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EUROTIPSHEEThe Pan -European Newsweekly For The Music Traci

EMR/GOLDEN ROSE ANNOUNCEINTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONFERENCEThe first annual International Music & Media Conference (IMMC) will beheld alongside the Golden Rose in Montreux, Switzerland from May 8 toMay 11, 1986, with lots of activities for radio and television professionals.It will be the first Pan -European conference for radio and television execu-tives, programmers, producers and deejays and is organised in a joint -venture by European Music Report and The Golden Rose of .MontreuX.

The three days will include twodays of simultaneous conferencesfor the radio and television world,featuring leading panelists fromboth sides of the Atlantic coveringmusic in the international media.Panels will discuss topics like mus-ic programming, station manage-

ment, international broadcastingrights, new games and syndica-tion. There will be extensive possi-bilities for doing radio and televi-sion interviews with internationaltop talent, appearing in the GoldenRose Eurovision rock telecast, aswell as with new emerging artists.

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Multi -Talented Artist Of The Year 1985, Dave Stewart, receives the Eu-rotipsheet award, which was presented to him by Daryl Hall during thetaping for a special European award tv programme. Stewart, who' wasawarded for his skills as composer, musician, arranger and producer isseen celebrating the award with Eurotipsheet publisher Theo Roos. Thetwo are joined by (I. to r.) Hall, RCA/Ariola International executives GregRogers, Jack Davies, Dennis Collopy and Eurythmics manager KennySmith.

THORN/EMI SOLDMANAGEMENT ACQUIRES THORN/EMI ENT.

by Peter Jones and Nick Robertshaw

Thorn EMI Screen Entertainmenthas been sold to a managementteam headed by chairman andchief executive Gary Dartnall, butonly thanks to a last minuteintervention by Australian en-trepreneur Alan Bond.

Dartnall had already admitteddefeat, leaving the way open forthe controversial Heron/Cannonbid to go through (see Eurotip-sheet, Dec.9th) when Bondstepped in with an extra 15 millionpounds, allowing the management group to raise its offer to 110million pounds.

Bond, owner of Australia'sChannel Nine TV station, will get a45% share in TESE's equity, the re-mainder going to Dartnall's team

(10%) and clients of U.S. securitieshouse Bear Stearns which raisedthe finance for the takeover. TheTESE division includes film andvideo interests, 105 UK cinemasites, and the famous Elstree stu-dios, and earned 126 millionpounds in the latest financial year.Dartnall says no policy changesare planned and the jobs of over3,000 staff will be unaffected.

Thorn EMI chief Sir GrahamWilkins, who put TESE up for saleearlier this year, says the outcomeis a particular satisfactory one, es-peciallly in view of the company's"important role in the film andvideo industries in Britain andinternationally."

UNITED MUSIC STATES OF EUROPEA MEANINGFUL OR MYTHICAL CONCEPT?

by Mike HennesseyLondon - "Maybe satellite broad-casting will create a real CommonMarket much more rapidly and ef-fectively than the politicians haveso far been able to."

That comment, made by adelegate to the annual meeting ofthe IFPI in Geneva last June,homed in on an issue which hasbeen giving rise to increasingspeculation since the dawn, in Eu-rope, of the satellite and cable ageand the advent, particularly, of the

U.K. based Sky Chahnel and Mus-ic Box operations.

The issue of harmonization andrationalization of the various na-tional markets in Europe has beenexercising record companies nowfor more than a decade and therehave been significant develop-ments in the areas of centralizingmanufacture, administration, royal-ty accounting, major promotioncampaigns and tour co-ordination.The major record companies have

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DAVE STEWARTMULTI -TALENTED ARTIST OF THE YEAR (RCA)When presented last week with the Eurotipsheet award for Multi -Talented Artist Of The Year 1985,Dave Stewart said: "thank you very much, I'm honoured, but I would like to share this award withmy other half". With those simple words Dave showed his gratitude to Annie Lennox, who ispresently travelling through Bali, resting her voice in preparation for yet another worldtour. This1986 tour will definitely bring The Eurythmics to Europe and will obviously result in extra pan-european media attention.

Dave Stewart has to be one of the mostprolific, busy and versatile artists around atthe moment, as composer, arranger, musi-cian and performer (in 1984 alone, he per-formed in 175 concerts on four continentswith Annie Lennox). And now, this year morethan before, also as producer for a string ofartists from the Ramones to Tom Petty toFeargal Sharkey. Dave therefore earns theaward for multi -talented artist of the year,for his wider accomplishments in theseother creative fields.

He scored a particularly noteworthy suc-cess with Sharkey's A Good Heart whichreached no. 1 in the UK and has this week ris-en to no. 6 in the European Hot 100. During1986 no less than 5 Dave Stewart producedalbums will be released including The Euryth-mics new one, Kiki Dee, Bob Dylan, FeargalSharkey and an album he is presentlyproducing (and co -writing) with Daryl Hall.

A converted church, now partly trans-formed into a recording studio and businessoffices for Stewart and Lennox, has also seenthe birth of many of his extra -curricular activi-ties. Dave now heads his own record com-pany, Anxious Music, recently installed in ahouseboat on Regent's Canal, London. Earli-er this year Stewart assisted Bob Dylan direct-ing two videos for the Empire Burlesque LP.

'Be Yourself Tonight', the Eurythmicslatest album, has to date sold 1.3 million in Eu-rope. The LP has already spawned three hitsingles and critically acclaimed videos inWould I Lie To You, There Must Be An Angel

and Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves. Eu-rythmics' versatility includes incorporatingmany different artists in their songs. ThereMust Be An Angel made use of legendarysoul music star in Stevie Wonder, by way of

an enchanting harmonica solo, while SistersAre Doin' It For Themselves features the soulqueen Aretha Franklin. The spectacular pair-ing of Lennox and Franklin with their soaringvocals was bound to be the success it was.Although the song deals with the positivemessage of women's ability and indepen-dence, the male half of Eurythmics is not ex-cluded. Dave Stewart can be seen in thevideo, energetically playing his guitar in asegment shot in England.

When discussing the name of the group,Eurythmics, Dave said it "sounded good. Italso described what we wanted to be - Euro-pean and rythmical."... (Thanks Dave! wewould love to use just that slogan for Eurotip-sheet this year).

Dave Stewart being hugged by Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox.

RCA/ARIOLARIDING ON A WAVE OF HITSIn the midst of streamlining the new RCA/Ario-la international structure and the new mergerwith General Electric, the combined RCA/Ari-ola team is riding on a wave of internationalhits. Looking back to just five months of histo-ry the newly formed RCA/ARIOLA internation-al joint venture has every reason to be verysatisfied with their accomplishments in the Eu-ropean markets. Joe Kiener, VP internationalmarketing A&R says: "In the recent weeksand months we have enjoyed considerablesuccess throughout Europe with a substantialnumber of acts on the RCA, Arista, Ariola andHansa labels."

To mention just a few of RCA's acts withmajor 1985 successes: Eurythmics, Five Star,Hall & Oates, Nona Hendryx, Pointer Sisters,Rick Springfield and just recently breaking inEurope Starship and Mr. Mister, who bothachieved recent no. 1 singles in the U.S.

Greg Rogers, divisional director market-ing RCA/Ariola Records European regionaloffice, heartily agrees with Kiener's com-ments. And as he outlines: "I am extremelypleased with RCA/Ariola's marketing in Eu-rope. The 1985 success outlined by Joe givestestimony to RCA/Ariola's ability to move

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swiftly and efficiently across the geopoliticaland musical borders of Europe. The newyear's resolve of the RCA/Ariola marketingorigination for 1986 is to consolidate andbuild on 1985 success and develop manymore artists from the ever increasing pool oftalent being brought to us by our A&R centresaround the world".

Arista accomplished a number of Europe-an home -runs with Aretha Franklin, DionneWarwick & Friends and the Thompson Twinsand above all with Whitney Houston, who isstorming -up the European charts after sellingmore than 2.5 million albums in the U.S. andhaving a no. 1 U.S. single hit.

The Berlin based Hansa label continuedwith their overwhelming pan-European suc-cess story of Modern Talking and just recentlywith Frank Farian's Far Corporation, breakingin many European markets after achieving aU.K. Top 10 chart position.

Kiener comments: "Under the worldwideumbrella of RCA/Ariola international, the bas-ic principle of creative independence of ourlabels clearly proves to be a key success fac-tor for us." He continues: "But besides all therewarding results coming from our own artistrosters we certainly cannot emphasizeenough the key role of our long-term licenseand distribution label partners Chrysalis, Is-land, Motown and Virgin, which have playedand definitely will continue to play a major role

for us in many European countries. Artists tobe mentioned among others are StevieWonder, Lionel Richie, Huey Lewis, Billy Joel,Go West, Midge Ure, Frankie Goes To Holly-wood, Propaganda, U2, Simple Minds, OMDand Sandra.

RCA/Ariola's outlook for '86 is equally op-timistic. On the RCA label Starship and Mr.Mister are already enjoying massive cross-over success with both acts doing extensiveTV and radio promotion tours throughout Eu-rope in January/February. Kiener says: "I'mconvinced Mr. Mister will develop into a majorinternational top selling album and single act- 1986 is going to be their year".

Barry Manilow who just recently signedwith RCA on a worldwide basis has recordedsome Italian and French song material alongwith an English language duet with MireilleMathieu to be released early in the year.

Another most exciting act is the recentRCA U.K. signing of a group named WAX,featuring Andrew Gold and Graham Gould -man. Arista will enjoy new January albumreleases of Jermaine Jackson and the AlanParsons Project.

Kiener's final prediction: "Also watch outfor one of our key signings on the rockin'Horse/Arista label in the U.K., the group LatinQuarter which already enjoyed considerable'85 album sales in Germany and which willmake it in a big way in '86".


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TINA TURNERFEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR 1985 (Capitol)Everything that has ever been written about Tina Turner all points to one inevitable conclusion:never before has there been a lady in rock able to create such a relentless energy on stage, asDavid Bowie once put it: "Standing next to her is the hottest place in the universe. Her singingis like a kiss". The soul temptress who stunned the whole world by launching a new career in theEighties. And her comeback was an overwhelmimg one!

The Private Dancer album was one of the big-gest sellers in 1984 and its success stretchedinto 1985 by still topping all charts all over theworld. Until now it is the longest charting al-bum in the European Hot 100, reaching its78th week to date! In total the LP spend 27weeks in the Top 10 and another 23 in theTop 30. Total European sales exceed the 4million mark. The album has reached plati-num or multi -platinum status all over theworld. And the assorted singles from PrivateDancer (Let's Stay Together, What's Love GotTo Do With It, Better Be Good To Me, PrivateDancer and / Can't Stand The Rain) haveearned even more heavy metal awards forTina. For Capitol she is the absolute Queen OfHeavy Metal.

For those who love statistics, here followsome more feats. Apart from having the Ion-

gest running LP, the Mad Max single WeDon't Need Another Hero, is still charted in its23rd week, making it the 4th longest chartingEuropean Top 10 single of this year. The sin-gle was only topped by Modern Talking's'You Can Win', Kool & The Gang's 'Cherish'and the Eurythmics' Angell The Mad Maxsoundtrack climbed up to a highest positionof 16 in its 11th week, making it the 3rd mostsuccessful OST of the year (after Beverly HillsCop and Chess). And to top it all off, the'Hero' single was the fastest jumping single inthe European Airplay Top 50. Straight after itsentry at 47 it hit no.1 in its second week.

Her activities in '84 only seemed to be aprelude of what was to come in 1985. Apartfrom doing a highly successful European tour(stunning the audiences with guest appear-ances by David Bowie and Bryan Adams),

Tina Turner in a surprise duet with David Bowie during the sell-out concert tour at the N.E.C. inBirmingham.

Bhaskar Menon, chairman and chief executive of Capitol Industries- EMI Inc. and EMI Musicworldwide, presenting Tina Turner with gold and platinum awards for the music video of the Pri-vate Dancer Tour- Tina Live.

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she also performed in the Mad Max III - Be-yond Thunderdome movie together with MelGibson. Tina packs her electrifying energyinto her role as Aunt Entity, the lethal ruler ofa post -Apocalyptic city called Bartertowm.The soundtrack to the movie yielded the twohitsingles, We Don't Need Another Hero andOne Of The Living.

Recently she performed at the Live Aid tel-ecast, making an unforgettable impression onthe world audiences. And having just finishedher mammoth US tour, she is already on herway to Australasia to overwhelm yet anothercontinent.

It is amazing to see the enormous powerthe Queen Of Rock still has on younger au-diences who are not familiar with the older Ike& Tina material; even though she is well intoher forties, she is the definite proof that rockand roll is still alive and well. Her vocal poweris unbelievable and her live shows have an in-credible impact. Energy, power and vitality,these are the key words that apply to this dy-namic and versatile personality.

CAPITOL/EMIEXCITING PROSPECTS '86

"The surrciss we achieved with Tina Turner isphenomenal", says Heinz Henn, director Eu-ropean operations Capitol/EMI Ameri-ca/Manhattan. "Although the Private DancerLP was released in 1984 sales continued overinto '85 and we're now up to 4 million Europe-an sales. Especially the release of We Don'tNeed Another Hero made the album sales ofPrivate Dancer explode and that even while'Hero' is not included on the latter".

The CapitolfEMl America/Manhattangroup had one of the best years ever in thehistory of the international department. It hada record year with Tina Turner, Sun City, Di-ana Ross. Freddie Jackson, Katrina & TheWaves (first single Walking On Sunshine sell-ing worldwide 2 million copies and practicallyall over the world entering the charts), Bowie& Jagger (although the company obviouslydidn't make any profit out of that), DavidBowie (This Is Not America), Heart (a no.1 al-bum in the U.S. and already 2 million copiessold), Corey Hart, Joe Cocker and W.A.S.P.(a HM act selling over 200,000 copies inEurope).

"Success in this business can come veryquickly but can go down just as fast. It is

therefore very important to establish a goodbasis to continue being successful in the com-ing year. I'm very happy with the results thatthe Manhattan label has achieved, it has gonethrough a difficult year but it has now createda momentum with the results of Grace Jonesand Sun City and that is a very positivedevelopment."

