The disc is issued by ScratchRecords, which was started as RockCity and based in Shepperton,Middlesex.

The title of the song perhaps givesa strong clue to the single's subject:Wings' ill-fated tour of Japan earlierthis year and the Japanese fans'subsequent disappointment.

Laine says of the decision torelease the single on Scratch: "To behonest, I'm not too keen on some ofthe big record companies - theytend not to be too close to what isactually going on and do everythingin a very business -like way."

Laine's commitment with Wingscontinues although he will recordsolo whenever he can. In June heplays a solo UK tour, his first formore than a decade, on which he willbe accompanied by Wings drummerSteve Holly, Andy Richard fromThe Strawbs and Gordon Sellarfrom Beggars Opera. He also has analbum, which he first started 12months ago, lined up for release.

"The album will feature quite across-section of material," he says."Some of the songs will be ones thatwere recorded by Wings but neverreleased. The styles will vary fromrock and roll to folky material. I

played Paul (McCartney) JapaneseTears, about three weeks ago when Ireceived the finished pressing. Heliked it."

PrideE of the provincesTHE BEST of the new bands from the provinces will feature in a series of sixconcerts to be presented by the London Institute of Contemporary Art betweenJune 17 and 22. The event will be billed as the ICA Rockweek and is beingpresented in conjunction with Capital Radio.

Three of the shows will be given over to bands from Rockburgh Records'recently -released Hicks From The Sticks compilation album, which featuresbands from the provincial rock scene. Those appearing include Wah Heat,Modern Eon, Airkraft, Music For Pleasure, The Distributors, Radio 5, TheyMust Be Russians and Medium Medium.

Other bands to be featured during the week include Glaxo Babies, The Fall,A Certain Ratio, Ludus and The Diagram Brothers.

News inbrief...Hayward soloLP in JuneA NEW Justin Hayward soloalbum, Night Flight (Decca TXS138), produced by Jeff Wayne, isreleased during June - the firstsuch venture between the two,although Hayward did have aTop Five hit with ForeverAutumn from Wayne's War OfThe Worlds album. The titletrack has also been released as asingle.

New singlefrom UB40UB40 RELEASE the follow-upto their Top Five record,King/Food For Thought, withanother double A -sided single, IThink It's Going To Rain, an oldRandy Newman song, and theirown My Way Of Thinking. Theband are currently headliningtheir first big UK tour.

Saga datesSAGA WILL be touring withStyx on all their European dateswhich include three nights atLondon's Hammersmith Odeonon June 20, 21 and 22.Coinciding with the tour Polydoris releasing a special edition Sagasingle which includes a remixedversion of Slow Motion from theImages At Twilight album.

1-111P SHEET

Uttal: ready to lendan ear to new talentTHE MAN who brought us BellRecords and Private Stock andintroduced to the recordingworld Blondie, David Cassidy,Bay City Rollers, Gary Glitter,David Soul and Frankie Valli,American Larry Uttal, has nowchosen London to form a newlabel, Earlobe Records, and heis looking for bands, acts, tapesand masters for the label.

"What I would like to do isdevelop three important new acts,"he says. "If it's done in threesignings, great: if it takes six or eightto get the three, I'll do it. I want tobuild quality not quantity. I don'twant the responsibility of a largestable of artists, that's for themajors."

Uttal decided to set up his newlabel here rather than America forpersonal ("I have always loved ithere") and business ("I've alwaysbeen successful in the UK and inEurope") reasons.

Business plusses include thesuccessful proliferation of smallindependent labels here; that the UKis singles -oriented while in the US anearly album release is still vital; USairplay only goes to major acts andrecord companies and it is lessexpensive to tour this country.

"I feel that in the UK one can befar more creative and imaginative.You can try things musically herethat everyone is afraid to try inAmerica." Ideally he would like todivide his time between London andNew York, but will not be setting upany business connections in the USuntil he is firmly established over

LARRY UTTAL: wants to developthree new acts.

here."I may go back to look for

product in America, but probablynot even that," he says.

However, Uttal is now talking tocompanies in Europe with an eye todoing licensing deals for the labeland sub -publishing for his EarshotMusic. All territories are free. In theUK he has a licensing deal with Pye:"I have Eardrum Productions onhold for later times," he says.

Interested acts and Europeancompanies should contact Uttal at:Earlobe Records, 14 BourdonStreet, London W.1. (01) 493 0270.

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Tel: 01-439 9756

Ovation out to sign UK actsOVATION IS one of those American companies involved in many areas of entertainment - records, musicpublishing, films and TV. Although best known as a leading country music label in the US, it had five records in thecountry charts in January, Ovation has already had success in Europe with Cleveland Eaton's Bama Boogie Woogieand I'm Lonely Tonight. These records charted here through the efforts of David Howells, who is now heading thecompany in the UK and Europe, and is in the process of picking up artists and negotiating deals in Europe for thelabel and publishing companies, Creative Music.

Founder and owner Dick Schorychose this moment to move intoEurope not only to exploit hissuccessful catalogue whichincludes The Kendalls and JoeSun, but to get Howell's feedbackon British acts suitable for releasein America. This year the companyhas started an expansionprogramme into the pop/AORmarket with acts like Tantrum,singer/songwriter Mark Gaddisand Howells' first signing TheBrothers Jones.

So what type of product wouldbest suit the label and Howells? "Ionly know when I hear it! My maininterest has always been in findingtalent. We've signed a couple ofnew wave acts. You know new

DAVID HOWELLS, OvationRecords UK and Dick Schory,president Ovation.

wave is spelled P.O.P," saysHowells.

In Europe, Ovation Records isstill looking for distribution inItaly, Spain and France. CreativeMusic which has signed theOvation artists is free for Spainand Italy.

"I think with this label and theinternational potential of itsartists, the future looks good,"says Howells. "Opportunities donot stop because business is quiet.We are looking into lots of thingsand ready for business". ContactOvation Records and DavidHowells at 169 Willesden HighRoad, London NWIO. (01) 4598658.

Wanted: more bands for Gun labelHAVING WORKED hard at getting Gun Records off theground, directors Barry Kirsch and Tony Satchell nowfeel the time is right to sign one more act to the label.

Gun Records was born out of Candle Music, set up lastyear as a publishing, production and jingles companyaround the talents of songwriter/producer Barry Kirsch.Fellow director was Jan Harrison, who came from theworld of banking, and deals with the financial andadministrative side of the companies.

"We did two very good masters with Spitfire and MarkZed, but having done the rounds of the majors, where wegot good reactions but slow decisions, we got bored anddecided to set up our own label," explains Kirsch.

Tony Satchell, who had been a director of DartRecords for six years, was asked to set up Gun Records."I jumped at the chance as I strongly feel that the smallindependent record companies are the only future for therecord business," says Satchell.

"We are currently looking for a band who are giggingregularly. We feel that, with airplay tight, it is ofparamount importance that a band works regularly. Atterall, if people can't hear a band's material, havingsomething on vinyl achieves nothing."

Gun has tied up a manufacturing agreement with NickFlower of Island Manufacturing and a distribution dealwith Tom Macdonell of Spartan.

The company will be singles oriented and featurerock/new wave music. "We want to get to the level whereit is happening for the kids," says Satchell. "You goaround and hear so many good bands that should begetting a chance. They are so much better than what isbeing mass produced. We want our label to have a familyfeel where the artists are able to question our decisions. Ifwe can't justify them, then they're no good." ContactTony Satchell or send demos to Gun Records, 101-103Baker Street, London W1M 2BE. (01) 935 3906.

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bySIMON HILLS

VCL nets Rondor agreement

The Average White Band were recorded at an empty Rainbow to run throughtheir set for video, which comprises most of the tracks on their latest albumShine. The video, directed by Mike Mansfield is part, of Boots special Musicvideo package being launched next month.

A SPECIFICALLY madevideo production of SusanGeorge is released on June 1- with VCL coming to apioneering agreement withthe publishers, Rondor,while the company is alsoreleasing a 30 minute videoalbum of the Average WhiteBand filmed at the RainbowTheatre.

Both videos were directed andproduced by the pop promotionalfilm maker Mike Mansfield withAWB as an in -concert styleproduction and Susan George shotentirely on location with Longleat,Stonehenge and Legends night clubamong the sets.

VCL described the agreement itmade with Rondor for the SusanGeorge video as a "majorbreakthrough", as at the time therewas no MCPS agreement. And thecompany is now negotiating with

Now, on video cassette,the first title in our special summer selection.

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- and sumptuously- recreates thedecadence of Berlin in the 1920's.

The 12 million Deutschemark budgetmakes it Germany's most lavish post-warproduction.

This is the film that brought Dietrichback to the screen after 17 years inretirement.

Witty and frequently touching, it is thestory of a young Prussian army officer(DAVID BOWIE) bitter and disillusionedby Imperial Germany's defeat in the FirstWorld War.

Footloose and fancy-free, he driftsinto a left-wing workers group but laterfalls in with a bunch of decadent Nazis(led by DAVID HEMMINGS).

Soon after though, he discovers thathis vulnerability makes him desperatelyattractive to women.

A Prussian General's widow (KIMNOVAK) takes him in hand and providesa decentwardrobe of fine new clothing.

He realises he can make acomfortable living from rich elderly ladiesand shortly afterwards is formalyrecruited into a band of similar youngmen by MARLENE DIETRICH.

He has become "Just a Gigolo':

Directed by David Hemmings andshot on location in Berlin, and in Paris.

Music by Manhattan Transfer and thePasadena Roof Orchestra.

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Amanda Lear, Europe's Discoqueen, stars in her pulsatinglydifferent new show- recordedentirely in concert.

Average White Band and SusanGeorge each appear in their ownmusic shows- both speciallyproduced and recorded by VCL.

Other exciting new music titles tofollow include big -name bands likeBlack Sabbath, Thin Lizzy andBoomtown Rats.

Fans of horror and the macabrewill appreciate "Death Trap'; abrand-new release gruesomelydirected by Tobe Hooper (the directorof "Texas Chain Saw Massacre").

All this new material- and there'seven more on the way -is availableonly from VCL.

And none of this material has everbeen shown on television.

If you'd like to be kept up to date onour latest releases, just send us thecoupon.

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various record companies for thevideo to be released on an audioalbum, which would be a first forthe industry.

"We had to negotiate directlywith John Velasco of Interworld andBob Grace at Rondor," saidexecutive producer Mike Leander."We based it on a standard synchlicense fee, plus a royalty of anagreed percentage of the retailselling price on each cassette.

"Since the news of thisagreement, other publishers haveshown their willingness to releasetheir product to us for future videocassette productions."

VCL MD Steve Webber would notdisclose what the royalty rate is, butit is understood that it is well belowthe level set out by the MCPS. Thecompany has also produced videocassettes of the Boomtown Rats andBlack Sabbath.

Songs used on the Susan GeorgeInclude Love Story, You CameAlong, I Know I'll Never Love ThisWay Again and Old Fashioned LoveSong, while the Average White Bandcassette comprises seven tracks fromthe Shine album.

