NEWS
• The Beatles have been booked to play together again on July 11 next year for the Queen. It will be a one-night spectacular at the Wembley Stadium in London for her silver jubilee. Although the Beatles will not reform it is reported they are honoured to do a special concert for this celebration. • Neil Diamond has managed to secure the Queens Stadium in Naw York for three concerts next month, but he is apparently very worried about it. Rock concerts have been banned at the stadium since a stabbing in 1969 and it is all on Diamond’s shoulders now to prove rock fans can behave themselves there. • Mark Williams is off to Europe next month for the Sopot song festival, a contest in Warsaw, Poland, in which he will sing three numbers. The prize? 20,000 zloty. He will also spend some days in London before and after the three-day festival and hopes to look
up an old friend Shona Laing. • Lead singer Dave Byron was fired from. Uriah Heep this month. Really, the storms that band goes through. • It is a time of accidents in rock: Heavy Metal Kids vocalist Gary Holton seriously injured his leg in a fall this month, but played on all the same. He took five pain-killing injections and sang from a wheelchair at the band’s scheduled Roundhouse gig in London. Is he a nut or a hero? • Peter Frampton fell off the stage at the start of a concert in Connecticut lately and broke two ribs, but he too played on. • And Phil Lynott (singer and bass for Thin Lizzy) wasn’t missing an important gig at Hammersmith Odeon just because he had hepatitis. He’s back in hospital now.
• "The Best of Abba’’ is in its 25th week at No. 1 on the New Zealand album chart.
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