1986 will be "unbelievable" with new al-bums scheduled for Joe Cocker, Dalbello(coming up with a new album produced byRupert Hine), Bob Seger (after a time lap ofalmost 4 years), a new David Bowie album(the soundtrack to the movie Labyrinth, forwhich Bowie wrote the music), Steve Miller(now Capitol worldwide), a new Tina Turneralbum and the first solo album from the ex -Stray Cats member Brian Setzer. "Our sharein the black label charts has increased enor-mously and also on that side we have excitingnew product from Maze Melba Moore andMelissa Morgan (with a track written byPrince)".


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DIRE STRAITSALBUM SELLING ARTISTS OF THE YEAR (Vertigo)With the release of their 5th album Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits have virtually broken every possi-ble record. The Dire Dynasty reigned in the year 1985 and its influence will be felt long after. Itssales throughout Europe even surpassed the two big CBS successes Bruce Springsteen and Sadeand resulted in the longest running no 1 album on the European Hot 100.

Following the release of the album, theirfirst studio album for 2 years, the band em-barked on the most extensive tour the grouphas ever made; a massive 24 country, 220concerts world tour sponsored by PhilipsCompact Disc. The band is still in the middleof a 4 months European and US tour and thefinishing dates will be in Australia end ofMarch '86. In one and a half years the bandcovered each corner of the world and onstage the band breaks records as well; a stintat Wembley stadium in London made themthe first band to play that historic venue for 13consecutive nights.

But the band seems to be destined to be-

come the definite record breakers of '85. TheCD plant's order in Hannover to manufacturethe Brothers In Arms album on compact discwas the highest order ever received. The ini-tial run of 75,000 CDs was sold out immedi-ately and up to now European compact saleson the album exceed 300,000.

The album (incl. mc's) was no less suc- 'cessful and has already sold 3.4 million co-pies. Worldwide sales have reached the 8 mil-lion mark (LPs and mc's) and CD's are ap-proaching 5.3 million. They were also the firstact in history to release a single on compactdisc, the beautiful Scot -flavoured balladBrothers In Arms.

After their concert in Rotterdam Holland, Dire Straits were presented with a special Compact DiscAward (a hologram of 3 CDs floating in space). From left to right: Jack Sonni, Alan Clark, ChrisWhite, Terry Williams, Guy Fletcher, Mark Knopfler and John Illsley.

Polygram International Ltd. executive vice president Aart Dalhuizen (right) vongratulates DireStraits' Mark Knopfler after presenting him with the special Compact Disc Award.

Not only are they the best selling CDartists ever, they also have the best sellingEuropean album of 1985. Entering at 15 inthe European Hot 100 the album moved up in3 weeks to the no. 1 spot, making it the fastestclimbing album of the year. And if that was notenough, it stayed 25 weeks at the no. 1 spot.This Dire Domination was only interrupted 3times (twice by Madonna and this week bySade).

The longest no. 1 runner, the fastest topclimber, the best selling album and CDgroup: it is clear that Dire Straits haveconquered the world and they will continueto do so. Phonogram International havealready launched 'The second phase ofthe Dire Straits campaign', to continuesupport and to ensure that the band breakseven more records.

It is 8 years since Mark Knopfler and theoriginal band members got their firstdemo -recordings - among them a songentitled Sultans Of Swing. The track hasbrought the group rapidly to worldwide ac-claim and the band have been able to delivercrafted and sophisticated quality albums inthe years after.

And the Straits Saga continues...

POLYGRAMOPTIMISTIC FORECAST FOR 1986

1985 was a good year for the Polygram groupwith the undisputable highlight of the break -though of Tears For Fears all over the world.The band has already sold 6 million albumsworldwide and is still a steady seller. Theother successes for the Polygram group in-clude Elton John, John Cougar Mellencamp,Bryan Ferry, John Parr, Dio, Olivia Newton -John and of course Dire Straits.

Looking back at '85, Aart Dalhuizen, ex-ecutive vice-president Polygram International,is more than satisfied. As he comments:"It was a fantastic year and I can only lookinto 1986 with full confidence. It is no secretthat we have had hard times, but these arenow definitely over and we now haveestablished a stable and broad basis to lookinto a bright '86."

Dalhuizen was responsible for signing thedistribution and licensing deal with A&M,which brought the company the successes ofSting, Supertramp, Bryan Adams and thenevi talent Suzanne Vega and Dalhuizen is"more than satisfied" with the deal. Also Poly-gram related product fared well like The Cure,Fine Young Cannibals, James Last (backcatalogue keeps on selling), Opus, Shakatak,Style Council, Level 42 and Lloyd Cole. Thecompany also continued the success it had inthe past with its extended heavy metal rosterand bands like Scorpions, Kiss, Deep Purpleand Bon Jovi achieved very healthy sales.

Looking into 1986 several interesting newprojects will come up like new albums forFrankie Miller, Def Leppard, Animotion andthe further growth of the Aussie band INXS. "Ihave also a lot of confidence in baby acts likeVitamin Z and Zerra 1 and the share of localproduct is increasing with recent exampleslike Nana Mouskouri and Johnny Hallyday.

Early January the international A&Rdepartments from both Phonogram Int, aswell as Polydor Int. will be moving to Londonfrom their former headquarters Baarn andHamburg. Dalhuizen: "All in all we're back inbusiness again, the troubles are over andPolygram is more than ready for '86."

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BEVERLEY HILLS COPSOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR (MCA)The popular American comedian Eddie Murphy starring as Axel Foley is chased by his own col-leagues at the beginning of the Beverley Hills Cop movie. A wild and chaotic pursuit, with carscrashing and parts of the city L.A. turning into pandemonium. This lively beginning is supportedby the exciting sound of Glenn Frey's The Heat Is On and it turned out to be Frey's biggest worldsmash after the demise of the Eagles.

It was also one of the tracks appearing on thesoundtrack to Beverley Hills Cop, an albumthat reached in Europe sales of approximately550,000. In the U.S the soundtrack notchedup 7 weeks at no. 1 and obtained doubleplatinum. Together with Chess and Mad Max,Beverley Hills Cop was in the race for theaward Soundtrack Of The Year and was chos-en as it yielded the biggest number of singlehits. The album resulted in major hit singlesfor Frey, Harold Faltermeyer with the in-

strumental theme Axel F, Patty Labelle, thePointer Sisters and Junior.

Not only was the Beverley Hills sound-track a good platform for the re -launch ofGlenn Frey it also meant the final break-through of the German musician/producer/arranger Harold Faltermeyer. Faltermeyerwrote the entire underscore, 3 instrumentals(Shout Out/Discovery and Axel F.) and TheHeat Is On. In the past Faltermeyer workedwith Giorgio Moroder on the Alan Parker film

Midnight Express and had his first hit in 1979with the Donna Summer track Bad Girls.Faltermeyer is now an established artist (hewas recently involved in doing some produc-tions for Laura Branigan and Rod Stewart)and Axel F. was a Top 5 hit in Europe andeven stayed 9 weeks in the European Top 10.It hit the no. 1 spot in Holland and Ireland, wasno. 2 in Germany, U.K. and Switzerland andhad further Top 10 positions in Belgium, Den-mark and Sweden.

From the very beginning is was clear thatthe Beverley Hills Cop LP was not just anothersoundtrack, but was a really good collectionof strong pop/dance songs. MCA's marketingcampaign was based on a theme of "the hitssoundtrack" and all adds and merchandisingcarried this slogan and listed the individualsingle titles.

It is interesting to note that in most territo-ries both the Glenn Frey and Axel F. singlesbroke prior to the movie opening. There is no

The heat was certainly on Harold Faltermeyer in '85

MCA artists Nik Kershaw and Kim Wilde in Paris where they were both involved in promotionalwork. In the photo, standing between Bernard de Bosson (managing director WEA France; on theleft) and Stuart Watson (international director MCA)

doubt however that the success of the moviekept the sales going and provided a substan-tial boost to the LP. The album spent 28weeks in the European Hot 100 reaching ahighest position of no. 8.

Glenn Frey - career relaunched throughBeverly Hills Cop Soundtrack

Display of the soundtrack in a Munich shop

MCAA TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY1985 was one of the most successful years onrecord for MCA and its artists. In the US plati-num albums were obtained for New Edition,Night Ranger and Tom Petty and for the 2soundtracks Beverley Hills Cop and MiamiVice (tripple platinum).

Major international breakthroughs havebeen achieved with Glenn Frey, Ready ForThe World and Colonel Abrams. Further tothat MCA has established their 2 U.K.signings Nik Kershaw and Kim Wilde.Another act with no previous internationalsuccess has already shown signs of comingthrough: The Damned.

Stuart Watson, international director ofMCA, is very happy looking back at '85:"When you see 6 MCA signings in theAustralian charts, 4 in the German charts and4 in the Japanese, all at the same time, youknow you have arrived".

Looking at the coming year MCA has a lotof trust in the Texas raised Charlie Sexton,whose European tour comes off in January.From the U.K. comes Cactus World News,another exciting signing.

"It is no longer necessary for an artist withinternational potential to break in the UK orUS before sales can be achieved in Europe.It is a question of recognizing the potentialand marketing the artist properly," accordingto Watson. "Working together with WEA, anartist orientated company like ourselves, wehave learnt to restrict our priorities and as aresult are breaking artists. Being a total enter-tainment company involved in cable televi-sion and movies we are able to draw ourresources together to the benefit of ourartists."

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MADONNASINGLES SELLING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (SIRE)Madonna Louise Ciccone - the hottest star since the days of Marilyn Monroe. If one artist dominat-ed the media in 1985 it was certainly Madonna; she was a favourite subject for gossip columns,look -a -like Madonnas popped up all over the world and radio stations and discos endlessly playedall the different Madonna singles. Some have doubted her musical qualities, although many, afterseeing her perform at Live -Aid and those that were lucky enough to catch her in the Virgin Tour,have to admit she is not a mere fashion doll: she knows exactly what she wants and is able to findthe right balance between her image and her music.

1985 is marked as the year when the Madon-na mania was infecting Europe in every possi-ble way. She collected no less than six Euro-pean Top 10 singles of which 2 went to no. 1and she still had 2 others in the Top 30. TheLike A Virgin album yielded 5 hit singles andshe scored another 2 with her contributions tothe Vision Quest soundtrack (on Geffen). Thisobviously makes her the artist with the mostcharted hit singles in 1 year.

Like A Virgin, the first single, went to no.1and stayed there for 5 consecutive weeks andMaterial Girl, the follow-up, reached a highestposition of no. 6 in the European Hot 100,staying for 4 weeks in the Top 10. But the realcontagiousness began on August 23th whenInto The Groove (an original b -side of Angel)entered the UK charts at 4, which was thehighest debuting single for any female artist inthe history of the English charts and it wasalso WEA's fastest selling single in the last 5years. One week later 'Groove' jumped to thetop (in its 2nd week!) and the re-released Holi-day followed at 2.

Also in Europe Madonna's records weredominating the charts. 'Groove' even went tono. 1 in the Hot 100 and Gambler, Crazy ForYou (the 2 Vision Quest singles) and DressYou Up all entered Top 10. The other singleswere 'less' successful. Angel and Holidayreached highest positions of 14 and 31 in theHot 100 respectively.

You want us to go on? On the album frontshe also reached spectacular numbers, theVirgin album sold well over 2 million copies inEurope and over 7 million worldwide.The world belongs to Madonna and its inhabi-tants can only patiently wait and see what hernext move will be.

TALKING HEADSARTIST OF THE YEAR (AUDIO/VISUAL) (EMI)All who have seen Talking Head's Road To Nowhere cannot fail to be stunned by the sheer visualbrilliance of the superbly compiled, surrealistic video. The ever-present running legs motif is inter-spersed with a comic summary of life, from birth to old age, together with a powerful Dali-esquevision of semi -madness and fantasy.

The video highlights the interest of each individual band member in films as a form of media.Beyond some experience in editing videos, David Byrne has always been fascinated by films andis currently involved in a full-length feature, True Stories. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth areworking on a soundtrack for a different production.

The making of their videos, just as thedesigning of their record sleeves, is insepara-ble from the groups conception of their musicas an art form. The cover of Little Creatures,for example, shows an original piece of art-work painted by the rev. Howard Finster (a re-ligious leader from Georgia who paints pic-tures with an esoteric significance). Similarly,various paintings owned by the group wereused as covers for their singles, hence illus-trating the strong visual connection betweentheir music and various forms of artwork.

Road To Nowhere is by no means the onlyexample of their highly creative synergy be-tween their recordings and ideas. One of themost succesful commercial concert films,Stop Making Sense, was last year released,directed by Jonathan Demme. It received the-National Society of Film critics award for bestdocumentary of 1984. Byrne said of the film:"the visual elements in the staging, thecostumes and the music, it seemed to be aculmination of sorts."

On the record side of things, the TalkingHeads album was one of the most commer-cial LP's they've ever released. It marked adramatic change of style. Where they were

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formerly involved in the mixing of Africandance rhythms with that of urban funk, theband has now shifted to a more traditionalway of songwriting. Their 7th LP has madethem the least predictable band in today'spopmusic. Little Creatures contains very ac-cesible pop melodies and even some C&Wmaterial. As Byrne put it: "The album is abunch of nice songs. Maybe I've gone thelong way around and come to accept almostthe conventional song structure as a validway of working'. Continued on Page 21

David Byrne surrounded by the surrealistic imagery in the video of Road To Nowhere.


PHIL COLLINSUBIQUITOUS ARTIST OF THE YEAR (WEA INT.)There are many reasons to name Phil Collins artist of the year in 1985 but because of all his diverseactivities throughout 1985, the description 'ubiquitous' seemed to be the most suitable. Applyingthis word to Phil Collins, there is no doubt that it fits him particularly well. The man is not only awork-aholic but also omni-present, as exemplified at the Live Aid telecast when Phil performed inthe same show live on both sides of the Atlantic. If 1985 is the year of the many facets of his crea-tive abilities, 1986 could even top that.

