Sexiest Singers Strip! SPICE RACKS 4 Ginger SpiceGeri Halliwell 10 Scary Spice MELANIE BROWN 14 Posh Spice VICTORIA ADAMS 16 Baby Spice EMMA BUNTON 18 Sporty Spice Melanie CHISHOLM GIRL POWER!
20 Hole New Look Courtney Love
24 'Garbage' Out! Shirley Manson
26 Jagged Little Pillows Alanis Morissette
28 As I Lay Me 'Down' SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
30 Pieces of Her JEWEL COMPACT DISCS
32 The Body of Soul Toni Braxton
36 Homogenic BJORK
38 Take a Bite Fiona Apple
40 Lay Rita Mitsouko CATHERINE RINGER
44 I Kisseed a Girl JILL SOBULE
46 Comic Book Whore JANE JENSEN UN•RAPPED
48 A Flash of Pepa SANDRA DENTON
50 Hard Core LIL' KIM
52 Very 'Firm' Foxy Brown SISTAS ARE DOIN' IT
54 We Should Be So Lucky Kylie Minogue
56 Get IntoYou Dannii Minogue
58 Jody's 'Twisted Sister' Michele Watley MUSIC RELATED
62 Recording Gig JENNIFERYOUNG
66 Midnight With the Oasis Patsy Kensit
70 Denver's Rocky Marriage CASSANDRA DELANEY
72 Babyface's Baby TRACEY EDMONDS SMOOTH OPERATORS
74 Baduizm ERYKAH BADU
78 All Around the World LISA STANSFIELD
80 Take a Look NATALIE COLE
82 We Said a Little Prayer DIONNE WARWICK REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
84 ABBA Anni-Frid Lyngstad
86 99 Red Luftballoons NENA
88 In All Her 'Gloria' Laura Branigan
90 Natural Blondie Deborah-harry-singers">Deborah Harry
92 Simply the Breast TINA TURNER
94 Cuckoo for 'Coconuts' Shelley Michelle
98 Back Issues Available
99 Special Offers
EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
"I think there are double standards," complains country superstar Vince
Gill about the music business (standard issue, for this issue comes in pairs).
"Women have had to be prettyfirst, which made no sense at all. Music isn't
visual {unless you're watching "Pop Out Videos"}. You listen to it,
you don't watch it. I never cared what a singer looked like. That stuff doesn't
matter."
Perhaps it's mind over matter, but we doubt you'll mind the "Perfect 36"
singers we've stuffed into this "ROCK SHOCKS!" extravaganza. Words we
never mince, Vince, so when I say this is truly a "Greatest Hits" See-D,
then WATCH out!
From the Grammy Awards to Lilith Fair to the cover of the Rolling Stone marking
its 30th Anniversary with "The Women of Rock," this past year has been
music to our leers. So much so, that "at a major music industry trade show
held last July in Nashville, the famed Martin Guitar Co. unveiled its second guitar
designed by and forwomen. The 00-16DBR is a 'breast friendly' guitar, with a thinner
neck and a small but deep body" {sounds like Fiona Apple, p. 381. As Jennifer
Turner—"one of the hottest electric instrumentalists around"—riffs:
"I don't want people thinking, 'Oh, she has a nice face and a great ass,
and she's playing the guitar.- Don't fret...
Today's song lyrics leave NO DOUBT {it's not if, it's when, snarls Gwen} as to
who's in charge. As SALT-N-PEPA sing in None of Your Business: "Now you shouldn't
even get into/Who I'm giving skins to" {just as long as it's only THIS Celebrilymag;
exclusively on p. 48}. Adds page 20's caustic Courtney Love in Hole's Rock Star:
"We look the same/We talk the same/We even fuck the same." Though P.J.
HARVEY {uncovered last rock issue} has a variation on that theme, "Lick my
legs/And I'm on fire/Lick my legs/And I'm desire," in Rid of Me. But it won't
be quite that easy: "The highest paid piece of ass/You know it's not gonna
last," Julianna HATFIELD warns in SupermodeL "Those magazines end up
in the trash." Notwhen it's the REAL McCoy...
As singer Suzi Gardner of the punk band L7 concludes about making music...and
making groupies: "If we get laid, that's the cherry on the whipped cream."
Sundae will never be the same...
Another lyrical miracle from,
