Week of March 15, 1991

Peace agreement - At a meeting in Bermuda, President Bush and British Prime

Minister John Major agree that Iraq must yield to the supervised destruction of its

chemical weapons and pledge some portion of its future oil revenues to pay for

the destruction of Kuwait.

A Blackhawk helicopter crashes in Iraq, killing six servicemen, bringing the total

U.S. military toll to 324 since the Bush Administration first sent forces to the

Persian Gulf after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2.

A U.S. Air Force fighter shoots down one of two Iraqi warplanes spotted flying

near Sadam Hussein’s hometown of Riyadh.

The Securities and Exchange Commission bans former

Drexel Burham Lambert junk bond chief Michael Milken

from the securities industry for life.

After touring Kuwait’s flaming oil fields, several U.S.

senators urged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein be

put on trial for crimes against the environment.

New York mayor David N. Dinkins is booed when me

marched with members of an Irish gay group rather than at

the head of the nation’s oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Heard in the

crowd - “One-term mayor!” and other chants.

In Las Vegas - Mike Tyson defeats battered Razor Ruddock in the seventh

round. A fight ensued after the bout was halted.

Opening this week - “ Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles II” at a cost of $20 million - twice that for

the first Ninja Turtle movie.

Technology - Apple finally relinquishes and says it

will share some of its key technologies and seek

closer relationships with other computer industry

players.

MCA unveils its newest promotion “Friends and Family.” It offers customers

discounts on calls to as many as a dozen most frequently called friends and

relatives.

Week of March 15, 1991

Television news -

A Gallup Poll says that viewers prefer to watch veteran Johnny Carson over Jay

Leno by almost 2 to 1.

Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen

are the parents of a baby boy. Wolfgang

Van Halen is the couple’s first child.

Bertinelli suffered a miscarriage in 1986

and has been trying for 10 years.

American Movie Classics cable channel

airs a two-hour retrospective called “The

Republic Pictures Story” - a look at the

“B” movie champ during the 40’s and

50’s.

Top TV -

Cheers - 20.1

Roseanne - 19.6

20/20 - 18.4

America’s Favorite Home Videos - 18.2

Different World - 18.1

Family Matters - 17.8

60 Minutes - 17.6

Cosby Show - 16.9

Full House - 16.7

L.A. Law - 16.7

Coach - 16.7

Murder, She Wrote - 16.5

NCAA Basketball - 16.3

Wings - 15.9

Unsolved Mysteries - 15.6

Movie - Indian Jones & The Temple Of Doom - 15.6

Movie - Lethal Weapon - 15.5

Davis Rules - 15.5

People’s Choice Awards - 15.3

Perfect strangers - 15.3

Who’s The Boss? - 15.2

Baby Talk - 15.0

Major dad - 14.9

Growing Pains - 14.8

Doogie Howser, M.D. - 14.0

Week of March 15, 1991

Wednesday night television -

CBS - 48 Hours, Jake and the Fatman,

WIOU, America Tonight

NBC - Unsolved Mysteries, Night Court,

Dear John, Quantum Leap , Tonight

Show

ABC - Wonder Years, Growing Pains,

Doogie Howser, Anything But Love,

Equal Justice, Nightline, Into the Night

PBS - American Playhouse

Nick-at-Nite - Get Smart, Get Smart, Get

Smart, Get Smart, Get Smart, Get Smart

Nashville Network -Banjos, Fiddles, &

Riverboats, Nashville Now, Crook & Chase, Country Standard Time

America Tonight - Features a town meeting on the Gulf War.

Tonight Show - John Larroquette.

Music News -

Axl Rose of “Guns ‘N Roses” is now requiring that

prospective interviewers sign a lengthy contract

guaranteeing the band total control over all aspects

of interviewing the band and any resulting story.

That’s right - any interview will give the group

manger, “We’re fed up with being misused and

abused by all the scurrilous (scum) who pass

themselves off as journalists and photographers.” “I

can’t begin to tell you how many writers and

photographers have misrepresented themselves,

made up quotes or made money selling substandard

photos of the band. It’s amazing, but people can

peddle any kind of junk if Axl’s picture is on it. The

press always says, ‘Trust us’ but whenever we do,

we get screwed.”

Week of March 15, 1991

His career is hot - Robert Van Winkle has sold

over 10 million albums and has a new movie in the

works - “Cool as Ice.” He use to open for M.C.

Hammer, but this white rapper has taken off. He’s

Vanilla Ice .

