Week of April 15, 1989

At least 93 fans are crushed to death and hundreds injured at a national soccer

tournament semifinal match in central England. Thousands of spectators without

tickets gained last-minute entry to an enclosed viewing section already

overcrowded. Many fell under the feet of the surging crowd and died.

Unprecedented - The House ethics

(D-Tex.) of 69 violations of House rules for

allegedly accepting $145,000 in improper

gifts from a Texas businessman and using

sales of a 1984 book to evade limits on

outside income.

The House clears the way for the closing of

86 military installations and the

consolidation of others.

The Senate, in a bill introduced by Sen.

Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), approves a bill

that could turn the dead “Fairness

“Doctrine” into law. Let’s see.

Oil process surge to their highest levels - $22 a barrel after a North Sea oil rig

explosion. No one was killed.

Just after an explosion ripped through a gun turret aboard the battleship Iowa,

killing 47 sailors. The Navy orders the firing of the 16-inch guns on all four U.S.

battleships halted until an investigation is completed.

founder of the Yippie protest movement of the 1960’s

committed suicide by taking an overdose of sedative

Phenobarbital. Hoffman was found dead last week in

bed at his home in New Hope, PA.

Passing - Author Dame Daphne de Maurier, who once

remarked, “I can’t say I really like people, perhaps that’s

why I always preferred to create my own.” Best-known

for the book - “The Birds” which was made into an

Alfred Hitchcock classic.

Week of April 15, 1989

Passing - C.K. McClatchy (62) - chairman of the McClatchy chain of

newspapers in California.

Technology -

Control Data Corp. announces that it is closing its supercomputer business - and

will cut some 3100 jobs.

Sports -

Dallas Cowboys for six years at $11.2 million.

Down,” features George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

First #1 album by a black rap artist is… Tone Loc

with “Loc-Ed After Dark.”

Don’t miss Spin Magazine’s third-annual swimsuit

issue - coming out next month. Featured - Al B.

Sure!, Moon and Dweezil Zappa, Tom Jones,

George Clinton, Devo, Salt-N-Pepa, Jane’s Addiction

and others.

Pepsi scrap plans to air 30- and 60-second commercials featuring Madonna. Her

“Like a Prayer” caused considerable confusion between her Pepsi Commercial

and music video, Pepsi premiered the music for “Like a Prayer” March 2 via a

world-wide TV commercial

Radio news -

ABC-owned KLOS Los Angeles says it will severe all syndicated programming as

contracts expire. The station says it can sell the freed advertising minutes - it’s a

better market this year.

More L.A. - KIIS-AM shuts down its all dance-mix music format and once again,

simulcasts with KIIS-AM.

Television News -

with musical guest John Cougar Mellencamp.

Week of April 15, 1989

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder, She Wrote, Movie

NBC - Movie, Day by Day, Movie - Around the World in 80 Days

ABC - Great Circuses of the World, Moonlighting, Movie

Fox - 21 Jump street, America’s Most Wanted, Married with Children, It’s Garry

Shandlin’s Show, Tracey Ullman

PBS - Nature, Masterpiece Theater

Top Album Rock Cuts -

I Won’t Back Down - Tom Petty

Now You’re In Heaven - Julian

Lennon

Second Chance - 38 Special

I’ll Be You - The replacements

Similar Features - Melissa

Etheridge

Rocket - Def Leppard

Fire Woman - The Cult

Patience - Guns N’ Roses

God Part II - U2

All Is Forgiven - Siren

Ready for Love - Gary Moore

Turn You Inside Out - R.E.M.

Hot Rap -

Me Myself and I - De La Soul

Movement

Funky Cold Medina - Ton Loc

Turn This Mutha Out - M.C. Hammer

Rollin’ With Kid ‘N Play - Kid ‘N Play

We Want Easy - Easy-E

Greatest Man Alive - Three Times

Dope

Pump It Up - M.C. Hammer

Life Is… Too Short - Too Short

Girl You Know It’s True - Milli Vanilli

Joy and Pain - Rob Base and J.J. E-Z Rock

Wild Thing - Tone Loc

Week of April 15, 1989

Top hits in Britain -

Straight Up - Paula Abdul

Like A Prayer - Madonna

Too Many Broken Hearts - Jason

Donovan

Keep on Movin’ - Soul II Soul

Eternal Flame - bangles

This Time I Know It’s for real - Donna

Summer

I Beg Your pardon - Kon Kan

Paradise City - Guns “N Roses

Top Modern Rock (And Heard On Pirate Radio L.A.)

Veronica - Elvis Costello

The Mayor of Simpleton - XTC

Always Saturday - Guadalcanal Diary

Round & Round - New Order

I’ll Be You - The Replacements

She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

Nightmares - Violent Femmes

Come Out Fighting - Easterhouse

The Last of the Famous Inter’l Playboys - Morrissey

Madonna of the Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock and the

Egyptians

At the movies -

Chances Are

Beaches

Working Girl

Fletch Lives

Three Fugitives

The Rescuers

Rain Man

New York Stories

She’s Out Of Control

Red Scorpion

Say Anything

Week of April 15, 1989