LATE NEWS

Rip It Up, Issue 16, 1 October 1978, Page 3

LATE NEWS

After two surprise re-unions in little more than a week, the Allman Brothers Band appears to be on the verge of getting back together. Despite: legal problems and the various solo projects of the former members, Capricorn Records boss Phil Walden predicts the Allmans back together and in the studio well before Christmas. George Harrison is backing the next Monty Python movie to the tune of $4 million and may even have a/ole in it .. . a footnote to the untimely death of Keith 'Moon: Peter Meadeu, 35, one of the first managers of the Who. and the creator of the band's mod image, died, of barbiturate poisoning at his parents’ North London home. Most recently, Meaden was managing the Steve Gibbons Band .. . Purple Haze, the sequel to American Graffiti, is now being filmed in San Francisco and will feature most of. the Graffiti cast, with the exception of Richard Dreyfuss ; . . while Foreigner’s Mick Jones was chatting backstage after, a show in Flint, Michigan, both his satin stage pants and his street denims were packed and driven away by crew members. Dressed only in his underwear Jones had to run through a crush of screaming teenyboppers to reach his limo .. Elton John has been signed by Phonogram International for recording rights for the world, outside the United States. Elton's new album, A Single Man, is scheduled for release later this month . . . Latest in Elvis exploitation: a record claimed to be Presley's first ever. Called "Tell Me, Pretty Baby", it's said to have been recorded in 1954 in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time the tape was rejected ... is Bryan Ferry seeking literary credibility? At a London after-play party for John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence Ferry was in tow with Irish novelist Edna O’Brien ... , : ever wondered why records cost so much these days? A clue: ELO’s end-of-tour party in Los Angeles cost nigh on SIOO,OOO, which broke down like so S9OOO for lasers, SSOOO for helicopters and S3OOO for extra security. The remainder was blown on food and booze -and the construction of a casino . . . expatriate New Zealanders Monsoon are getting things together in Australia before heading for the States next year. The five members derive from such bands as Ticket, Space Farm, Dragon, Creation and Freshwater. Their lead singer Trevor Keith is just back' from a couple of years in Britain where he worked with Keef Hartley. Trev's an exAucklander who's used a variety of stage names, including simply Murt, and peaked locally as Ticket's lead vocalist. The rest of the group are Ray Goodwin (guitar), Bill Williams (bass), John Maloney (keyboards) and Darryl

Jacobs (drums)