Hi!

I can now let you know we have more specific info about the live single/album/video-cassette. A double A-side single will be out Feb 10th (Love Over Gold/Solid Rock) and will be in 10" or 12" format (Solid Rock is too long to fit on a standard 7" single!). The album and video-cassette will be out March 16th.

Track listing for the LP is:

Once Upon A Time In The West
Expresso Love
Private Investigations
Sultans Of Swing
Romeo And Juliet
Two Young Lovers
Tunnel Of Love
Telegraph Road
Solid Rock
Theme From Local Hero

Love Over Gold will be a bonus track on the cassette and compact disc (it wouldn't fit on the LP) but of course you'll have it anyway if you bought the single!

Around the time of all these items being released, the band will be doing a little press/promotion, so you may see bits and pieces appearing in papers. In particular, you should try and watch Channel 4's The Other Side Of The Tracks on March 3rd, which has a lengthy interview with Mark and clips of the live footage too.

The band are doing a studio photo-session on Friday of this week so hope fully I'll have some new photos soon, the best of which I will try and make available to you at some future date. There were also some good live shots taken during the 1983 tours, and some of these will be on the single bag, plus some on the compact disc insert.

Mark is currently in the studio rehearsing music for the film Cal and he recorded it from February 1st for about 6 weeks in London. Then in March and April we're hoping he will go away (!) to write stunning new songs for the next band studio LP... In May, he will be producing an LP for Aztec Camera (more about that nearer the time) and also in May, John's solo LP - which is tentatively called just John Illsley - will come out. The other bits of news is that I'm not going to leave. Lots of reasons behind the decision really, but basically I suppose it was a case of Love Over Gold...

We are currently sorting out a new management deal for Limahl, and there are no hard feelings between him and me. He is in the middle of recording his first solo LP and also trying to find a place to live (as he had been staying with me) so if you know of a flat... (only joking!)...

Well, that's about it for now.

Best wishes,