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IN BRIEF

From page 10 of Classic Rock Magazine August 2000

Cover of August 2000 issue.

MOTT THE HOOPLE are the subject of two more retrospective albums on Angel Air. 'Rock 'N' Roll Circus Live In Wolverhampton' was recorded in 1972 and 'Goosberry Sessions And Rarities' dates back to '74. Both are now available. Meanwhile, former keyboard player MORGAN FISHER has a long-lost MORGAN album called 'Nova Solis' from 1972 re-issued by the same label... THIN LIZZY have just released a double live album through SPV. 'One Night Only' was recorded with the line-up of guitarist SCOTT GORHAM, guitarist/singer JOHN SYKES, keyboard player DARREN WHARTON, bassist MARCO MENDOSA and drummer TOMMY ALDRIDGE. The band recently cancelled their European touring plans after Gorham experienced back problems, although they are still expected to tour America later this year... UFO vocalist PHIL MOGG has teamed up with MOGG/WAY guitarist JEFF KOLLMAN in what is understood to be a blues-flavoured solo project... FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM have reformed their classic line-up with CARL McCOY on vocals. An album is scheduled for the autumn, preceded by the just-issued single 'One More Nightmare'... JOE LYNN TURNER's forthcoming album is to be titled 'Holy Man'... HEART have just released 'Greatest Hits 1985-1995', an 18-song recap of their Capitol Records years. It also includes singer ANN WILSON's duet with CHEAP TRICK's ROBIN ZANDER from the Tequila Sunrise film soundtrack, and 'The Road Home', recorded with the Wilson sisters' acoustic side project, the LOVEMONGERS... HAIR OF THE DOG, a US band modelling themselves upon AEROSMITH, VAN HALEN and KISS, have just released their debut album, 'Rise', via Spitfire Records... SCORPIONS have submitted two covers for the SWEET tribute CD 'Are You Ready, Steve?'... POISON's BRET MICHAELS and model girlfriend KRISTI GIBSON have announced the birth of their first child, a girl called Raine Elizabeth Michaels. Congrats to both... US melodic rockers FIREHOUSE are completing a new studio album for a winter release... FIREBIRD, a new stoner rock trio featuring exCARCASS/NAPALM DEATH guitarist BILL STEER, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS drummer LUDWIG WITT and LEO SMEE of CATHEDRAL on bass, release their eponymous debut via Rise Above on July 31... NEIL JONES hosts the Cambridge Red Rock Show each Sunday between 911pm on 107.9FM... SLOBBERBONE, the acclaimed US country rockers, have just issued new album 'Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today'... GAMMA RAY have just released the double 'best of' album 'Blast From The Past' through Noise... Bay Area thrash veterans TESTAMENT have been bizarrely linked with a summer GUNS N' ROSES US tour. No official confirmation of these dates was possible at press time, although frontman CHUCK BILLY claims to have a faxed gig schedule, and believes his band were chosen after he'd cowritten songs with W. AXL ROSE's friend and occasional collaborator DEL JAMES...