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PLAYER reissue
The French label Magic Records has just reissued the PLAYER album Spies Of Life (originally
released on RCA/BMG in 1981). The album features nice tunes as for example If Looks could kill,
Some Things are better said and It's only hurts when I breathe.

LIVINGSTON TAYLOR writing
His book, Stage Performance is finally out and has had some very nice reviews in US mags. 
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RICKIE LEE JONES album
JONES is going to release her first album for Artemis Records, entitled It's Like This during
September. Some tracks: Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye), For No One (The Beatles), One Hand, One Heart
(from West Side Story), The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (Traffic), Smile (Charlie Champlin).
After 5 dates in Canada, RICKIE will do a European tour in July and August (Germany, France,
Norway, Denmark and Sweden).
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DAN FOGELBERG new album
Released on Chicago Records USA on June 6, the new DAN FOGELBERG album
features tunes recorded live by DAN during tours from 1992 to 1995.
Track-listing:
01. Magic Every Moment (Fogelberg, Daniel)
02. Songbird (Young, Colin Jessie)
03. The Innocent Age (Fogelberg, Daniel)
04. As The Raven Flies (Fogelberg, Daniel)
05. Hard To Say (Fogelberg, Daniel)
06. Make Love Stay (Fogelberg, Daniel)
07. Changing Horses (Fogelberg, Daniel)
08. Looking For A Lady (Fogelberg, Daniel)
09. You Better Think Twice (Messina, Jim)
10. Don't Let That Sun Go Down(Fogelberg, Daniel)
11. Statesboro Blues (McTell, Willie)
12. Blow Wind Blow (Morgenfield, McKi)
13. She Don't Look Back (Fogelberg, Daniel)
14. Here Comes The Sun (Harrison, George)
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JEFFREY OSBORNE TV appearance
On Saturday, June 24, 2000, JEFFREY OSBORNE will be performing Love Ballad on the WB's
Celebration of Black Music program (in The States).  Also appearing on the WB are Tyrese
and Boys II Men. The Celebration of Black Music program will begin at 8:00 PM and end at
10:00 PM. Love Ballad is one of 12 jams featured on Jeffrey's latest release That's For Sure.

RANDY NEWMAN is a winner
For his enduring contributions in popular music, songwriter RANDY NEWMAN has been named
the 2000 recipient of the Century Award, Billboard's highest honor for distinguished creative
achievement. The show recorded in Las Vegas, will be aired soon on Fox TV in The States.
Here are the words of the 9th winner of this great award:
"I'm honored to have been designated as the winner of this year's Billboard Century Award.
It's an illustrious group I join. I hope I will do nothing to embarrass them," Newman said.
Already Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor have recieved this award in the past.
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HOME SWEET HOME new releases
The US label HOME SWEET HOME RECORDS (hold by CHRIS CHRISTIAN himself) has just released 6 new
Westcoast music and CHRIS CHRISTIAN CDs:
- DANN HUFF - Solos (an instrumental CD of 17 great Dann Huff solos spaning over 10 years),
- CHRIS CHRISTIAN - Harbour (the first new unreleased CD in over 10 years with guest
contributions by Kenny Passereli, Dann Huff, Larry Baird, David Martin and Steve Kipner),
- DAKOTA - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (starring Lou Diamond Phillips - all music and
scoring by CHRIS CHRISTIAN with guest performances by Wayne Watson, and Mark Heard,
Gerry Beckley and CHRIS CHRISTIAN),
- WHITEHEART - Millenium Series: Demos, Lost Masters, and Interviews (this album is a must!),
- MARK HEARD - Millenium Series: Demos, Lost Masters, and Interviews.

DAVID LASLEY news 
Expansion Records (a label based in United Kingdom and Ireland) releases a new album from DAVID
LASLEY entitled Expectations Of Love. It features tunes co-written by Philip Bailey, Joshua Kadison,
Kathy Wakefield, Robin Lerner, Robbie Long, Michael Kamen, Marsha Malamet, Roxanne Seeman and DAVID.
Musicians are among others: Marty Walsh, Jay Oliver, Bobby Watson, David Benoit...
On another side, BMG Japan is gonna reissued on June 25, Better Late Than Never which is ROSIE first
album. This LP includes collaborations wuth the Brecker Brothers, Leon Pendarvis, Rick Marotta...
Also, DAVID will be featured on background vocals with Arnold McCuller on one tune (Walking In
New York) of Brenda Russell new album: Paris Rain (Hidden Beach/Epic Records USA).