In the past year Phil's most importantproject was undoubtedly his solo album NoJacket Required which was released early inthe year and immediately stormed up all theinternational charts. In 3 weeks up to no 1. inthe Hot 100 and staying there for 12 consecu-tive weeks! And the LP is still charted after 43weeks. At almost the same time as the firstsingle of the album (Sussudio) took off, hisduet with E, W & F member Philip Bailey,Easy Lover, also became an instant pop radioadd. In no weeks time it became a world-widesmash filling the dance floors. It was followedby his production of the long awaited EricClapton album, an extensive solo tourthroughout the world with 100! concerts(including the 2 Live Aid performances), ashort production for an Adam Ant single andthe recording of yet another smash filmsoundtrack for White Nights (Separate Lives)which reached no. 1 in the US and is currentlyhappening in Europe.

The 'Jacket' LP spawned three hits,including Sussudio (highest position in theHot 100 of 4), One More Night (highestposition 3) and Take Me Home (53).

However Collins was not only active in theworld of music; he pursued his acting careerby playing a leading role in one of the

Road To Nowhere is the most successfulsingle of the album so far; it moved into Top10 in the Hot 100 in 4 weeks and has reacheda highest position of 6.. Further to that, thegroup had both the Stop Making Sense aswell as the Little Creatures LP in the Top 25 ofthe European Hot 100 (respectively 23 and11 as highest reached positions).The band has gone a long way, from their livedebut as a trio supporting The Ramones atthe famous New York club C.B.G.B. Their'thinking man's rock approach' has alwaysenabled them to achieve the right balance be-tween artistic integrity and commercialpopularity.

EMI MUSICSTRENGTHENING ITS OPERATIONS

Looking back at 1985, Harriet Brand,manager A&R marketing Europe and Interna-tional EMI Music, is very pleased. "Thestrength of EMI music has always been it'sability to market artists on a truly internationalscale and 1985 was no exeption with TalkingHeads becoming firmly established as amajor force through EMI's international oper-ations. At the same time Kate Bush, Marillionand Katrina & The Waves all achieved newlevels of success throughout Europe.

Alongside established acts such as PaulMcCartney, Tina Turner and Queen, our mar-keting ambitions for 1986 will be to further es-calate these successes and extend our effortsworldwide with emerging artists such as PetShop Boys, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and CoreyHart."

episodes of Miami Vice, an episode shown allover the US this week and to be broadcast inEurope later. The producers of the serieswere so enthusiastic about Phil's acting thatthey changed the last scenes, in which Philhad to die, in order to give him a come -backappearance in '86.

Last but not least since October Phil haslocked himself up with his Genesis partnersMike Rutherford and Tony Banks in order torecord the 15th Genesis LP due out in '86. Hewill be finishing the Genesis album by mid -

February and in the meantime he has foundtime to produce a Howard Jones single andplay on Paul McCartney's newest album,both due out soon. In March and April Phil willthen produce a new Eric Clapton LP followedby a massive -production world-wide Genesistour including many European performances.To top it all off, he may find a week to recorda new Miami Vice episode. Stay tuned in...

WEA'85-'86, AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR

"1985 has been an exceptional year for WEAInternational", says Jurgen Otterstein, mar-keting director WEA Europe, "though I canfull heartedly speak for WEA Europe only, I

have no doubts that the outstanding successapplies to all international WEA affiliated com-panies. WEA has reached a premier positionworldwide." He adds that "this will be reflec-ted by our impressive presence at next Mid -em exhibition in Cannes."

During the taping of the new Genesis album, Phil Collins took a short break to receive the 1985Artist Of The Year award from Music Box presenter Edwina Lawrie. Eurotipsheet publisher TheoRoos points to one of the several European Hot 100 top positions Collins achieved during 85.

The only problem for ubiquitous Phil is when to plan his next holidays?

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STINGDEBUT ALBUM OF THE YEAR (A&M)One of the most exciting solo albums that have come out this year and one that crossed the rigidborders between pop and jazz is 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' by the charming ex -Policesinger Sting. He has grouped together renowned jazz musicians like drummer Omar Hakim(Weather Report), bass player DerryII Jones (Miles Davis group), the great Branford Marsalis onsax, keyboard player Kenny Kirkland and backing vocals by Dolette McDonald and Janice Pen-darvis. The subsequent LP contains a wide variety of different musical styles, injecting new andricher elements into pop music.

The album easily crosses the barriers be-tween music types and according to the artist,"there has to be cross-pollenation so I deli-berately used musicians from a differentgenre on this record. What we ended up withis not a jazz record at all, nor is it easily classifi-able as rock 'n' roll. It doesn't have a label be-cause labels are destructive."

From the Sinatra-esque ballad Moon OverBourbon Street, the hypnotic and seductiveWe Work The Black Seem, to the Caribbeantinged Love Is The Seventh Wave and thelatest single Russians, the plea to humanityand peace, all is done distinctively well andonly confirms Sting's status as one of the bestcontemporary solo -artists in the pop field.

Sting is not just the ex -Police bassist, whosuddenly tries on his own; he is an artist in hisown right, an artist who has something to telland with his own personal message. Mediapeople were excited watching the Parisshows at the Mogador Theatre (which tookplace just before the official release date ofthe album): rave reviews, 'here's an artist whotried to do something different', 'here's an ar-tist who is not afraid to experiment!'

The audience response followed immedi-ately and the album smashed into the Europe-an Hot 100 at 29. The album moved into theTop 10 in 3 weeks and needed only 2 moreweeks to go to the number 2 spot. And now21 weeks later, the album is still in the Top10!. The LP is close to a million in Europe, ithas reached platinum in Holland, gold in Italy,and it is almost gold status in all the other Eu-

ropean countries.The album has yielded 4 hit singles so far,

including If You Love Somebody Set ThemFree, Love Is The Seventh Wave, FortressAround Your Heart and Russians, the latter onits way to becoming the most successful effortso far. A&M Records was from the beginningconvinced about the sales potential of the ar-tist and carried out an extensive organizedcampaign launching Sting as an individualsolo artist with a very good quality record.With regards to the 'Russians' track, everyEuropean country had a translation of the lyr-ics on the sleeve cover and the same market-ing device was applied to the video, with allthe versions being subtitled. Especially withan artist like Sting, lyrics are very importantand these translations really helped in tran-scending Sting's views.

Apart from all his touring and recordingactivities Sting is also very involved in buildinga career as an actor. After starring as thegladiator in the sci-fi 'Dune' he recently per-formed in the Fred Schepise 'Plenty', along-side actress Meryl Streep and popsingerTracey Ullman. Sting and his band will also beseen next year in the music feature film 'BringOn The Night', a full-length movie directed byMichael Apted ('Coalminer's Daughter'),which chronicles the formation, the early re-hearsals and the initial concert appearencesin Paris.

A very talented and stricly unique artistwho has given us some of the best music ofthis year.

A&M1986: AN EVEN BETTER YEAR!

The major event for A&M records in 1985 wasobviously the change of distribution partner.After a relationship of 8 years with CBS, A&Mwent into a new partnership with Polygram.And as Russ Curry, director of Europeanoperations, states: "We are very satisfied withthe new relation. The relation with CBS wasgood, the one with Polygram is even better".

1985 was a year of many highlights for thecompany. Bryan Adams made his majorbreakthrough in the US and everywhere elseand the tour with Tina Turner obviouslyhelped a lot in establishing him as a majorartist in Europe.

The company had considerable successwith the Supertramp album, the first albumwithout Roger Hodgson and it confoundedthe critics by being extremely good and suc-cessful. Total European sales approach aquarter of a million and the band is planninga tour from January till March next year. Thecompany further reached success with thelaunch of a new artist by the name ofSuzanne Vega. A very exciting singer/song-writer in the folk tradition and many critics la-beled her the new Joni Mitchell. Curry himselfis very satisfied about the results on her debutalbum and believes "she is the definite proofof the A&M policy of developing artists fromscratch". Vega will be coming back foranother tour through Europe. Other A&M suc-cesses include Chaz Jankel with his chart top-ping single in France entitled No. 1, RogerHodgson's first solo album and Jim Diamondwho was very successful particularly in theSouthern European market.

"The biggest excitement however forA&M was Sting's solo album, an album thathas done very well everywhere and has al-ready sold just under a million copies", asCurry enthuses, "and the interesting thingabout Sting is where ever he had hit singleshe also had an enormous album success. Wedeveloped Sting as a solo artist in his ownright from the beginning".

"1986 will be an even better year, wehave new LPs by Jeffrey Osborne, Chris DeBurgh, Roger Hodgson, .38 Special andBryan Adams. New signings like ThrashingDoves (a UK signing) and the Americansinger/songwriter Marty Jones will bring A&Mto even higher levels of success".


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(UNITED KINGDOMWhitney Houston remains at no. 1 this weekwith her Saving All My Love For You. She is thefourth female singer this year to have reachedthe no. 1 spot in England, together with Jen-nifer Rush (also having the first platinum sin-gle this year in the UK), Madonna and PhyllisNelson. The seasonal songs are doing partic-ularly well in the English charts. Shakin'Stevens' Merry Christmas Everyone has shotup from 10 to 2, Band-Aid have risen to 3,Springsteen's Santa Claus to 9 and Wham l'sre-released Last Christmas has shot up dra-matically to 10 from 32. Other good moves forthe duo Pet Shop Boys with their second sin-gle West End Girls (5-9) and Bronski Beat withHit That Perfect Beat, their first hit without thehigh falsetto voice of Jimmy Sommerville.

GERMANYThe Top 3 remain unchanged this week withElton John, Sandra and A -Ha, while there are2 striking climbs for Mr. Mister with BrokenWings (18-70) and Sun City (19-57). Local artistJennifer Rush is doing remarkably well at themoment with 2 singles in the Top 10 as well asscoring the 2 top positions of the albumcharts- surely a record! Another local currentlydoing well is Falco who has a new entry withJeanny in at 31, this being his second singlein the charts, together with Vienna Calling(23). 9 new entries _this week in the Germancharts, the highest of which after Falco areHeinz Rudolf Kunze's Dein 1st Mein GanzesHerz (33), Talk Talk's Life's What You Make It(44) and Marillion's Heart Of Lothian (55).

FRANCE3 local products again top the French charts(Goldman, Gainsbourg and newly up to no. 3this week, C. Jerome with Et Tu Danses AvecLui). Goldman is doing particularly well at themoment having 2 singles in the charts, his JeTe Donne is still at no. 1 and Je Marche Seul

(holding steady. Good moves for other local

artists this week include Pierre Bachelet withLAn 2001 (from 9 to 6), Papa Chanteur byJean -Luc Lahaye (12-21) and Mini Star's LesMondes Engloutis (30-50). Madonna is aspopular as ever with 2 singles in the charts,her Groove still at no. 4 and her Dress You Uprising dramatically to 40 from 61. On AM radiothe local Alain Souchon with C'Est CommeVous Voulez and Michel Sardou with Chan-teur De Jazz are both receiving increased air-play. These two artists this year received plati-num and gold respectively. Very few changeson FM apart from improved airplay for EltonJohn's Nikita.

ITALYArcadia remains on top followed by a new no.2 Cocciante & Mina's Questione Di Feeling.The most popular artist in Italy at the momentseems to be Madonna with 4 singles in thecharts, Groove (6), Gambler (7), Dress You Up(22) and Holiday climbing fast from 28 to 48.Sun City (19-32) and Den Herrow's Bad Boy(27-56) are this week's fastest movers and the2 new entries in the Italian charts this week areSandra's In The Heat Of The Night (20) andDionne & Friends.

HOLLANDElton John and Lionel Richie remain on topfollowed by Sun City having risen to no. 3 from5. Last week's fast movers have continued toclimb steadily, these include Sting, FeargalSharkey, Whitney Houston and Bronski Beatwith Hit That Perfect Beat rising from 36 to 20.New entries this week for Dire Straits' Walk OfLife, Silver Pozzoli, Sandra, Starship and GinoVanelli's Hurts To Be In Love (as predicted inlast week's Highlights).

BELGIUMAfter being ousted from the no. 1 spot lastweek by Sandra, A -Ha regain the top position

of the Belgian charts. Sandra falls back to no.2, with a new no. 3 (Wham!) having risen from6. As in most countries in Europe, Sun City isrising rapidly (9-25), with other good movesfor Sandra (16-29), Feargal Sharkey A GoodHeart(19-31) and Dutch singer Rob De Nijswith Alles Wat Ademt (20-39). Two new entriesthis week include Pierre Bachelet LAn 2001(28) and Mini Star's Les Mondes Engloutis(39), both of which are doing very well inneighbouring France.

AUSTRIAIf one single deserves to get the price of 're-relases of the year' it definitely goes to Jen-nifer Rush's The Power of Love. In the Austri-an Top 30 it re-entered at 13 and has now inits 2nd week landed at no. 1. Her latest singleDestiny enters at the bottom, at 28. Local actSTS stays at 2, followed by Joy (another Aus-trian production). New at 6 is the Austrian actErste Aligemeine Verunsicherung with Ba-Ba-Bankuberfall (B-b-b-Bankrobbery). Goodmoves for Grace Jones (currently on a Euro-pean promo -tour) who this week went up tono.7 and for Round One with In Zaire (13-25).

SWEDENSweden's three local artists in the top 10 (Im-periet, Anc-Svensk Rock Mot Apartheid andTone Norum) are all losing ground in thecharts faced with the popular International op-position. A -Ha and Sandra remain on top withSun City moving to no. 3. After only two weeksin the charts, both Nana Mouskouri and LionelRichie are rising fast.

FINLAND2 European acts on top, Sandra and ModernTalking (Cheri). W.A.S.R prooves that HM isvery popular in Finland, their single Blind InTexas is new at 3. On the LP front ZZ Top hitthe top: Modern Talking follows. Heavy metalacts also doing well are Kiss and Iron Maiden.

King - Bittersweet- CBSThe LP is already out for a couple of weeks,but still deserves your attention. It includes theUK Top 10 hits Love And Pride, Alone WithoutYou and Taste Of Your Tears. The album con-tinues their melodic and solid way of songwrit-ing and funky dance tunes like Torture (thenew single, due out dec. 27), These Thingsand I Cringed are other standouts.An album that deserves to do better.

