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Well what a show, Madonna live at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
That's the venue for the Olympic Games in 1992, a magnificent concert from the multi-talented madam of the moment, that media manipulator Madonna.
And thanks again to Triple M for simulcasting that concert with us.
But that's only the beginning of what's going to be a mega night of MTV.
We invite you to let your fingers do the voting and determine which is the Aussie Video of the Year to be announced at next month's International Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
Will it be Kylie, The Oils, Max Q or Boom Crash Opera? You tell us and dial MTV.
Also tonight, our exclusive interview with Jon Bon Jovi and we play Jon's solo smash, Blaze of Glory.
Plus, we've got a sneak preview of the new video from our own Jon, Whispering Jack Farnham.
And our look at The Week in Rock, the latest on the Judas Priest Court case, another of the finalists in Yamaha Rock 90.
And Faith No More hit the local record store in Sydney today and we were there.
We've got hot new videos from Fleetwood Mac, Billie Eilish's cover of The Doors classic L.A. Woman and stacks more still to come on this breathless edition of your very own MTV.
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But I think we've got to hit... Yeah.
This weekend we're asking you to dial MTV and vote for the Australian Video of the Year to be announced at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles next month.
Now, we've got the four nominated clips all queued up ready to play for you.
Boom Crash Opera's Onion Skin, Max Q's Sometimes, Kylie's Better the Devil You Know and Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mine.
There's a different phone number to call for each video and we'll be flashing that number up on the screen during the video in question.
As at the end of last night's show, the state of play was that... well, let's see who was leading last night.
Let's flash the button.
Yeah, as at the end of the show last night, Midnight Oil had received the highest number of votes and that's the last we're going to tell you of the relative standings until the awards next month.
So right now let's take a look at the four nominated videos and invite you to dial MTV.
Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mine, preceded by Kylie Minogue's Better the Devil You Know, Max Q with Sometimes and Boom Crash Opera's Onion Skin, the four videos nominated for Video of the Year.
And I hope you're doing the right thing and voting for your specific choice this evening.
Let's just check out those phone numbers once again.
Boom Crash Opera 005554043, Max Q 005554042, Kylie 005554041 and Midnight Oil 005554040.
We're looking for Australia's most popular video to be announced at the MTV Video Music Awards next month from Los Angeles in the international viewers choice section.
So please do it now. This is your final chance to cast your vote.
Coming up, Billy Idol's new video and that exclusive chat with Jon Bon Jovi.
Also the Week in Rock. And Ali, you've got an unusual story.
It is really unusual. Do you want my glam look?
Yeah, you're looking very upmarket.
Yeah, I've just been to a ball actually.
A ball.
A TV ball though.
You missed Madonna. Madonna concert has been sensational.
It's fantastic. I know. Fantastic.
Anyway, coming up in the Week in Rock controversy over a poster featuring Kylie Minogue, Faith No More's epic in-store appearance in Sydney today and the latest on the Judas Priest trial.
That's next in the Week in Rock.
Hi, this is Jon Bon Jovi.
We are right here almost live via New Jersey on MTV Australia.
The Week in Rock.
Oh yeah, love that. Well, a controversial poster featuring Kylie Minogue is getting some attention around Sydney and somehow we kind of don't think that Kylie's aware of it.
One of our Channel 9 news crews spotted this poster while out and about as long ago as last May.
Now it's supposed to be printed by supporters of Tim Anderson, who's at the centre of legal proceedings over the bombing of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney back in 1978.
Underneath the photo of Kylie it reads, if you believe that Tim Anderson is the Hilton bomber, you'd probably believe that Kylie Minogue was his accomplice.
Now Tim Anderson is an alleged past member of the Anandamaga religious sect implicated in the Hilton Hotel bombing.
Two men were killed when a bomb went off in a garbage compactor, a bomb allegedly meant to explode during a political meeting involving then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
Now it's pretty heavy stuff and I bet that it's something that you'd never guess the name Kylie Minogue would be mentioned.
But time to loosen up a bit, back to some music news rather than all this political stuff.
