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Releases:
Kirk Franklin's "Lean On Me" Single(features Bono amongst others) released
August 1998.
B.B. King's Greatest Hits(includes 7" version of "When Love Comes To Town")
August 25, 1998
CONFIRMED: U2 "POPMart" DVD/VHS October 12, 1998 NA/
September 28, 1998 EUR.
RUMOUR : U2 New Album(Title To Be Announced) early 1999
Concerts/Live Events:
CONFIRMED: Catherine Owens will sneak preview(?) footage of the
POPMart "movie" at the Ross Bandstand during the Edinburgh Festivals
during August 8-30 1998, in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can find more
information about Ms. Owens at:
http://www.festivalrevue.com/featframe.html
RUMOUR: U2 at Flaming Lips Concert Experience, date to be announced.
Television/Radio Events:
VH1:
POP-UP Videos & Airdates
"One" August 6, 9:00 pm
"I Still Haven't Found(What I'm Looking For)" August 6, 9:30 pm
"Where The Streets Have No Name" August 9, 5:00 pm
"Where The Streets Have No Name" August 12, 7:00 pm
They are also working on a U2 special. Airdate TBA.
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
Net Events:
The U2-Internet Amnesty International Fundraiser site is
http://www.potomac.com/deseree/ai/Default.htm
Vote for U2 at
Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time (AB is #3, JT is #16)
Vote for U2 under "Juiciest Boy Group" at
http://www.muchmusic.com/events/juicy/
(Don't ask me...I didn't make up the category name...)
Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
Lemon-Aid: A U2 Summer Cookout, August 22, Fall River,
Massachusetts. Email [email protected] for more information
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A SORT OF HOMECOMING, August 28-30, Las Vegas, NV
Email [email protected] for more information.
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Wire Gathering in Kansas, September.
Email [email protected] for more information. You can also check out
http://members.theglobe.com/hawkeye79/wire_gathering.html
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NEWS dates:
"New" version of "When Love Comes To Town" added August 8
Irish Times article on the Mercury Music Prize added August 8
Blackwell's new company involved in merger added August 8
Franklin's "Lean On Me" profits to help rebuild burned churches added August 7
Reminder: Edinburgh Festival added August 7
The Unforgettable Fire added August 6
Former U2 producer working on "Electrics-O-Rama" added August 5
Pissed at EBAY over the AI Auction...I am too added August 5
Rumour Police added August 5
More on Sellafield added August 5
Accident at Sellafield Nuclear Plant added August 4
Zoonation New Album Story added August 4
U2 involved in TV Auction in UK added August 3
Polygram to sell on the Internet added August 3
Brief notes on U2's plans: Return to studio in September added August 2
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Condensed from CNN:
Mca's Release of 'B.B. King Greatest Hits' Chronicles a Lifetime
of Recorded Achievement from the World's...
PRNewswire
07-AUG-98
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/-- While he's still going
strong at age 72 (73 in September), B.B. King will surely go down in history as
one of the century's pivotal blues figures. Now, in a salute to King's musical
legacy, MCA Records is set to release "B.B. King-- Greatest Hits," a new
compilation that surveys most of the greatest years of B.B.'s recordings, from
1965 through 1993. Compiled and produced by Andy McKaie, and digitally
remastered for CD, "B.B. King-- Greatest Hits" is set to arrive in stores August
25.
Tracks on "B.B. King-- Greatest Hits" were culled from many of the blues
great's most popular albums, starting with his watershed 1965 release "Live at
the Regal," and including such other releases as "His Best-- The Electric B.B.
King," "Completely Well," "Indianola Mississippi Seeds," "Take It Home," and
"Blues Summit." The album also contains such singles as the studio version of
"How Blue Can You Get?" and the 7" version of "When Love Comes To Town"
with U2 that have only appeared on B.B. King's box set "King Of The Blues."
Over the years, B.B. has worked with some of music's best and brightest, and
many of these collaborations are represented on the new album as well, including
those with U2, Leon Russell, Stevie Wonder, the Crusaders, Robert Cray and
Dr. John.
Songs featured on "B.B. King-- Greatest Hits" are: his signature Top 10 hit "The
Thrill Is Gone," "When Love Comes To Town" with U2, "Everyday I Have The
Blues," "Sweet Little Angel, "How Blue Can You Get," "Paying The Cost To Be
The Boss," "Don't Answer The Door," "Why I Sing The Blues," "I Like To Live
The Love," "Hummingbird," "To Know You Is To Love You," "Chains and
Things," "Better Not Look Down," "Never Make A Move Too Soon," "There
Must Be A Better World Somewhere," and "Playin' With My Friends" with
Robert Cray.
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Condensed from The Irish Times:
Planet Rock Profiles
SLEEVE NOTES/Brian Boyd
Always the best barometer of critical, if not necessarily
commercial, worthiness in the music industry, the Mercury
Music Prize is the one the musicians really want to win; it's not
as style-led, record company-led, or ghettoised as any number
of Brits and Brats. Introduced a number of years back to
reward "artistic excellence", the Mercury recognises all forms
of modern music genres from disco-pop to goth and
neoclassical to drum'n'bass....
Despite all the talk about the Irish music industry and other
assorted rubbish, the Irish have never fared well in the
Mercury, with only U2 and Therapy? making the shortlist over
the years, although My Bloody Valentine did make the
"longlist" in 1992 and apparently Galway's Perry Blake made
the "longlist" this year...
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>From Yahoo:
Blackwell's Palm Pictures mergers with Ryko
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Pictures, an entertainment venture formed by
British tycoon Chris Blackwell this year, is merging with independent record
label Rykodisc, home to catalogs for Elvis Costello and the late Frank Zappa,
Palm said Friday.
Terms of the merger were not disclosed.