The Sound - In The Hothouse (Statik)After 3 albums for WEA and 2 for Statik, TheSound is still a cult band. This new double livealbum captures the band where they are best:on stage. Recorded at the Marquee it featuresSound classics like Winning, Skeletons andother spellbinding and melancholic tracks likeBurning Part Of Me and Total Recall. The LPgives a good indication of ,what the band iscapable of during their exciting live gigs.

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Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade)Wyatt is a man with outspoken political viewswhich are very clearly reflected in his lyrics.Very sparse yet atmospheric songs, onlyWyatt's somewhat plaintive voice backed upwith an organ and some percussion. Andalthough it takes some time to fully appreciatethe value of this album, his basic way of song -writing definitely works. Try Aliance and TheUnited States Of Amnesia.

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0 3 1,Nikita

- Elton John - Rocket (Big Pig Music)

Take On Me2 1 11 A -Ha - Warner Brothers (ATV Music)

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I'm Your ManWham! - Epic (Morrison Leahy)

06 aA Good HeartFeargal Sharkey - Virgin (RCA Music)

5 5. We Built This CityStarship - Grunt/RCA (Various)

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Say You, Say MeLionel Richie - Motown (BrockmanlWarner Bros.)

Saving All My Love For YouWhitney Houston - Arista (Warner/Screen Gems EMI)

RussiansSting - A&M (Magnetic Music)

9 7 3Broken WingsMr. Mister - RCA (Warner Tamerlane/Entente)

Road To Nowhere10 8 8 Talking Heads - EMI (Warner Bros. Music)

11 39 2Dress You UpMadonna - Sire (House Of Fun Music)

12 16 8Je Te DonneJean -Jacques Goldman - Epic (JRG/NEF Marc Lumbroso)

Sun City13 - Artists United Against Apartheid - Manhattan (Solidarity)

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22 4When Your Heart Is WeakCock Robin - CBS (Chappell)

37 3Hit That Perfect BeatBronski Beat - London (BronskifW.A. Bong Music)

24 8DestinyJennifer Rush - CBS (CBS Songs)

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That's What Friends Are ForDionne Warwick & Friends - Arista (CarlinlWarner Bros Music)

Cheri Cheri LadyModern Talking - Hansa/Ariola (Intro/Intersong)

West End Girls36 2 Pet Shop Boys - Parlophone (Cage Music/C. Control)

MatedDavid Grant & Jaki Graham - EMI (Warner Bros. Music)

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21 10 16Part -Time LoverStevie Wonder - Motown (Jobete/Black Bull Music)

22 321Separate LivesPhil Collins & Marilyn Martin - Atlantic (Bishop/Pun/Gold Horizon)

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Spies Like UsPaul Mc Cartney - MPL/Parlophone (MPL Communications)

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The Sweetest TabooSade - Epic (Angel Music)

0 38 3Dein 1st Mein Ganzes HerzHeinz Rudolf Kunze - WEA (Schacht/Warner Brothers)

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Don't Look DownGo West - Chrysalis (AN Music)

0+ BecauseJulian Lennon - EMI (Spurs Music/Ivy Music)

28 3Life's What You Make ItTalk Talk - EMI (Hollis/Island/Zomba)

29 1' ''The Captain Of Her HeartDouble - Metronome (Z-Muzik)

0 40,L'AzizaDaniel Balavoine - Barclay (Barclay Morris/Bicycle)

31 28 14If I WasMidge Ure - Chrysalis (Mood Music)

45 4In The Heat Of The NightSandra - Virgin (Mambo)

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/My HometownBruce Springsteen - CBS (United Partnership/Zomba)

34 Girlie GirlieSophia George - Winner (Shad Music)

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Yeh YehBianco - WEA (EMI Music Publishing)

Don't Break My Heart36 27 7 040 Dep InternationalNirgin (New Claims/ATV)

37 41,Don't You Just Know ItAmazulu Island (EMI Music)

Alive And Kicking38 34 12 Simple Minds - Virgin (EMI Music Publishing)

Do They Know It's Christmas39 RE -Band Aid - Mercury (Copyright Control)

40 + Pictures In The DarkMike Oldfield - Virgin (Virgin Music)

41 + Merry Christmas EveryoneShakin' Stevens - Epic (EMI Music)

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Slave To The RhythmGrace Jones - Island (Perfect/Unforgettable)

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Y'A Pas De HonteMichel Berger - Apache/WEA (Copyright Control)

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When A Heart BeatsNik Kershaw - MCA (Rondor Music)

45,8 One VisionQueen - EMI (Queen Music/EMI Music)

46 .0 You're A Friend Of MineClarence Clemons & Jackson Browne CBS (Polo Grounds)

47 + Mr. D.J.The Concept - Fourth & Broadway/Island (MCA Music)

48 + Chanteur De JazzMichel Sardou - Trema (Art Music France)

Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves49 13a Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin - RCA (RCA Music)

50 + Walk Of LifeDire Straits - Vertigo (Chariscourt/Rondor Music)

HOT RADIO ADDSThe new hot radio adds on Euro-radio just prior to publication

A -HA- THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV (Warner Brothers)JOHN LENNON- JEALOUS GUY (Parlophone)SILVER POZZOLI- STEP BY STEP (Many Records/RCA)DRUM THEATRE- EL DORADO (Epic)

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EUROPEAN PLAYLIST REPORTS

U.K. RADIO AIRPLAY REPORTMost played records in England during the week of publication on thefollowing stations: BBC 1, BBC 2, Capital Radio, Radio London and themajor independents.

1. Whitney Houston- Saving All My Love For You2. Madonna- Dress You Upa Sophia George- Girlie Girlie4. Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls5. Dee C. Lee- See The Day6. Wham!- I'm Your Man7. Amazulu- Don't You Just Know It8. Shakin' Stevens- Merry Christmas Everyone9. Starship- We Built This City

10. Band-Aid- Do They Know It's Christmas11. Go West- Don't Look Down12. Bronski Beat- Hit That Perfect Beat13. Bruce Springsteen- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town14. Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin- Separate Lives15. A -Ha- The Sun Always Shines On TV16. Mr. D.J.- Concept17. Conrad Brown- Raise The Roof18. David Grant & Jaki Graham- Mated19. Elton John- Wrap Her Up20. Paul McCartney- Spies Like Us

MOW MOM GERMANYFrom the airplay hitparade from Media Control including 29 radio chan-nels. Media Control is checking nationwide airplay on records requestedby companies. For more info pis contact Media Control - Postfach 625,D- 7570 Baden Baden, Tel. (0)7221 - 33066

1. Elton John- Nikita2. Jennifer Rush- Destiny3. A -Ha- Take On Me4. Feargal Sharkey- A Good Heart5. Dionne Warwick & Friends- That's What Friends Are For6. Whaml- I'm Your Man7. Lionel Richie- Say You Say Me8. Starship- We Built This City9. Sandra- In The Heat Of The Night

10. Mr. Mister- Broken Wings11. Heinz Rudolf Kunze- Dein 1st Mein Ganzes Herz12. Whitney Houston- Saving All My Love For You13. Dire Straits- Walk Of Life14. Mike & The Mechanics- Silent Running15. Talking Heads- Road To Nowhere16. Cock Robin- When Your Heart Is Weak17. Herwig Mitteregger- Immer Mehr18. Blaeck Foeoess- Bye Bye My Love19. Shakatak & Al Jarreau- Day By Day20. Modern Talking- Cheri Cheri LadyTips: Aretha Franklin- Who's Zoomin' Who; Falco- Jeanny; JamesBrown- Living In America; Slade- Do You Believe In Miracles.

1ffleflkit MOM FRANCEFrom the Airplay Hitparades provided by Media Control France. For com-plete weekly up-to-date Airplay Reports pls contact Media Control France- 29 Blv Tauler - 67000 Strasbourg - France. Tel. (88)366580

Radios Peripheriques (AM Stations):1. Michel Sardou- Chanteur De Jazz2. Jean -Jacques Goldman- Je Te Donne3. Miss Maggie- Renaud4. Daniel Balavoine- LAziza5. Alain Souchon- C'Est Comme Vous Voulez6. Michel Berger- Y'A Pas De Honte7. Francis Cabrel- Encore Et Encore8. Sting- Russians9. Bill Baxter- Embrasse-Moi Idiot

10. A -Ha- Take On Me11. Pierre Bachelet- L'An Deux Mille Un12. Johnny Hallyday- Quelque Chose De Tenessee13. Ros Le Runs- Quand Tu Pars14. Capitaine Abandonne- Gold15. Gilbert Montagne- Robinson Crusoe16. Marc lavoine- Tu Me Divises Par Deux17. Telephone- Le Jour S'Est Leve18. Jean-Pierre Mader- Jalousie19. Andrea- I'm A Lover20. Eurythmics- There Must Be An Angel

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Radios FM:1. Jean -Jacques Goldman- Je Te Donne2. A -Ha- Take On Me3. Cock Robin- When Your Heart Is Weak4. Simply Red- Money's Too Tight To Mention5. Madonna- Dress You Up6. Elton John- Nikita7. Andrea- I'm A Lover8. Jimmy Cliff- Hot Shot9. Stevie Wonder- Part:lime Lover

10. Sandra- Maria Magdalena11. Sade- The Sweetest Taboo12. Daniel Balavoine- L'Aziza13. Matt Bianco- Yeh Yeh14. Huey Lewis & The News- Power Of Love15. Michel Berger- Y'A Pas De Honte16. UB40 & Chrissie Hyndes- I Got You Babe17. Indochine- 3eme Sexe18. Kate Bush- Running Up That Hill19. The Communards- You're My World20. Johnny Hallyday- Quelque Chose De Tenessee

IsEpollowairermunt op' so,Airplay checked on Radio 1, 2 and 3, the Dutch National Pop Chan-nels. For a complete up-to-date report contact Stichting NederlandseTop 40, PO Box 706, 1200 AS Hilversum. Tel. (0)35 - 231647.

1. Elton John- Nikita2. Maarten Peters- Away3. Rob De Nijs- Alles Wat Ademt4. Sting- Russians5. Talk Talk- Life's What You make It6. Bronski Beat- Hit That Perfect Beat7. John Lennon- Jealous Guy8. Clemons & Browne- You're A Friend Of Mine9. Silver Pozzoli- Step By Step

10. Lionel Richie- Say You, Say Me11. Simply Red- Holding Back The Years12. Wham!- I'm Your Man13. David Grant & Jaki Graham- Mated14. Mr. Mister- Broken Wings15. Feargal Sharkey- A Good Heart16. Artists United Against Apartheid- Sun City17. Pete Townshend- Face The Face18. A -Ha- Take On Me19. Dolly Dots- Unique20. Simple Minds- Alive and Kicking

media control AUSTRIAMost played records as checked by Media Control on the national chan-nel OE 3 and Radio Brenner. For more info pis contact Media Control -Postfach 625, 7570 Baden Baden, telephone (0)7221 - 33066

1. Elton John- Nikita2. Ulli Baer- Alle Lichter3. S.T.S.- Du Bleibst Heut' Nacht4. Talking Heads- Road To Nowhere5. Joy- Touch By Touch6. Erste Algemeine Verunsicherung- Ba-Ba-Bankueberfall7. Jennifer Rush- The Power Of Love8. A -Ha- Take On Me9. Olivia Newton -John- Soul Kiss

10. Heart- Never

SOCIEDAD ESPAGNOLA DE RADIODIFUSION - SPAINThe 15 best played records in Spain from Cuarenta Principales:

1. Simple Minds- Alive And Kicking2. La Decada Prodigiosa- Medley3 Ana Curra- Una Noche Sin Ti4. Baltimore- Woody Boogie5. A -Ha- Take On me6. Radio Futura- Han Caido Los Dos7. Modern Talking- Cheri Cheri Lady8. Luz- Voy A Por Ti9. Hombres G- Dejad Que las Nines Se Acerquen A Mi

10. Sting- Love Is The Seventh Wave11. Piladora P- Cleopatra12. Bryan Adams- Heaven13. Propaganda- P Machinery

14. Sade- The Sweetest Taboo15. Duncan Dhu- Fin De Amor


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RECORDS OF THE WEEKIRON MAIDEN- RUN TO THE HILLS (EMI)GINO VANELLI- IT HURTS TO BE IN LOVE(Dreyfuss)

EURO-CROSSOVER RECORDS:CENTURY- LOVER WHY (Carrere France)

SURE HITS:

THE CARS- TONIGHT SHE COMES (Elektra)JAMES BROWN- LIVING IN AMERICA (Scotti Brothers)

SECRET SERVICE- WHEN THE NIGHT CLOSES IN (Sonet Sweden)

DAVID SYLVIAN- WORDS WITH THE SHAMAN (Virgin)ALISHA- BABY TALK (Vanguard)ASIA- GO (Geffen)

SADE- IS IT A CRIME (Epic)FULL FORCE- ALICE, I WANT YOU JUST FOR ME (CBS)JONI MITCHELL- GOOD FRIENDS (Geffen)

Please note that in this issue you will not findthe usual correspondent tips on the lastpages. Many European radio stations have adifferent programming during the weeks ofChristmas and have fixed playlists. In the firstissue of 1986 however, we will print the Top 10lists of a lot of stations, either in the form of anoverview of their best played singles in '85 orthe personal preference lists of ourcorrespondents.

Apart from the boom of seasonal singles,not many new records are being released andthis is obviously also reflected in our EuropeanHot 100. Due to static nature of Europeanplaylists this week, it is therefore not surprisingto see so few entries in the European AirplayTop 50. Nevertheless, there is a new no. 1; thedomination of A -Ha (8 consecutive weeks atno. 1) is broken this week by Elton John andNikita is now best played single all overEurope.

Feargal Sharkey's A Good Heart at no. 4and Whitney Houston is also new in the Top10 airplay. With a gain of 10 places for SavingAll My Love For You, Whitney Houston hasone of the biggest moving singles this weekon airplay level and it is to be expected thatthe heavy airplay will continue the week afterChristmas. Other good moves for Sting,Madonna's Dress You Up, Cock Robin andthe new Bronski Beat.

