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RIP IT UP NEW ADDRESS

From Dec 1 Rip It Up Magazine offices will be at 1 5 Williamson Ave, Grey Lynn. Phone numbers will not change. 'Stranded ’ in Bookshops The long-awaited history of NZ pop . music, Stranded In Paradise is finally in bookstores now. The 352 page book is heavily illustrated and covers from the 50s to the 80s. Author John Dix has organised the publishing of the book himself and if s been printed and bound just in time for Xmas. At last there's a document about what happened, where and when to major NZ talents from Johnny Devlin to Split Enz to Toy Love. To celebrate the launch of this cultural milestone, there's a gig at the Gluepot Wednesday Dec 14 with living Enzed , legends Hello Sailor, Hammond Gamble and Rick Bryant and friends. Look for Stranded In Paradise at y u r local bookstore now or see mail order in this issue of Rip It Up.

ROY ORBISON DIES —■ • . Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on the night of December 7. The 52 year-old singer was admitted to Hendersonville hospital in Nashville just before midnight and died a few minutes later. Annie Lennox's baby was stillborn in a London hospital this month. The 33 year-old Eurythmics singer was reported as being "devastated" by the. ■ loss. Michael Jackson has cancelled five sold-out Los Angeles shows because of a throat infection... George Michael is signed up to write and perform a new Diet Coca Cola jingle. The once tubby singer lost a stone with Diet Coke but will gain "5 million pounds" (that's cash, folks) for the commissioned jingle... the CIA are using Rod Stewart songs to send coded messages over the Iron Curtain!! That's the latest news from the UK tabloids anyway. Rod's new single 'Maggie The Warhead Is In the Third Oil Freighter It Is Guarded Hot Legs' is selling well in Moscow ... Whitney Houston has been accused of attacking a fan at a Hong Kong concert. The fan tried to photograph Whitney but she "leapt into the crowd and started screaming and kicking him." Action Houston! We always knew you had it in ya ... no-one will release the new John Lee •: Hooker album The Healer even though it features guests Carlos Santana,

George Thorogood and Robert Cray... Ron Wood sued The Sun and won. The Sun had accused him of adultery

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Rip It Up, Issue 137, 1 December 1988, Page 4

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RIP IT UP NEW ADDRESS Rip It Up, Issue 137, 1 December 1988, Page 4

RIP IT UP NEW ADDRESS Rip It Up, Issue 137, 1 December 1988, Page 4