Daily Hampshire Gazette from Northampton, Massachusetts • 69

TUDMiO DG3 Tops (CQnants with plenty of past success but not too much lately: Donna Summer whose new single Time I Know It's Real" debuts at number 88 and Bad Company at number 93 with their new one It THERE'S AN ALBUM coming out in late May by a new group called Tin Machine and their lead singer should cause many music fans to sit up and take notice none other than David Bowie Bowie teams up with former Iggy Pop sidemen Hunt and Tony Sales (yes! the sons of Soupy!) and guitarist Reeves Gabrels AS NOTED ON THIS page before The Who are gearing up for a 25th anniversary concert tour this summer Pete Townshend decided he wanted a second guitarist in the group so he called up old pal and former EagleJames Gany guitar wiz Joe Walsh Walsh said yes THERE IS A RUMOR going around that Ringo Starr- may soon embark upon his first-ever solo tour Besides Starr on drums the band would consist of the aforementioned Walsh and guitarist Peter Frampton Jack Bruce on bass Clarence Man" Clemons on sax and Billy Preston on keyboards WHEN BIG AUDIO Dynamite released their last album they couldn't tour in support of it because group leader Mick Jones caught pneumonia Jones is all better now and BAD is now working on its new LP Former Clash member Paul Simonon has put together a new group called Havana 3-Another Clash alumnus drummer Topper Headon was to be in that group but quit at the last minute to form his own jazz band HAPPY BIRTHDAYS Today Robert Smith of the Cure (30) and Iggy Pop (42) tomorrow Peter Frampton (39) and Glen Campbell (53) Monday Barbra Streisand (47) Tuesday Ella Fitzgerald (71) and bluesman Albert King (66) Wednesday Duranduran's Roger Taylor (29) Thursday Sheena Easton (30) The late Roy Orbison was born April 23 1936 Count Basie died April 26 1984 Ringo Starr and actress Barbara Bach were married April 27 1981 By MIKE DION Just as everyone expected Madonna's latest album Like A Prayer has made it to number one The album took just three weeks on the charts to make the top the fastest-rising album to date: The first single from Like A Prayer the title cut also moves to the top of its respective chart this week giving Madonna the number-one album and single It's her third number-one album and seventh number-one single The quick move of Like A Prayer both the LP and the single re-establishes Madonna as this decade's most successful and in all probability most popular woman singer wresting the distinction away from Whitney Houston Houston at one point rattled off six consecutive number-one singles but so far in the '80s has had only two number-one albums Taking both men and women into account only Bruce Springsteen has more number-one albums in the '80s (four) and only Michael Jackson has had more number-one singles (nine) 1 Meanwhile Pepsi has officially pulled its commercial featuring Madonna from the airwaves The soft drink company had been under increasing pressure to drop the ad after a controversy erupted over the singer's heavy use of Christian imagery in the video of A Prayer" As of now Pepsi has no plans to try and use Madonna in another commercial Also up in the air is the soda's sponsorship of tour later this year Pepsi also declined to say if they wilt attempt to recover any of the $3 million to $4 million it's rumored they paid the singer for the commercial IN OTHER CHART NEWS: Guns Roses' Appetite For Destruction drops to number 12 on the album chart this week ending a 53-week run in the top 10 The album also produced three top-10 singles Meanwhile the group's other top-10 album N' Lies moves up to number six The album which has already made It as high as number four is rebounding on the strength of the band's newest hit single "Patience" which moves into the top-40 this week Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There for You" checks in at number five this week the third consecutive top-five hit off the album New Jersey The only other metalhard rock album ever to generate three top-five singles Is Def Leppard's Hysteria Believe It or not since beginning his career more than 20 years ago with Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne has never had a top-40 hit until now Osbourne's duet with Uta Ford My Eyes Forever" sits at number 35 this week Another longtime popular artist never had a big hit single is Elvis Costello Costello's previous best showing on the top 40 came in 1984 with the song "Every Day I Write the which peaked at number 36 Costello's newest single debuts at number 75 this week The song was cowritten by Costello and Paul McCartney Two other debuts this week on the Hot 100 feature artists TOP TEN SINGLES 1 Like A Prayer 2 She Drives Me Crazy 3 The Look 4 Funky Cold Medina 5 Be There for You 6 Stand 7 Heaven Help Me 8 Girl You Know True 1 9 Eternal Flame 10 Second Chance Madonna Fine Young Cannibals Roxette Tone Loc Bon Jovi REM Deon Estus Milll Vanilli Bangles Thirty-Eight Special BILLBOARD'S TOP 10 ALBUMS 1 Like A Prayer 2 Loc-ed After Dark 3 Electric Youth 4 Don't Be Cruel 5 The Raw The Cooked 6 N' Ues 7 Mystery Girt 8 Hangin Tough 9 Forever Your Girl 10 Traveling Wilburys Madonna Tone Loc Debbie Gibson Bobby Brown Fine Young Cannibals Guns N' Roses Roy Orbison New Kids on the Block Paula Abdul The Traveling Wilburys Homphlr Uf April 21 1989 29.