In the Hot 100 A -Ha cannot be removedfrom the top and here the difference with EltonJohn is still quite large. While The Sun AlwaysShines On TV has just been released as thefollow-up, Take On Me is still in its 5th week thebest selling single in Europe. Wham! movesup one place to 2 and Madonna never seemsto be tired of proving she is the best sellingsingles artist in Europe; the 5th single fromLike A Virgin, Dress You Up climbs up another3 places and is already at no. 6.

While the album of Sun City is highest al -:um entry this week, the Sun City single isa so the first newcomer in the Top 10 and with

rope, American band Mr. Mister is finally mak-ing impact on retail level and due to new posi-tions in UK and Germany (and other marketsto follow) the single is this week's highest entryat 49. The band will be on a Europeanpromotour January/February next year.Another entry for the Mike Oldfield single Pic-tures In The Dark which Oldfield recordedwith guest vocalists Anita Hegerland, BarryPalmer and the 14 -year -old Welsh boysoprano Aled Jones (who has by the way 3different albums charted in the English hitpa-rade and yet one other solo single - Walking InThe Air.Check out the new single of the Italian 'maes-

To Be In Love could

mark the return Of this Italian artist whoreleased so many splendid LP's in the 7T's.David Sylvian, the Japan frontman, has a new12" out on Virgin entitled Words With The Sha-man on which he uses the same musicians ason his debut Brilliant Trees (Holger Czukay,John Hassell, Steve Jansen and Percy Jones).A very moody and exotic piece of art that sad-ly enough will not evoke many radio reactions,but nevertheless deserves your full attention.

From the Rocky IV soundtrack (when willthey ever stop?) comes a good track from theGodfather Of Soul, James Brown entitled Liv-ing In America (produced by Dan Hartman).

the Singles routeMost recommended singles not yet showing in theEuropean Hot 100.

/ Mr. Mister I _. 1.....:

Broken Wings (RCA)Glenn Frey 2 --.1..

You Belong To The City (MCAT-The Winans 3Let My People Go (Qwest)Green On Red c..Time Ain't Nothing (Mercury)Ruby TurnerIf You're React(Jive)Simply Red

-t t -Holding Back The Years (Elektra)--Patris 1_Love Oasis (MDM/Emergency)Fine Young CannibalsSiBlue (London) -AAA -Pat Benatar --xSex As A Wealoon (Chrysalis)Tommy Shaw t,0Remo's Theme (A&M)Jon Andersont iEasier Said Than Done (Elektra)Talk Talk 1 2._

-1-Life's What You Make It (EMI) ---wDiana Ross i3 -1-Chain Reaction (Capitol'-'"A -Ha hiThe Sun Always Shines On TV (Warner Brothers)Drum Theatre I CEl Dorado (Epic)The Cars (6Tonight She C mes (Elektra)Gino VanellitIt Hurts To Be Love (Dreyfuss)

yiNJoni Mitchell tGood Friends (Geffen)Full Force I,

oe. I Vetateibu Just For Me (CBS)

emro-crossoVerRecords by continental European Artists with strongcrossover potential for other markets.

Stephan Eicher/Two People In A Room (WEA)T.X.T. 2_Cold As Ice (CBS Germany)The Monroes 3Cheerio (EMI)Heinz Rudof Kunzel1Dein 1st Mein Ganzes Herz (WEA Germany)Falco 1--

Austria)SandraIn The eat Of The Night (Virgin)Silver PozzoliStep By Step (any Records/RCA Italy)Via Verdi

(WEA Italy)DiamondFatikolBrick (DID Records Italy)Michael Cretu tp vtx-1.Samurai (Virgin Germany?Den HarrowFuture Brain (Baby Records Italy)Channel 5 12Isn't It You (Polydor Germany)Cocciante & Thibeault 11Question De Feeling (Virlin France)AndreaI'm A Lover (Baby Records Italy)Double yrThe Captain Of Her Heart (Metronome Germany)Claudio Baglioni

'AZStrade FacendofS Italy)-Miko Mission ITwo For Low (Saar Italy)Century (.--4Lover Why (Carrere France)Secret Service'When The Night loses In (Sonet Sweden)

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EMR/GOLDEN ROSE(continued from page 1)

There will be a number of concertsand television recordings as wellas an international video awardpresentation.

For 25 years. TV executives,light entertainment producers andjournalists from all over the worldhave gathered at the Golden Rose.A more recent tradition assemblesat the same time all the leadingacts of today's popular music forthe recording of a Rock TV Specialof world stature IMMC will present6 upcoming international artists toappear alongside the major inter-national pop/rock stars in this Euro-vision TV broadcast. The show willbe produced by BBC's MichaelHurll.

The Golden Rose is in itself aunique concentration of artists, TVproducers and trade journalists in-terested in popular music and themedia. European Music Report(EMR) is the publishing companyof Eurotipsheet and has just goneinto partnership with Billboard.EMR is also involved in various ra-dio and television programmesand is now organising internationalconferences. By organising in

parallel with the Golden Rose, theInternational Music & Media Con-ference with all other interestedparties, particularly the Europeanradios, Montreux will become, asof May 1986, the world's capital ofthe music media meetings.

An international Music videofestival, both clip and longform,with a distinguished internationaljury will be an integral part of theevent, on which the awards will bepresented in the Rock TV broad-cast. There will be an open market-place for international companies

to present new professional CDequipment, computer technology,programme supplies as well asother media related articles.

The mushrooming of private ra-dio stations in many Europeancountries and the growth of musictelevision channels are creatingnew demands and new opportuni-ties. The programme and sales in-crease of music videos and the in-ternational breakthrough of manyEuropean artists will all be an in-tegral part of the discussions. Theneed is clearly felt for an interna-tional meeting place where the roleof music in today's media land-scape can be assessed. Radioand television programmers andproducers, record industry execu-tives, music video artists andproducers, music publishers,programme distributors and jour-nalists will all make contact at theIMMC.

The IMMC will take place in theMontreux Maison des Congresfrom Thursday, May 8 to Saturday,May 10. Apart from the internation-al conference sessions, attendeeswill not only be able to see theopen screening of the music videocompetition, but also to attend thenormal Golden Rose screening ofinternational television program-mes. The participants will be ableto attend the tapings of the pop -stars at the Montreux Casino onWednesday (7), Thursday (8) andbe part of the live 3 -hour GoldenRose Rock TV special, includingthe video award ceremonies andthe presentation of new emergingartists taking place on the Saturday(11). There will also be live concertpresentations of new talents or-ganised by various internationalrecord companies in differentMontreux locations each evening.

LONDON CALLINGby Howard Marks

At the end of what seems to havebeen the shortest year ever, therehave been very few negativeevents in the record industry thankGod. It's been wonderful to seewhat Band Aid has done for Ethio-pia raising millions of pounds, andthe Live Aid concert must surelyhave been the highlight of the lastdecade, let alone the year. TheUSA for Africa also helped to raisemillions of much needed Dollarstoo. On the other charity frontsthere was the No. 1 record whichraised money for the relatives ofthe Bradford football disaster, andthe record to raise funds forresearch into Aids, That's WhatFriends Are For. Finally, althoughnot actually raising money, but theactual thoughts behind the SunCity record also show the Worldwhat the record industry can dowhen it actually works together.

It's been great to see new actssuch as Whitney Houston, D.C. Leeand Pet Shop Boys breakingthrough with huge hits. It's also

been good to see Feargal Sharkeyfinally making it this year in a bigway. Congratulations to the lovelyladies of Amazulu, who have beenknocking on the door for sometime now, and finally scored withtwo top twenty hits this year. Like-wise, Coolnotes who also had twobig top twenty hits during 1985,they also seen to have been knock-ing on that door for a long time too.UK Soul music has become bigbusiness this year, with acts suchas Five Star, Coolnotes, LW5,

Loose Ends, Jaki Graham & DavidGrant & 52nd Street all doing well,and showing that Soul Music reallyis big business.

It's also been good to see offthe wall hits such as Sophia Ge-orge, Smiley Culture, Concept andDougie Fresh, and especially as allof these records were mentionedin the old London Calling well be-fore they actually charted. Finallyfor 1986 look out for these newnames, Twenty Flight Rockers, TheMen They Couldn't Hang, SigueSigue Sputnik and Chakk, all ofwhom could be big business. Seeyou in the New Year.

UK VIDEO MARKETCONSIDERABLE UPTURN NEEDED

by Peter Jones & Nick Robertshaw

Britain's video industry will have tosell 30 million pounds' worth ofvideocassettes in the last threemonths of this year if earnings areto match the 1984 total of just un-der 80 million pounds. Thisemerges from the first set of statis-tics to be officially released by theBritains Videogram Assn. Accord-ing to the BVA, distributors' sales inthe first nine months of 1985 havereached 48 million pounds, at anaverage unit value of just over 23pounds. That's 15% down on lastyear but with a string of block-busters - "Gremlins", "Beverly HillsCop", "Ghostbusters" - on releasefor Christmas UK video companiesare hoping a sustained market up-turn is under way.

Considerable growth will beneeded to match the peak year of1983, when domestic video saleswere worth 89 million pounds on

BVA figures. The organisationwarns that its statistics are not 100% accurate because not all videodistributors are BVA members, andnot all BVA members supply dataregularly, so the true totals couldbe somewhat higher.

It also notes that distributors'sales bear little relation to retailerearnings. Although the number ofUK retailers has fallen since 1983,they are buying more copies ofleading titles and renting themmore frequently, the Assn. days. Allin all they "appear to do well".

Retailers' sales and rentals ofpre-recorded videotapes amount-ed to 485 million pounds in 1984on latest estimates, or over fivetimes the value of distributor'ssales, and, says the BVA, "there isevery indication that this gap isgrowing:'

Whitney Houston in London celebrating her no. 1 and golden single in theUK with Saving All My Love together with Brian Yates, MD Arista UK (left)and Joe Kiener, RCA/Ariola International VP marketing and A&R (right).

CAROL AID BY MUSIC BOX AND VIRGIN

Carol Aid, a 4 -hour carol singingspectacular, is to take place on De-cember 19th in London's Heavendisco. The event, jointly organizedby Music Box and Richard Bran-son Virgin's group who haveprovided the venue, is beingstaged to raise money for Band-Aid. The concert will be an eveningof carols and Christmas songssung by a choir and backed by Eu-rope's top session musicians.These include (o.a.) Phil Lynot,Madness, Chris de Burgh, Ian

Dury, John Parr, Smiley Cultureand the Flying Pickets.

There will be raffles and auc-tions on the night and all the pro-ceeds will go towards Band-Aid.Charles Levison, chief executive ofMusic Box said that, "Music Box isproud to be contributing to theBand-Aid project". He adds that heis "confident that with the help andsupport of so many good peoplewe can raise a substantial contri-bution for the relief of famine inAfrica."

NO TIPSDue to special year-end programming and fixed playlists by agood number of our European correpondents, and the fact thatmany of them have left for their winter holidays, we are not printingour correspondent tips this week. They will appear again in ournext issue. We will also publish the top 10 of the year from someof the major European stations in the January 6th issue ofEurotipsheet.

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ALBUMS OF THE WEEK:

NO 51/52 - DECEMBER 23TH 1985

pageMALCOLM MCLAREN- SWAMP THING (Charisma/Virgin)BALTIMORA- LIVING IN THE BACKGROUND (EMI)BEN SIDRAN- ON THE COOL SIDE (Magenta/A&M)HITS 3- THE ALBUM (WEA/CBS)

THE SOUND- IN THE HOTHOUSE (Statik)BAD COMPANY- 10 FROM 6 (Atlantic)ROBERT WYATT- OLD ROTTEN HAT (Rough Trade)MATIA BAZAR- MELANCHOLIA (Ariston)

the AI bums routeMost recommended new albums as chosen by theeditorial team of Eurotipsheet.

Charlie SextonPictures For Pleasure (MCA)Pat Benatar

/ Seven The Ha'7-Way (Chrysalis)Joni Mitchel1(5

)1/4 Dog Eat Dog (Geffen)Artists United Against ApartheidLA

"N Sun City (Manhattan)74 Simply Red 'r

Picture Book (Elektra)X Sandra

The Long ay (Virgin)X Lloyd Cole & The Commotiong_

Easy Pieces (Poly or)Stephan Eicher aI Tell This Night (VVEA)

S.( Fine Young CannibalsFine Young Cannibals (London)Arcadia ..c.So Red The Rose (Parlophone),r Pete TownshendWhite City (Atco)Matia BazarMelancholica (Anston Music Italy)Stevie Nicks 11

T" Rock A Little (Mbdern Records/Parlophone)Robert Wyatt 0.4

T T`Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade)syc The Monroes t

Face Another Day (EMI)"` Hooters q,(CBS)-

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Rebelle (Virgin)Big Audio Dynamite- This Is Big Audio Dyna ite (CBS)The Sound -21,In The Hothouse (Statik)

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Welcome to our last albums guide of this year.Sade closes the year 1985 with a no. 1 albumand this is the 3rd time that a lady is on top ofthe Hot 100. Tina Turner opened the year witha no. 1 album (for 1 week) and Sade (Dia-mond Life, 4 weeks at no. 1) and Madonna (2weeks) followed in her footsteps. The airplayon the Promise album continues and trackslike is It A Crime (her next single, to be out De-cember 27th), Jezebel and Tar Baby areamongst the fave tracks.

The Sting album went to no. 2 in its 7thweek and after wavering for many weeks inthe Top 5, it looked like the album was to leavethe Top 10. However, due to continued goodsales, especially the last few weeks, the LPjumps up again from 9 to 5. Further to that thealbum remained an irresistable pick for albumbased programmes. We are still getting verygood reports on Russians, We Work TheBlack Seam and Bourbon Street. Further tothat the 3 -track maxi single of Russians withGabriel's Message and the live version of /Burn For You seem to be very helpful in shap-ing up special features.

some time but the Sun City projectis finally taking off. With very good positions inGermany, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden,Denmark, Norway and Italy the album streaksright into the Hot 100 at 27 and it is this week'shighest entry. Some of our correspondentsraised the issue that the album would not lenditself easily for programming, but this can eas-ily be put aside, because the album is gettingplenty of airplay on European radio.

