European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes june 1985 entertainment Bellamy Brothers Good of country boys by Jim Lewis United press International tires a standing joke with the Bel Lamy David and their 73 year old Howard wants to know when his boys arc going to Start working for a the next Day after we got Back from a european we were out shearing sheep in the 90dcgrec David Bellamy the place where they were shearing sheep was the Bellamy a plot near located about 40 Miles North of Tampa and about 20 Miles in land from the Gulf of its a working in the Bellamy family since the civil Howard and David and their father and their their grandmother All have Homes on the in addition to All they raise horses and cattle and occasionally Well take our father out to prove music is said we just take him around Flor close to in sure Hes proud of but this one time we took him to an outdoor fair Type of thing in Miami and there came a there were a lot of Young girls in the crowd who stayed and they were jumping up and Down in their my father said he wondered Why he haunt stayed in the he you boys dont Howard the elder Bellamy was a member of a polka Bluegrass Western swing band years but these Days Hes the head of a working we were Farmers before we were in the music Busi David As we made a few Bucks in the music we upgraded the now we have registered horses and in glad we dont have to depend on Howard the Brothers said their father is one of the last one of his generation left in Darby and has few people he can communicate we got real tickled at i remember As a kid when you wanted to buy a car or something you always had to go to your father to convince him or win him Howard this morning he had me on the phone trying to convince me that he had to have a new i had him in a it was a role he said that old tractor is smoking real the Bellamy who have had 10 i hits to their have embarked on a new career direction with a new called Howard and the first Cut off the old a ditty that hits Dpi photo the Bellamy Brothers Howard left and Home to those in is moving like lightning up the it is their first album from scratch in they have a new manager and a new Condo bought to Cool their heels while in we had to have a place to get away from All the managers we David their Nashville visibility level will also we Are upping our profile in we have new management we just bought a place Well enter the scene a Little More than in the not because we didst want to be in the past but because we were spread All Over the David higher profile we Are going to have More More its gotten to the Point where we need we need it real we just had our 10th 1 record need More of we Are the Type of act that Laid Back and we just go about our we like to talk to people but wed never seek them we would never Call up somebody and we just got Back from we Are not the Type of act that needs a manager to Tell us what decisions to Howard we need somebody that motivates us in the direction of both Brothers agree they could have recorded their new album at their studio at Home but it have had the Quality they obtained in we could have done the same album but it have sounded As we have basically been producing our last three albums David the technical aspect is really important now and you really have to compete in that Howard even with the new visibility around the Bellamy Brothers will still Call their farm its a Good place to rejuvenate and come Back to its a Howard american pop is a Universal language by Charles Hanley associated press its its and its american pop like never has the rest of the world Boog eying and spinning on its slapping its thigh and sitting on the Edge of its seat and paying billions for the sheer enjoy ment of it a Quick global tour one recent thursday evening Way of a spot Check by associated press bureaus around the world found jordanians tuned in to Walt Disney and australians to Ted Turners Cable news Chic parisians stood in movie lines for terminator and kenyans queued up for Indiana Jones and the Temple of disco denizens in Chile rocked to Madonna and Breakers did the Bronx Street dance on sidewalks from new Delhi to la the thousands of television music i records and tapes churned out by the huge Ameri can entertainment Industry Are becoming a Universal language of lowbrow understood by millions around the Globe and scorned by a soviet for grumbled that the eve growing reach of television has an ulterior aim fallout promotion of the so called Amer ican Way of a european common Market study last year found that two out of every three to entertainment programs in Western Europe were in places such As Canada and the Impact is even on that thursday the National hockey league playoffs were the big to draw in Dallas and dynasty also Are popular North of the where Cable systems plug directly into net in Mexico Northern Metropolis of thou Sands of dish antennas pulled in satellite transmitted television from across the Rio in australians turned on Hill Street Cagney and Lacey and murder she in they were hooked on the Jeffersons and other Black american situation Dallas and dynasty top the ratings in country after and have spawned similar shows in South Africa and where the new soap opera Khan Daan meaning dynasty features a Bombay tycoon whose opulent Home is overrun by i Amon studded characters entangled in business intrigues and love Hollywood films first flickered onto the worlds theater screens in a big Way after world War foreign rentals annually produce almost billion for the film about As much As it earns at the a Survey found that in Sweden the land of celebrated filmmaker Ingmar Bergman 37 of 71 current movies were Clint Eastwood was a making their Day in the mid night in South Eddie Murphy was packing them in to see Beverly Hills cop in where 31 of 40 movies were and in they were handing Over their pesos to be terrorized by terminator Arnold Star of one of 22 american made movies dominating the local Cinema american Rock songs dominate top 10 in mexi co radio exits plays All Gringo highlight ing the record sales a Philippines pm station broadcasts taped american top 40 and its local disc jockeys rap to listeners in american do the influence is weaker in serious music and other higher Ameri can ideas can be transmitted through a to fantasy or a Rock Lyric just As easily As through a weighty social sexual Freedom and women assertiveness notions underlying much american pop culture find favor and Disfavour around the some in the Caribbean complain that the Glossy to image of America that reaches their islands via satellite has lured Many ambitious people to abandon those impoverished Little nations and head in White minority ruled South some to View ers believe that american shows depicting Blacks and Whites working together have been broadcast on the state run network in order to condition White South africans to reforms in their country system of rigid racial in the state to Channel cancelled Dallas four years ago not Only because it was too explained Channel director Fatima but because the mean the style of life offended viewers still Call to demand that the offensive series be brought the flood tide of entertainment has led to protectionist the governments of Canada and among require a certain percentage of locally produced programming on the common Market has discussed possible subsidies to help the european film Industry compete with in mexi folkloric music groups have agitated for legislation restricting music on the some take More drastic in shops Selling Michael Jackson shirts were shut Down last month by moslem religious and in police Dis Perse gangs of break
