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Rip It Up, Issue 242, 1 October 1997, Page 5

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Prodigy had to stop their Leeds V 97 show mid-song, when fans fell and were nearly crushed three - songs into their set. Keith Flint and Maxim jumped into the pit to help encourage the crowd to move back and free fallen fans. Two concert goers were taken to J : hospital. Prodigy then resumed their set ... the next Smashing Pumpkins album may be acoustic ... Naughty By Nature have recorded a tribute to Tupac Shakur entitled 'Mourn You Till I Join You’ ... Dr. Dre is producing the next Snoop Doggy Dogg album which

has a working title Break Up toMake Up... Chris Cornell formerly of Soundgarden releases his first solo recording on the soundtrack to the movie Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations ... oops! As the •

Rolling Stones album was being manufactured a family member pointed out that the chorus of the first single 'Anybody Seen My . Baby’ is rather similar to kd Lang’s 'Constant Craving’. After comparing the two, Mick "I wasn’t familiar with that song” Jagger had to call kd Lang and arrange to share the writing credits with the singer... a crazed concert goer-at a Primal Scream Glasgow show stabbed at least 24 people with a hypodermic syringe. Health

authorities were most concerned about hepatitis B, and the victims were vaccinated for hepatitis B as HIV was not likely to live outside the body and be transmitted in this way ... members of Wu Tang Clan have been accused of beating up an employee of their record label Loud, backstage in Chicago. He was bashed for disclosing the location of their after party live on radio. The employee did not . realise he was live on air at the time. The band deny the allegations. Wu Tang Clan have left the Rage Against The Machine tour as some members have not been showing up for the gigs ... the Hanson brothers have sold the story of their lives and they will also play themselves in the movie ... David Bowie joins Puff Daddy in the video for his single 'Been Around the World’, a song that samples Bowie’s 1983 hit 'Let’s Dance’... original Stone Roses drummer Alan Wren was jailed in Manchester for three days after being rude to a magistrate when appearing in court charged with having no car insurance. He told the Magistrate, "Why don’t you . stop tapping your fingers on the table like a five.year old”. When ' warned Wren replied, "Big deal, so what.” ... RHCP drummer Chad Smith dislocated shoulder in-a-motorcycle accident just a month after Anthony Kiedis broke his wrist in a motorcycle accident

... the posthumous Jeff Buckley album has been shelved after the family found sorting through the tapes too distressing ... Alanis . Morissette came 51 in a field of 89 when she competed in a Los Angeles triathlon. She did the quarter mile swim / nine mile bike ride and three mile run in one hour and 10 minutes... Bic Runga’s debut album Drive has gone 'Double Platinum’ in NZ (30,000 sales)... Tim Finn has married mid MTV Music Channel presenter, mid-20s Marie Azcona. Brother Neil was best man at the Sydney wedding on Sept 20 ... Split Enz score two albums (Mental

Notes, True Colours) in Australian Rolling Stone’s 'The Best 100 Australian Albums Of All Time’... former Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley has remade the Duran Duran oldie 'Save A Prayer’. Simon Le Bon has helped on backing • vocals... a man was seen pouring petrol over the Michael Jackson stage in Helsinki, Finland. The - police were were called and they found an escaped psychiatric patient having difficulty lighting . a match. He was arrested ... cult band Phish got 65,000 to their two day Festival (six sets) in rural Maine... Led Zeppelin cover Eddie Cochran classic 'Something Else’ on their upcoming BBC Sessions ... meanwhile Steve Albini is busy in New York producing Plant & Page ... the solo album by Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has been delayed until early 1998 ... look out for an official Spice Girls deodorant ... the current Shihad album Shihad has sold 'Gold’ in New Zealand (that is 7,500 units) ...Pulp have a working title for their next album Hard Cord. It is due in January ... former Band guitarist Rick Danko did six weeks in a Japanese jail for heroin possession. Good food. and good library, we’re told ... drum 'n’ bass artists Roni Size and Reprazent were the surprise winners of the prestigious UK Mercury Music Prize ... Carter have split as they can no longer stand playing to their fans who shout out (and throw beer cans) for thegroup’s old hits... sadly the - colourful Beatles press officer Derek Taylor (65) died from cancer Sept 7. In recent years Taylor worked on the Anthology series.