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BADFINGER — that’s the real thing I get from United Press International Badfinger’s Elektra/Asylum debut album, Airwaves, contains “songs that have been develop ing for years of polishing and re writing,” according to bassist Tom Evans. Evans and guitarist/pianist Joey Molland comprise the core of Badfinger. The two alternate TOP 20 ALBUMS (Record World) 1. Bee Gees — Spirits Having Flown 2. Rod Stewart — Blondes Have More Fun 3. Doobie Brothers — Minute by Minute 4. Dire Straits — Dire Straits 5. Village People — Cruisin’ 6. Blues Brothers — Briefcase Full of Blues 7. Billy Joel — 52nd Street 8. Peaches & Herb — 2 Hot! 9. Gloria Gaynor — Love Tracks 10. Olivia Newton-John — To tally Hot 11. Chic — C'est Chic 12. Donna Summer — Live and More 13. Rick James — Bustin' Out of L Seven 14. Barry Manilow — Greatest Hits 15. Cheap Trick at Budokan 16. Toto — Toto 17. George Benson — Livin' In side Your Love 18. George Harrison — George Harrison 19. Bob Welch — Three Hearts 20. Eddie Money — Life for the Taking and harmonize on lead vocals. Contributing artists on Airwaves include Nicky Hopkins on keyboards, Steve Foreman on percussion, Andy Newmark and Ken Harck. Joe Tansin, who wrote two songs, plays guitar on the album. Molland and Evans have spent recent years playing with other groups and composing, con stantly honing their writing. Ac cording to Molland, “we brought back everything from other places, other times, other groups, put it together with new things and I think it’s stronger and better than ever.” The two discussed the indi vidual songs on Airwaves: AIRWAVES Molland: “It is based on a guitar lick I’ve had for years, a nice funky riff.” Evans: “And I finished it, just juiced it up a little.” LOOK OUT, CALIFORNIA Evans: “ ‘Look out, California’ is just a song I wrote when I knew I was really coming over here. It was cold and raining in England at the time. California seemed like such a good idea at the time, so much to look forward to you know? That’s exactly what I feel...look out, I’m coming!” LOST INSIDE YOUR LOVE Evans: “Basically it’s a love song and it’s funny because it’s a song I had running around in my mind for a time as a hate song. It was a downer song I’d written in a very bad period of my life. Once I got over here and I realized how ev erything was going to work out, it turned around in my head, be came very positive.” LOVE IS GONNA COME AT LAST Molland: "It’s a song about hope it. It’s something we believe. I think this one sounds most like the things we did in the past, brought up to date.” THE DREAMER Molland: “It’s like a story-song. Sometimes it seems to me to be about the music business and sometimes about life. I dream all the time, and this seems to be one of my dreams about the his tory of the rock musician. It began as a song about someone who was fighting for himself, and fi nally decided he could win.” COME DOWN HARD Molland: “It’s a rock story song about a chick and a guy, there’s some two-timing in it. She has all her plans laid out, but it just doesn’t happen that way. She comes down really hard, just fac ing the reality of the situation.” SAIL AWAY Evans: “I think it’s pretty, really pretty. The basic idea is when you feel fed up, what will you do? I think all of us just — ‘sail away!’ SYMPATHY and THE WINNER These are Tansin-composed songs, arranged by the group for a more contemporary impact. Molland: “ ‘Sympathy’ started out as a 1958 Les Paul song, finally evolving into the point it could be played in discos.” England Dan & John Ford Coley England Dan and John Ford Coley, who have recently changed their style of music, will perform in G. Rollie White Col iseum Friday at 8 p.m. The change toward a dynamic rock style which began last year has crystallized in their latest Big Tree album “Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive.” England Dan and John Ford Coley’s stage performance has taken on new dimensions. Backed by five rock musicians, the concert flows from the soft, melodic songs which are synonymous with the duo’s im age, to the vitalizing emotion of rock. With the addition of Dan’s expertise on saxophone and John’s expansion to synthesizer, their performance gains an even greater magnetism. Their back up band (Dan Gorman on drums, Bubba Keith on guitar, harmonica and vocals, John Leland on bass, Ovid Stevens on lead guitar and Michael Vernacchio on keyboards) appears on “Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive” for the first time. Throughout the past year, Dan and John kept up a rigorous tour ing schedule which took them across the country. In the fall of 1978 they were welcomed by enthusiastic, cheering audiences in Japan and Hong Kong. It was ironic that their first overseas tour in many years would be to Japan, the site of their first top five single “Simone” in 1972. In the United States, they covered most of the major fairs and summer music festivals held across the country, broke attendance records at the largest amusement parks and held performances at many of the colleges they played. Their first Big Tree singles bul leted on the national Top 20 charts beginning with “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight,” con tinuing through “Nights Are Forever,“Sad To Belong,” “Gone Too Far,” and ” We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again.” mother mature 693-2899 HOME OF NUTRITION JUICE BAR smoothies frozen yogurt Culpepper Plaza 11605 Texas Ave.South sandwiches juices Natural Vitamins •Foods♦Cosmetics |