JUNE 19, 2000: BRENDA RUSSELL, JAY GRAYDON, TOTO, DAVID FOSTER, PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

BRENDA RUSSELL & JAY GRAYDON partnership
On July 18 on Hidden Beach/Epic Records USA, BRENDA RUSSELL will release her new album Paris Rain.
In this new one, please note the tune She's In Love co-written, by Jay Graydon, Mark Portmann and
Brenda.

TOTO projects
David PAICH is now working on a 5-CD box-set of his band TOTO.
Steve LUKATHER is doing sessions in David FOSTER studios in California preparing a new album for
THE TUBES.

PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY live
The band PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY featuring: David Blasucci, James Hollister, Michael Carey Schneider,
Michael Della Gala and John Berrafato are doing some dates in June/July in California:
- Saturday, July 22nd - 7:30PM - Border's Books & Music - 125 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd., - Thousand Oaks
- Friday, July 28th - 9:00PM - Ban-Dar - 3005 E. Main Street - Ventura
- Saturday, August 19th - 8:00PM - Border's Books & Music - 24445 Town Center Drive
JULIE GOLD - Try Love (gadfly Records USA - June 2000)
There is magic in the air... JULIE GOLD offers us here a 14-cut collection of
studio recordings she has created en route to placeing her songs with some of
the US best Pop singers. This album includes the great original version of
Southbound Train (recorded by Nanci Griffith) and The Journey (Kathie Lee Gifford).
Julie's voice and music reminds us the power and sensitivity of Carole King and
Karla Bonoff. Piano acoustically based, her tunes are so Westcoasty. Try Love
(the tune!) is surely a future classic hit in Westcoast Music with its keyboard
parts and evocative backing vocals. Discover this album now!
PS: JULIE GOLD had received a Grammy Award in for her megahit From A Distance
(Bette Midler).
01. Tiger In New Jersey, 02. Try Love, 03. (No) Justice, 04. Southbound Train,
05. Teach Us, 06. Every Little Thing, 07. One You Said You Loved Me, 08. It's Hard
To Love September, 09. Letter To Paul, 10. People Say, 11. The Ride, 12. Hit The Sky, 13. The Journey,
14. Temporary Song.

AOR - L.A. Concession (auto-production France - on CD-R - May 2000)
AOR is a band feat. Frederic Slama (guitars, keys), Peter Hume (keys, guitars,
bass, drums), John Fluker (vocals), Doug St John (vocals), David D. Chamberlin
(vocals, guitars, keys).
Frederic is a french guy and some of the his songs were written in the early 90s.
Never Gonna Let Her Go is a good example of what Westocast Music is: powerful
vocals, soft keys parts and strong guitars.
This albums features nice ballads (On Dangerous Ground...), FM Rock songs
(Caught Inside Your Heart...) and mid-tempos (In My Crystal Ball - that reminds us
the band America).
01. Never Gonna Let Her Go, 02. On Dangerous Ground, 03. Caught Inside Your Heart,
04. Worlds Away, 05. In My Crystal Ball, 06. The Way Of The Light, 07. Leave Her
To Heaven, 08. Only In My Dreams, 09. From L.A. To Tokyo, 10. Lost In Your Eyes, 11. Don't Let Her Go,
12. Love Has Found Its Way.
JEFF LARSON cover
Here it is! The Front cover (in exclusivity) of JEFF LARSON new album
entitled Room For Summer trhat will be released in August in The States.
Stay tune for more details soon!

JAMES TAYLOR as a guest
JAMES is doing a duet on Mark Knopfler new album Sailing To Philadelphia
(title track). The album will be released in the USA on September 25.

DIESEL come-back
The Dutch band DIESEL has a compilation out now named Sausolito Summernight.
16 tracks are featured including the classic hit Summernight In Sausolito.
JAMES TAYLOR indian?
JAMES appears on the Appalachian Journey Live In Concert CD already available
and that will be released on video August 15. 
He sings Benjamin, a tune co-written by him with Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor.