Susan George: VCL hopes to releasean audio album of the numbersincluded on her video special.

Spaceward offeringdemos for £40RECORD PRODUCTION company Spaceward is now offering video demosfor clients in the studio or on location designed to give bands a chance to seehow well they come over visually.

The basic cost is £40 on top of a day session at the studio (£140 plus VAT),although more elaborate videos independent of audio sessions can also bemade. A location shoot in London would cost £125 including transport andone hour's editing.

Spaceward's equipment includes a Hitatchi colour EMG camera andportable Hitatchi U-matic video cassette recorder as well as a Sony U-matic,Triniton monitors, a Sony black and white camera and Berkly Colortranlighting for work in the studio. Copies are available on both VHS and Betamaxformats.

However, because of the low cost, editing is done, shot by shot at the sametime as they shoot, so performances have to be carefully planned. TheCambridge company says that video demos will soon be as important to recordcompanies as audio demos are now.

Details can be obtained from Gary Lucas on 0223 64263.

First production manualTHE FIRST video disc production

manual is being published byNord Media - the company thatorganised the Vid '80conference - designed forpublishers, film, television andrecord producers who want tomake video disc programmes.

It is edited by Andrew Maxwell -Hyslop who produced theWorldwide/Philips video discThrough British Eyes and has

Roseman'steamAFTER SEVERAL upheavals, JonRoseman's production team inLondon now comprises of producerMark Hickmott (ex Moving PictureCompany) and Henritetta Roper.The company has taken on the SexPistols, Rock and Roll Swindledirector Julian Temple as a fulltime staff member.

done a demonstration video discfor EMI Videograms.

Called simply the Video DiscProduction Manual it is priced at£39 or 585 for America.

MRS issuesrate cardsTHE MRS MCPS has published ratecards for music royalty payments onvideo cassettes and discs (see MWApril 5), along with an MRS releaseexplaining the categories forpayment and the costs involved.

Videos will be licensedimmediately and MCPS MD RobertMontgomery stressed that unlessthey are notified to the contrary,they will "assume that they areacting on behalf of all MCPS andMRS members." But he also made itclear that a copyright owner candecide not to use the MCPS as anintermediary at anytime.

Pye gets VideoViewPYE'S VIDEO subsidiary, Precision Video, will now distribute VideoViewproduct, which consists of the first ever video language courses.

Under the overall title of Hello World each language is on a 90 minute cassetteand contains 10 lessons. RRP is £39.95 including VAT and they are packagedin special plastic cases for continuous use. The first courses are for French andEnglish with Spanish, Italian and German following afterwards.

Precision Video also distributes product from Electric Picture Palace,Derann Films, IPC Video and Mountain Films as well as 3m blank tapes andaccessories.

MUSIC WEEK MAY 31, 1980

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Selling in the halcyon dazeIT IS fitting that the latestentertainment industry shouldhold its conference, Video '80,in the vast computerised ICCconference centre in Berlin -but ironic that with all themodern technology at itsdisposal, the video industry stillhas to resolve the humanproblems of marketing, rights,compatibility of systems andsimple promotion andadvertising.

Figures quoted are becoming farmore concrete as the marketexpands, but one of the overridingproblems discussed in Berlin washow best to persuade the public thatvideo is a good thing to have amongthis confusion, and to buy nowrather than later.

If the industry is constantlythwarted by the vaste hurdles itfaces, then the public is hardly goingto be keen to take it up.

OptimismHowever, sales and rentals of

home video cassette recorders haveexceeded the most optimisticpredictions, while the public seemsto have been prepared to pay largeamounts of money for product theycould get elsewhere, especially withfeature films. And despite its cost,video is recognised as a cash andcarry item - and there wasvociferous debate as to who is goingto sell product, both hard andsoftware.

One of the most relevant speechescame from Gene Kahn, vice

president of ColumbiaBroadcasting, which has set up aspecial video shop, seen by manyhardware manufacturers as the mostlikely outlet to succeed in sellingproduct, combining hard andsoftware.

"In 1977 we thought that anyonewho would pay between $60 and $70for an old movie on video cassettemust be crazy. But in 1978 ouraverage sales inventory was 200pieces a month, in 1979 it was 640pieces while the average mark uphad increased by 39 per cent," hesaid.

"In 1980 we have had othercompanies enter our marketplaceand sales have gone up with theirentrance. Our sales have beenhighest in the first quarter of thisyear and our average monthlyinventory is 740 pieces. We expect tosell 2,500 pieces by the end of 1980."

The reason behind these sales,said Kahn, was that the store made abig investment with a large cataloguein both formats (Beta and VHS arethe only notable consumer machineson the US market). He added thatthey have been "taken aback" bythe increase in sales and said thatalthough there are predictions of550,000 software sales in America bythe end of 1980, under currenttrends that figure could reach900,000.

However, from London, GaryPownall of EMI Videograms gave asombre warning that, for sales to beat a maximum, the retailer must beprepared to make an effort to sellproduct, keep an eye on trends andnot demand either sale or return orexcessive mark up (MW May 24).

GARY POWNALL of EMIVideogram

The public

must bepersuaded

to buy nowratherthan later

Kahn has also looked at theformats that Columbia has beenselling, including its hardwaresection, and predicted that the VHSto Betamax ratio will be 10 to 1,something that must be of concernto dealers as well as Sony.

But Shozo Kawakami of Sonymade it clear that his companycertainly was not prepared to throwin the towel. According toKawakami, Sony is 10 per centahead of its target for sales this yearand manufactures 25 per cent of thehardware in the world.

Sales, he said, had been "muchquicker than expected", and theBeta system has 31 per cent of theWestern European market. "Sonyannounced that it would have onemillion Betamax by the end of thisyear and the penetration is onlythree to four per cent," he said.

Giving a more general picture,Frans van Lier from the DutchAudio-Visueel expanded on hispredictions from the Nord MediaVid '80 conference. He estimatedthat by 1984 there will be 6.7 millionrecorders in Europe. There are now200,000 in private households inBritain, of these, 50 per cent arerented.

But while the hardwaremanufacturers and video punditspredict a boom period over the nextdecade, the software people are leftwith the problems they have causedwith incompatibility, and rights androyalty payments still have to besorted out so the industry is still byno means driving up an easy road tosuccess.

One retailer, Jurgen Christcommented: "The prerequisites the

dealer has to have in order to sellpre-recorded cassettes are fairlyhigh. The capital outlay is high, thespace has to be large and the staffhave to be trained. The question ofsecurity in this business can't beanswered in five or 10 years, but hasto be answered now."

But he got no joy. The only firmsellers in the software field arefeature films, and although themarket could be a steady one withsimultaneous release of a featurefilm on video cassette, once the oldmovies have been taken up andreached their saturation point, newproduct will be needed.

Copyright issueBut whatever happens, sales will

not be able to sort out the questionof royalties and copyrights. Nor willit stamp out counterfeiting.

From the IFPI in Hamburg, DrNorbert Thurow put the problems ofthe software market intoperspective.

"Piracy is simply programmetheft as we are not selling a piece ofplastic - that is simply the carrier ofa programme. But the programme isnot a tangible asset, although it canbe traded," he said. "Up to 50 percent of the costs of producing a

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ECIFROM PAGE 17video cassette are the rights thathave to be paid to the musicians andauthors before one can legallyproduce the product, while only 40per cent is the cost price. Video islegally the same as film, but thereare two rights we have to fight for.

"First is the distribution right,which turns the programme intomoney, and secondly of course arethe royalties."

At the same time, Thurowdescribed how easy it is for peopleto bypass the payment of thosecosts, especially with the relativelylow price of professional copyingequipment while the pirate loses nomoney as he goes straight for thehits. And he issued a stern warningto the dealer.

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Piracy is not the dealers' onlyproblem. Decisions have to be madewhether to sell or rent, which titleswill be the best moving how much toinvest in expensive items and howmuch space should be devoted tothem.

Talking about the Americanexperience, Martin Roberts of theCATV Newsletter gave the mostenlightening analysis of currentretailing trends.

The keyword for 1980 is "videosystems", as the TV is becoming amonitor that can carry many visualoptions, and the idea of sellingsystems will be a profitable one."Today we are concerned with thefirst step of that concept. Currently,

1.4 million video cassette recordershave been sold in the US. Sales forthe first few months of this yearhave been up 60 per cent comparedto last year.

"Even though there is a suspicionthat the software market will havedifficult times ahead, there is a beliefthat when the time comes thecompanies will shift to video discsystems when they have had theexperience of handling tape.

"The most successful dealers arethe ones with the largest range withpedestrian traffic for 12 to 18 hoursa day. Many video shops havefolded, but they have tended not tohave a large range. Yet a shop insouthern California expanded andgrossed $8 million in 1978, and lastyear went bust.

"There have been less than 12productions for the video market,and the idea of originalprogramming has not materialised".

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Clennel has Graciefor Box On filmLINDSAY CLENNEL has includedthe rock and roll star Charlie Graciefor his film Box On, currentlyshowing in London and is planningto negotiate a record deal as a result,with the possibility of a video releaseof the artist.

Mansfield expansionPRODUCTION COMPANY Mike Mansfield Enterprises has continued itsexpansion with its new building by installing copying facilities.

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CHART CERTS:SAD CAFENothing Left Toulouse (RCA SAD4, RCA)THE BROTHERS JOHNSONLight Up The Night (12", AMSP7526, CBS)DOLLARLove Street (Carrere CAR 148,WEA)JUSTIN HAYWARDNight Flight (Decca F 13888,PolyGram)

