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Music Charts Leave the pages of this book unturned IHAi PORTRAIT OF the most gifted tortured and sexy member of Pop singles 1 Saving All My Love for You Whitney Houston 2 Part-Time Lover Stevie Wonder 3 Take on Me A-Ha 4 Theme Jan Hammer 5 Head Over Heels Tears for Fears 6 Oh Sheila Ready for the World 7 Lonely Night John Cougar Mellencamp 8 Fortress Around Your Heart Sting 9 Down Bruce Springsteen 10 You Belong to the City Glenn Frey THE BEAT By David Barton the Rolling is how the cover blurb describes the seedy tell-all memoir of the late Brian Jones in Jones: The Inside Story of the Original Rolling (Putnam 256 pages $1795) This biography despite being a long-overdue study of an overlooked but important '60s rock figure is pure self-serving exploitation most revealing quote is Jones saying to him: like to talk about it Only to you I often meet people I can relax with Most quote me to the Poor Brian Jones shafted again Pop LPs 1 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 2 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston 3 Soundtrack 4 Scarecrow John Cougar Mellencamp 5 Songs From the Big Chair Tears for Fears 6 The Dream of the Blue Turtles Sting 7 Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen 8 Heart Heart 9 In Square Circle Stevie Wonder 10 Reckless Bryan Adams Author Nicholas Fitzgerald says he was one of many lovers and was with the disturbed drug-ridden and possibly paranoidschizophrenic rock star off and on from 1965 until death in 1969 In the course of telling what amounts to a standard Stones history Fitzgerald manages to squeeze in a few new tidbits about relations between Jones and Mick Jagger Keith Richard and manager Andrew Loog Oldham Still the writing is poor and dominated by lame observations and inconsequential conversations that sound as though they been made up by anyone who knew the basic story Fitzgerald lacks journalistic balance and curiosity and has an obvious bias toward Jones leaving his facts observations and quotes questionable His contention that Jones free of the Stones "would write profound and beautiful songs that could electrify the pop music is sheer puffery He also quotes Jones commenting on how wonderful Fitzgerald is If all goes according to plan Game Theory formerly of Davis should be returning today to its San Francisco base after touring for three weeks and recording its second album for RationalEnigma Records The album like its fine predecessor was produced in North Carolina by Mitch Easter of Active The finished LP will feature originals by leader Scott Miller and cover versions of Todd wonderful I Just Tell and Vince theme Also returning home even as you read are local rockers the Seventy Sevens The four are on a flight back from their tour of Europe where they played Holland England and Germany in support of their just-released album Fall The group is slated to play Warehouse Ministries on Nov 16 Local band Leo Swift has completed a tape of three of its this week Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash 17 years after writing his first of many classic rock roll hits Chuck Berry went No 1 with and 23 years ago 12-year-old Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first record the Motown single You for Loving Me All the Happy birthdays this week to Sonny Terry (74) Jon Anderson of Yes (41) Elvin Bishop (43) Bootsy Collins (34) Steve Cropper (44) Wanda Jackson (48) Leslie West (40) and Bill Wyman (44) finest tunes recorded with engineer Jeffrey Lesser (Barbara Streisand Missing Persons) and is now the tape to labels From what I heard it is only a matter of time fine-tuning and a couple of first-rate songs before these guys land on the charts Also hawking a tape to labels and other interested parties is the Talk led by Mike Kessler and Ken Goorabian of Steel Breeze fame who have finished a five-song demo with Bill Spooner of the Tubes HISTORY 10L Eight years ago Country singles 1 Touch a Hand Make a Friend The Oak Ridge Boys 2 Some Fools Never Learn Steve Wariner 3 Gonna Fill Their Shoes? George Jones 4 Keep a Good Man Down Alabama 5 A Long and Lasting Love Crystal Gayle 6 Hang on to Your Heart Exile 7 Never Stop Loving You Gary Morris 8 I Wanna Say Yes Louise Mandrell 9 Too Much on My Heart The Statler Bros 10 Gonna Leave You Tomorrow John Schneider Records Thompson Twins double our pleasure JANE WEIDLIN Jane Weidlin IRS Records TO FUTURE DAYS Thompson Twins Arista Records On her debut solo LP former Go-Go Jane Weidlin expands on the popular girl Gidget-meets-the-Ramones pop sound varying the Instrumentation and approaching more political themes in the lyrics The result is one nice single in the lead-off and an enjoyable if disposable debut Good playing by session heavies Russ Kunkel Randy Jackson and Bill Payne DB With Nile Rodgers producing the Twins go for a stronger dance-floor approach with mixed results The cuts are sonically up-to-date and a couple are up to the high pop standards set by their previous album especially the single Your Hands on and the wonderfully bubbling But most of the songs are flat or uninspired particularly the title track the singsong whimsy of for a and the weak sonically polluted cover of John David Barton Black singles 1 Part-Time Lover Stevie Wonder 2 You Are My Lady Freddie Jackson 3 I Wish He Trust Me So Much Bobby Womack 4 Single Life Cameo 5 The Show Doug Fresh the Get Fresh Crew 6 Be Good Rene Angela 7 Stand by Me Maurice White 8 The Oak Tree Morris Day 9 You Wear It Well El Debarge with Debarge 10 Who Aretha Franklin 4 fit I Billboard Magazine Thompson music aims for the dance floor not quality MAURICE WHITE Maurice White Columbia Records OIL AND GOLD Shriekback Island Records melody and the backing tracks throb like accelerated Talking Heads techno-tribal arrangements Synths treated guitars processed drums and shrieking female choruses chant out abstract lyrics such as black nemesisParthenogenesisNo one move a muscle as the dead come Heady stuff pretentious yes but IrtVentive and hot A fine return to form for Earth Wind and musical mastermind solo debut features upbeat melodic dance cuts such jas "Switch on Your Radio" and of Africa" These and several others would sound right at home on an Earth Wind and Fire album and should please EWF fans in ways Phillip solo stuff -DB This arch wiry British art funk is reminiscent of both Gang of Four and XTC the groups that gave Shriekback its key members David Allen' And Barry Andrews The VOCaK 'hhd ghnwirig A 'great debf Id Byrrte'Y'ttseof oW Encore 8 The Sacramento Bee Sunday October 20 1985 1 Encore 6 The Sacramento Bee Sunday October 20 isos.