Welcome to the HOTEL CALIFORNIA
Hotel California (at Addison, Texas) Grill doesn't exist anymore. Its new name
is the Baja California Grill and all signs in reference of the EAGLES megahit
must be removed according to the settlement announced this week by the judge.
The EAGLES sued in May the owner of the restaurant Bill Arnold. The restaurant
can't also play only EAGLES music. Take it easy!
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TRIO featuring
On June 20, the album Like A Brother, by Gerry Beckley (AMERICA), Robert Lamm (Chicago)
and the late Carl Wilson (the Beach Boys), will be released in the States. Another interesting
piece of news is a remix of Gerry Beckley's solo album Van Go Gan, entitled Go Man Go that is planned
this year for a US release. 
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ROBBIE DUPREE live
For West Coast fans planning on being in the greater New York area on june 16 and 17
ROBBIE will be appearing in concert at the Wall Street Playhouse, 292 wall street,
Kingston New York box office. Phone: 845-340-1357.
The shows are duet performances with  keyboardist David Sancious (best known for his
outstanding work with Sting, Peter Gabriel and  Bruce Springsteen).

JACK TEMPCHIN peaceful easy living
JACK TEMPCHIN is playing each monday at The Joint in L.A.
The band includes legends of West Coast Music:
- Waddy Wachtel (who played on the last Stones album and was in Keith Richards 
band The Expensive Wino's),
- Phil Jones (who played drums with Tom Petty),
- Rick the Bass Player (who plays with Joe Walsh and Neil Young),
They have been playing for 5 mondays and have had the following guests sit 
in for a few songs:
Chris Hillman (founding member of The Birds and The Flying Burrito Brothers),
Johnny River (Secret Agent Man, Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Slow Dancing),
Randy Meisner (formerly with The Eagles) and other great guests.
In a few weeks, JACK will have a streaming video of one of our best songs.
They will have a link to it from his page peacefuleasyfeeling.com

LANCE KELTNER in Europe
LANCE just returned from a European tour. He is signed to Provogue Records in the
Netherlands and the tour I just did was primarily in Germany. His new record Empty V is
doing well in Europe.
IMNTV.COM with new music
On June 1st, in New York City, there was the launch of imntv.com, a new Cable/Internet 
music network. The launch party featured a performance by the IMN Advisory Board All Star band.
An amazing line up : 
Bill Champlin (hammond B3 and vocals)
Steve Lukather (guitar and vocals)
Will Lee (bass and vocals)
Ricky Lawson (drums)
Russell Ferrante (piano)
Janey Clewer & Tamara Champlin (vocals)
Bruce Gaitsch (guitar)
They rocked the house....
Go to imntv.com to check it out. They have a label too. (Thanks to Bruce Gaitsch)

JIM PHOTOGLO good reviews
JIM PHOTOGLO is getting more and more good reviews re. his new album just released in April. Billboard
Magazine, Music Row Magazine and Country Music International have already reviewed the new Jim LP!
By the way, it's a must! Check more information at JIM official site (see the link at our COOL LINKS
section).

JEFF LARSON new CD
JEFF LARSON new album entitled Room For Summer will be out on August 1 on New Surf North. If you like
America, the Beach Boys, great harmony vocals, please pay attention to this artist...
It is just mastered now. Gerry Beckley (America) sang with JEFF on one track called Carol Ann.
STEELY DAN: they do it again!
STEELY DAN has started his North American tour in Portland, Oregon on june 1st
With a 11-piece band (and a the sign language interpreter), DONALD FAGEN and
WALTER BECKER have convinced the audience. FAGEN played at the electric piano/
portable keyboard and WALTER BECKER did a magnificient guitar work.
The band features: John Herrington (guitar),Ricky Lawson (drums), a four-piece
horn section, 3 backing vocalists (feat. Victoria Cave)...
Strangely, STEELY DAN didn't play any tune from Gaucho album and forgot Rikki
Don't Loose That Number and Reelin' in the Years.
Set-list (2 hours): The Boston Rag, Bodhisattva, Night by Night, Janie Runaway,
Josie, Black Friday, Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More, Jack of Speed,
Do It Again, West of Hollywood (+ Intermission), Hank's Pad (Henry Mancini),
The Royal Scam, Deacon Blues, Cousin Dupree, Monkey in Your Soul, Dirty Work, Peg, Don't Take Me Alive,
Kid Charlemagne (+ Encore:) My Old School, FM. STEELY DAN will do a tour in Europe this fall.
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BRUCE GAITSCH update (with his own words!)
It is sunny and wonderful here in Nashville. I am recording with Peter Cetera these past two days.
Michael Omartian is  producing...this was be fun.  Then I went to NYC to help launch a new music
cable network called IMNTV....Check out the board members.... Besides myself and Bill Champlin
we have Mr. Lukather and quite a few very savy music people as well as lawyers and ex VH1 people.
We were performing, Janey  and I and Bill and I.  We wid Aphasia for the first time live...with 
Luke on lead guitar...Tamara Champlin and Janey sang bg's for the show.  Then I will go to Chicago
for a week to write and record with Richard  Marx...I am having a great spring and summer looks
great too. Amy Sky  and I just wrote three more songs together up in Toronto, Marc Jordan and I
rerecorded Crucifix in dreamland... I have also just finished playing on 14 new Nicolas Peyrac
songs... His new CD IS AWESOME. So, all I need now is to have some time to finish my 4th CD.
(by Bruce Gaitsch)