EL COCOLet's Get It Together (AVI, AVISL109 - 12", Pye). Even if this soundssomewhat predictable, it possesseswarm, romantic feel for hot summerevenings, from Cocomotion hit team(31, 1978). 7.25 on 12", remixedfrom previous version. Flip, 10.27 ofCocomotion '79 plus original take oftitle cut.JOAN ARMATRADINGMe Myself I (A&M AMS 7527,CBS). Major airplay, Radio One DJpick, colour bag. Love AndAffection (10, 1976) is only previouscharting of very talented artist. UKtour, May 24 - June 19, all majorcities. Strident tones, good hardhitting drums. Possibilities. Albumof same name (AMLH 64809).REAL THINGRainin' Through My Sunshine (Pye7P 178, Pye). EP, ties in with RealThing 20 Greatest (NE 1073), CanYou Feel The Force, You To Me AreEverything, Can't Get By WithoutYou included.MAGAZINEUpside Down (Virgin VS 334,Virgin). Reminiscent of Private Lifeby the Pretenders, in backing mix;colourful, inventive, rich incontrasts. Deserves major chartingbut band sadly ignored by media.Quality pop 45.REGENTSSee You Later (Arista ARIST 350,Arista). 7Teen (11, 1980) team,colour bag, girls warble a la DebbieHarry, tongue-in-cheek lyric givenstraight vocal delivery. After debutsmash it will doubtless sell, butneeds TOTP to enforce groupidentity.FERN KINNEYI Want You Back (Malaco K 79136,WEA). Formula title riff, little elseon rather jaded disc. No initialmagic of Together We Are Beautiful(1, 1980), sales doubtless from thatmemory, if enough to chart theneven this might eventually score.LINDA RONSTADTHurt So Bad (Asylum K 12444,WEA). Mad Love LP cut (K52210).Usual firm sure delivery, downregister, expected mid -way guitarthrash. US hit. Unattractive pic bag.SALLY TOWNSHENDJust One Look (OBM, OBM 1005,Pye). Immediate driving number,song has slightly dated feel,reminiscent in treatment and vocaldelivery of Bobby's Girl by SusanMaughan. Picking up airplay.RIO & THE ROBOTSLunar Letter (Wonderful WON 1,Spartan). Mid -way perk withrousing finale but may suffer fromlength of build-up which maysuggest there is nothing to comewhen producers go through recordstack. Debut release for KLO.WILD FANTASYGet Ready (Dazzle DAZS 2, Pye).Temptations (10, 1969) remould,

lively, toe -tapper; intense girl vocalsalone, over beat; good sax pick-upgives rounded feel.VIBRATORSDisco In Mosco (Rat Race, RAT 4,Indie). Good alternative sales on lastsingle, remake of Gimme SomeLovin', augurs well for livelyforceful follow-up disc. Urgentvocals with deep bass back-ups forhumour, effect on title. Pic bag.FASHIONSilver Blades (Faulty FM 003,Faulty). Pic bag, clever outfit whocannot resist laying down catchybacking but destroy initial directthrust by cavorting on vocals,instrumental. Much gigged.LIPPS INCFunkytown (Casbah CANL 194,12" Pye). First cut from four artistband, currently popular in US, onenote enlivened by strings, synth,posers beat for staring under guiseof participation.STEPASIDESit Down And Relapse (Gale 2,Indie). Chugging rocker, vocal raspof "ass" will not endear toprogrammers, competent butdoesn't sound like a hit.PHYLLIS HYMANKiss You All Over/Under Your Spell(Arista 343, Arista). Ordinary takeof Exile hit. Under Your Spell,smooth riding handclapper, this asother cut doesn't initially appear theneeded "strong" one to follow YouKnow How To Love Me (47, 1980),giving higher charting.FRANCISCO YGLESIATheme From M.A.S.H. (EMI 5067,EMI). Seems beaten by CBS version,all instrumental take, no attempt atre -interpretation.VOYAGERSing Out - Love Is Easy (MountainTOP 54, RCA). Jerky Doobies,Michael Omartian style, soundsrather dated on well performed butuninspiring disc where falsettos onvocals add little. Clear productionsound. Pic bag.THE MEMBERSFlying Again (Virgin VS 352,Virgin). Recorders of classic SoundOf The Suburbs search forsomething as good - this is not.Lots of noise on good idea. Shouldshow up around Top 75. Flip veryordinary.STYXLights (A&M AMSP 752 - 12",CBS). Search for hit follow-up toBabe continues. This is a soft rockerwith group vocal chorus pleasant butno more. From LP, Cornerstone(AMLK 63711). Back to colouredvinyl? This in strong, sales catchingsleeve plus free Styx patch mighthelp.BELOW ZEROHomework (A&M AMS 7531,CBS). Raunchy blues tinged rockercrying for mouth harp but doesn'tget. Pic bag.RAY STEVENSHey There (RCA PB 9525, RCA).Classic song given mix of straight,rather unfunny treatment. NoStevens charisma this time.DARYL HALL AND JOHNOATESRunning From Paradise (RCA RUN- 1, RCA). More Doobies d la1979, with disco ingredient added oninstrumentation, only enliveningthough jaded plus on ordinary songwith talented artists reduced totailoring vocals to suit assumedpopular sound.

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Gold Seal pricesreduced to £2.99RCA IS reducing the retail priceof the mid -price Gold Sealrecords from £3.25 to £2.99 tospearhead a new campaignpromoting the label which isbeing expanded by the additionof 10 new re -issues.

The Gold Seal label has been verysuccessful since its launch in October1978 - twice it has won the MTAAward for Best Bargain Record ofthe Year - and sales have nowexceeded 200,000.

The attractive packaging, the top -line artists (Bream, Galway, Previnand Rubinstein are included) and theaggressive marketing have all playeda part in the success.

And this new campaign is typical.There is consumer incentive in thedrop in price - important in that ittakes the label below the £3 barrier,making it very competitive - andconsumer interest in the newadditions.

These include an Offenbachpopular programme with the BostonPops Orchestra under Fiedler(GL/GK 43193); Mozart's SinfoniaConcertante played by Josef Sukand Josef Kodousek and the PragueChamber Orchestra, coupled withMozart's Violin Concerto No 2(GL/GK 25284); Tchaikovsky's1812 Overture coupled withRachmaninov's Spring Cantataplayed by the New PhilharmoniaOrchestra under Igor Buketoff(GL/GK 42924); and a popularStrauss Waltzes disc called Vienna In

Waltztime (GK/GL 25263) withRobert Stolz conducting the BerlinSymphony Orchestra and the ViennaSymphony Orchestra.

But there are other releases ofmore specialist interest, includingKorngold's Symphony conducted byRudolf Kempe (GL/GK 42919) andKhachaturian's Symphony No 3 andother works conducted by LeopoldStokowski (GK/GL 42923).

RCA is also running a specialpromotion with lots of point ofsale/display material, including asix -page two-colour leaflet coveringall 83 Gold Seal records, posters,browser cards and £2.99 pricestickers.

There will be Gold Sealadvertising in national newspapersas well as the music papers, and acatalogue leaflet will be inserted intoGramophone magazine and thesleeves of all new stock.

There is also a direct dealerincentive in the points system basedon units purchased, enabling thedealer to choose between winningprizes or earning additionaldiscount.

"Reductions in retail prices havebeen made by other companies forlimited periods, but this is not whatRCA is doing," says RCAspokesman Ray Crick. "We feel thatthis is the appropriate price for themarket - and we are convincedthat, because this will make GoldSeals even more competitive, it willincrease sales."

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From onestar toanotherGLENDA JACKSON (left)presented the Spanish sopranoVictoria de los Angeles with a golddisc for sales of her HMV recordingswhich now have exceeded threemillion, a number already increasingrapidly following the release ofSongs of the Auvergne.

The presentation was made at theDuke of York's Theatre duringEncore - An Evening with Victoriade los Angeles, when the sopranotalked about her life and career toAlan Sievewright. An edited versionof the evening will be transmitted onCapital Radio.

CBS enters the world of danceNijinsky soundtrack plus limited edition, Dancer's Choice, issuedDANCE IS the theme of two CBS releases this month, afilm tie-in, and a limited edition. Nijinsky, the major newParamount film which stars Alan Bates, Lesley Brown,Alan Badel and others, has a film score including some ofthe most popular ballet music.

It includes Weber's Invitation to the Dance,Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, and other works byDebussy, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schumann, played by anumber of CBS artists including Bernstein, Boulez,Mehta and Stravinsky himself.

The disc is the third covering film music to be recentlyreleased by CBS - Manhattan and Kramer v Kramerhave already been heavily promoted.

Nijinsky has its royal premiere at the Empire,Leicester Square, on June 25 attended by PrincessMargaret, and then goes to exclusive presentation at theABC Shaftesbury Avenue indefinitely.

The record (73885 and on cassette £4.99) will bereleased in June, though details of the supportingcampaign were not available at the time of going to press.

Nijinsky will, however, form part of a dealer pack of 12records for the price of 10, containing three copies of thenew disc, plus back catalogue. A poster comes with thepack advertising the three film records. The backcatalogue will include product by John Williams andFrederica von Stade, plus music from the two other films,Kramer v Kramer and Manhattan, and Williams, and vonStade counter cards.

The second dance disc is a limited edition of just 500records of Dancer's Choice, a 2 -LP box set of music fromthe dance world chosen by Vera Zorina, widow of formerpresident of Columbia, the entrepreneur GoddardLieberson.

The set (79232 £9.59), contains excerpts from thePolovtsian Dances, Les Sylphides, Giselle, Swan Lake,The Nutcracker and many others conducted by Beecham,Bernstein, Boulez, Entremont, Ormandy and Stravinsky.

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FERMINWITH MAJOR andindependent labels alikesending out SOS signals asthe Seventies wound to aclose, Chrysalis wasprojecting a $4 millionincrease in gross revenues for1979 - a rise of almost 25per cent over the previousyear's $17 million. Otherswere firing staff members inlarge numbers whileChrysalis added a fewpositions. Branch and indie-distributed labels set variouskinds of new returns ceilingsand policies but Chrysalisinsisted: "We're stayingexactly as we are."

Stateside president Sal Licatta ishardly oblivious of the general stateof the record industry. His label'sunit sales per disc are off just as areeveryone else's, but as Licatta seesit, the company's overall philosophyhas held expansion in check andmaintained growth projections atrealistic levels.

"Some companies might tell youthey're hot right now, as we are,"says Licatta. "But I also know that Icould be selling more Blondie LPsright now if business was better.Companies feel that because they'rereleasing a Fleetwood Mac or a LedZeppelin or an Eagles that theindustry is now healthy. It isn'thealthy. It's only going to be healthywhen recession and inflation start todecrease."

Chrysalis is unique in theAmerican market from severalstandpoints. The Terry Ellis/ChrisWright -founded label began its lifehere under a pressing anddistribution agreement with WarnerBros. and, counter to the trend,

One of the few record companies inAmerica which has not spent the past 12months firing staff in the face of fallingprofits has been the British -owned ChrysalisRecords. Set up as an independent onlythree years ago in the US, Chrysalis is now

established as a major company there andmuch of the credit for its growth must goto SAL LICATTA, recently promoted topresident of Chrysalis Records Inc. IRAMAYER spoke to him in Los Angelesabout the secret of his company's success.

opted for independent distributionin September, 1976. The lesson ofthe tenure with Warners was,according to Licatta, that "You'vegot to control your own destiny."

Chrysalis is unique, too, in thatdespite its relatively small size (and,in some ways, because of it), thelabel has accomplished a level ofinternational co-ordination that israre.

"One advantage that we have,"says Licatta, "is that we do getsimultaneous releases with the UKcompany. We work very closely withthem and they with us. We discusswhere their problems are, say, withart work, and by the same tokenthey must understand our needs."

DisparityObviously for some artists

simultaneous international release ismore desirable than for others -aBlondie, who is big on both sides ofthe Atlantic; a Jethro Tull, who isbigger Stateside, but nonethelesswith a significant UK following; aRobin Trower, whose fame in theUK is greater than here. For actswhere the disparity is even moreextreme, spreading the releaseschedule can be more advantageous,but either option is available.

The heart of Chrysalis's successformula in the States, however, isindeed its sales and distributionphilosophy, such as it is.

