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• Charles Tumahai, the Maori bass player with Be Bop Deluxe, has been ordered to leave Britain and rather than drop him the group will move to the South of France. Tumahai w'as refused a working permit and appeals over the last two years to the Home Office, Department of Employment and Immigrant Appeal Tribunal have failed. • Tragic. Bob Dylan's mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Malibu, in California, is slipping into the sea. Whether it will take one year or 1000, we're no told.
• Eric Clapton at Springfield Sunday School hail? Well not quite, but he did piay at a village dance in Cranleigh. Surrey, last week. Cranleigh is only a poke of a place but it is Eric’s home town and he took a four-piece band — including Ronnie Lane — there with him to
play for St Valentine’s Day.
• Bad Company have decided England, taxes and all, is better than exile in the Channel Islands, and have come out of hiding to promote a new album, “Burnin’ Sky.” Paul Rodgers said: “It was awful. Stuck in Jersey off-season, mate. Fm sure it’s a fantastic place in summer but when you’ve got to stay there ...”
• “Hollies Live” — the album recorded in the Chrsitchurch Town Hall — is to be released next month. In best press blurb style, EMI says it is “expected to reach No. 1 on the United Kingdom charts next month.”
• George Harrison hits 34 tomorrow, and Bob “The Bear” Hite hits it on Saturday. Sandie Shaw meanwhile will be 30 on Saturday and Paul Jones (you must remember Paul Jones) is 35 today.
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