Well in Sydney today, fans of Faith No More got to meet their heroes up close when the American band made an in-store appearance at Power Station Records.
It was an epic occasion for the band who've been playing up a storm in and around Sydney this week, breaking into cover versions of Madonna's Vogue and New Kids songs when the mood strikes them.
Now Faith No More have built up a surprisingly huge following in Australia considering the fact that they've only really been exposed to local rock fans in Australia for the past six months.
We'll actually have Faith No More live from Brixton later on in tonight's show.
Well fans of US veteran rockers Grateful Dead were actually shocked this week with the news of the death of keyboardist Brent Midland.
He's the group's third keyboard player to die which makes it very kind of eerie.
Midland joined the Grateful Dead in 1979 and he was found dead at his San Francisco home last weekend.
The cause of the death has yet to be determined and the band has lost two other members, one to liver disease, another in a car accident.
Grateful Dead had just completed a three week tour of the United States.
Well UK reggae rockers UB40 were this week thrown out of the Seychelles after allegations of drug use.
Police there said that they'd had enough evidence really to charge the five musos and two UB40 technicians with possessing cannabis,
which if sent to trial and found guilty meant a mandatory three year jail sentence, probably much to the relief of the band.
Authorities have deported UB40 instead.
Well the trial of Judas Priest in Reno, Nevada in the US, hot it up this week with one of the band's songs being played backwards
to see if it contained subliminal messages which allegedly led to the deaths of two teenage fans.
An expert in sound engineering gave his findings to the court.
Middle fast.
Would you tell us what of your reverse phrases we are hearing now?
Expert of the horn.
It was punched in by hitting the record button precisely for the drumbeats work.
Well I think that because of what we're hearing today with regards to the real credibility of the witness,
the whole case is based on this song called expert's testimony and it appears to be more and more shallow.
You know this guy has no qualifications and you know it just doesn't seem to be,
they just don't seem to be able to prove in any way shape or form whatsoever that there are these subliminal messages on the album.
An extraordinary case continues will bring you the result of that trial.
Well only three weeks away till the finals of Yamaha Rock 90 which you'll see live on MTV from Salinas in Sydney.
It's really great to see a wide variety of music represented among the eight finalists from Hard Rock to Soul to this next band called Deaf FX.
Now they're from Sydney and have only been together three months so making the finals from several hundred tapes kind of shocked them a little bit.
But Deaf FX say they'll be prepared on the night and while they do spend a lot of time in the studio they have done a couple of live shows.
Deaf FX make music which they describe as a fusion of heavy rock and acid house and their approach to songwriting is rather unconventional.
We don't sort of sit down and jam in the same way a conventional band does.
So perhaps we sit around and talk, talk through around a few concepts and then we go and try them out on the weekend.
We talk about the songs before we actually start playing them. Like with lyrics and things it's sort of all, well actually the lyrics are sort of I suppose written first.
You just get a whole lot of stuff together and then slot it in at the time.
Very unconventional. Deaf FX who you'll actually see perform at Yamaha Rock 90 on the 25th of this month.
And finally Noddy from Toyland turned 40 this week, the much loved Enid Blyton character whose best mates include Mr. Plod, Big Ears and Golly the Garageman.
But with the increased 90s awareness of sexism and racism, Noddy has undergone an image change and Gollywogs will now be replaced by goblins and the words gay and queer will disappear from Toyland vernacular.
Julie Kirkbride reports.
Among the casualties are Mr. Garage Golly who will be replaced by a new mechanic Mr. Spark.
The teacher Miss Rapp remains, but in future she'll be called Miss Prim and gone will be the slipper she spanked with as well as her Gollywog pupil.
No more corporal punishment for Noddy, the slipper is replaced by a duster and the black pupil with Martha the Monkey, a new tomboy character.
It's not just the pictures, the language will change too. In future no one will be allowed to look queer, nor will they be permitted to like anything gay, even if it's only little cars.
The question is, will it still be possible to hold hands? But would Enid Blyton like the changes?