"We have 16 independentdistributors representing ourproduct," explains Licatta, "andwe've given them a lot of territory to

make them strong - very much likea branch operation, where a majormay have 12 branches around thecountry."

The 16 are a territorialbreakdown, a majority of the actualdistributorships being a part of thePickwick network (itself a branch-like operation given its size and itscentralised buying power) andaccounting for just over 40 per centof Chrysalis's business. As has beentrue of Arista and a handful of otherlarge indie labels, Chrysalis also hasbeen negotiating formal writtenagreements with some of itsdistributors - most notablyPickwick - in order to provideassurance that they are notabandoning the indie ranks.

In the last year, Chrysalis has alsotaken a "less is more" attitude in thematter of shipping. While Licattaclaims the reason Chrysalis is notestablishing an 18-22 per centreturns ceiling is "because we're inthat ballgame anyway withouthaving to announce things," thegeneral sales slowdown has fostereda tendency to "go out with a lot lessproduct initially."

"We go out with a small amount.We want the retailers to re -order thealbum. To me that is the greatestpublicity or promotion you canpossibly have. With Blondie's EatTo The Beat, for example, we wentout initially with between 490,000and 520,000 on September 25. We'reup to 750,000 (as of mid -November)which means we had good re-orders."

Licatta openly admits that

previous Blondie albums had soldthree to four million copies, "So wemight well have said, 'Let's go outwith a million copies first time.' Butthere's no need for it. There's only acertain number of outlets. There'sonly limited space in the store for theproduct.

The other half to that end of thedistribution problem is maintainingsufficient catalogue to fill re -orderswhich, claims Licatta, is another ofChrysalis's strong points.

"We're very, very good at keepingflow of product at the plant level.You read in the trades wherecatalogue fill is terrible, thataccounts can't get what they wantbecause the companies are beingultra conservative now because ofthe returns. Well, you must keepcertain product at all times at theplant level, because you know whatyou can sell."

PeculiaritiesThere are certain peculiarities

that even a well -co-ordinatedinternational company cannotaccount for, though, not the least ofwhich are smash hits on one side ofthe Atlantic that make no impact onthe other.

"Blondie had a number onerecord with Denise from the lastalbum in the UK. We tried to get therecord going here and, to be honest,we couldn't get arrested with it. Wecouldn't get zero. It wasembarrassing. Or we had Hot ChildIn The City, which sold over twomillion singles in London and we

SAL LICATTA: "You've got tocontrol your own destiny."

couldn't get to first base with it. Tullis very big here, but he's not reallythat big in the UK. Those things justbalance off."

In a depressed market, Chrysalisis exceptionally healthy, itsperspective tempered by a carefulmonitoring of the economic andother business realities in both theUK and the US.

"People forget what a recordcompany is all about," says Licatta,"and how costly it is to run one. Ilook at what a radio spot cost lastyear and what it costs now -inflation goes up.

"People say you don't compete,but we do - trying to get a recordon the air, to merchandise it right, toadvertise it right, to get our displaywhere the other one is. We try tomanipulate things of that nature.That's competing. But we have beendoing things right so far.

"The international company is avery key point. We want to knowwhat they're doing, and they want toknow what were doing. We havetremendous dialogue. And thatalone makes it much more strong."

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o'sr y I NOW?

ShLCIAL II1ANIKS ECU' yCIJC ANDROEL KRUIZEfor hearing it

DICK VAN VLIET & ROEL KRUIZEfor pursuing it

EMI RECORDS-HOLLANDfor making "CRYING" #1 and the single and album GOLD

EMI RECORDS-U.K.for bringing it all home

/t)ILJU IKNOW-1-11DW AND IDUCFUSSIONALISM 11AS IDAIIID UM!

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Directly imported fromthe U.S.A. quality silkscreened T -Shirts, sweatshirts and baseballjerseys. Also litho paintedposters on heavyweightpaper of memorable U.S.concerts, and concertprogrammes. Nowavailable for wholesaleand retail. Overseas andEuropean enquirieswelcome. For detailssend to:

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c. £8,000 p.a. Plus Profit ShareThe Reader's Digest MusicDivision is a successful andexpanding section of ourbusiness which marketsrecords and tapes. To helpmaintain and improve our highstandards, we need a QualityControl Manager to be involvedat all stages of tape assemblyand record manufacture.There is no age bar on this'position but the successfulapplicant, male or female, willhave had experience in audioquality control, either with arecording studio or in theappropriate department of a

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Pala RENEWSTHE JAGSEvening Standards. Island ILPS9603. Producer: The Jags and SimonHumphrey. Debut album from theband who scored last year with theTop 20 single Back of My Hand,which is included here as is theirlatest, Party Games. At the time ofthat hit, the band got a lot ofpublicity about sounding more likeElvis Costello than Elvis Costelloand, unfortunately, the whole LPlives up to that. If the band can writesuch reasonable material themselves,surely they could modify the vocalsand establish their own image? Willprobably chart on the strength ofBack Of My Hand.0HUMAN LEAGUETravelogue. Virgin V2160.Producers: The Human League andRichard Mainwaring. Second LPfrom the band famous for beingbeaten to the charts by GaryNuman. But with their Holiday '80EP hovering around the Top 75, itlooks as though they are about to getthe recognition they deserve. Analbum of synthesizer music andwitty lyrics, it is well worthrecommending.

0JUDY COLLINSRunning For My Life. Elektra.K52205. Producer: artist.Disappointingly sickly selection ofsongs that fail to do justice toCollins, although they give her voiceplenty of range. But there areenough fans with sweet teeth tomake it worth stocking in sizeablenumbers.***

FISCHER-ZGoing Deaf For A Living: LibertyUnited UAG 30295. Producer: MikeHowlett. First LP from the band,now a trio, following the departureof keyboardsman Steve Skolnik.

The change has made a markeddifference and the music soundslighter and more accessible to thecasual listener. A recently completedUK college tour should help to boostsales and could take the LP to thelower reaches of the Top 75.* 5*

ARTHUR BLYTHEIn The Tradition: CBS 84152.Producers: Bob Thiele and artist.Blythe is in the vanguard ofmusicians responsible for bringingthe alto sax back into the spotlight.His last album, Lennox AvenueBreakdown, sold well and this,which includes Wallah's JitterbugWaltz, Ellington's In A SentimentalMood and Coltrane's classic,Naima, should continue Blythe'sfortunes.* 5*

CHICK COREATap Step. Warner Bros. K56801.Producer: artist. Corea, thankfully,has not followed fellow keyboardwizard Herbie Hancock into thedisco arena, yet can still appeal to awide market. Tap Step is anexcellent album that will generateenough sales to keep Corea up frontin jazz sales.*5*

EARL KLUGHDream Come True. UA UAG 30892.Producer: artist. Following in thewake of the excellent Heartstringand One On One, with Bob James,this album has fewer tracks withinstant appeal and the use of vocalsand steel guitar is dubious. ButKlugh has a large following here anddealers should have little trouble inselling this in large quantities. 5*

TELEXNeurovision. Sire SRK 6090.Producers: Telex. An ordinary runof the mill synthesizer band Telex

may not be, but this does not live upto the promise of the trio's debutalbum, Looking For St. Tropez. Theband needs a hit single to establishthem in the country, but this LPdoesn't really have anything of thatcalibre. A band worth keeping aneye on anyway.* *

LOGGINS AND MESSINAThe Best Of. CBS 31826. Producer:Jim Messina. More back cataloguere-released on the Embassy label at£2.99. Features Angry Eyes,Vahelala, Brighter Days, Danny'sSong and Watching The River Run.**

RANDY CALIFORNIAKapt. Kopter and The (Fabulous)Twirly Birds. CBS 31829. Producer:Randy California. This re-releasefrom 1972 of solo LP by Spiritguitarist is probably too much likeacid rock to slot in to the currentheavy metal revival. Might bebought by old Spirit fans who haveworn out their first copies, butunlikely to attract many new sales.* *

THE BRITISH LIONSTrouble With Women. Cherry RedA RED 7. Producer: The BritishLions. For various reasons this LP,recorded in 1977, is only just aboutto see light of day. The now -defunctLions featured the bulk of Mott theHoople (minus Hunter) plus JohnFiddler of the once -excellentMedicine Head. Unfortunately theirbrand of music hasn't really stoodthe test of time and it will besurprising if this album sells otherthan to followers of the individualband members who have now allgone their separate ways.**

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AmericanCommentary .701 ,74

Motown tests counterfeitdetector . . . . Retailersfight drugs paraphernalia banNEW YORK: Ariola America has begun to flesh out its staff,appointing Warren Schatz senior VP and chief operating officer, andMike Manocchio VP national promotion. Schatz was most recentlydivision VP A&R at RCA, while Manocchio was director of nationalpop promotion at Atlantic.

In addition to the two appointments, Ariola International presidentMonti Lueftner made it official that, effective immediately, all AriolaAmerica product would be distributed through the Arista independentnetwork. Overseeing that relationship is Elliot Goldman, now holdingpositions at both Arita and Ariola International.

Arista and Buddah have quietly parted company, although there issome measure of official disagreement over the status of the ZeRecords relationship with Buddah (Buddah "distributed" Ze). Ze hasnow set up a "test" distribution agreement with Antilles.

Antilles and Mango here are the indie-distributed arms of Island,which is itself distributed by Warner Bros. WB, however, has theoption of picking up successful Antilles/Mango product. The newdeal calls for release of work by four groups - Kid Creole and theCoconuts, Cristina, the Waitresses and Suicide.MOTOWN IS the latest to announce testing of a new anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting system created in co-operation with the OwnerProtection company and based on the research of two graduates of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

In a conversation with MW's Mike Reynolds, Motown vice-chairman and chief operation officer, Mike Roshkind, described thesystem as utilising a hand-held scanner ("magic wand") that yieldsinformation that must then be computer -processed. Before that, eventhe person using the scanner would not know for sure that he haduncovered counterfeit product.

According to Roshkind, Motown has already spent some halfmillion dollars (£214,592) in developing the system and hopes to beable to make it available to others in the record industry and in otherbusinesses. Motown's own first full national run using the system isexpected in early June.

Other systems are being tested at Atlantic (to be utilised on theforthcoming Rolling Stones album), WCI and RSO and, for cassettes(featuring special imprints on the cassette body and/or specialprinting techniques) at WEA International and CBS Inc.

By IRA MAYERONE CONTINUING battle being fought by American retailers is theattempt by local authorities to ban the sale of drug -relatedparaphernalia in record stores. The loss of such business, particularlyin view of the sluggish record market, would be significant to manydealers.

Anti -paraphernalia statutes have been passed in some states andnow a test case will go to court in Cleveland, fought by RecordRevolution's Peter Schliewen. In fact, the courts thought the issuevital enough and Schliewen's claims concerning potential loss ofbusiness so convincing, that hearings have been moved up to June,rather than the usual two years it takes for such cases to be heard.Schliewen also obtained a permanent injunction allowing him tocontinue selling the merchandise until the case is resolved.