A very good move for Whitney Houston,due to good positions in the UK, Germanyand Holland the album moves into the Top 20

this week. The Arcadia album continues itsway to the top and with new positions in theBenelux, Sweden and Denmark, it moves upto 35. It is good to see Pete Townshend doingwell with his White City album, in its secondweek up to no. 40.

Atlantic Records just issued a compilationalbum of the best of Bad Company, entitled 10From 6. Especially upon hearing tracks likeCan't Get Enough, Bad Company and RunWith The Pack, one is reminded again what agood rock band they were in the earlySeventies.

The unsurpassed Malcolm McLaren justreleased his new album on Charisma/Virginentitled Swamp Thing. The LP is a collectionof musical pieces recorded between 1982and 1984 on the Duck Rock World Tour, mixedwith a number of totally new themes, ideasand the famous McLaren touch.

It is worth checking the soundtrack to themotion picture Letter To Breszhnev, includingtracks by Fine Young Cannibals (Don't AskMe To Choose - from their superb debut al-bum), the militant hit by Red Skins (Bring It

Perfect Beat) and tracks by Carmel and San-dy Shaw.

One album that certainly makes up for therather low release schedules the last fewweeks is the new Alan Parsons Project albumentitled Stereotomy. As usual all the 9 tracksare writen by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsonsand apart from 3 instrumentals guest vocalistsinclude John Miles, Gary Brooker (on thewonderful track Limelights) and ChrisRainbow.

EURORADIO ALBUM SMASHES

1

Sade - Promise Epic Sting - Dream Of TheBlue Turtles- A&M

This week's most played albums on European Radio.

2

ELTON JOHN

Elton John - Ice On Fire- Rocket

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EUROPEAN HOT 100 ALBUMSBASED ON SALES FROM THE 18 MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES - © EUROPEAN MUSIC REPORT BV - HOLLAND - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

.,/,/ARTIST COUNTRIES CHARTED

,06.% TITLE ORIGINAL LABEL

1 1 6 SadePromise- Epic

UK.EG.B.H.I.SoA.Ch.Sw.O.N.E1

2 2 31 Dire Straits UK.EG.B.H.SoA.Ch.Sw.PoD.N.R.Gr

Brothers In Arms -vertigo

3 3 53 MadonnaLike A Virgin- Sire

UK.E.G.BRI.SpA.Sw.DR.Or

4 4 8 Simple Minds UKEG Ell.SpCh.Sw0 N.Fi.Gr

Once Upon A Time- virgin

0 g 26 Sting UKEG.B.H.I.SoSwD.Gr

Dream Of The Blue Turtles- am

6 6 6 Elton JohnIce On Fire- Rocket

UK.F.G.E1.111A.Ch.Sw.D.N

7 7 7 ZZ Top UK F.G.B.H.A.ChSw.D.N.F

Afterburner- Warner Brothers

8 5 51 Bruce Spring.steen UK.F.G.I.SpA.Ch.Sw.D.F1GruBorn In The .S.A.- ces

9 8 13 Stevie Wonder UK.EG.B.I.SoChSw.D.N.H.Gr

In Square Circle- Motown

10 10 13 Kate BushHounds Of Love- EMI

UKF.G.E1H.A.Ch.D.R.Gr

1113 62 Jennifer Rush

Jennifer Rush-cesUK.G.BH.Sw.N

O17 9 Modern Talking F.G.BSpA.ChSw.DN.Fi

Let's Talk About Love- Hansa/Ariola

13 12 9 Depeche ModeSingles '81415- Mme

UK.F.G.B I.Ch.D.Gr

14 14 9 Iron MaidenLive After Death- EMI

UK.F.G.BH.Sp.EIGr

15 11 7 Grace Jones F.G.13.11.1A.Ch.N

Slave To The Rhythm -Manhattan

16 16 7 A -Ha UK.G.H.ChSw.D.N

Hunting High And Low -warner Brothers

17 19 26 Talking Heads UK.G.H.SoGr

Little Creatures- EMI

0 35 18 Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston- Arista

UK.GH

19 18 33 EurythmicsBe Yourself Tonight- RCA

UK.E.G.SoSw.EiGr

20 15 9 Level 42World Machine- Polydor

UKG.Ch.D

21 20 8 Mike OldfieldThe Complete- virgin

UK.EG.PaD

22 24 6 Rondo Venezianol'Odyssee De Venise- Polydor

ES

23 23 v MarillIORMisplaced Childhood- EMI

UK.G.I

24 26 5 SandraThe Long Play- virgin

G.Ch.Sw.D.N

25 21 48 Matt BiancoWhose Side Are You On- WEA

FG.H.A

26 27 42 Tears For Fears UK.F

Songs From The Big Chair- Mercury

Qit.6 Artists United Against Apartheidr Sun City- Manhattan G.H.I.Ch.Sw.D.N.

28 30 g Jennifer Rush CA.Ch

Movin'- ces

29 22 16 The Cure F.G.B.H.Gr

The Head On The Door- Fiction/Polydor

30 28 48 Bryan Adams UK.G.Swhl.Gr

Reckless- ashi

31 29 72 SadeDiamond Life- Epic

UK.EG

a 42 6 Spandau BalletT e Singles Collection- Chrysalis

UK.H.I.D

0 41 11 FalcoFalco 3- Gig

G.A.Ch

34 43 15 Roger WhittakerDu Gehoerst Zu Mir -Awn

G.A

ARTIST COUNTRIES CHARTED

TITLE ORIGINAL LABEL

58 3 ArcadiaSo Red The Rose- Parlophone

UK.BH.I.Sw.D

36 31 78 Tina TurnerPrivate Dancer- capitol

UK.G.A.Ch

37 39 15 Peter MaffaySonne In Der Nacht- Teldec

G.Ch

38 34 21 MadonnaMadonna- Sire

UKG.H.D

39 48 5 Peter HofmannUnsere Zeit- cos

G.A

40 45 4 Lloyd Cole & The CommotionsEasy Pieces- Polydor Uk.B.HSw.

0 96 2 Pete TownshendWhite City- Airs

G.H

42 47 11 Klaus Lege BandHeisse Spuren- MusikanVEMI

43 46 23 Billy Joel UK.H.I

Greatest Hits Volume 1 & 2- cos

44 32 28 Bryan FerryBoys And Girls- EG/Polydor

UK.E.GGr

45 53 19 Kool & The GangEmergency- De-Lite

ES

46 49 6 Udo JuergenTreibjagd- Arida

G.A

47 52 10 Jean -Jacques GoldmanNon Homologue- Epic

EB

0 II Golden 13r

0

Beliebteste Russische Melodien- ces

49 37 22 U2 UK.G.B.H

U2 Live "Under A Blood Red Sky"- Island

50 51 10 George BensonLove Songs- icrar

UK

0 67 3 Pat BenatarSeven The Hard Way- Chrysalis

G.B.Sw

52 as 37 Modern TalkingFirst Album- Hansa/Ariola

G.A.Po

0 66 4 Frank DuvalTime For Lovers- Teldec

63 68 6 The London Symphony OrchestraThe Power Of Classic Rock- Portrait

55 61 14James LastLeave The Best To Last- Polydor

G.A.Ch

UK

56 89 3 Henry ManciniDie uornenvoegel.ma

G.Ch

57 56 4 Barbara DicksonGold- K -Tel

UK

58 38 27 ScorpionsWorld Wide Live- Harvest

G.Sp

59 55 6 Elaine PaigeLove Hurts. was

UK

60 54 10 Fritz BrauseShilly Shelly Papagayo

0 81 2 Grace JonesIsland Life- island

UKELH

62 59 4 Russ AbbotI Love A Party -

UK

63 25 43 Phil CollinsNo Jacket Required- Virgin/WEA Int.

UK.F

64 60 3 Heinz Rudolf KunzeDein 1st Mein Ganzes Herz- WEA

65 62 13 Serge GainsbourgLove On The Beat- Phonogram

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66 36 4 Cristopher Cross FGSw.D

Every Turn Of The World- Warner Brothers

4 Chas & Dave UK

Jamboree Bag No.3- Rockney/Towerbell

4 Aled Jones & The BBC Welsh Chorus UKAled Jones With The BBC Welsh Chorus- Immo

67 66

68 74

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ARTIST COUNTRIES CHARTED

TITLE ORIGINAL LABEL

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70 64 16 Howard CarpendaleMittendrin- EMI Electrola

71 82 3 Richard ClaydermanThe Classic Touch- London

UK

72 57 3 James LastViva Vivaldi- Polydor

G

73 72 6 Howard Keel UK

Reminiscing -The Howard Keel Collection- Telstar

74 63 6 Daniel BalavoineSauver i:Amour- Barclay

75 40 10 Midge UreThe Gift- Chrysalis

UK.G

76 70 3 Black LaceParty Party 2- Telstar

UK

77 71 11 Blaeck FoeoessSchoene Bescherung- EMI Bechola

78 76 4 Commodores UK

The Very Best Of The Commodores- Telstar

79 86 23 Johnny. Halliday.Rock 'N' Roll Attitude- Philips

80 75 13 Jacques HigelinAl- Pathe Marconi

81 78 6 Francis CabrelPhotos De Voyages-ces

82 99 2 Go WestGo West- Chrysalis

UK

83 44 19 Soundtrack - Mad Max FSp

Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome- capitol

Roland KaiserHerz Ueber Kopf- mow84 .1

85 Elvis PresleyBallads- Telstar

UK

86 80 6 Jean FerratJe Ne Suis Qu'Un Cri- Pathe Marconi

F.B

87 83 9 Soundtrack - West Side Story UK

West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein- OGG

88 89 5 Echo & The Bunnymen UK.B

Songs To Learn And Sing- corona

89 Herwig MittereggerImmer Mehr- Gas

90 95 2 Slade"Crackers" - Christmas Album- Telstar

UK

91 88 5 Chantal Goya FB

Felix Le Chat -RCA

92 79 15 UB 40Baggariddim- Dep IntNirgin

UK.H.Gr

93 RE - Pierre BacheletBachelet- RCA

EB

94 84 3 SupertrampBrother Where You Bound A&M

95 93 15 Ulla MeineckeDer Stolz Italienischer Frauen- RCA

96 98 22 Kenny RogersThe Kenny Rogers Story- Liberty

UK

97 73 12 DoubleBlue- Metronome/Polydor

98 91 5 TThheeEEaastestnednersder& UK

Sing -Along Album- sec

99 85 6ii(kniat.)ser&NKolradtisesekueste- Teldec

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100 94 2 EliorigGIIUW8ChitttgakeSrS Es Dich Gibe-Awn

UK = United Kingdom, F = France, G = Germany. Ch = SwitzerlandA = Austria, I = Italy, Sp = Spain, H = Holland, 8 = Belgium, Ir = IrelanSw = Sweden. D = Denmark. N = Norway. Fi = Finland.Po = Portugal. Cr = Greece

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THE HITS SOUNDTRACKMUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

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ra THE HEAT IS ON GLENN FREYNO (K. Forsey/H. Faltermeyer)

01, AXEL F HAROLD FALTERMEYERim (H. Faltermeyer)

NEUTRON DANCE POINTER SISTERSNiro (A. Willis/D. Sembello)

Al_ NEW ATTITUDE PATTI La BELLEmw (S. Robinson/J. Gilutin/B. Hull)

la DO YOU REALLY (WANT MY LOVE?) JUNIORadir (Junior/G. Nightingale)

dIM STIR IT UP PATTI La BELLEv (A. Willis/D. Sembello)

Ejl DON'T GET STOPPED IN BEVERLEY HILLS SHALAMARAr (H. Wolinski/H. Hewett/M. Free)

THE HEAT......GOES ON!!

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NEW TALENTRecords by new acts as selected by the editorial team of Eurotipsheet for the Pan -European market and beyond. Active radio/tv programmers, who want to program theserecords should be aware that these are not necessarily released in all territories. International A&R experts and music publishers on the look out for new deals could contactthe original master/publishing owners. Original country and telephone numbers are mentioned as known.

Secret Service - When The Night Closes In (Sonet) Sweden.publ. Cloudberry Songs. Master owner: Sonet, tel. (Sweden) 8-7670150.5 -Piece Swedish pop act with their follow-up to 'Let Us Dance Just A Little Bit More', one of oureuro-crossover picks this summer and currently getting good radio reactions in France at the mo-ment (licensed on Vogue). 'When The Night' is a winsome pop tune backed up with some finemelodic arrangements.

Moskwa TV - Generator 7/8 (Zyx) Germany.publ. Melodie Der Welt, tel. 69-287847. Master owner: Zyx, tel. 6436-4052.The follow-up to 'Tekno Talk', which sold over 30,000 maxis in Germany and even entered the USBillboard Dance charts. Moskwa TV is a disco -cult project, set up by Frankfurter Talla. Post -doomindustrial electro beats and a remarkable voice (reminiscent of Cy Cumin, the Fixx) supporting it.

The Monroes - Cheerio (EMI) U.K.publ. Sweden Music, tel. (Sweden) 8-143020. Master owner: EMI UK, tel. 1-4864488.This Bob Sergeant produced single has topped the Norwegian charts for one and a half monthand was 11 in Sweden. The Norwegian duo, signed to EMI UK, are picking up good responsesoutside Scandinavia with this typical MOR ballad with some very strong and commercialcommunity -singing on the end. Album sold 280.000 copies so far, which is more than any otherNorwegian act has sold before (including A -Ha!). Publishing available outside Scandinavia.

Stephan Eicher - Two People In A Room (WEA) G -A -S.publ. Electric Unicorn, tel. (Switzerland) 1-2411911. Master owner: WEA for GAS countries, Poly-gram rest of Europe.25 year old Swiss based multi -instrumentalist with a well -arranged pop song featuring Eicher'sslightly romantic voice. The Howard Jones of Zurich. Eicher debuted in the band Grauzone whohad a good hit with "Eisbeer" in GAS. Album just entered Swiss charts this week and a major cam-paign in '86 for the rest of Europe will follow. Watch out for it.