I think if she was alive today she would have done them herself, she would never let anybody else edit and I think she would have done it very quickly.
The new look Toy Town will be out in September, Noddy will be staying the same, but Gollys will be gone for good.
A sign of the times, yet Richard, I mean the amount of stuff that kids hear on the radio or television, it's amazing isn't it?
Well especially when they can go into a video store and hire the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Exactly, you can watch Madonna on it.
Yeah that was pretty raunchy stuff.
It was fantastic though.
In addition to you covering seven deaths, one bombing, a drug bust, two court cases and two suicides in the weekend.
I've done well actually this week don't you?
Yeah talk about down vibe Ali, oh you should go back to your ball.
Thank you Alison.
I think so.
Good on you.
Thank you.
Let's press on with the music, that man with the charm life, Billy Idol and his brand new video.
Now this is a remake of the Dawes classic from the hit year of 1971, LA Woman, turn it up nice and loud.
That certainly kicks along doesn't it, Billy Idol's LA Woman, the old Dawes tune and Billy of course featuring in the upcoming Oliver Stone movie on the Dawes.
I'm sure you've heard the story that he was to have a larger part in the movie but he fell off his motorbike and smashed his leg into a million bits which reduced his part in the movie and his leg somewhat.
Now we're going to go with a video that we played first, I don't know, a couple of months, two or three months ago I guess.
Mark Williams, Show No Mercy, since we played it pretty heavily at first on MTV, radio's finally picked it up and lo and behold a well deserved top ten hit, top twenty, top ten hit for Mark Williams.
This is Show No Mercy, a great song, the album's just out.
Oh, Mercy indeed, Show No Mercy, that's Mark Williams, the first release from his brand new self-titled album, Mark Williams ZNZ, ZNZ after his name there for reasons best known to himself.
We've got the new video from Fleetwood Mac coming up, also the first release from the soundtrack to Days of Thunder, that new Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman movie, a sneak peek at John Farnham's newie and that exclusive interview with the man who's gone out solo in a blaze of glory, John Bon Jovi.
But first a little reminder about The Edge Magazine, three bucks fifty at your local newsagent, the MTV supplement inside and Craig McLaughlin on the cover, music from Kings of the Sun.
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I think we gotta hit. Yeah.
Yes, tonight it is your duty, your moral responsibility to dial MTV. Here's the four nominated videos for the Australian Video of the Year and the number to call for each. I won't read them out, I'm sure you can see them there in front of you. Now we're not going to update them throughout the evening tonight because we want it to be a surprise, but suffice to say that from the time I mentioned who was leading us, which was Midnight All, we've had a lazy little ten, twelve thousand calls in the last fifteen minutes and there was a different leader.
So there you go, that will entice you, won't it? We're going to press on with the music. Fleetwood Mac, I don't know if you've heard the news, but Mick Fleetwood's planning to publish a book of his memoirs, all the fun and games during his illustrious career and it seems that the girls in the band aren't talking to him because of certain revelations, including the fact that Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks once had a close encounter of the intimate kind and there's lots of other bits and pieces in there as well.
All a bit of a hoo-ha in the Fleetwood Mac camp, no one's talking to anybody else. Ah, fun and games. Featuring the mighty Mick reciting some poetry and some live pictures from their current US tour, Skies the Limit, Fleetwood Mac.
Yeah, I think you had to be there. That's the newie from Fleetwood Mac, not content with hitting the roof and now The Skies the Limit, that song written by Christine McVie and her hubby Eddie. That track of course from the album Behind the Mask and the mask about to be well and truly lifted thanks to the big Mick.
Well if you watched MTV last weekend you would have seen us premiere the new John Bon Jovi video, Blaze of Glory. I caught up with John recently, spoke about that and lots more in Johnny Cash's apartment believe it or not, in a hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey. John Bon Jovi.
The latest Bon Jovi offering, Blaze of Glory, could well describe the history of the band itself, however it's not surprising this time out to find the other band members missing. After all, when you've climbed almost every mountain together, the obvious step is to do a solo album. Or is it?