While celebrating the importance of the court's willingness to hearthe case quickly, Schliewen's lawyers also informed him that, whereaspreviously he was going to have two years in which to raise their$50,000 (£21,459) legal fee, he now has one month to come up with themoney. The Accessories Trade Association will pick up half the tab.

PRESS SPECULATION over the "resignation" of John Backe atCBS continues unabated, in particular focusing on where it leavesCBS in regard to its entry info cable and home video - the kind offuture technologies about which CBS chairman William Paley is saidto be so wary.

Members of the CBS board and Paley himself eventually opened up(the former unattributable) to reporters from the New York Timesand New York Magazine respectively in efforts to counter thegenerally bad press the showdown between Backe and Paley broughtthe communications empire.

CBS is more worried about the impact of the "resignation" andPaley's "run my own candy store" attitude on Wall Street than itcares to admit.

SHORTS: International Tape Association setting up statisticalprogramme to provide sales information on pre-recorded videocassettes, with first results expected in late summer or early autumn. . . RCA marks Black Music Month in June with national marketingcampaign spotlighting 17 albums by black artists . . . the KennyRogers/Kim Carnes hit, Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer, mayfinally have ignited Carnes' solo career, with her remake of SmokeyRobinson's More Love top of the front red page of Kal Rudman'sFriday Morning Quarterback . . . two other remakes on the samepage, Carole King's One Fine Day and the Blues Brothers' GimmeSome Loving, pose the question: who says the Sixties are dead? . . .

RCA and MCA already in heavy press release warfare about theirrespective video disc systems . . . Polydor to distribute Fred Cantrell'sZilch Records outside UK, France and Australia, and all product fromJoe Jackson Productions (this Joe father to the family group), latterprojects including Leda Grace, LaToya Jackson (produced by brotherMichael), Windstorm, and - pursuant to fulfillment of CBSobligations - Randy Jackson . . . songwriter Richard Leigh (Don't ItMake My Brown Eyes Blue, Your Old Cold Shoulder) to be subject ofa one -hour music and talk show this summer on Pan Am's Theatre InThe Air radio channel, spotlighting tracks from Leigh's EMI/UAdebut album, and produced jointly by Music In The Air and UAMusic Publishing.

MUSIC WEEK MAY 31, 1980

wowPPL strikes back

TONY PRIOR accuses PPL ofbeing a "secret society" (MW May10). I think he must be right.Certainly the things he says aboutPPL in support of his accusation arethings which have been successfullykept secret from me during the sevenyears I have been secretary of thecompany.

Tony Prior has the advantage thatany accusation about PPL, nomatter how fatuous, can be made injust one sentence. It can also bedenied in one sentence, of course, oreven in one word, but although I amtempted, it somehow seems wrong totake as little time and trouble inanswering his accusation as he tookin making it. And this is preciselyPPL's problem: copyright can seeman arid and complicated subject, andone short, unsubstantiated andfactually incorrect letter from MrPrior has now brought forth this(unavoidable) much longer andmore detailed answer which, even ifyou find space to print it, almostcertainly won't make such goodreading.

Good rhetoricPPL is an organisation formed to

protect and exercise on behalf of itsmembers a particular part of thecopyright (that coveringbroadcasting and publicperformance in the UK) conferredby law on the sound recording. Itfollows that legally we cannotexercise rights wider than thoseprovided for by copyrightlegislation, or on behalf of peoplewho do not have rights given to themin the first place.

Mr. Prior's remark that "PPLshould be representing the interestsof artists, musicians, recordproducers, record productioncompanies and record companies" isgood rhetoric but not quite goodenough to bridge the gap in hisreasoning. "Artists and musicians"I understand (indeed, for more than30 years we have been paying artistsand musicians a share of PPL'srevenue and attempting to safeguardtheir employment opportunities),but what exactly does he mean by"record producers, recordproduction companies and record

companies"?The Copyright Act 1956 provides

for copyright protection tocommence from the publication of asound recording, and "publication"means the issue to the public ofrecords embodying the recording.Our members produce and issuerecordings for sale to the publicunder their own distinctive labelsand thus have rights under theCopyright Act 1956 which they haveassigned to us to protect and exerciseon their behalf. Anybody who hasthese rights under the law, and whois in a position to assign them to usto protect and exercise on theirbehalf, can apply to join PPL, butthe law creates these rights, notPPL, and if somebody does not havethese rights to begin with we cannotcreate them for him and we cannotstep outside our very specificjurisdiction.

I would like to turn now to theparticular case of Mr. Prior. He says"we attempted to join PPL twoyears ago", and by "we" I assumehe means Claude HopperProductions. In fact he contacted usthree years ago, not on behalf ofClaude Hopper Productions but onbehalf of another, entirely separaterecord company which, he said, hadasked him to investigate thepossibility of its joining PPL.

I met him and explained the wholespectrum of PPL's activities duringtwo meetings, and gave him furtherdetailed explanations in letters andover the phone. The record companyon whose behalf Mr. Priorapproached us was mainly involvedin issuing compilation albums oftracks which had already been issuedby existing PPL members undertheir own labels and I explained tohim that insofar as thesecompilations were concerned thecopyright in the original soundrecordings was already controlled byus on behalf of existing members.

There was, however, a smallernumber of original albums which therecord company produced itself andinsofar as these were concerned I

said the company might be eligible.On the basis of this, Mr. Prioractually completed and handed mea PPL membership application

form, filled in and completedin the name of the companyon whose behalf he wasmaking the enquiry. Having receivedthe application from Mr. Prior, I

spent a whole afternoon with him,going through the company'soriginal albums one by one, and Iraised a number of detailed querieson about 10 of them which he saidhe would answer. I explained thatevery membership application hadto be considered by our board andthat before I put any applicationforward I had to be sure of theapplicant's eligibility, and Iemphasised the urgency of getting adetailed answer on these points sothat the application could beprocessed. I subsequently put allthese queries in writing to him. Thatwas the last I ever heard from Mr.Prior.

No mysteryInterestingly, the company on

whose behalf Mr. Prior had madethese approaches later contacted medirect to ask what had become oftheir application, and seemed verysurprised to learn that theoutstanding queries had not beenprocessed. I sent them copies of mycorrespondence and spent anafternoon with their promotionsmanager successfully resolving allthe administrative details which Mr.Prior had left unresolved, and later(by which time they had issued moreoriginated product of their own)they re -applied for membership ofPPL and were accepted.

The company concerned is still amember of PPL. Perhaps it tooconsiders us a "secret society", but Idoubt it. There is no great mysteryabout joining PPL. Membershipapplicants are not asked to bare theirleft breast and roll up their lefttrouser leg - only to tell us exactlywhat they want us to control forthem so we in turn can tell peoplewho take our licence, whether forpublic performance or broadcasting,exactly and precisely what thatlicence covers.J. B. LOVE, Company Secretary,Phonographic Performance Ltd.,Canton Street, London WI.

PERFORMNICEEric ClaptonLIVING LEGEND is anoverstatement, but Clapton, theunassuming guitar hero, showed athis Hammersmith Odeon concertslast week that the magic, the powerand the style are all still there.

The set was varied, includingmaterial from several stages of hiscareer, with a good number ofcountry flavoured songs, featuringthe guitar work of Albert Lee, awelcome addition to the Claptonband. With Barry Spinetti on drums,Gary Brooker and Chris Stainton onkeyboards, the sound was superb.

While cries for Layla wentunanswered, Clapton found thenotes of his earlier days onrenderings of After Midnight andBlues Power. He currently has a livealbum high in the charts and a newRSO studio album due for release inSeptember.

JIM EVANS

BarnardoOH DEAR! It seems miserly to beuncharitable about this new Britishmusical that is well-meaning,lavishly produced, features lots ofhard-working child actors anddonates a percentage of ticket salesto Barnardo's homes.

But . . presumably Gold Star

Productions are also in it forcommercial gain and on that levelthe show has to be awarded a

resounding raspberry. With Annie -like girls and Oliver -like boys andadults out of Sound of Music andaccents out of My Fair Lady andeven, so help me, French can -candancing in London's East End -with all this Barnardo doesn't standa chance.

There is, perhaps, a good musicalto be made out of the life story of anIrish doctor who comes to London,is horrified to find homeless childrensleeping rough in the streets, raisesbacking to clothe them, feed themand house them, marries a beautifulwoman, loses three of his own sevenchildren through illness, survives theBoer war, fights court battles andestablishes an organisation which,120 years on, is still caring for needychildren throughout the world.

Sadly, this isn't it.RODNEY BURBECK

Fabulous

ThunderbirdsPACKED GIGS are what this TexanR&B combo say they like best andDingwalls could not have been morepacked. Yet again the band knockedout some of the tightest, fluentnumbers as you're likely to hear and

proved that gigging for years beforeyou get a deal has a lot ofadvantages.

As the crowd whooped withdelight, the band churned out theirdistinctive easy licks with so muchease and precision it almost lookedas if they were capable of coaxingtheir instruments to play forthemselves. Numbers like She'sTuff, their current single The Crawl(Chrysalis) and You Ain't Nothin'Bin Fine, had the audience dancingthe best they could and ensured theband two encores.

SIMON HILLS

Frankie ValliIT WASN'T a capacity secondhouse at the Royal Albert Hall, butthe vociferous enthusiasm of thosewho were there to enjoy FrankieValli and the Four Seasons morethan compensated for the emptyseats.

Valli, the present Seasons line-upand the supporting band offered adynamic, tightly knit and immenselyprofessional bill of fare, includingnew material such as Soul from theSeasons forthcoming MCA album,Fallen Angel and a brand-newRichard Kerr composition, WhereDid We Go Wrong, during whichValli duetted with pretty back-upsinger Toby Tyler.

NIGEL HUNTER

0 0 LEYTHE ABDICATION of Laurie Krieger from the world of recordretailing also means that he will step down as chairman of theGramophone Record Retailers' Committee of the MTA after 16years . . . During that time Laurie, who started his selling careertrundling an ice cream bicycle along Richmond towpath, hassurvived the slings and arrows of outraged record companies andeven his own members on occasion . . . But his no-nonsenseapproach to business and GRRC matters undoubtedly earnedhim well -deserved respect and it is a pity that more of Britain'sretailers did not give him greater support over the years . . . Nowthe GRRC ten -man council has to vote for a new chairman -will they follow the trend of picking a chain -store man or go for aone -shop independent? . . . The answer may come after thisThursday's council meeting . . . Meanwhile, what doesretirement hold for Laurie - apart from giving his wife, Betty, achance to improve his golf handicap? - somehow we can't seehim sitting in his carpet slippers for long, and we'd bet he willsoon be back in some business venture.

