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...written by a local musician for the Bob Dylan song Knockin' on Heaven's Door. With Dylan's blessing, some of the Dunblane children, including the siblings of four of the victims, recorded the song, which sold 189,000 copies within a week and entered the British pop singles' chart at No. 1. "Lord, these guns have caused too much pain/ This town will never be the same," ran the new words. "So for the bairns [children] of Dunblane/ We ask, please never again." Profits will go to three children's charities...
...always a good idea. This year R.E.M., Pearl Jam and Nirvana, three of the genre's biggest and most critically acclaimed bands, all released new albums with comparatively little fanfare--and all three albums sold poorly, relative to the huge hits these groups have scored in the past. The chart slippage of these and other megagroups, coupled with the sad state of the industry in general, has set music executives abuzz--about the declining aesthetics of alternative rock, about what the next Next Big Thing will be, and especially about the tenuous status of their jobs (several labels, including Atlantic...
...internationally best-selling wishy-washy pop singer. The Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees also scored a breakthrough this year with their sophomore album, The Score, which has sold more than 5 million copies so far (their debut sold only 130,000). A look at any recent Billboard chart shows that hard-core rap continues to be a best-selling genre. And the Smashing Pumpkins' double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which has sold more than 7 million copies so far, demonstrates that when a band does take chances and makes great music, the alternative-rock genre...
...hard Korn fans. Not only has the Website been a big hit ("The Internet traffic is melting us down," says Epic's West Coast general manager Steve Rennie), but record sales have also taken off. Korn's new CD, Life Is Peachy, broke onto Billboard's album chart at No. 3, selling 152,000 in its first two weeks...
Congratulations on the terrific compilation of political information in the chart showing where Dole and Clinton stood on key issues. I wish the two big candidates could have been forced to debate only on the clear outline of issues you highlighted. We might have got a much better idea of where both of them really stood. MEL BULGERIN Eau Claire, Wisconsin Via E-mail...