It is not the solo record. It is not, is not, is not. What this is is a soundtrack for a movie that came about by my meeting Emilio Estevez last September. Right around the time prior to our coming to Australia, I was in California, we were continuing the New Jersey tour, the never ending tour.
And he said we're going to do Young Guns 2. And I was a big fan of course of the first one. Keeping that in the back of my mind, I continued touring and as February of this past year approached, I thought geez you know I have to do something different, I need to get out, you know, just go somewhere without the band, without managers, road managers, entourages, just get up by yourself and go somewhere.
So I said what the heck, I'll go down to Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was about 2500 miles away from here in New Jersey, and go and watch this movie being made. So I went down and they told me they were going to use Wanted Dead or Alive in this movie and I thought geez that would be great, but lyrically it doesn't fit. Why don't I write you something to fit this spot of your movie.
And write something he did, in fact he wrote all nine tracks on the soundtrack album for the sequel to last year's hit film Young Guns, but he also discovered writing music for pictures does have its restrictions.
Ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Everything is a scene in the movie. You know it's not necessarily every way I would have done this record had it been my solo venture. It's something completely different, whereas a Bon Jovi, John Bon Jovi record would be more like a Bon Jovi record, because those are basically my solo records too.
The band playing behind John is as musically star-studded as the film is visually, featuring Jeff Beck, Elton John, Stevie Nicks and Jackson Brown, plus Little Richard on keyboards.
Playing with Jeff was a guitar player's dream and Elton, who is a songwriter's dream and Richard, who is a legend's legend. Beck was so thrilled to meet Little Richard that I'll never forget that moment. To be in a room with all these guys while they're playing your songs and hearing Elton tell Beck,
I was like, oh man, you know it was great, it was a great thrill.
Two, three, four!
Rock and roll has been a serious business for the band John formed back in 1983. It's an incredible success story that's brought them from the rock clubs of New Jersey to the top of the world's music charts. However, when you've reached the mega success that goes with selling 30 million records in seven years, there's always the danger of burnout.
I don't want to break the band up. No, that is not what I'm saying with this project. I don't want to break the band up. What I want to do is let the band spread out a bit and grow, I think. Not become stagnant.
When people were asking us, you know, at the end of the tour, well what's the future hold for the band? And we said, well, we're going to actually take some time off for a change, like we said after the slippery tour, knowing all along we wouldn't. And Richie was going to attempt this solo album and David was going to attempt a new age-ish album. I was going to mix the live album. And then when this came up and it just rolled, it was too easy. I said, this is just too easy, I gotta do this.
Their killer live shows have always been a trademark for the band that seems to be constantly on the road. And while John's solo interests provide a well-earned break from touring, a Bon Jovi-led version of the Traveling Wilburys may not be out of the question.
Elton's the kind of guy that if I said, we're going to play the bottom line next weekend for fun, would you come and do it? I think Elton would go, sure, and show up in a cab, in a sweatsuit, and get up there and just rock the house. You know, he's that kind of guy. And I think Beck is probably the same way. It's almost to the point where no one would ever ask him. You go, oh, I can never get them. You know, you just gotta ask.
The video for Blaze of Glory was shot over four days in Utah. And while John admits he doesn't particularly enjoy making clips, this one became a race against time.
I hate making videos. I've made, my God, how many now? Maybe 13 or 15 videos. They're really no fun to do. They're rather tedious. There's nothing like making a record where there's instant gratification or being out in front of people nightly, which again is just instant gratification.
Even writing a song is a progression. It's done. You know, at the end of the day, you go, this is great. End of a video, they go, let's do it again, let's do it again, let's do it again, let's do it again. You're going, oh, God, I hate this.
John Bon Jovi's Blaze of Glory, and of course, one of four Ozziacs are going to be covered in glory come the 6th of September in Los Angeles, when they'll be announced as winner of the Video Music Award for Australian Video of the Year.
Who will it be? Well, that's for you to decide tonight. Here's the nominees and those respective numbers to call once again.