ALL QUIET on the RCAPRT front as the American company'saccounts pick over Pye's books; meanwhile Louis Benjamin is

in Las Vegas shopping for autumn season Palladium acts andDerek Honey holidays in Venice . . . Richard Robson Associatesnow handling corporate PR for PRT/Pye, and Brian Gibson hasadded Motown International to his accounts . . . GrahamHaysom, late of Polydor International and RCA, now audiomanager at Book Club Associates . . . A lady who will be sorelymissed when she retires this week - Vera Samwell, booker atAbbey Road Studios and an EMI employee for 43 years . . .

Radio 1 controller Derek Chinnery escaped injury when his car-a gold Rekord (!) - was badly damaged in car crash last week . . .

Pam Nettle, secretary to MCPS MD Bob Montgomery, shone inCroydon production of Waltzes From Vienna . . . DeanFriedman letting it be known he is free of all contractualobligations with Lifesong Records and is open to offers.

AN UNFORTUNATE spiteful atmosphere seems to permeatethe BBC -MU wrangle even before the strike begins - we hearstories of a Beeb MU lady member being refused two days' off toget married, and cancellation of a presentation to another with25 years' service . . . MU assistant secretary Stan Hibbertreckons the Beeb has taken heed of the McKinsey report on itsactivities which some years ago said that it was too powerful, andwill use this dispute as a showdown . . . Jeff Wayne's War OfThe Worlds on brink of chart century and has achieved tripleplatinum status . . . Clive Davis has signed Aretha Franklin toArista . . . Spotlight Publications' 4 -a -side team collectedCovent Garden Jubilee Hall league trophy with record goalaverage and keen on taking on all -comers . . . Baby daughter toWarrens Records MD Robert Shooman and wife Carole . . .

Larry Page points out that his Japanese venture, Union SunAlliance, takes its name from the Union Jack and the Land of theRising Sun, and its initials spell USA - look out, there's a nip in

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IMINERTORIIKMARTYN COX is General Manager of Capitol Recordsin the U.K., and heads up a team of seven people whowork on the repertoire coming from Capitol's HQ in LosAngeles. The UK team are EMI employees, assigned towork on Capitol product, and are based in EMI house inLondon's Manchester Square.

The immediate impression is of a small group of friendly enthusiasticpeople, who are working very hard within the larger framework of EMI'ssales, manufacture, and distribution systems.

Cox is very positive about this set-up. "We can enjoy the benefits ofhaving a small but strong team working exclusively on promoting Capitolacts . . . and then have the 'clout' of EMI's sales, merchandising anddisplay teams when the moment is right."

He is press and promotion oriented - understandably, because hecomes from a promotion background himself.

He started in the music business with the WEA regional promotionteam covering the North of England. That was in 1973, at a time whenlocal commercial radio was just getting off the ground.

After two years he switched to Chrysalis briefly, covering the sameterritory before being offered the opportunity of taking over the EMINorthern promotion team based in Manchester. Eight months later hemoved to London to coordinate promotion for all EMI labels.

Cox takes up the story: "After a year David Munns took over theCapitol label and brought me in as a sort of Jack of all trades and thenwhen David moved to Canada, I took over the label. I'm really pleasedthat the momentum started by Peter Buckleigh and then Munnsy, hascontinued so successfully.

As Capitol UK does not control the source of its repertoire it is veryimportant to the company's success that the UK point of view should heheard in Los Angeles - and Martyn Cox is happy to report: "The

rapport between us and Capitol International at the Tower has never beenbetter.

"1 talk to international vice-president Helmut Fest practically everyday and he is interested in everything we're doing, including daily salesfigures and so on. He also consults us about upcoming product.

"We don't release everything from the States as obviously some artistsmean much more over there than in the UK," Cox explains, "but we tendto go more and more with the American choice in singles because a lot ofcommercial radio stations, and Paul Gambaccini on Radio One,showcase US chart material.

"Certain bands are signed with the UK and European market verymuch in mind. The Motels, for example, relate to this side of the Atlanticso when they were first signed, Capitol put together a very heavyEuropean tour of TV and live gigs."

Cox is a strong believer in label identity and is always keen to promotethe American image.

"But we don't promote the label bove the artists because strong artistsmake a successful company," he a s.

"We have our own press officer d two promotion guys who maintainour separate identity within EMI nd they are known in the media asCapitol people."

Capitol has become more ores nd promotion oriented because, as_Cox...explains, "if re -cord dealers s that we're not working on product,they wonder why they should both > locking it.

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"TV exposure is vital and in the last year we have had TV specials onApril Wine, The Knack and Dr Hook as well as TV appearances by HelenReddy, Dr Hook, April Wine, Sammy Hagar, The Motels, The Knack,Mystic Merlin, Max Webster, Anne Murray and Little River Band.

"On the press side we have had four front covers on Sammy Hagaralone, plus really extensive coverage of all the artists here on tour.

"All three in press and promotion have spent time in the States withour artists so that they are able to project the artists in exactly the rightway for this country.

"We also like to let the EMI sales force know that we're working hardon our artists so that they will want to work hard on them as well."

One problem in dealing with American based repertoire is that the labeldoes not have the luxury of acts constantly touring and building up anatural fan following. This means that the Capitol team has to make themost of the opportunities when they do visit the UK and work extra hardto get the name and the product across to the media and the public. Thishighlights the importance of touring for sales success for Capitol's artistsin the UK.

EXCITING NEW ACTS . .

Cox is at pains to point out that Capitol's vast repertoire consists of muchmore than just West Coast American rock and boasts: "We've goteverything from heavy rock to Country and Western - in fact, we coverjust about every type of music except classical.

"We have a strong selection of big name acts, such as Anne Murray,Bob Seger, Helen Reddy, Dr Hook and Glen Campbell, plus a really goodcrop of new artists whose product is not known here yet.

"There is already a buzz about Riot, The Motels and Prism and there ismore very promising talent like Red Rider from Canada, Amy Hollandand Billy Squier.

"We've already laid the groundwork for The Motels following theirtour last year. The media acclaim was good and sales were good. I thinktheir next album released in June is very impressive and should breakthem in a big way.

"I predict a big future also for Amy Holland and she has a summerrelease produced by Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.

"There is an album due from Kraftwerk - one of the company's fewnon -American signings - and another in that category, The Little RiverBand, will be touring soon. The Little River Band have beenconcentrating on the American market but sales should pick up veryquickly here when they arrive.

REDDY, KING & CAMPBELL"Going back to the more established names on the label - although

some of them have been absent from the UK charts for a while, we havegot some very strong product coming up from Helen Reddy, Carole Kingand Glen Campbell.

"Helen Reddy's new album has been produced by Ron Haffkine, whois the manager and producer of Dr Hook. The album marks a musicalturning point for Helen, and the single Take What You Find is alreadybeing very strongly tipped on both sides of the Atlantic.

"Carole King has made a new album featuring many of the songs sheco -wrote with Gerry Goffin in the Sixties. The LP's called Pearls Songsby Goffin & King, and she performs a load of songs that were massivehits for other artists . . . One Fine Day, Locomotion, Hey Girl, Oh NotMy Baby, Chains and so on!

"Glen Campbell has a brand new album, and he'll be over here later inthe summer for a big country festival. His new single is a great duet withRita Coolidge."

NEIL DIAMOND AS THE JAZZ SINGER ..."Another big name that we'll be getting the chance to work on is NeilDiamond." The soundtrack music from Diamond's film debut will be onCapitol Records, and is a project that Cox is very keen to tackle.

"A couple of weeks ago I saw about 30 minutes of footage from TheJazz Singer, and it's total dynamite . . . the music and the acting. Theoriginal story has been brought right up to date, and Neil Diamond looksand sounds fantastic. I can't wait to release the album.

"With some soundtrack LP's you get two decent songs plus a load ofinstrumental mood music . . but The Jazz Singer is an album album!Ten new Neil Diamond songs, and there'll be a single out first. The albumwill be out in November I think, and hopefully the single will be lateSeptember. The date for UK release of the movie is not fixed yet, but 1gather it's likely to be very early 1981. Obviously there will be a completetie-in with EMI Films, so The Jazz Singer will be a very major campaignfor Capitol."

"It's great for our press and promotion people to have such a richvariety of product because it means they have strong material to promoteto all areas of the media."

THE CREAM TEAM ...Having such a broad spectrum of material, Capitol is well suited toCream, an agency which prides itself on being able to handle any artistsympathetically:Cfeam-handles-dle-Capitol label's work on singles bags,ads, posters and SCrOIL .C3.1A cot...tents, "They do some marvellous workfor us and get very involved with the acts and the campaigns. MargaretTaylor handles the Capitol account, but all the Cream people seem like anextension of my own team! The designers don't just wait to be briefed,they come along to gigs a

"This means that by the time we come to put to -jet esign ora Pt*rketing campaign, a lot of the 'Cream team' will already have ideas

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Sammy Hagar visuals and happens to drive a Trans Am just likeSammy's." Cox reports to EMI's Peter Buckleigh. Linda Ruddock

MANAGEMENT COMMENT ...As Director of marketing andpromotion Buckleigh isresponsible for Capitol UK withinthe framework of EMI andacknowledges the label's valuablecontribution.

"Capitol is our main source ofAmerican repertoire and as suchenhances the broad internationalnature of the company," he

explains."Given that this market is made

up of 50 per cent Americanrepertoire Capitol is a very

Peter Buckleigh important part of the company anda number of its acts are among the biggest selling acts in the UK.

"One of the label's strengths is that its artists both established and newmake frequent tours and it is from this platform that Martyn Cox and histeam have been able to launch their marketing and promotion campaigns.This has contributed to chart success by artists such as Sammy Hagar,April Wine, Dr Hook, The Knack, Glen Campbell and Helen Reddy."

Buckleigh not only recognises Capitol's past achievements but alsopredicts that its position of strength will be maintained.

"It will continue to be a major source of American repertoire for thefuture," he says, "and it is our committed policy to give Capitol all thesupport that Britain's number one record company can provide."

Although John Bush has only recentlytaken over as managing director of EMIUK, he has long been aware of Capitol'ssuccess for he has been with EMI for 25years most recently as managing director ofEMI Italiana.

He says: "Capitol's contributions toEMI in the number one market place in theworld are already legion. The new productcoming from LA gives me every confidencethat the future is even brighter.

"In the last year we have charted TheKnack, April Wine, Sammy Hagar, MaxWebster, Anne Murray, Mystic Merlin andBob Seger and Dr Hook have had no less than three Top Ten entries."

John Bush

THE CAPITOL U.K. TEAM .

Martin joined the Capitol label latelast year to take up the position oflabel manager.

Having studied Drama andFrench at University, Martin joinedEMI Records in September 1978 asa management trainee. His firstyear of training was spent movingfrom department to departmentlearning the various aspects of theoperation of a record company.

Martin's role within Capitol is

basically one of administration. His

Martin Wyn Griffith,main priority is the scheduling andpreparation of single/album

releases, which is followed up by liaising with the factory, salesforce,display and merchandising teams.

Martin's day to day work entails a great deal of contact with Capitol'sheadquarters in Los Angeles, ensuring that all the components arereceived on time and generally advising Capitol's Internationaldepartment of the activities in the UK.