Gianni Togni - Segui II Tuo Cuore (CGD) Italypubl. Sugarmusic/Acquarello. Master owner: CGD, tel. 2-5084'Best Song Award' winner at the Yamaha Festival (Tokyo) in 1981, with a follow-up to Giulia, oneof our Italian faves July, earlier this year. Togni continues his melodic base with familiar Self Con-trol/Tarzan Boy/Maria Magdalena- vocals supporting it.

Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Situation Two) UKpubl. Copyright Control. Master owner: Beggars Banquet, tel. 1-8709912.Indie sellers whose album The Immigrant was one of our faves on the Indie Route. The band, cen-tered around the Welsh twins Jay and Michael Aston, just returned from a lenghthy US tour andcame up with a sound, cast in the same mold as The Cult; arresting vocals against a powerfuldance beat. UK press describes them as 'dark and gothic.

Modern Romance - Best Mix Of Our Lives (WEA) UKpubl. various. Master owner: WEA, tel. 1-4343232.Les 'The Mix Doctor' Adams remix of all the best hits of fashionable UK duo Modern Romance.A guaranteed hit with its cheerful Caribbean- tinged party atmosphere. Containing (a.o.) Ay Ay AyAy Moosey, Everybody Salsa and Best Years Of Our Lives.

Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet (Big Time) Australiapubl. Chrysalis Music, tel. 1-4082355. Master owner: Contact Fred Bestall at Big Time Australia,Telex, AA 71181 Bestall.Chrysalis UK picked up the rights to this former A&M act from Australia. Watch out for this talented4 -piece band with a brooding mix of 6T's guitar sounds, good hooks and the general psychedelic'underground' overtones. Single has undeniable pop appeal. UK already likes them and a bigcampaign on the Continent beginning of '86 follows.

The Adult Net - Edie (Beggars Banquet) UKpubl. Minder Music, tel. 1-2897281. Master owner: Beggars Banquet, tel. 1-8709912Captivating 6T's sounds in a production by John Leckie, about Edie Sedgewick, a protege of AndyWarhol. Adult Net is a project set up by Fall member Brix Smith, who debuted with The StrawberryAlarm Clock cover Incense and Peppermints.

Fake - Brick (Did Records) Italy

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Swedish trio signed through Did in Italy. Master is still available for UK and Spain. Already for weeksI Eurotipsheet's fave production from Italy: e4ljted vocals combined with the polished disco produc-I tion give lasting effects.

Miko Mission - Two For Love (Saar) Italypubl. Saar. Master owner: Saar Italy, tel. 20-4696251.halo disco with its characteristic 'Woody Boogie' back beats. Follow-up to The World Is You, thatcharted in Spain, Italy and Germany. Could do well with its Euro-feel.

Via Verdi - Diamond (WEA) Italypubl. Creamus. Master owner: Ibiza Records, tel. 2-3450312Poppy disco on a well arranged electronic base. With its typical 'Euro-feel' this Italian 4 piece band(originally a hardrock outfit) could do well in Europe. Produced by the Deejay Gang (a.o. SandyMarton, Taffy).

.\ Tone Norum - Can't You Stay (CBS) Swedenyjo publ. Seven Doors/EMI Music, tel. 8-646200. Master owner: CBS Sweden, tel. 8-980250

Strong power ballad on a military rhythm by a Swedish 20 -year old female singer/guitar player.

TUNING IN

Monique Le Marcis - RTLMonique Le Marcis is head ofprogrammes for the Paris based AM sta-tion RTL, Radio-Tele Luxembourg.

"A very positive and encouraging factorhas been emerging in France over the pastfew months. There is a new generation ofartists appearing who in the very week ofreleasing new singles go gold or evenplatinum. Jean -Jacques Goldman's 'Je TeDonne' was double platinum within 2months and Renault Michel Sardou andJean Ferrat all went platinum after only aforthnight. Alain Souchon, Daniel Bala-voine, Pierre Bachelet, Nana Mouskouriand 15,igk Cabrel all rapidly rose to gold.Another interesting element in today'smusic world is the growing amount of cine-ma actors who are turning towards sing-ing. Isabelle Adjani's LP last year was atremendous success and this year she isjoined by Sophie Marceau, Richard Berry,Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin.As for the cross -over potential of French ar-tists, Serge Gainsbourg obviouslyachieved this a long time ago and I believethat Jeanne Mas is another likely con-tender for reaching the wider Europeanmarket. She represented France in theBayerischen Rundfunk 'Trophees' at Mid -em. Telephone has just completed a suc-cessful tour in England, while Rita Mitsou-ko and Indochine are similarly attractinglisteners abroad.RTL continues to be a major source ofsponsorship, not only for major internation-al stars (Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Super -tramp, Leonard Cohen), but also for the lo-cals Johnny Halliday, Jean -Jacques Gold-man and Higelin to name but a few.We have around 9 million listeners andvary our music throughout the day toreach the highest possible ratings. Duringthe day, from 5 o'clock in the morning till 6at night, we play mostly French recordscompared to the international repertoire(65% French, 35% international). Between1a30 and 20.30 the division is about50/50, but at night we mostly play interna-tional music".

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TOP3infIARUPfCOUNTRY 1 2 3UNITED KINGDOM ,ta,,,,,,ei,n9ouAstoini.,MArIta,Love For You Merry Christmas Everyone

Shako' ttevens (Epic)Do They Know It's ChristmasBand Aid (Mercury)

GERMANY NikitaElton John (Rocket)

In The Heat Of The NightSandra (Vrrgin)

Take On MeA -Ha (Warner Brothers)

FRANCE Je Te DonneJean -Jacques Goldman (Epic)

Lemon IncestSerge Gainsbourg & Charlotte (Philips)

Et Tu Danses Avec LuiC Jerome (Zone Music)

ITALY Election DayArcadia (Parlophone)

Questione Di FeelingCocciante 8 Mina (Virgin)

Rock Me AmadeusFalco (Grg)

SPAIN PartTime LoverSteve Wonder (Motown)

We Don't Need Another HeroTina Turner (Capitol)

Into The GrooveMadonna (Sae)

HOLLAND NikitaElton John (Rocket)

Say You, Say MeLonel Riche (Motown)

Sun CityArtists United Against Apartheid (Manhattan)

BELGIUM Say You, Say MeLionel Riche (Motown)

Maria MagdalenaSandra (Virgin)

NikitaElton John (Rocket)

SWEDEN Take On MeA -Ha (Warner Brothers)

In The Heat Of The NightSandra (Virgin)

Sun CityAnrsts United Agartst Apartheid (Manhattan)

DENMARK I'm Your ManWham! (Epic)


AfrikaVarious Artists (Gentyci)

NORWAY Say You, Say MeLionel Riche (Motown)

The Power Of LoveJennifer Rush (CBS)

NikitaElton John (Rocket)

FINLAND Maria MagdalenaSandra (Virgo)

Cheri Cheri LadyModern Talking (Hansa/Arida)

Blind In TexasW A S P (Capitol)

IRELAND Saving All My Love For YouWhitney Hobston (Arista)

Do They Know It's ChristmasMeBanc Aid (rcury)

Dress You UpMadonna (See)

SWITZERLAND NikitaElton John (Rocket)

In The Heat Of The NightSandra (Virgin)


AUSTRIA The Power Of LoveJennifer Rush (CBS)

Goe, Du Bleibst Heut Nacht Bei MirSTS (Amadeo)

Touch By TouchJoy (OK)

GREECE Cheri Cheri LadyModern Talking (HanstarAnolal

Election DayArcadia (Parlophone)

Alive And KickingSimple Minds (Virgil

PORTUGAL You're My Heart, You're My SoulModern Talking (Hansa/kola)

You Can Win If You WantModern Talking (HansalArola)

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euiroclipsThe most aired music video clips throughout Europe in the week prior topublication. It includes more than 50 video-tv programs and other t.v.shows partly using videos from 14 European countries.

VIDEO FAVOURITES

Artists United Against Apartheid- Sun CityFeargal Sharkey- A Good HeartElton John- Nikita

VIDEO HITS

Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin- SistersMick Jagger- Hard WomanWhitney Houston- Saving All My Love For YouWham!- I'm Your ManArcadia- Election DayLionel Richie- Say You Say MeLloyd Cole & The Commotions- Lost WeekendQueen- One VisionMadonna- Dress You UpStevie Wonder- Part:lime Lover

WELL AIRED

Pet Shop Boys- West End GirlsGo West- Don't Look Down34

Talking Heads- Road To NowhereBronski Beat- Hit That Perfect BeatDee C. Lee- See The DayDavid Grant & Jaki Graham- MatedKate Bush- CloudbustingNik Kershaw- When A Heart BeatsUB40- Don't Break My HeartJohn Lennon- Jealous Guy

MEDIUM ROTATION

Paul McCartney- Spies Like UsSimple Minds- Alive And KickingSting- RussiansGrace Jones- Slave To The RhythmMadonna- GamblerBand Aid- Do They Know It's ChristmasMarillion- Heart Of LothianMidge Ure- That Certain SmileRay Parker Jr.- Girls Are More FunStarship- We Built This CityMr Mister- Broken WingsThe Waterboys- The Whole Of The MoonA -Ha- Take On Me

FIRST SHOWINGS

Drum Theatre- El DoradoBruce Springsteen- My HometownGino Vanelli- It Hurts To Be In Love


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THE UNITED MUSIC STATES OF EUROPE(continued from page 1)increasingly recognized the effi-ciency of treating Europe as awhole in certain areas of their oper-ations. A major landmark in thisprocess occurred at 9 am. onMarch 9th, 1979 when CBS or-ganized simultaneous releasesthroughout Europe of the A&M Su-pertramp album, "Breakfast InAmerica". This co-ordinated mar-keting campaign was an enor-mous success - the album went onto sell 38 million albums - and it setthe pattern for many subsequentPan -European initiatives.

"Pan -European" - that is thebuzz word of the moment. But howrealistic are the predictions that weare moving towards the UnitedMusic States of Europe?

The advent of satellite broad-casting with multi -national foot-prints has provoked a great deal offanciful conjecture about the likeli-hood of standardizing musical cul-ture and the massive erosion of na-tional repertoire which may bethreatened. But the likelihood ofsuch a development is firmly re-jected by most informed observ-ers. In gazing at the potential ofsome complex pieces of hardwaresituated some 35,000 kilometersabove the equator, we shouldmake sure that we still have ourfeet firmly planted on the ground.

First of all look at the truedimensions of the situation. MusicBox predicts that it will be capableof reaching 10 million plus Europe-an homes by 1990. That's less than10% of households.

Secondly, it is one thing to bereceivable - quite another to getconsumers to switch to your chan-nel. And by 1990 the prospects arethat a proliferation of televisionchannels will be competing forviewer attention - and there aremany who believe that thecompetitors in this field will ignore,or play down, national repertoireat their peril.

Thirdly, what is by no meansclear is to what extent there is arelationship between the advent ofSky Channel and Music Box -which, together, are receivable inabout nine million homes - and therecent European increase in themarket share of internationalproduct. Much of this trend couldbe due to the mushroominggrowth of private FM radio stations- at least in some countries.

Siegfried Loch, president ofWEA Europe, puts the situation

into perspective: "Sky Channeland Music Box can exert influencein Benelux, Scandinavia, Switzer-land and Italy - but they are still arelatively minor force when com-pared with the entire output of Eu-ropean broadcasting. I think theprincipal reason for the strength ofinternational product in Europe isthe dramatic change of the musicitself since the mid -seventies.Much of the impetus for this camefrom the U.K. and it made a big im-pact on the U.S. and Europeanmarkets. What we cannot, ofcourse, measure is whether thisimpact would have been as greatin Europe if there had been nopan-European programming ofmusic videos.

"What is certain, however, isthat the emergence of this newcreative vitality from Britain coin-cided with a decline in the vitality ofproduct from other European mar-kets. The German new wave, whichhad an impact in 1981 and 1982,virtually disappeared in 1983 andthere have not been many majornew artists emerging from France,Italy, Holland or Scandinavia, ableto compete with Anglo-Americanproduct.'

Wilfried Jung, EMI director,Central Europe, acknowledgesthat international repertoire cur-rently dominates the Europeanmarketplace, but he believes thatnational repertoire will rally. "I holdfirmly to the view that Anglo-American repertoire will continueto hold a 50% European marketshare for the foreseeable future. I

believe that if satellite broadcast-ing, dominated by Anglo-American music, becomes in-creasingly influential in Europe,then the national broadcasters andthe national record companies willfight back by boosting local reper-toire. There are already signs insome countries that the statebroadcasting systems are payingmore attention to local repertoire.And it certainly makes very goodsense for the record companies -not merely from a chauvinisticpoint of view, nor simply from theaesthetic point of view of preserv-ing a wide variety of repertoire.There is a persuasive economicreason for maintaining productionof national repertoire - it is simplymore profitable."

Jung believes that the complexinter -relationship of the differentmusic cultures in Europe and the

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enduring power of musical tradi-tions guarantee that the culturalfrontiers in Europe will bepreserved for ever.

Marcus Bicknell, marketingdirector of Music Box, is emphaticthat there is no desire on the part ofthe channel "to ram Anglo-Saxonrock 'n roll down the throats of con-tinental Europeans. There is agrowing tendency to try to see Eu-rope as one market, but such aconcept is only viable up to apoint. We are, in fact, doing moreand more local programming. Wecannot at present put local insertsinto our programme but we could,in certain countries, supply tapesof national interest which couldsupplant part of the regularprogramming:'

Bicknell acknowledges that aregularly occurring problem withpan-European transmissions isthat they can force the hands ofrecord companies in the matter ofreleasing policy. European mar-kets move at different speeds andit is not always in the interest in aparticular release because theprevious single by the same artistmay still be selling locally.