Nomination number one, Kylie Minogue's Better the Devil You Know.
And the second nomination for the Ozzi Video of the Year, Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mine.
Nomination three, Max Q's Sometimes.
And the fourth nomination, Onion Skin, Boom Crash Opera.
So there you go, the numbers to call once again, Boom Crash Opera, 005554043, Max Q 005554042, Kylie 005554041, The Oil's 005554040.
Just you'll notice that they're 00555, not 000. Please don't call 000. A lot of people have been ringing 000 and triggering off emergency services right around the country.
The ambulance and the fire brigade are all saying, what do you mean you want to vote for Boom Crash Opera or something? So please, no 000s.
And we've had lots and lots of calls. Thank you very much because we need to determine that winner this evening.
Next up, we have a sneak peek at John Farnham's Newy and one of his oldies in this week's Punters Pick coming up.
We've got live seven stories and Faith No More and lots more. This is the show that keeps you involved. MTV.
Decisions, decisions, decisions. MTV. You decide.
I think it's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, last week we introduced a new element to the program, a chance for you to assist in the programming here at MTV and choose a song for us in our Punters Pick segment.
Last week we drew a letter from Vicky Neumann, we reckon it's pronounced N-A-U-Double-M-A-Double-N, from Turinga in Brazil.
You know who you are Vicky. You requested the song that launched the biggest selling album in Australian recording history and turned things around considerably for our Punters Pick for this weekend.
A very youthful John Farnham with You're the Voice, part of Australian music history now from the mega selling album Whispering Jack.
And Vicky now goes into the draw for our MTV Christmas hamper, that collection of goodies that we're assembling from all those who appear on the show between now and Christmas.
Let's see what song we're going to be playing next week. Don't forget if you do send an entry in it stays in the draw week by week by week if it's not drawn out.
I'll give you the address shortly but right now let's see what we're going to be playing next week on the show.
Get a drum roll maybe.
Okay. All right. Next week we are going to be playing a great song from The Who. Who Are You, especially for Dallas Holdsworth.
From Fraser in the Australian Capital Territory down by Canberra. Just for Dallas. Who Are You, The Who?
Now the place to write to if you'd like a Punters Pick is P.O. Box 27 Willoughby, New South Wales 2068.
There's our friendly lovable postie. Punters Pick. There you go.
And next week as I said The Who just for Dallas of Canberra. And while we're in a Farnham mode let's have a sneak peek at John's Newie.
Now this was written by Eurythmic and spiritual cowboy Dave Stewart. The song was released yesterday. We'll have the full clip for you next week.
That's the title track from the new John Farnham album Chain Reaction. We'll have that full video for you next week.
Right now we're going for the first release from that new movie Days of Thunder starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
This is a great soundtrack incidentally. This is Chicago with hearts in it. Oh a happy ending.
That's the band who've sold more than 80 million records. Chicago and the first release from the soundtrack to Days of Thunder, that new movie.
Hearts in Trouble. Incidentally there's a fabulous version of Guns N' Roses doing Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
The old Bob Dylan song with Cole Chisel did a pretty good job of too on the soundtrack to Days of Thunder as well.
Now I just want to tell you what we're up to in a couple of weeks time. Let's do it.
With the biggest and best snowfalls of the past decade currently covering the ski fields of Australia, we're planning an MTV snow job from Perisher.
To celebrate the Reebok winter weekend we're providing two mega dumps of pure rock and roll from the snow.
Join us as we show the style that's made us legends on the slopes and a double dose of music television as we enjoy the hottest ski season in ages from Perisher, the MTV snow job.
MTV and the Frontier Touring Company are proud to present two of the hottest acts around, the Angels and Cheetah.
The Angels and Cheap Trick together on a tour that's beyond salvation.
Heart on the heels of their number one album we've got the Angels in a double bill with Cheap Trick live across the country August through to September.
Beyond salvation, the Angels and Cheap Trick live August through to September proudly presented by Frontier Touring, Triple M and MTV.
Pretty handsome double bill isn't it, the Angels and Cheap Trick playing together.
