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Rip It Up, Issue 200, 1 April 1994, Page 6

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Alice In Chains will release a video Live Facelift, a 45 minute video filmed in December 1990 . . . Smashing Pumpkins were banned from the BBC’s Top of the Pops due to the lyric “cut that little child up inside me" from ‘Disarm’. A spokesman for the BBC said “as far as we’re concerned the lyrics of the song were not suitable for family viewing” . . . David Baker has left Mercury Rev to go solo and will team up with the 800 Radleys’ Martin Carr . . . Janet Jackson walked off stage during her Salt Lake City show and was admitted to hospital and treated for flu and dehydration . . . actor John Candy died at age 44 from a heart attack on the set of the western spoof movie Wagons East ... Liz Phair’s album Exile in Guysville topped the Village Voice music critics (300 writers) poll . . . USA “shock” comedian New Yorker Bill Hicks died of cancer aged 32 . . . LL Cool J will play the leading role in a “fantasy” Jimi Hendrix biopic Toys based on his music and directed by Barry Levinson ... Beautiful South have upset people including recent departure Briana Corrigan with non-PC lyrics such as “They say always use a condom /1 say always use a whip”.. . Carter are now a trio with the addition of drummer Wes (ex Resque) . . . R.E.M. have written nearly 40 songs on their recent sessions. Expect an album later in the year.. . Morrissey walked out on an L.A. video shoot and a Rolling Stone interview and returned to the UK . . . John Singleton (BoyzN the Hood)w\\\ direct Ice Cube in Higher Learning.. . line-up for Lollapalooza 1994 is expected to be Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash and George Clinton ... Jeremy

Fearnley and Terry Woods have left the Pogues ... Guns N Roses will do a fund-raising show for victims of the ■ California earthquakes .. . . Elvis Costello & the Attractions are gigging in England to promote their new album Brutal Youth . . . Bono has; contributed backing vocals to supermodel Naomi Campbell’s debut single ... 2000 fans were locked out of Snoop Doggy Dogg’s London club appearance but there was only one arrest ... Bruce Springsteen, won an Oscar for his ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ theme ... :