RUMOURS

Rip It Up, Issue 80, 1 March 1984, Page 8

RUMOURS

UK & USA Malcolm McLaren has just completed two albums, one very similar, to Duck Rock and the other quite different. No titles yet but one will be released soonish ...

ex Fun Boy .Terry . Hall has surfaced with; a new band, the Colour Field. He is joined by two fellow Coventry lads Toby Lyons (ex Swinging Cats, guitar, piano) and Karl Shale. The three have been working together since the FB3 split in July. Debut single is 'The Colour Field’ ... Boy George has reportedly written a song for Barbra Streisand but there will not be a duet ... will Sting play Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorcese's Lust Temptation of Christ film? ...

Sly 'n' Robbie recently celebrated their 10th anniversary as a partnership with a five hour concert in Kingston;- featuring Gregory Isaacs, Black Uhuru, Yellowman, Dennis Brown and a host of others. Ooooh .. former Blue Rondo a la Turk members Mark Reilly and Kito Poncioni have teamed up with a female vocalist, Basia, to form Matt Bianco. First single is 'Get Out of Your Lazy Bed' ... sax player Stephen Singleton has left ABC, leaving behind Martin Fry and Mark White, who have new material and are auditioning new musicians to rehearse it with ... J.J. Burnel and Dave Greenfield of the Stranglers have teamed up with Maggie ('Moonlight Shadow') Reilly to record Rain Dole and Tea': In keeping with what they describe as the Phil Spector feel of the record the boys posed for promo photos in drag, with beehive hairdos'. Maggie, of course, was having none of it ... the justcompleted film starring Prince is entitled Purple Rain ... the Vibrators have reformed again, less than a year after their last reunion. This one will be more a long term, they claim, and they have an album, Alaska 127 ...

Spandau Tony Hadley and his wife Leonie have become parents with the arrival of a wee baby girl. Maybe he'll stop singing and settle down.

Albums: Madness Keep Moving, Linton Kwesi Johnson Making History, the Gun Club The Birth, The Death, The Ghost

(live), The Smiths The Smiths, Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth; OMD funk Culture, David Gilmour Blue Light, Fad Gadget Gag, Einsturzende Neubaten Strategics Against Architecture.

Singles: Tina Turner Help' (yes, the Beatles' song), Scritti Politti 'Wood Benz', -Style Council My Ever Changing Moods' and Captain Sensible Glad It's All Over' Damned on 45' (yes, reallvl).