April 18, 2001

BLITZKRIEG POPPED

Joey Ramone, lead singer of THE RAMONES, passed away on April 15th at the age of 49. Joey, or Jeffrey Hyman, lost his battle with lymphatic cancer as he, a real punk, did not respond the treatment for the disease.

Joey wasn’t very active lately and there was a good chance of him working with former bandmates again – the singer eventually reconciliated with Marky Ramone, the drummer, in February 2000, having ended a long feud. Now, there won’t be a re-union in this world…

GET UNITED!

Frontiers Records and Now and Then Productions celebrate their relationshp with annual compilation. It’s “Union 4” this time, containing the cream of the last year’s releases and some teasing tracks from the albums to come.

So here they are, the tracks:

CD 1 TEN – Give In This Time PRAYING MANTIS – Nowhere To Hide VOODOO HILL – Sensitive THE SIGN – Cross The Line TEER – Vampire’s Lullaby MILLENIUM – Power To Love DAVID GLEN EISLEY – Stranger From The Past INTO THE LIGHT – Into The Light Mark Boals – Ring Of Fire HEAVEN & EARTH – Prisoner Kip Winger – Cross PRIME TIME – Forever You And I Brad Gillis – Eyes Iain Ashley Hersey – Hold On Bob Catley – Return Of The Mountain King BAILEY’S COMET – One Love, One Life Kelly Keagy – The Journey

CD 2 SEVENTH KEY – The Kid Could Play EMERALD RAIN – Is This Love Stan Bush – Like I’ve Never Lived (Rough Mix) Terry Brock – Up All Night Mitch Malloy – You Lift Me HUSH – Don’t Say Goodnight UNDER SUSPICION – Keep It All URBAN TALE – King Of Hearts GIANT – Don’t Leave Me In Love SKIN TAG – Another Rainy Monday (Special U4 Mix) HARDLINE – Only A Night Johnny Lima – Best Night Of My Life (Demo Version) TALON – Wrecking Ball (Demo Version) HURRICANE – Heart Made Of Stone Robert Fleischman – Your Heaven BOURGEOIS PIGS – Calamities Of Vanity MONKEYHEAD – Adriana

The set wilhit the shelves on May 14th.

ENGLISH PIE – IN MEMORIAM

Legendary HUMBLE PIE are to play a concert at London’s Astoria Theatre on April 20th in memory of great late Steve Marriott, who tragically died in a fire ten years ago.

There will be the classic PIE line up of guitarist/singer Peter Frampton, drummer Jerry Shirley, Greg Ridley on bass and Clem Clempson on guitar, playing with a whole array of star guests including Roger Daltrey of THE WHO, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones, who worked with Marriott in SMALL FACES, SEX PISTOLS’ Glen Matlock, Zak Starkey, Paul Waller, Midge Ure of ULTRAVOX fame and many others.

April 18, 2001