Word: lp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, which sold more than a million copies; a fourth, fresh single, Church of the Poison Mind, already snug at No. 11, with another, Karma Chameleon, ready to take off; and a new album, Colour by Numbers, storming the LP charts...
...wife Linda, 41, as a team of vaudeville con artists on the run in the Wild West. McCartney and Jackson collaborated last year in the writing and singing of The Girl Is Mine, one of the half-dozen hit songs on Jackson's phenomenally successful Thriller LP. Next came their current hit, Say Say Say, a track on McCartney's new album, Pipes of Peace. With so much talent on hand, keeping harmony on the set was, well, no day at the beach. "It was hard work," says Giraldi. "The egos could fill a room...
...multinational audiences in a good ole boy's drawl. The unusual pairing came about after Nelson heard about Iglesias during a visit to London. The two got together to record the oldie As Time Goes By for Nelson's next album, and for Iglesias' next LP they did To All the Girls I've Loved Before, which they sang together on the televised awards show. Who knows? They might even win one of the awards next time. Nelson did in fact win Vocal Duo of the Year last week. But paired with a more certified country...
...cover on a new LP album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Listen and eight Beatles...
...home listening, the record industry has helped itself by developing a number of low-priced alternatives to $8.98 albums. The mini-LP ($4.49) contain-about five rather than ten songs, and introduces new groups like Scandal, who might have been bypassed on a full-price album. The 12-in. single ($3.49), an extended version of the standard 45-r.p.m. disc remixed with extra instrumental riffs for dancing, can sell as many as 200,000 units extra for every million-selling hit. Deejay John ("Jellybean") Benitez, 25, of Manhattan's Fun House, is so accomplished at remixing hits for club...