RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 59, 1 June 1982, Page 7

RUMOURS

UK & USA

Joe Strummer has been found in Paris, tracked down by a private detective, a month after his disappearance on the eve of a UK tour. Drummer Topper Headon has left as he is dissatisfied with the band's musical direction! The trio are touring the US with a stand-in drummer. By the way, Joe explained his own absence: "I wanted to prove to myself that I was alive. It's very much like being a robot, being in a group" ... the Rolling Stones play two dates at Wembley, 72,000 each night. Allman Brothers Band player Chuck Leavell joins the Stones for the European tour. Still Life is the Rolling Stones' new live LP. Tracks are: 'Under My Thumb', Let's Spend the Night Together', 'Shattered', '2O Flight Rock', 'Going to a Go Go' (a Smokey Robinson song, the new single), 'Let Me Go', 'Time is On My Side’, 'lmagination', 'Start Me Up' and 'Satisfaction' ... Motorhead guitarist Eddie Clark has left the group, finally this time. He objected to the band recording a send-up of country classic 'Stand By Your Man' with Wendy from the Plasmatics ... Duran Duran have cancelled a major European tour. Guitarist Andy Taylor caught tropical fever in Sri Lanka ... Pigbag have new members Oscar Verden (trombone, keyboards) and Brian Nevill (sax, percussion) ... Gang of Four are looking for a fifth member, a woman vocalist with percussive talent. May dates in Portugal were postponed as authorities decided the gang were too political, to tour at the same time as the Pope ... James Brown is rumoured to have walked out

on Nassau recording sessions unhappy with Sly and Robbie ... Bow 'Wow Wow have quit opening on the Queen European tour because of aggressive audiences. Bottles and cans were thrown at the band in Holland ...

Midge Ure has released a solo single No Regrets' ... Siouxie and the Banshees are recording a new album. New single is 'Fireworks' ... Kim Carnes is recording ... Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits will write film score for David Puttnam's movie Local Hero ...

Echo & the Bunnymen have their movies Shine So Hard and Le Via Luonge screening with sci-fi flick Fantastic Planet in UK. Bunnymen have 12" limited single 'The Back of Love' out.

Forthcoming material: Damned Lovely Money (a three track EP), Decorators Tablets, Newtown Neurotics Pissed as a Newt (on cassette through Rough Trade), Tom Robinson North by Northwest (on Panic label), Anti Pasti Caution to the Wind, Go Betweens Send Me a Lullaby, Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder. Monochrome Set Eligible Bachelors, Tom Verlaine Words . from the Front. Rico Jama Rico, Rip Rig and Panic I Am Cold. Randy Crawford Windsong, Elvis Costello Imperial Bedroom. Mondo Rock Nouveau Moiido. Steve Winwood Talking Back to the Night, B.C. Gilbert & Graham Lewis Mzui, Joe Jackson Night and Day, Exploited Troops of Tomorrow. Nikki Sudden (ex Swell Maps) Waiting in Egypt. Mother's Ruin Road to Ruin, Jon Lord Before I Forget, Associates Sulk, Q-Tips Live at Last Dexys Midnight Runners Where Are You Going With That Suitcase. Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel. Cabaret Voltaire 2x45, John Cooper Clarke Zip Style Method, Hambi & The Dance Heartache.