Saturday, June 13, 1998

See Culture Club on VH-1's Storytellers this Sunday night. Also a Def Leppard special will be aired on June 21st at 9pm (EST) including an original score by Phil Collen. Re-runs at 11pm and on June 22nd at 11am. Also there will be a Def Leppard hour long documentary on VH1 Legends called Behind The Scenes On Def Leppard and is tentatively scheduled to premier on Sunday, July 26th at 9pm (EST.)
Taking time away from acting, Rick Springfield has gone back on the road. During his stop in Las Vegas he announced a September release for his next album and plans to continue touring.
Some bands didn't make the final cut for the much anticipated Depeche Mode tribute For The Masses which arrives on Aug. 4th (two months before DM's 2nd hits collection.) Cuts that made it: Smashing Pumpkins - "Never Let Me Down Again," God Lives Underwater - "Fly On The Windscreen," Failure - "Enjoy The Silence," The Cure - "World In My Eyes," Dishwalla - "Policy Of Truth," Veruca Salt - "Somebody," Meat Beat Manifesto - "Everything Counts," Hooverphonic - "Shake The Disease," Locust - "Master And Servant," Self - "Shame," Monster Magnet - "Black Celebration," Rabbit In The Moon - "Waiting For The Night," Apollo 440 - "I Feel You," Gus Gus "Monument," Deftones - "To Have And To Hold" and Rammstein - "Stripped."
Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins/Babble has been busy. He has just finished working on the soundtrack for a movie titled Edge Of Seventeen. Released through Wigwam Films, it's set in the '80s and apparently the kids are nutty for synth-pop. New tunes by Babble are recently popping up on a few compilation albums.
Expect to see a little more of Michael Hutchence. The July issue of Details reports that Hutchence will turn up in a film titled Limp that is currently in post-production. In this role filmed shortly before his death, the singer reportedly plays a music industry scout who ironically speaks of Kurt Cobain's suicide, "It was brilliant on his part. Otherwise, he would have been just another flavor of the day." Acting wasn't exactly new to Hutchence after roles in Dogs In Space and Frankenstein Unbound. Hutchence's manager, Martha Troupe, told Details that Hutchence had received a script for the upcoming From Dusk 'Til Dawn sequel shortly before his death.