Rumours

Rip It Up, Issue 134, 1 September 1988, Page 14

Rumours

UK & USA B.A.D.'s Mick Jones is on the mend. The ex-Clash man contracted peneumonia after catching chicken pox from his four-year-old daughter. He was rushed to Intensive Care when he lost consciousness but has since been transferred to a normal ward... Although Echo & The Bunnymen seem destined to split, their contract with WEA still requires them to deliver another two or three albums. In the meantime the Bunnymen have dismissed their management and singer lan McCulloch is recording in Liverpool ... two people died and another was seriously injured at the recent Monsters Of Rock Festival at Castle Donnington. All were trampled when the crowd surged foward during the Guns 'N' Roses set. It was the first such incident in the nine-year history of the Festival... Steve Lilly white will produce the new Bryan Adams LP. "I wanted to do something where I could turn the drums up a bit more," Steve said... when 10,000 Maniacs played New York recently R.E.M's Michael Stipe leapt up on stage to sing 'The Campfire Song' with Natalie Merchant... several hundred

hours'worth of previously released Jimi Hendrix tapes have been discovered by a U.S. radio station. As well as demos, interviews and out-takes, the cache also includes a tape of Hendrix's, 1969 Los Angeles Forum gig. Selections of the recordings were aired in the U. 5.... ex Housemartin Norman Cook has been jailed; 28 days for participating in a Brighton warehouse party riot. He told the ' . judge, "You can't do this to me you old git, I'm on Go! Discs, I've mixed a James Brown record, I've had a Christmas No.! — Lock me away and my fans will tear off yourtesticles!" The judge promptly sentenced him to another two months ... Stray Cats have reformed... Manchesterfunkateers A Certain Ratio have signed to A&M Records. They have been chased by several major labels since their bitter split from Factory last year ... upcoming Greenpeace album will feature Springsteen, U2, Waterboys, Eurythmics and Bruce Hornsby. Springsteen will also be . . releasing a four-song EP to benefit Amnesty International... DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince aren't allowed to use the voice of A Nightmare On Elm Streefs Freddy Krueger on their new record. New Line Cinema, who make the Elm Street movies, had already sold the rights to Freddy's voice to The Fat Boys ...Wacko Michael Jackson visited the London toy store Hamley's before his Wembley concert and bought, amongst other things, three Michabl Jackson .

puppets. At the concert he performed 'Dirty Diana' in front of Charles and Di but neither seemed to mind. The Royals also had to sitthrough Leonard Cohen at the Prince's Trust Rock Concert, a cruel and bizarre twist if there ever was one... T Bone Burnett is producing the upcoming Elvis Costello album. Elvis has also written tracks with Paul McCartney for the new McCartney LP... and meanwhile the Russians' announcement that McCartney was coming to their country were "ill-informed gossip." The ex-Beatle won't tourthe USSR but he will release an album there ... Peter Gabriel and Rosanna Arquette were seen together arm in arm at the NY premiere of A Fish Called Wanda. Gabriel has composed the soundtrack score for the new Martin Scorsese flick The Last Temptation of Christ... Jerry Hall recently appeared in a stage production of Bus Stop in New Jersey. She played Cherie, the role made famous by Marilyn Monroe. Mick Jagger was in the audience, but later declined to say whether or not Jerry would be coming to Auckland to watch his Western Springs show on Nov 5. (Mick was asked the question at a satellite-transmitted live press conference. We were watching him from on a screen in Auckland; he was hearing us on a speaker in his rehearsal rooms at the George Lucas Skywalker Ranch). Jagger would neither confirm nor deny the possibility of