THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday September 1989 Page 17 What music fans didnt see or hear ROCK ON We were cleaning out some old files here at Rock On and having a blast reading the grand pronouncements of rockers about their upcoming pro jects projects that many times er saw the light of day In the music Industry as with the rest of Hollywood In development is often a synonym for wishful thinking A few of the great Ideas that might have been Lisa Marie Presley was going to re cord an album for her famous fathers original label Sun Records Madon na was doing a special sixsong re lease for Christmas of 1987 featuring old material Rolling Stones bassist BUI was writing a tellall bi ography of the band Soul great Marvin Gayes life was being profiled Hall left In a madeforNBC movie called Di vided Soul and Bobby I Fought the Law Pullers tragic story was to be dramatized In the feature film Nev er to Be Forgotten An version of Oliver Twist was in the works and headed for the big screen to be entitled Twist 1 Vice creator Michael Mann who based the series on a scrawled note reading MTV cops was a new primetime TV show set the scenes in the music biz it was to have been called Tropix Another TV series was set for ABC called Starstruck re volving around an aspiring band And on the syndication side Rock Candy was to have been the sitcom tale of a staid music teacher and his punk rock daughters Gee some of those even sounded good In this summer of mega tours The Who the Stones of the Bea tles threequarters of the pop charts what band just sold out Dodger Sta dium Giants Stadium and a dozen other enormous venues nationwide The Cure Thats right a British cult band that has never even had a Top single though Lovesong looks like it will be their first Theyre like the Pink Floyd of our time says a Cure spokesperson and they certainly have slowly and steadi ly acquired an enormously loyal following Of course ticket sales werent ex actly hurt by the fact that before em barking on the trek bandlead er Robert Smith announced that the group will never play live again Speaking of the Who tour their La bor Day weekend appearance in Dal las was the anchor of an unusual fund- raising event sponsored by Miller Beer Called the Texas Party and guaranteed to raise million for the Special Olympics the event tied the who concert by satellite with five er rock shows being staged neously in San Antonio Houston Odessa Mercedes and Corpus Christ CRITICS CHOICE VIDEO Rentals Service Open Every Night Till HAPPY HOUR 5 g 23BGuiphSt OFF ANY PIZZA OVER 1M STREET ON HH TAXI DIVISION OF IWJON1UI AIRPORT SERVICE PARCEL DELIVERY STEAKS LOBSTER For The Month of September MOlTMtKfDABOUr RIVIERA CENTRE Guelph PO Box Ont LOP 1KO016I DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS LIE PATIO Acrou Pram GO Station 37 King St Georgetown 8773541 VIDEO RANCH NEW ARRIVALS LIVES HER ALIBI COUSINS MACHINE RENTALS CAMCORDER VCR NWTENOO 8730700 The talent lineup Included Ray Vaughan Huey Lewis the Fabulous Cheap Trick and Hall Oates And on the subject of rock sponsor Miller Brewing Co it s that time of year when they start soliciting tapes from bands who aspire to be part of the Miller Network The marketing program helps upandcomers with and advertising support RECYCLING II wort I it do oil Jr1 Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper VIDEO PLUS of Fruit BRING HOME A STAR THISWEEK Unit 8 Georgetown Ontario GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 YELLOW CAB HILLS 24 HOUR SERVICE SERVING HALTON HILL Airport Service Parcel Delivery 8732527 8732931 Corn ill DO 9 FrMtJ HDD 10 DO 10 OS900 NlilDiy 8731022 360GuelphStUnll51A KNOLCREST CENTRE Georgetown 00EY GOOEY GOOD TRYOURNEWX DELIVERY SERVICE 308 Guelph St UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT NEtLS MUSIC CENTREiS usouKnMBrjrsie PRIVATE LESSONS GurrARHAmFBitusaM PERSONAL AD LIB KEYBOARDS ABE HERE 130 StUfittOOEOMETOWN 3rd GREAT WEEK Two Thumbs IIP FOR PARENTHOOD S1SKELSEBERT STEVE MARTIN Parenthood f could happen lewsiHi pm CINEMA 2 A JOHN HUGHES FILM JOHN CANDY Hes trade Hes crass Hes family SMASH WEEK CWEMA3r NOW PLAYING STAU0NE GNES THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF MS CAREER