Ryko Distribution Partners and Rykomusic, the company's publishing arm will
also be merged into Palm Picture, which is gearing up for its first feature
production, "Black and White."
Blackwell built a business empire after founding Island Records in the 1960s
and launching the careers of the late reggae superstar Bob Marley and the
Irish rock band U2.
Last year, he left Island Records and Island Pictures, which he sold to
PolyGram NV in 1989 and 1994, respectively.
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Condensed from CNN:
People in the News
AP 06-AUG-98
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kirk Franklin sings to get people into church. Now he's
going to help build them.
The gospel artist and his record companies pledged $250,000 Wednesday to a
fund set up by the National Council of the Churches of Christ to help rebuild
black churches in the South burned in a rash of arson fires.
The money comes from anticipated sales of his new single, ``Lean on Me,''
which features guest vocals from R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige, Crystal Lewis and
Bono from U2.
The newly written song -- not the Bill Withers classic of the same name --
encourages people to show their love for God by helping the needy on Earth,
Franklin said.
Franklin, whose 1997 album ``God's Property'' was the biggest-selling gospel
album in history, said his goal was to do more than just build churches.
``What's even more important to me is that we start getting people going to the
new churches,'' he said.
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Prarit's note: This article refers to the Edinburgh Festival which starts tomorrow.
>From the Concerts/Live Events section above in U2NEWS, CONFIRMED:
Catherine Owens will sneak preview(?) footage of the POPMart "movie" at
the Ross Bandstand during the Edinburgh Festivals during August 8-30 1998,
in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can find more information about Ms. Owens at:
http://www.festivalrevue.com/featframe.html
Here's the article that was forwarded to me today by Mark Duffy. Taken
from an ad in the Scotsman Newspaper:
"22 square metres of U2, Peter Gabriel, movies, festival clips & all for
now!.
Clips of acts, artists, performances and exhibitions will appear on the
2 Sony Jumbptron Screens.
The video clips will be mixed with live interviews and performances,
ehibits of digital art and premiere screenings - including the world
premiere of U2's multi-media exhibition."
8 - 30 August at The Ross Bandstand Princes Street Gardens"
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>From CNN:
Birth Sign Crucial for Pop Stardom, Survey Says
Reuters 06-AUG-98
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters)- So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?
Talent and hours of practice have less to do with success than your sign
of the zodiac, according to a survey to be published on Friday.
Using the birth dates of 1800 artists, Guinness Rockopedia, a new guide
to rock and pop, found fortune shone on those born in the spring and
summer months under the signs Taurus, Aries, Cancer and Gemini.
Those born under chilly autumn and winter signs face an uphill struggle,
according to the survey, with Aquarians, Scorpians and Sagittarians
faring worst of all.
`The evidence is quite clear to us. If you're Taurus, Aries or Cancer
we're more likely to see you in the charts,'' said Rockopedia's editor
David Roberts.
Famous musical Taurians include Stevie Wonder and U2's Bono,
while Aretha Franklin and Blur's Damon Albarn are Arians.
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>From U2NEWS History:
August 5 1984 U2 finish work on the album which will eventually be
called "The Unforgettable Fire".
August 6 1945 8:15 AM Local Time. The US bomber "Enola Gay"
drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Days later, another is
dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Japan surrenders within 24 hours of the
second bombing and ends the Pacific Theater portion of World War II.
>From the July 24, 1995 issue of Newsweek:
"A bright light filled the plane," wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot
of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. "We
turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful
cloud...boiling up, mushrooming." For a moment, no one spoke. Then
everyone was talking. "Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!"
exclaimed the co-pilot, Robert Lewis, pounding on Tibbets's shoulder.
Lewis said he could taste atomic fission; it tasted like lead. Then he
turned away to write in his journal. "My God," he asked himself,
"what have we done?" (special report, "Hiroshima: August 6, 1945")
Some links to check out:
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/gallery.html
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
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Condensed From CNN:
Wireless Launches Radio Campaign
Business Wire
05-AUG-98
FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998--TSR Wireless LLC
("TSR Wireless"), the nation's 7th largest paging carrier and America's largest
paging retailer, announced today the launch of their latest radio campaign entitled
"Electronics-O-Rama."
The "Electronics-O-Rama" radio campaign will be broadcast in San Diego, Los
Angeles, Phoenix, and Central Pennsylvania. It is scheduled to commence in mid
August and run into the fourth quarter. The 60-second spot was produced by
Beth Ravin and Tony Visconti, and will be executed by the TSR Wireless
Advertising Group, the internal advertising agency at TSR Wireless.
Tony Visconti has been a record producer since 1967. He has produced
projects for numerous artists including David Bowie, Moody Blues, U2, T-Rex,
Sea Horses and Thin Lizzy, and has done orchestral arrangements for Paul
McCartney, David Bowie, Sparks and many others. Tony is currently producing
projects with Luscious Jackson and David Bowie, as well as doing orchestral
arrangements for the upcoming Jean Claude Van Damme movie "Knockoff."
Mr. Visconti is the President of the New York Chapter of the Recording
Academy (NARAS).
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A New Rant: Amnesty International Auction ended by EBAY
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The following is from a publicly posted letter about Heidi Dutton's Amnesty
Internation Auction. It is a letter from support at EBAY.com .
>Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 14:41:13 -0700
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: NOTICE: eBay Auction Ended - #24145383, #24145815,
#24146415,#24146122, #24147910 - [email protected]
>From: "eBay Customer Support" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "eBay Customer Support" <[email protected]>
(Prarit's note: snip...)
>
>Hello,
>Your eBay listings:
(Prarit's note: snipping of Amnesty Internation Auction Items List)
>
>were recently brought to our attention. Due to violations of copyright
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