Berry Gordy Jr. is back in the record business

after spending some time on film and television.

West Grand Music Productions will debut in April

with an album from ex-Temptation Lewis Price.

Michael Jackson enters into a 50-50 joint venture with Sony Software that

creates his own record company and offers outlets into theatrical films, television,

short films, video games and other entertainment software.

Teddy Pendergrass stands on stage for the first time since his 1982 car crash.

Pendergrass did so at the Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles.

Rapper Eric Wright (Easy E) - is invited by Republican

Senate leader Bob Dole to attend an exclusive luncheon

in Washington, where President Bush is scheduled to

speak to the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle. Wright is

the founder of N.W.A. and owns Ruthless Records.

Wright (23) a self-professed ex-gangster and former drug

dealer received his invitation to the fund-raiser after he

contributed $2,490 to the Republican Party. Wright is a

big Bush fan and will attend. It’s full-circle for Wright. In

1989, The FBI sent N.W.A’s record label - Priority

Records” a letter claiming their “Straight Outta Compton”

album encouraged violence against law enforcement officers.

The 4-year-old son of Eric Clapton is killed he fell out of the window of his

family’s 53 rd -floor apartment in Manhattan. The boy landed on the roof of a five-

story building next door. The window had been opened for cleaning. The boy’s

mother and a housekeeper were in the apartment, but did not see the boy fall

out.

R.E.M. releases a new album this week - “Out of Time.” Looks like “Losing My

Religion” is the first hit.

Week of March 15, 1991

After months of speculation, Janet Jackson has left A&M Records for a major

deal with Virgin Records. Sources say its value could be $35 million including

$17 million upfront and $6 million per album.

VH-1 and EMI present Bobby McFerrin as the

channel’s “Artist of the Month.”

MTV announces a new show “The Buzz Bin,” a half-hour

show that’ll promote new music from different genres.

On ABC-TV this week - “James Brown: The Man, the

Music & The Message.” Hosted by Dick Cavett. Saturday

night at 11:30.

An album of Paul McCartney’s upcoming acoustic appearance on MTV

“Unplugged: the Official Bootleg” will be released in May. The show was

recorded in January before an audience in London.

Radio news - “Yo MTV Raps” hosts Doctor Dre’ and Ed

Lover join WBLS New York for Friday and Saturday nights.

With the Gulf War ending - Radio stations are planning troop-

return promotions and victory celebrations

Hot Hits -

Show Me The Way - Styx

Someday - Mariah Carey

One More Try - Timmy T

All This Time - Sting

Coming Out Of The Dark - Gloria Estefan

Al the Man That I Need - Whitney Houston

Get Here - Oleta Adams

This House - Tracie Spencer

Hold You Tight - Tara Kemp

Where Does My Heart Beat Now - Celine

Dion

Around The Way Girl - L.L. Cool. J.

Rescue Me - Madonna

Waiting For Love - Alias

Signs - Tesla

I’ve Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat

You’re In Love - Wilson Phillips

Iesha - Another Bad Creation

Week of March 15, 1991

Top albums this week in 1991 -

Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey

Wilson Phillips - Wilson Philips

The Soul Cages - Sting

To The Extreme - Vanilla Ice

Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em -

M.C. Hammer

I’m Your Baby Tonight - Whitney

Houston

Into The Light - Gloria Estefan

Shake You Money Maker - The

Black Crowes

Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C

Music Factory

Some People’s Lives - Bette Midler

Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak

The Simpsons Sing The Blues - The

Simpsons

The Razors Edge - AC/DC

Five Man Acoustical Jam - Tesla

Serious Hits… Live - Phil Collins

Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation

18714 - Janet Jackson

Empire - Queensryche

Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon

The Future - Guy

We Are In Love - Harry Connick Jr.

Mama Said Knock You Out - L.L. Cool J.

Poison - Bell Biv Devoe

Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees

MCMXC A.D. - Enigma

Top hits in Britain -

Sadness - Part 1 - Enigma

Do The Bartman - The Simpsons

Crazy - Seal

Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C Music Factory

3 A.M Eternal - KLF

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Innuendo - Queen

(I Wanna Give You) Devotion

Week of March 15, 1991

Get Here - Oleta Adams

Winds of Change - Scorpions

Top children’s video -

The Little Mermaid

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol. 1

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol II

Peter Pan

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol. III

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol. IV

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol. VI

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vol. V