Wilfried Jung echoes this point:"We had a situation recently whenwe had, as a result of satellite play,to release Kate Bush's 'Cloudbust-ing' even though the previous sin-gle 'Running Up That Hill' was stillselling well."

Bicknell, a man with substantialrecord company experience inEurope, is well aware of thisproblem and says that Music Boxalways checks with the labelsbefore adding a clip to the rotationschedules.

Another factor militatingagainst harmonization of the Euro-pean market is the fact that differ-ent territories show markedly differ-ent responses even to internationalproduct. Loch cites the case ofSimply Red which has sold muchbetter in some continental marketsthan in others and Matt Bianco,whose sales in Germany exceedthose in the U.K. by more than100%.

This differential response to in-ternational product in Europe canbe the source of some headachesfor the record companies in thearea of transshipping. Over-production of the particular recordin a low-cost country can lead toheavy exports of the product to ahigh -cost country where demandis high. This will also happen whena satellite broadcast creates in-terest in a particular title in coun-tries where it is not yet released.Since a fundamental principle ofthe E.E.C. is the free flow ofproduct among member coun-tries, record companies can onlyguard against transshipping byharmonization of prices and byhaving product ready to meet thedemand as soon as it arises.

The future impact of cable andsatellite transmission on therecord -buying habits of the

European consumers has to beseen in the total broadcastingcontext - and broadcasting inEurope is in a state of turbulenttransition. Just consider some ofthese developments:* France's four -channel TDF-1

satellite is due to go into orbitnext summer carrying the coun-try's fifth and sixth TV channels;

* West Germany's TV satellite willalso be launched in 1986;

* Britain's BBC and ITV are con-sidering a joint TV operation fordelivery by satellite to cableoperators in Europe by 1987;

* A mufti -language TV channel,Europa TV, is being mulled bypublic service broadcasting sys-tems in Holland, Germany,Ireland, Italy and Portugal.

* The Societe Europeene deSatellites is negotiating a dealwith Ariane of France for thelaunch of a 16 -channel TV satel-lite in 1987;

* The 26 -nation European Tele-communications Satellite Or-ganization is studying the possi-bility of a 500 million dollars DBSproject with 18 TV channels forWestern Europe in the 1990s;

* The Scandinavian countries arediscussing a satellite project,Tele X, linking Norway, Sweden,Finland, Denmark and Icelandas a means of competing withprivate cable and satelliteoperations.

All of which adds up to the factthat public service broadcastingnow faces massive competitionfrom private, advertising -suppor-ted broadcasting and, one way oranother, because music is such avital part of programming, this isgoing to have all kinds of repercus-sions on the music industry.

Certainly there are strong signsthat the advertising industry be-lieves in pan-European marketingand that multi -national companiesare ready to find additional moneyto allocate to this area of advertis-ing. If this money is forthcoming,so that the new satellite and cableoperations can be commerciallyviable, the question is then, willthere be massive overkill in termsof music programming and will thiscause a backlash in the form ofdeclining sales of pre-recordedmusic?

Returning to that IFPI meetingin Geneva, it is appropriate to recallthe comment by one speaker thatto sustain profitability, record com-panies must look increasingly toderive a substantial part of their in-come from licensing theirprogramming to broadcasters. Hepointed out that music publishersderive 40% of their income fromperformances but record compa-nies are way behind and have apoor track record in this area.

Siegfried Loch takes up thispoint: "We tend to see everyoneusing our records and ourvideoclips as a possible businesspartner and everyone disseminat-ing our programming as a friend.

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LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS

"One minute there you are, wallowing in one of the most depressing,unoriginal and tedious periods in music for 10 years. The next Lloyd Cole

and the Commotions release their second L.P."(RECORD MIRROR Nov '85)

Pretty damned impeccable"(SMASH HITS Nov '85)

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`EASY PIECES'

LOST WEEKEND

It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam and double pneumoniain a single room and the sickest joke was the price of the medicineare you laughing at me now may I please laugh along with you of lifes imperfection, born of the years, is it so wrong, to be human after all, drawn into the stream,

of undefined illusion, those diamond dreams, they can't disguise the truth, that there is something about you.

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PAN -EUROPEAN AWARDS 1985The Pan -European Awards 1985have been selected by EuropeanMusic Report for 10 internationalartists with the greatest salesachievements in Europe through-out the year 1985. All statistics arebased on the European Hot 100singles and albums.

Presentations of the awardshave already been filmed in someof the European capitals and aspecial European Award TV

programme will be aired on anumber of European TV channelsnext February. The award winningartists received a special trophee(see picture). These special awardpresentations mark a further step

by Machgiel Bakker & Cathy Inglis

in the developing activities ofEuropean Music Report.

In the first issue of 1986Eurotipsheet will also present theTrendsetting Awards 1985 meant tobe an encouragement for localartists who have crossed bordersin '85.

Awards are being given for thefollowing categories: male & fe-male artists of the year, best sellingsingles artist and album selling ar-tist of the year, soundtrack of theyear, trendsetting artist of the year,debut album, multi talented artist ofthe year, ubiquitous artist of theyear and a special prize for artist ofthe year audio-visual.

Based on compilations from the European Hot 100, the following havebeen awarded as Artist Of The Year 1985:

* Dire Straits - Album Selling Artists Of The Year (Vertigo)Biggest sales Brothers In Arms in LP, Cassette and CD format.

* Tina Turner - Female Artist Of The Year (Capitol)Private Dancer album (incl. the hitsingles), tour and videos.

* Bruce Springsteen - Male Artist Of The Year (CBS)Born In USA album (incl. the hitsingles) and the sell-out tour.

* Madonna - Singles Selling Artist Of The Year (Sire)6 hitsingles in the European Top 10 plus 2 more in Top 30.

* Sade - Trendsetting Artist Of The Year (Epic)Diamond Life made major impact on successful new cool -jazz trend.

* Sting - Debut Album Of The Year (A&M)High quality debut album, establishing Sting as major solo artist.

* Phil Collins - Ubiquitous Artist Of The Year (WEA Int.)Solo Album and Tour, Duets, Productions, Double Live Aid, Composer.

* Talking Heads - Artist Of The Year Audio -Visual (EMI)For creative synergy between recordings and video productions.

* Dave Stewart - Multi Talented Artist Of The Year (RCA)Composer, Arranger, Producer, Musician, Video Director, Performer.

* Beverley Hills Cop - Soundtrack Of The Year (MCA)Soundtrack yielding the most successful EuroTop 10 Singles.

TOP 10 ALBUMS 1985(based on the European Hot 100 Albums)

1. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Vertigo/Phonogram)2. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA (CBS) - j3. Madonna - Like A Virgin (Sire)' - r ill .4. Sade - Promise (Epic) 3. 2 vk....;,11.

5. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required (WEA Int.)6. Tina Turner - Private Dancer (Capitol)7. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (Mercury)8. Wham! - Make It Big (Epic)9. Alison Moyet - Alf (CBS)

10. Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight (RCA)

TOP 10 SINGLES 1985(based on European Hot 100 singles)

1. USA For Africa - We Are The World (CBS)2. Opus - Live Is Life (OK/Polydor)3. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy (EMI)4. Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (Parlophone)5. Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Hansa/Ariola)6. Paul Hardcastle - 19 (Chrysalis)7. Madonna - Into The Groove (Sire)8. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero (Capitol)9. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (Virgin)

10. Madonna - Like A Virgin (Sire)

MERRY CHRISTMAS * BONNE ANNEE *FROHE WEINACHTEN * BUON NATALE* FELICES NAVIDADES * PRETTIGEKERST * GOD JUL GODT NYTAR *

THE EURO-MARKET(continued from page 4)

But we have to be on our guardand make sure we get properremuneration for the use of ourrepertoire, both radio andtelevision."

The IFPI is very concious of thisneed and has urged its membercompanies to develop a greaterawareness of their bargaining posi-tion vis-a-vis the programmingusers. According to a calculationby NVPI Video, the video divisionof the Dutch national group of theIFPI, the average production costper minute of an entertainment TVprogramme in Holland is about1,100 dollars. For the use of its

music videos, the Dutch record in-dustry is currently claiming just100 dollars per minute from the TVstations. And in other countries therates are even lower.

Says Siegfried Loch: "We aregoing to have to assert ourselvesvery firmly in this area upon whichwe shall find ourselves dependingfor an increasing proportion of ourincome. There is no doubt in mymind that we are going to be sell-

ing fewer records in future. The su-perstars will continue to prosperbut the catalogue repertoire willbecome increasingly eroded."

For the future, Anglo-Americanmusic will continue to exert a

powerful influence over the Euro-pean market - after all, English isthe official language of pop musicand studies show that at least halfthe adults in Europe understandEnglish well enough to watchEnglish -language television. How-ever national repertoire will con-tinue to flourish in Europe and oc-casionally, achieve internationalsuccess.

But there is one domographicprediction to which the recordcompanies of Europe must ad-dress themselves when consider-ing the pan-European market - andthat is that between now and theend of this century, the Europeanpopulation in the 15 to 25 agegroup is going to decline by morethan 22%, from 53.3 million to41.42 million. A sobering prog-nostication - and, even as I write,pan-European A&R and promotionare hard at work planning an all-out Granny Rock campaign.

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SADETRENDSETTING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Epic)With her strictly individual and distinctive style, Sade has changed some of the world's outlook.Both her music and her image have a certain elegance, intimate yet at a distance, cool but notclinical. And although everything Sade does is deliberately chosen there remains however an ele-ment of spontaneity that makes the ice melt. Her music was trendsetting, because it gave way toa re-evaluation of the softer elements of jazz music, putting them into the framework of pop. Trend-setting, because quality prevailed and Sade gave her unique version of sophistication, giving styleand grace a firm place in todays pop music.

With the release of her debut album DiamondLife Sade and her band were part of a newtrend in pop music, that of cool jazz. Herblend of moody and jazzy rhythms in a soulsetting, injected pop music with fresh new ele-ments and together with groups like Matt Bi-anco, Working Week and Animal Nightlifesultry sounds were suddenly the fashion inthe pop hitparades.

In the meantime no less than 8 million co-pies worldwide of the Diamond Life albumhave been sold and the Nigerian born Sadewas immediately established as one of thenew popstars of the Eighties. Her follow-up,Promise, came out this year and was a logicalcontinuation of Diamond Life. Again it fea-tured the sultry voice of Sade set against exot-ic and relaxed rhythms. Highlights such asJezebel, the Spanish atmosphere in Tar Babyand the truly epic style in Is It A Crime, all car-ry a certain simplicity, in melody and lyricsand are sung with such an intimacy andhonesty that prevents them from becomingbland coctail jazz.

From the onset the album started sellinglike crazy and straight after its release it en-tered the European Hot 100 Albums at no.

13, which is the 2nd highest album entry thisyear (topped only by Alan Parsons Projectand sharing the honour with Tears For Fears).But that was not all. Only in its 2nd week it hitTop 10 and again 3 weeks later it went to theno.1 spot of the Hot 100 breaking the longchain of no. l's of the Dire Straits album. Atthe same time the Diamond Life album kepton being charted and until now it is the 2ndlongest charted album ever, with the run of 72weeks. The Queen of Cool reigns the chartsall over the world and looking at her deter-mined and self-assured personality, she cer-tainly will continue to do.so. ....

BRUCE SPRINGSTEENMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR (CBS)1985 has been a busy year for Springsteen. He has toured for over a year in the States, Canada,The Far East, and in Europe in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Italy and France. Asa performer he is unsurpassable (the New York Times has called Springsteen the 'best rock per-former ever'). His live concerts and the fanatical intensity he brings to the stage are indeed legen-dary, his mastery of the crowd total. During his performance the audience is injected with en-thusiasm and spurred on by his ebullient energy. In an instant, they can be effectively silencedas the rock 'n' roller shares one of his personal experiences.

Springsteen's charisma stems from hishonest, simple attitude towards life. His fanscan readily identify with his values - those ofloving their hometown, their state, their free-dom. Dressed as he always is in his old jeansand T-shirt, he articulates the thoughts of thewhole crowd.

A further enhancing quality is Spring-steen's willingness to join in with the increas-ing surge of charity songs. He has taken partin Band Aid's We Are The World, sangTrapped, one of the best tracks on the USAFor Africa album and more recently featuredin the anti-apartheid Sun City.

Born In The USA has to date sold a stag-gering 16 million copies worldwide and 3.8million in Europe. It is the fourth best-selling al-bum of the past 10 years in the USA, toppedonly by Michael Jackson's Thriller, FleetwoodMac's Rumours and the OST Saturday NightFever. In Europe the LP was for 29 weeks inthe top 10 of the Hot 100 Albums. The Euro-pean tour caused a re -run on nearly all hisLP's (in the UK even his whole back cata-logue entered the charts). For 10 weeks this

year, Bruce had no less than four albums inthe Hot 100 (Born In The USA, The River,Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Born ToRun), joined for one week by a fifth LP,

Nebraska.With the release of the double A -sided sin-

gle My Hometown coupled with the seasonalsingle Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (a liverecording from '75) Sprinsteen has now col-lected 5 singles out of Born In The USA. Dur-ing almost the whole of 1985, Bruce had 2singles at a time overlapping with each otherin The Hot 100. Dancing In The Dark was outwith Cover Me, followed a month later byGlory Days and I'm On Fire/Born In The USA.

Besides being projected as the spokes-man of a new generation, having broughtback some of the values that were lost in theSeventies, Springsteen is still the best rock 'n'roller on the road.

CBS EUROPEBOOM OF MAJOR RELEASES IN '86

1985 was a good year for CBS Europe ac-cording to Bob Jamieson, vice-president mar-keting & sales Europe, mainly due to the greatsuccess of a number of local and internationalacts including Bruce Springsteen, Sade,Wham!, Jennifer Rush, Claudio Baglioni,Jean -Jacques Goldman, Paul Young, JulioIglesias and many more. 1986 will be anothergreat year with major releases from Streisand,Rolling Stones, Wham!, Eurogliders andmany more.

"The continued growth of Pan -Europeanmedia like Sky Channel and Music Box andthe development of local video exposure willhelp our artist development efforts", statesJamieson, and "CD's will be our greatestsales growth area".

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