Very good condition or better.

ROCK ON .... . . . 7-15

Introducing a new section of news

and notes from the rock scene. Fea-

tured this month: Prince hits the

road; a close encounter with

Prince's opening act, Sheila E.;

checking in with Prince protege

Vanity, now embarking on a solo

career; a look at where Michael

Jackson's millions are going; Cul-

ture Club's new female vocalist;

news about U2's upcoming U.S.

tour; Billy Idol takes a break, but

his drummer and guitarist play on;

Huey Lewis returns from Europe

and gets ready for '85; Jason and

the Scorchers get to work on a new

album; Elvis Presley will be every-

where in '85, the year of his 50th

birthday, including on MTV; the

Stones plan a busy new year; Miss-

ing Persons teams up with Peter

Max, heretofore famous for his psy-

chedelic art in the '60s, on a new

video. And Dale Bozzio, all of her,

shows up in some strange places.

LYNN GOLDSMIT

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TINA TURNER

By Mark Mehler. . . . . . 17

How many ways can you say I Dis-

like Ike?

ON THE SET

WITH DAVID BOWIE

By Charles Shaar Murray..23

A chat with the Thin White Duke

on the set of his "Blue Jean" video.

YOKO ONO

By Bill Flanagan... . . .28

The RECORD Interview.

TWISTED SISTER

By David Gans. . . . . . .36

The hot skinny on that lovable lout,

Dee Snider.

WHAT'S NEW.... .. 43

New artists profiled this month:

Brave Combo, Robert Gorl, D St,

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

CHARTING THE ACTION. 46

Introducing new monthly charts:

Heavy Metal, Black LPs, U.K. Top

LPs, Yesterday.

1984 HOLIDAY

BUYING GUIDE .. . . . 59

MUSIC

VIDE O

MUSICVIDEO NOTES

. 52

VIDEO REVIEWS/CHARTS .. 54

STEVE GOODMAN ... 80

An appreciation by David McGee.

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS

RECORDS

CLASSIFIEDS

4

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COVER PHOTO BY GREG GORMAN

TOP INSET BY MICHAEL PUTLAND/RETNA

SIDE INSET BY PATRICK HARBRON/LGI

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BY MARK MEHLER

"I CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT ALL

the things I felt back then, it's over. People

ask me about it, and I have to say, 'Hold

on, I left that way behind.' It's like taking

out the trash. The trashman comes and

carts it away and you never think about the

stuff you put in that sonofagun after it's in

the river. . ."

Tina Turner is a little bored. After all,

how many different ways can a person find

to say I Dislike Ike? So I figure I'll slip a

new one by her and ask about the future.

She appears stunned, but pleased. The fu-

ture couldn't be any worse than the past-

and given her current high standing in

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life like mine-

rock circles, it would seem to be quite

promising.

"Let's face it," she states, seated across a

small desk in an uptown New York hotel.

"I'm naughty, I'm raunchy and I'm rough.

That is, the act, not me. And maybe that'll

have to change one day. The voice will

change, the physical body has to change

eventually, and I will change, too. But I re-

member 10 years ago, people said, 'She's

18

PHOTO: JOHN BELLISIMO/RETN

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gonna be 35, she can t poSSIvly gu

ing that thing at 40.' And they were wrong.

weren't they?" Turner laughs wickedly,

but the subtext is pure Winnie the Pooh.

"I don't think you can really compare

me to anyone else," she adds, without con-

ceit. “Nobody does what I do, nobody has

a voice like mine, or a life like mine-not

even Joan Collins. So whatever it has in

store for me 10 or 20 years from now, you

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"WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE

is bringing back the talkies,"

David Bowie announces self-

mockingly. His livid mask re-

calls the white-faced clowns

and demons of the Commedia

dell'Arte and the grotesque

disguises of the early cinema:

pallor so extreme as to sug-

gest a powerful but distinctly

unhealthy light juxtaposed

with swirling, smoky shad-

ows. His amiable but sly grin

seems thoroughly incongru-

ous in this ghastly setting.

The dark, sandy hair is immac-

ulately styled, but it

streaked with an unpleasant-

is

looking gel that suggests that

an asthmatic dog has just

coughed on his head.

10:30 a.m. a fifth floor ball-

room in West London. Bowie

has been in makeup for a little

over two hours. Outside, Ken-

sington High Street is about

to spend the day baking until

it glazes over. If you follow the

street far enough west you

end up in Hammersmith, but

the High Street takes its role

of linking the well-heeled bo-

hemia of Holland park and the

crisp upper crust of Knights-

bridge very seriously. During

the early '70s, designer and

entrepreneur Barbara Hulan-

icki took over the crumbling

Derry & Toms department

store and turned it into the

most grandiose incarnation

thus far of what had begun as

a boutique called Biba's. The

upstairs ballroom became an

extremely chic little venue,

host to everything from the

'20s kitsch of the Pasadena

Roof Orchestra to high-octane

insolence of the New York

Dolls.