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Rip It Up, Issue 201, 1 May 1994, Page 25

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“Yo mom’s so fat she takes a refrigerator and she tie it to the side of her waist and use it as a beeper.” Flavor Flav of Public Enemy delivers a verbal blow in the direction of shock host Howard Stem. His final blow: “Yo man, I heard your pop has a bald spot on his butt.” ... ..' ■'.; - ' ' ■ generation, then I quit. . Courtenay Love : - . ' ■ ’■■. '. ■■.... ■■ -■■'■ “The whole assemble-your-own-pop-stars idea is quite interesting. Your public image is interactive: people stick on arms, an extra leg; it’s sort of a Robo-Bono thing.” The U2 singer contemplates where to next after. ZooTV. “Luther. Vandross was just so nasty. He told us, ‘I don’t want to see your faces'. It was sick. We were so stressed out from him that by the time we left, all anyone wanted was to get home.” Dawn Robinson of En Vogue after leaving their tour with the diva. “Sometimes I’d come home and find bouquets of roses and . . - - ' lit candles in the front gate. Who were they leaving the the

shrines for? Tate or Manson?”’ Trent Reznor on recording Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral at Sharon Tate s old Hollywood home. “I don’t think women in music get as limited as women in the music industry. There’s still a glass ceiling at record companies and at radio.” . Bonnie Raitt “My songs don’t have a lot of anger against women. .They have an anger against betrayal. I happen to be a male, and my involvement with romantic partners has been with women. I don't dislike women. I love.women and respect them imz mensely.” Dwight Yoakam answers accusations of being “anti-women”. : ■ ■ ■ ■ . ■ “We never said that we were hardcore, or.that we didn’t want our music crossing over. If you only . want certain groups to listen to your music, make little private tapes and hand them - out.” Pepa “The process is so machine like: the limo-drive, the placing of the tuxedo on his body by his dresser, the sip of alcohol, the psychological progression of ritualistic movement, the depth of his solitude in the middle of it all, the eiaboarte moat that surrounds his heart and soul — and to say it’s an. American tragedy is not overstating the case.” Jonathan Schwartz, six days a week New York specialist Frank Sinatra radio show host.