You can see them playing the kick off the tour on the 22nd of August at Festival Hall in Brisbane.
They're playing Sydney, Melbourne, Launceston and they're moving on to Hobart, Perth and Adelaide.
And don't miss out on that one, a double dose of fine pure rock and roll.
Now a reminder on those phone numbers that we're asking you to call to nominate or cast your vote for Australia's most popular video.
There's the numbers again, I won't go through them once again.
The nominated videos, Boom Crash, Opera Max Q, Kylie Minogue and Midnight Oil.
Please, this is your final chance to vote this evening so do it, we'd like your involvement.
Another band on tour at the moment, Faith No More.
Now this song was their first release in Australia although at that time they had a different singer.
It's since become a standard with the live crowd and this was recorded live in Brixton in the UK.
We, with apologies to New Kids on the Block, that's Faith No More and We Care A Lot recorded live in Brixton.
Faith No More are currently one of the hottest acts in the States at the moment and are huge in Australia as well.
They're playing around the country at the moment.
Here's the places you can see them playing.
You missed the one on the 4th, they're playing Tomorrow Night, The Marquis and Sydney which is a strange choice of venue I must say.
I reckon they could have filled Salinas at least.
Boy they're really popular judging by the in-store they did today.
They're playing La Rocks in Adelaide on the 7th and at Geelong on the 9th and then St Kilda, Richmond and Perth.
And stay tuned on the dates front with Faith No More 2, really worth catching in concert.
On to a man who I guess can fill any venue he chooses to name in the whole world, Prince.
Now this is from his new movie and album Graffiti Bridge.
It's kind of like a Purple Rain part 2 favourite song, Thieves in the Temple.
That's the brilliant Prince from his new movie and album Graffiti Bridge in the video containing kind of excerpts of his live show.
I saw his live show in Wembley in London three or four weeks ago.
Absolutely brilliant and we'll be back with a lady who I guess is the female equivalent of Prince.
They're both probably the top in their craft right around the world.
We have an encore from Madonna and more live coming up on MTV.
As we approach the end of tonight's program, I want to remind you that one of the things we're doing tonight is determining which will be the Australian Video of the Year to be named at the VMA Awards, the Video Music Awards in Los Angeles next month.
And just one further reminder on those songs and the phone numbers that we'd like you to call.
And there's the numbers to call once again for Boom Crash Opera 005554043, for Max Q 005554042, for Kylie 005554041 and for the Oils 005554040.
My O's and my 0's are all muddled up there.
Thank you for your calls.
We've had tens of thousands of calls and the lead has swapped several times during the evening.
So it's nice to have such a wide sample and it's very, very close and not going to give the game away.
Of course we want you to watch the Video Music Awards and we don't want to let the artists know if they've won or not.
The Video Music Awards are on air Saturday, September the 8th on the station you're watching now and will be a monster.
It's a fabulous show.
Right now we're going to have an encore from the lady who thrilled us for a couple of hours earlier on tonight, Madonna.
This is Holiday, one of the many highlights of the concert we brought you earlier on this evening.
Madonna live in Barcelona, Spain with Holiday and heralding a new fashion statement, the return of the bell bottom.
I hope flares don't come back for goodness sake.
I thought Cameron were the only people that still wore flair trunks.
How to win friends and influence people.
It has been a big night.
I want to thank you for your company tonight and if you've participated in the phone poll, thank you extra.
I hope you've enjoyed what we've had for you in particular, that sensational concert from Barcelona featuring the lady who closes tonight's show with a Coca-Cola fine line.
A more youthful Madonna with a little help from American talk show host, Johnny Carson.
I'll see you next weekend.
Safe travel, Liz and Rebecca.
Take care and good night.
Well, just ask me if I could do one thing and I'll probably say no.
Alright, you come in and I'll play your father.
Okay.
And you come in and say something.
Um, okay, Dad, um, I want to know if I can go to the movies with my friend this Friday.
What's his name?
No, just say, it doesn't even get the word, just say no.
No.
Yeah.
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I think we got a hit.