Martin devotes a considerable amount of time to Capitol's mid priceCAPS series. This involves a great deal of research as all these albums areback catalogue/compilations and in this area Martin certainly has to keephis ear to the ground for suggested re-releases which often come fromspecialist journalists. Martin is currently planning a mid price jazz seriesto follow on from the very successful country classics line.

Marketing and advertising campaigns are other areas in which Martingets involved and here he works closely with Martyn Cox in the planningof these campaigns.

Linda Ruddock joined the Capitolteam 18 months ago, initiallyworking as secretary to the labelmanager and press officer, but hassince transferred and now works assecretary to General Manager,Martyn Cox and label managerMartin Wyn Griffith.

Working for two people, Linda,has to divide her time, however themajority_zstAter=clay.._working alongside label ritilitiffe-r-Martin Wyn Griffith assisting himwith the preparation of label copyfor album and single releases. Thiswork involves a considerable amount of liaison with Capitol'sheadquarters in Los Angeles, ensuring that all the components requiredfor a record release are received on time. Added to this, Linda helpsMartin out with the research needed for the release of back cataloguealbums.

Contact with music publishers, providing them with accurate salesinformation is another important aspect of Linda's working day.

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As secretary to General Manager Martyn Cox, Linda has to workclosely with American artists and their management, arranging cars,hotels, flights etc. and generally making sure that their visits to the UKrun as smoothly and problem free as possible.

On a monthly basis, Linda assists both Marlyn Cox and Martin WynGriffiths with the preparation of marketing information for the

salesforce presentations.Prior to joining Capitol, Linda worked as secretary to EMI's Display

Manager for 18 months and before that she had spent a year working forthe booking agents at the Cowbell Agency.

The turning point in Dave Brown'slife came about seven years agowhen as a bass player he acceptedthe fact that he would never beStanley Clarke, and therefore hewould be best served diverting histalents elsewhere!

Dave quit the Capitol groupTucky Buzzard and joined Polydoras a promotion man. He spent fiveyears with Polydor learning the

ropes, which resulted in hisbecoming one of the most highly

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Records decided that his team would not be complete without the talentsof a certain Mr Brown.

The rest is history, Dave came to Capitol and since his appointment asNational Promotion Manager, he has earned the highest respect fromeveryone including artists and management.

Although working closely with Wally Slaughter, Dave has concentratedmore on television promotion and has been responsible for the

organisation of several television projects for Capitol artists, in particularthe Dr Hook BBC special, shown at Easter.

Sadly, "Brownie" will shortly he leaving the record business forpersonal reasons. He will be moving down to Cornwall to take over therunning of his parents' business and will be sorely missed by the rest ofthe Capitol "team".

Wally joined Capitol as PromotionManager a year ago, transferringfrom EMI's Birmingham Officewhere he was responsible for localradio promotion. Although Wallyhad no experience with the Londonstations, the contribution he hasmade to the Capitol team since hejoined has been considerable. Henow spends his time promotingCapitol's product to Radio 1 and 2,Capitol and Luxembourg.

Wally joined EMI in 1974, butuntil that time he had been pursuinga sound training course for the lifeof a promotion man . . . he acquired his taste for good food during thetime he spent as an apprentice chef. Then, realising that to be a goodplugger involved more than eating, he joined a wines and spirits companyas a sales representative. His next port of call was as a salesman for aRadio/Television shop. The final part of his training came when heworked for a brewery as a window dresser!

His training complete, Wally joined EMI as a window dresser for thenewly established Tape division. Based in Birmingham Wally wasresponsible for window dressing for the whole of the UK.

In 1976 he transferred to EMI Records as a regional promotion man,covering radio/television stations in the Midlands and South Wales.

In 1979 David Munns, who was then General Manager of CapitolRecords UK approached Wally regarding the position of PromotionManager for Capitol working alongside the National Promotion ManagerDavid Brown. Wally accepted the challenge, moved to London fromBirmingham and is happily plugging away - in fact he's probably at theBeeb at this very moment!

Wally Slaughter

Jane joined EMI three and a halfyears ago as secretary to DavidMunns who was then MarketingManager for EMI's GRD Division.When David was appointedGeneral Manager of the Capitollabel in September 1977, Janetransferred with him to continueworking as his secretary, which shedid until his departure to Canadalast year.

Following David's move, Janechanged her role within Capitol and

Jane Hornsbywas appointed secretary/assistantto the press/promotion

department. Although Jane had no experience in press, she had a wealthof radio knowledge, having worked as secretary to Radio Luxembourg'sprogramme controller Ken Evens for four years.

On the press side, Jane works closely with Debbie Bennett and hasparticular responsibility for provincial press.

Jame also takes care of business in the ordering and allocation ofconcert tickets together with the organisation of Capitol's press/radioreceptions.

Debbie joined EMI four and a halfyears ago as secretary to MikeHarvey who was then heading upthe Marketing Services Division.Within a couple of months Mikewas appointed UK label managerfor Capitol Records, which thenoperated under the umbrella ofEMI's US Division headed up byColin Burn and marketing managerJohn Cooper.

Following the reorganisation ofEMI and the division of group andlicensed repertoire the CapitolDivision was expanded and PeterBuckleigh appointed General Manager. It was Peter Buckleigh who gaveDebbie the chance to move from secretarial work and train as a PressOfficer alongside Charles Webster who was then Capitol's Press Officer.

Debbie worked with Charles for about a year until in late 1977 Charleswas asked to run EMI's main press office with a staff of three reportingto him. Following his departure Debbie was appointed as Capitol's pressofficer and since that time has assumed full responsibility for Capitol'spress activities throughout the UK.

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ROWERTORIIRLINTERNATIONAL awareness at the Capitol Tower inL.A. is heightened by the chain of communication fromthe U.K. and the rest of Europe. Unlike EMI's MartynCox, Dutchman Kick Klimbie is employed directly byCapitol and based in London to co-ordinate the activitiesof all the European territories. Klimbie reports direct toInternational Vice -President Helmut Fest, who wasformerly with EMI Electrola in Germany.

Klimbie joined Capitol International in May last year and has workedwithin EMI for 15 years.

He started in the stock room of the Dutch Bovema company andrecalls: "That was in the days of Gerry Oord who believed in peopleworking their way up."

Klimbie certainly did that and become deputy managing director. Thentwo years ago when EMI and the local company were separated, Klimbietook charge of the local company.

Now as director of European Operations he liaises between Capitol inLos Angeles and the European EMI companies and licensees.

Kick Klimbie: Resident Director European Operations forCapitol/V.A./EMI America.

Capitol's American repertoire has provided hits not only in the UK butacross Europe.

Yet they are not necessarily the same hits or from the same acts thathave enjoyed success in this country. Each territory has an individualmusical taste, plus special aspects to marketing, promotion anddistribution - and taking account of all these is Kick Klimbie.

The territories he covers are Scandinavia, Germany, Austria andSwitzerland, the Benelux countries, Italy, France and Spain, plus thesmaller territories Greece, Israel and Portugal. He regularly holdsEuropean meetings and himself visits three or four countries at a timeevery six to eight weeks to showcase new material.

Klimbie has witnessed a "dramatic increase" in sales of Capitolproduct during the last six months but reports that it is not spread evenlythroughout Europe.

"There are some countries with large populations but which are notsuch large markets for various reasons such as high price. In this countrybecause the market is so big there is a broad acceptance of almost all typesof music, while there are enormous differences in taste abroad.

"McGuinn and Hillman, America and Graham Nash, for instance, dovery well in Latin countries - yet these same countries have almost noHeavy Metal market."

The company concentrates on 10 to 15 acts in Europe so that each artistcan be worked on thoroughly and this process begins only after somesuccess in the US has been achieved. But not every artist is at the samestage of development in each country.

"There can be a big difference in release dates," explains Klimbie."When The Knack were touring recently, Italy and Spain were workingon My Sharona, whereas in other countries Baby Talks Dirty was thecurrent single.

Klimbie acknowledges the benefits of having touring artists and concertappearances have become more and more part of the overall marketingstrategy.

"We try to break an artist in one territory first and then use that as abase for a European tour," he explains. "That happened recently withSammy Hagar who was already established in the UK but also visited therest of Europe.

It was the other way around for Lee Clayton whose tour was based onsuccess in Italy, Germany, France and Scandinavia which justified aconcert here. We try hard to get a crossover from one country toanother."

The individual approach applies also to marketing and promotion."There is only government controlled radio in some countries and severalhave more than one chart.

"You have to find different ways to break an act. In England you mustdo concerts. In Europe a TV programme is all important, followed upwith a tour. In Holland, for example, you must have a film clip for theimportant TV pop show in order to break an act.

"It's also interesting that in this country you release a single first andthen an album about six weeks later. Whereas in France they might justrelease an album straight off - even from an artist like Bob Seger - andthen follow it up, maybe two months later, with a single.

"Each country has its own marketing campaigns, even down to the sizeof posters it uses. Then of course there are the language differences totake into account."

Klimbie is very confident in the current artist roster and feels thatAmerican repertoire will always be strong.

"The level of US acts generally is very good - even the ones thathaven't broken in the States. They always have a chance over herebecause they are very professional and are used to touring constantly inthe States.

"We started with Moon Martin and The Motels in October and they

sold very solidly but were not big hits. Now with new albums in thesummer they will tour on that basis and should break big throughoutEurope. I also expect Riot, Sammy Hagar and April Wine to do betterand better this year.

"Heavy Metal is very big at the moment in the UK and has always donewell in Holland and Germany - but it has a more sophisticated, even anolder audience over there. It doesn't have the same cult following as here.By contrast there is no real audience for Heavy Metal in Italy or Spain."

Heavy Metal is not the only type of music Capitol is getting behind inEurope and Klimbie reveals: "We are trying to break big in the MORmarket. The audience has been basically lost because no repertoire isbeing produced any more. We feel that we are equipped as a label to dowell in the MOR market with artists from the Sixties like McGuinn andHillman, plus Anne Murray and Glen Campbell. Dr Hook are the perfectexample of the sort of band who have a potentially vast appeal and canretain a loyal following.

"We have a certain policy behind these acts designed to exploit them tothe full in Europe."

Klimbie is even more enthusiastic about the new acts coming throughand predicts a big international future particularly for Face Dancer, AmyHolland and Billy Squier.

"In spite of all the difficulties I'm convinced we will be stronger thanever before," he says. "Capitol is fortunate in that it has a certaincharisma and popularity with such a wide variety of acts that we can giveevery market a shot."

CAPTIOL ON TOUR ...CAPITOL is benefiting from the number of artists who have come totour in Europe.

"Playing to live audiences is all important - and our Americancompany has injected a lot of money for tour support in the last year . . .

disproportionately, in a sense perhaps, to the return through sales sofar," comments Capitol UK General Manager, Marlyn Cox.

He adds: "But that initial investment will reap long term benefits in theform of sales in the future - that will certainly be the case with SammyHagar.

