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Rip It Up, Issue 232, 1 December 1996, Page 7

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The three surviving original members of Echo & the Bunnymen have reformed to gig and record a new album ... Porno For Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano was recently diagnosed with cancer. The band has cancelled their tour while DiStefano undergoes treatment... Slash has left Guns N’ Roses leaving Axl, Duff and Matt to record a new album ...the Crowded House final concert on November 23 on the steps of the Sydney Opera House was filmed and will be released on sell-thru video by Polygram on Friday Dec 13 ... Noel Gallagher has remixed the new Beck single ‘Devil’s Haircut’... meanwhile Liam Gallagher is being paid $75,000 to appear on the catwalk and in magazine adverts for Gianni Versace menswear ... the working title for the new Supergrass album, due for march release, is Second Album Syndrome ... the Cranberries have cancelled their six million pound European tour due to singer Dolores O’Riordan suffering from exhaustion ... Justine Frischman of Elastica with Steve Malkmus of Pavement have recorded the Frank and Nancy Sinatra song ‘Something Stupid’ ... Lush drummer Chris Acland took his own life at his parents’ home, October 17. He was reportedly depressed and likely to leave Lush, after an unsuccessful USA tour opening for the Gin Blossoms ... in the closing days of the Bob Dole presidential campaign Bruce Springsteen threatened legal action if Dole did not stop using ‘Born in the USA’ at political meetings ... Motown founder Berry Gordy now has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ... Pat Boone covers ‘Smoke on the Water’ and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on his new album In A Metal Mood, No More Mr. Nice Guy ... Bob Dylan expert John Bauidie who compiled the Dylan boxed set The Bootleg Series for Columbia and published the Dylan fanzine The Telegraph, died in a helicopter accident returning from the Chelsea I Bolton Wanderers game ... strange B-sides: the Lemonheads have recorded Metallica’s ‘Fade to Black’ and Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’; Head Like A Hole have recorded Bruce Springsteen’s Tm On Fire’.