BRIAN WILSON live
BRIAN WILSON has just opened his official website (see the COOL LINKS section) that features some
audio feeds from his new double CD entitled Live At The Roxy Theater. In early july, BRIAN will do
concert with symphony orchestras before joining his band to play entirely the magic Pet Sounds album
(1966).
SHAWN COLVIN tour
SHAWN COLVIN will open concerts for Sting gig for 6 dates in The USA. Her summer tour,
will begin in Iowa on June 10 and will end at Snowbird in Utah on August 18. She will
sing songs from her most recent release Holiday Songs and Lullabies, released back in
October 1998. These will be acoustic gigs.
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SIMON PHILLIPS tour
Due to the TOTO tour dates in Europe in june, SIMON PHILLIPS will reschedule his
solo tour for the end of this year.


TOMMY DENANDER is Radioactive
MTM Music Germany and TOMMY DENANDER have settled an agreement for an album called
Radioactive. Firstly recorded with Jeff, Mike and Steve Porcaro and David Paich in Los Angeles back
in 1991 and intended to be a solo album for TOMMY. Due to differences and trouble with his label back
then,DENANDER bought the tapes back and over the 9 years the album changed from being a solo thing to
duo group to what it is now. It was recorded right after Toto´s Kingdom of Desire.
The core of the songs of the album were written by Tommy, and also features the writing talents
from Richard Marx, Bruce Gaitsch and Bill Champlin, and vocal find vocal performances from Fergie
Frederiksen, Bobby Kimball, Bill Champlin, Fee Waybill, Jason Scheff... Also feat. Richard Page,
Joseph Williams and Janey Clewer. On guitars are: TOMMY, Michael Thompson, Mike Landau and Bruce
Gaitsch. On keys: David Paich, Steve Porcaro, David Garfield, Robbie Buchanan... The album will be
completed during the summer months of July-August - September and will be planned to be finished for
a fall release.
MICHAEL FRANKS without Christmas
MICHAEL FRANKS Christmas album previously announced for the end of 1999 has been
postponed by Windham Hill Records USA.

CAROLE KING live
Aaron Neville, Brian McKnight and CAROLE KING will perform live at the 31st annual
National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriter's Hall of Fame, at the Sheraton New York
Hotel and Towers (Manhattan) on June 15. The teens anson will sing a Beach Boys medley
that will honor Brian Wilson. CAROLE KING will perform for James Taylor. Also at the stage,
John David Souther and Phoebe Snow are annnounced. Don Henley and Glenn Frey will be also inducted during
the ceremony.

JACKSON BROWNE stalker
Last week, 47-year-old Roberta Rasp was charged with 5 felonies against JACKSON BROWNE and a member of his
family and was arrested. This woman accused of stalking JACKSON has pled not guilty. JACKSON feared for his
life.

AMERICA Box-set
Rhino Records USA will release on July 18 a 3-CD (64 tracks) box-set from AMERICA
entitled Highway: 30 Years of AMERICA. The band starts a summer tour in The States
from July 1 (Oklahoma City) to October.

BEACH BOYS revival
Most of the BEACH BOYS albums will be remastered and re-released by Capitol Records
on July 18: Sunflower and Surf's Up (on one CD). In Concert will follow.
Brian Wilson is going to sing some tunes from Pet Sounds during his forthcoming US tour.

FOREIGNER Box-set
Rhino Records USA will also release on August 25 a double-CD (45 tracks) from FOREIGNER: Jukebox Heroes:
The FOREIGNER Anthology. The booklet is gonna featured new interviews with Mick Jones and Lou Gramm
as well as rare tunes from FOREIGNER and Spooky Tooth. The band starts an extensive tour in The USA
on June 9 at El Paso (Texas).
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Last Update: June 22, 2000.