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Rip It Up, Issue 240, 1 August 1997, Page 5

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Do The Wild Thing Recent showstopping moves: " 1. Iggy Pop had to leave the ROAR tour after after dislocating his shoulder stage-diving in .< Columbus, Ohio. f 2. Anthony Kiedis shattered and dislocated his wrist in a motorcycle accident on July 13, | requiring five hours of surgery.. Kiedis hit a car while doing a U-turn to park. The band’s Far East . Tour has been cancelled. 3. Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready broke his collarbone playing baseball during a break while < recording their new album. He was trying to catch . a ball thrown by Eddie Vedder. 4. Neil Young cancelled his June European tour after cutting the tip off his index finger while making a ham sandwich. 5. Ozzy Osbourne cancelled his recent Black Sabbath reunion concert, claiming he had a sore | throat. The result — a riot and 23 people arrested. Tabloid Tales Too strange to not be true. 1. Michael Jackson’s nose is ready to tall off. (National Enquirer) 2. Jon Bon Jovl spent USA $13,500 flying his hairdresser to England during the filming of I his movie. (Globe) i 3. Rod Stewart booked out an entire floor of the Beverly Hills hotel while recovering from plastic surgery. (Star) ; | 4. When daughter of a preacherman Toni Braxton | wants to unwind she likes to get naked, light a cigar and play piano. (National Enquirer) | 5. Smelling of alcohol Bob Seger (52) climbed back into his trashed BMW and asked an onlooker, “Can you give me a push?” Ontario cops arrived and busted Bob for impaired driving. (Star) | Add More Spice The record company Spice Girls clones due soon: 1. Six Pack on Virgin. x 2. All Saints on London. 3. Chill on Polydor. 'J 4. Cleopatra on Warners. 5. And Five is the name of five boy band from managers Bob and Chris Herbert who brought you the Spice Girls. More M.O.M. Moments Tracks on the Surfrider compilation M.O.M. 2 (Music for Our Mother Ocean) due September. 1. Porno For Pyros do ‘Tonight’ from Broadway’s Westside Story. 2. Pennywise do the Beach Boys ‘I Get Around’. 3. Offspring are covering a Surf Punks song. 4. Sunchild featuring pro surfer Donovan Frankenreiter do ‘Giver Man’. 5. Mighty Mighty Bosstones join the Pietasters on the latter’s ‘Ocean’. More Tribute Albums 1. New York indie label Royalty will release We Will -t Fall: The Iggy Pop Tribute in September. Saluting Iggy Pop are Joey Ramone, Monster Magnet, Joan Jett, Lenny Kaye, RHCP, Misfits, Nada Surf, Adolph’s Dog (members of Blondie); Sugar | Ray and Pansy Division. 2. Musician and author Kinky Friedman is the man behind a tribute to himself. Pearls In The Snow: The'Songs of Kinky Friedman. There’s a queue of greats from Bob Dylan to Willie Nelson wanting to | record Friedman songs like ‘They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore’ and ‘Asshole From El Paso’. “This is really nice to have a tribute album before • * you go to Jesus,” says Friedman. “We’ve gotta get some women on this thing; it’s beginning to look like a gay man’s choir." T 3. Bob Dylan is behind the Columbia label tribute to Jimmie Rodgers — The Singing Brakeman, a r 100 years after the country legend’s birth. Artists -i include Bono, Van Morrison and Jerry Garcia. 4. It happened to the Eagles, and now Nashville is i doing a Rolling Stones tribute album. George Jones and Travis Tritt will rock you. 5. A Gram Parsons tribute album on the Almo label has Emmylou Harris as Executive Producer and Elvis Costello and Chrissie Hynde recording tracks. Face Fashion Five 1. John Galliano 2. Miuccia Prada 3= Bill Clinton A Heroin Dealer I5. Alexander McQueen Gianna Versace scored N 0.58 (August 1997 Fashion Special.)