"If we don't invest in tours now, we won't be selling records for thoseartists in a year or so's time," he concludes simply.

"A few years ago it was just a matter of the big American acts playingonce a year at Wembley, say. It's a hackneyed expression but punk reallydid put music back on the streets . . . now, solid touring is crucial for anact to compete with the excellent British bands who are on the road theyear round and picking up a strong fan following.

"Some artists still feel a little wary of coming here, especially whenthey could be making better money in North America. But even acts whoare established over there can extend their careers by playing here, andcreate new markets for their product.

"Obviously, timing a tour with a new album is the ideal situation, andthen we can continue the momentum with further promotion andadvertising. We always want to deliver the goods by charting the recordand getting good sales via a tour. Often the bands go home absolutely

`knackered', because we will work them pretty hard with press and radiointerviews while they are on the road! We don't of course tire them out sothey can't play well . . . but the chances are a band will not be back formaybe a year, so we want to get the maximum media exposure while theyare in the UK."

Kick Klimbie agrees with Cox on the importance of touring. Hehighlights the essential contribution made by tour support money:

"It's twice as expensive to tour in Europe as in the States, and costsabout 15,000 dollars a day to keep an American band on the road for aEuropean tour," says Klimbie. "That's why we can only work on themost vital acts for Europe, if we are convinced of their potential in thevarious markets.

"Capitol has never been so active as in the last six months, and despiteheavy competition we have achieved huge successes with tours combiningTV and live appearances."

A very crucial element for a good tour is involving the right agents andpromoters. Says Cox, "We are very lucky to have good relationships withall the major people. We understand each others' needs and problems,and help each other make it all happen. When an act comes in to tour awhole bunch of people get thrown together very quickly, and they thenhave to work hard as an enormous team to get the job done.

"One agent I must pay tribute to is Neil Warnock at Bron. Herepresents several of our acts, and also l use his logistics team a lot on a'one-off' basis . . . if, say, we bring an act for a quick promo trip and weneed help with shipping in equipment, arranging work permits orwhatever.

"Neil spends a lot of time in the States and Canada, and always seesour Capitol A&R people there to check out new acts that he might want toget involved with. I'm safe in saying that the respect between Bron andCapitol is mutual, and this has been proved repeatedly when we gettogether on a tour."

Cox recognises another aspect of a successful tour . . . "Every act thatgoes back to the States after a good tour inevitably talks to othermusicians and managers . . . so, if they have been well treated over hereand feel that the job was well done . . . then they become ambassadorsfor Capitol in Europe, and we become less of an unknown quantity to anew act in L.A.!"

ON THE ARTIST ROSTER ...THE KNACK have been much likened to The Beatles - and thecomparison does not end at their stage presence and teen appeal.

Their single My Sharona became the fastest release -to -Gold debutsingle in Capitol's history in America since The Beatles' I Want To HoldYour Hand and their album Get The Knack became Capitol's fastestrelease -to -Gold debut album since Meet The Beatles, released in 1964 inAmerica.

The central talent in The Knack is rhythm guitarist and lead vocalistDoug Fieger, who is joined by guitarist Berton Averre, drummer BruceGary and bassist Prescott Niles.

Music press writers in the UK have consistently "knocked The Knack"since "My Sharona" as a result of the critics apparent need to find deeper

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meaning to many of the Knack's songs! Only Sandy Robertson of Soundsseems to have caught on:

"There's virtually no point in analysing this record as if it were somefreshly discovered manuscript by James Joyce. The Knack are anextension of The Monkees, only more honourable because they inventedthemselves . . . they may be devoid of the naive faith that powered someof rock's earlier heroes, the idea that a 3 -minute tune could change theworld, but that doesn't stop The Knack from making great pop records."

ANNE MURRAY has been one of the most consistent album sellers forCapitol ever since her first success with her debut Snowbird ten years ago.

The Canadian singer has been elected to the Country Music Hall ofFame in Nashville and last year edged out Donna Summer, OliviaNewton -John and Barbra Streisand to win a Grammy as Best Pop FemaleSinger of the Year. Anne Murray's latest album Somebody's Waiting wasagain produced by Jim Ed Norman and the record confirms her as one ofthe most enduring vocal talents.

This summer Anne Murray will have her own star placed in thesidewalk on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame, along with film giants such asCharlie Chaplin and rock superstars Fleetwood Mac.

In the Autumn Anne Murray will be here for a promotion tour, withTV appearances and radio and press interviews. This trip will set the stagefor a big UK tour currently being set up for Spring 1981.

BOB SEGER. When Bob Seger played in the UK two years ago, theLondon performance was hailed by many to be the best live gig of the lateSeventies. This enthusiasm was matched by the reaction of the managerof the Hammersmith Odeon - he had a letter to Seger published inMelody Maker, inviting the rock star back to the theatre to play again!

More recently in his reviews of the latest album Against The Wind,Hugh Fielder of Sounds wrote: "Whether he's roaring at full tilt with hissuperb band or going down through the gears to more plaintive, soulfulballads he's an immensely powerful live performer who's worked hard tocapture that essence on vinyl."

Bob Seger's biggest selling UK album to date is the 100,000 sellerStranger In Town which came out in May 1978. All the Seger albums arestrong steady sellers, notably Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, and theexciting live double album Live Bullet. Seger's total sales in the UK exceed1/4 million albums . . . quite an achievement for an artist who has neverhad a major chart single and has only played here once!

The title track from the Against the Wind album has just been releasedhere as a single, and Capitol are anxiously awaiting news on UK dates for1980 appearances by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

DR HOOK. Because of their unique appearance, people have become sofamiliar with Dr Hook that they suffer from the misconception that theband has been around for a long, long time - when in reality the grouphave only been together since the early seventies.

Perhaps it's also the impressive string of hits that makes Dr Hook seemlike one of the rock originals for under the inspirational guidance ofproducer/manager Ron Haffkine they have scored with Sylvia's Mother,Cover Of The Rolling Stones, A Little Bit More, Only Sixteen, WhenYou're In Love With A Beautiful Woman and most recently Sexy Eyes.

Often tagged as "outrageous" they delight audiences with zany tuneslike I Got Stoned And I Missed It and Freakin' At The Freakers Ballinterspersed among their hits. They have constantly broadened theirappeal and they are able to carry off a wide range of styles from rock androll to pop and country. Their recent sell out UK tour confirmed theirgreat popularity, when each night they performed for a solid 2 hours!

Dr Hook comprises of Ray Sawyer (he's the one with the eye patch),lead vocals and guitar, Dennis Loccorriere, lead vocals and guitars; BillFrancis, vocals and keyboards; Rick Elswit, vocals and guitar; RodSmarr, vocals and guitar; Jance Garfat, vocals and Bass; and JohnWolters, vocals and drums.

LITTLE RIVER BAND. Having quickly conquered the Australian musicscene The Little River Band have successfully set about taking the US bystorm - and next on the list is the UK, with a TV and live appearances setfor the early summer.

The public will be able to judge the live qualities of this slick rock bandfor themselves with the release of Backstage Pass - a live doublefeaturing numbers drawn from their first four albums.

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SAMMY HAGAR. In the vanguard of Capitol's Heavy Metal assault onthe U.K. is Sammy Hagar. The former lead singer with Montrose hadachieved little chart success here until he toured last September andrealised he could dish up the sort of heavy rock that is currently rattlingthe cash registers at record shops.

For his most recent sell-out tour last month Capitol was eager to havefresh product in the shops and with Danger Zone not available until May,they decided on a special live package - Loud And Clear.

Seven of the eight tracks were featured on the now deleted All NightLong LP. The album was deleted because it was felt that no Hagar live setwas complete without Space Station No 5 and so Hagar recorded thetrack live specially for the UK.

The album sleeve was also completely redesigned and features live shotsof Hagar and his band taken during his British tour last year.

This special UK disc was in the chart for two months and successfullykept the momentum going for the tour.

Martyn Cox comments: "His early solo albums were a mixture of rockand ballads but it was obvious to us that heavy rock was what wouldreally work for him in this country and we geared our whole visual

approach to that harder edge."Cox and Capitol recognised that fact last year and set about building

up his image as a rock star louder and heavier than any other HeavyMetal hero. They planned to launch Hagar on stage and on discsimultaneously in September.

Cox continues: "We were almost immediately faced with a problem.The cover of the Street Machine album was designed in the States and theimage presented was in our opinion a little tame for the intended audience- it made Sam almost too good looking!

"However, the time scale of record production prevented us from re-designing it with a more 'ballsy' front cover in time for the tour, so ouragency worked on some live shots of Hagar playing in an open airstadium in the States. By blowing up one close-up, they arrived at a`Gulliver's Travels' type shot of gigantic Hagar actually stepping into thestadium and this strong visual image ran through the tour campaign.

"The strength of Sammy's appeal was, we knew, his performance onstage. To really emphasise the excitement of his live work we made up anEP containing three live numbers which came in a picture bag featuringHagar in action on stage. This limited edition EP was shrink-wrappedonto Street Machine.

"The surge of album buys was followed by a surge of ticket sales. Infact the 'walk-up' records were broken in Manchester and London, andover 10,000 kids saw Sam play in four nights. There were four encoresevery night and the headlines dreamt up by the reviewers re-inforced whatthe audiences had expressed - Play It Again Sam, and Wham BamThankyou Sam were my favourites!"

The result of all this activity was a chart entry for the Street Machinealbum - straight in at No 38 - and the excitement generated by Hagar's

shows prompted promoter John Curd to set up a second tour.Sammy Hagar returned this April for the 11 gig 'Loud & Clear' Tour,

which included 2 nights at Hammersmith Odeon. By this time the 'Loud& Clear' album had charted at No 25 and moved up to 12.

Cox reports: "The album has now achieved sales of 40,000, and thisdemonstrates dramatically the effect of touring on an album which hadactually come out in a slightly different form two years before!

"1 feel particularly proud of our successes with Sammy Hagar. I hadfirst seen him on video - shot live at a gig in Texas. It was obvious thathe had a standard of charisma, musical ability and showmanship whichput him above any other heavy rock performer I'd seen. I then saw him inrehearsal in San Francisco and was convinced he would go down a stormin the UK.

"After discussion with Sam's manager Ed Leffler, we decided to ignorethe usual route of coming over in a support situation - but go straightfor a short but intense headline tour. Even though Hagar had onlyaveraged about 1,000 units per album release I decided to steam in andpresent him as an instant rock hero - with a larger than life visual image.I was convinced that this approach could turn a cult following into amuch larger audience.

"Every aspect of Sammy's image that was presented in the press, on theradio and in our ads, was completely 'over -the -top' . . . and we got awaywith it! The rapidly booming heavy metal market was ready to acceptHagar's superbly exciting style of rock, and we have charted two albumsand two singles in 8 months".

Hagar's latest studio album Danger Zone has just been released onboth sides of the Atlantic, and the single Heartbeat/Love or Money isalready moving up the UK charts.

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