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Music Friday, D'e6rn' bir Pr.e'rnont. 9 0 i 1 Fridayr 9, Fremont 9 1.. Music a hot streak Illichael Jackson rides Michael rides 1 "This record picked up a very disheartened industry and turned the keys in the locks of a lot of record stores in America," he said. Jackson's success is hardly a fluke. With more than 15 years in the music business and 41 Top 40 singles 11 hit No.

1 this shy product of Gary, is a consummate professional. In "The Michael Jackson Story," an unauthorized biography by Billboard writer Nelson George being rushed out for Christmas sales, the picture that emerges is that of a businessman -shrewd enough to quote royalty figures on his records and an artist so sensitive that he could not record one of his songs Out of My without broke industry records by producing two number No. 1 hits, four Top 10 singles and a Grammy. The follow-up LP, "Thriller" has sold more than 18 million copies to become the second-best-selling album of all time, the biggest by a solo artist, and it produced an unprecedented six Top 10 singles. The album a year old Thursday is still charted in the Top 5.

His music videos of "Beat It" and "Billy Jean" are considered the best and most expensive) in the business, with "Beat It' winning five awards Including best video and best male performance at the first Billboard Video Conference last month. With the release on MTV of the 14- minute short film version of the title Conference last month. With the release on MTV of the 14- minute short film version of the title Gannett News Service Two things stand out about the skinny kid in garish vest and bell-bottom trousers who electrified Ed Su llivans's television audience in 1970: He's still skinny and he still electrifies audiences. But the parallels hardly end there. Michael Jackson 12 years old when he and his four brothers first gyrated to the top of the pop charts in 1969 is poised to make a mark on the music of the 1980s and promises to eclipse the Jackson 5's immense success during the 1970s.

He's riding one of the hottest streaks in the history of the music industry: 'Off the Wall," his 1979 album, has sold more than eight million copies and Two skinny tom iv vans's I still ski dustry: "Off the Wall," his 1979 album, has sold more than eight million copies and song the longest and costliest yet (approximately $1 million) sales of "Thriller" are expected to take off again and "Thriller" is expected to sweep virtually every music award next year. "He's truly a legend at 25," says American music guru Dick Clark. "If 1983 wasn't the year of Michael Jackson, it wasn't the year of anybody." Legend to some, saviour to others. Jackson is given tremendous credit for helping turn about a sagging recording industry and pumping new life into CBS Records. "Thriller" is the company's biggest seller, accounting for roughly $60 million in U.S.

sales alone, according to CBS-Epic senior vice president Don Demsey. $60 million in U.S. sales alone, ing to CBS-Epic senior vice pre Don Demsey. Jazz accepted in Soviet Union 1 III itt i 1 4 I I. 1 A 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I -4 I if' 1 if, titl 4 1 i '1 4 -1 i 1 1 4 4 -i 4 walk), A -'4' '14 ,) A .) '404 1 's 3 '11 7: I -0 1,, C4'-'s, ot 1, i 1 A ,1 AA MOSCOW (AP) Dzhaz, as it is called in the Soviet Union, gave the late Soviet Premier Nikita S.

Khrushchev "nausea and a pain in the stomach." Josef Stalin, who branded jazz as "a product of bourgeois decadence," sent many of its exponents to prison camps. And when Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov came to power last November, there were reports he was a Glenn Miller fan. He later denied his alleged leanings toward swing music in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine. Still, there is no doubt that the blast of a saxophone finds more official acceptance now than in 1931, when there were only three such instruments in all Moscow.

The most recent sign that red and hot can go together in a jazz beat is a new Soviet film, "We of Jazz." Centered around a tenacious jazz quartet in the 1920s, the film chronicles, in lighthearted manner, the difficulties faced by early fans of the kek vok cake walk) and other strange rhythms from across the Atlantic. Stony silence and then harsh criticism greet his tinkling. The audience erupts in noisy demands to throw the young man out of the academy. Faced with this disorder, a commissar reaches almost automatically to his belt for a gun or truncheon, provoking laughter from modern Soviet audiences when he discovers he is unarmed. MO nr on chev Jos' bourg prisor Anc to poA Glenn towar maga Still finds there The gethei Cen 1920s, diffict lantic StO kling the disorl to his (AP Laserphoto) MEMBERS OF the rock group Genesis perform on stage years old, is known for its elaborate light show.

in Dallas during their current tour. The group, now 14 in Dallas di Undeterred, the dashing young hero gazes into the camera and vows: "I will play jazz." Individualism marks this group 111 NEW YORK (AP) When Peter Gabriel left Genesis, the hot English rock quintet, in 1975, many observers thought the group would have to hire a new lead singer or else fold. Instead, Phil Collins stepped out from behind the drum set and started singing. Since then, every Genesis album has sold more than the one before it. The Atlantic album, "Genesis," was No.

9 and climbing at the end of November. At the same time, "That's All," the second single from the album, jumped onto the best-selling chart at No. 69. In Europe, keyboards player Tony Banks says, the biggest album has been 1978's "And Then There Were Three," which announced Genesis as a trio. NEW YO During a chat with Mike Rutherford, who started playing guitar as well as bass when guitarist Steve Hackett left in 1977, and Banks, Rutherford said the two of them plus Phil Collins make the records.

Genesis hires drummer Chester Thompson and guitarist Daryl Stuermer when they tour. They're currently touring in the United States until Feb. 20. "I don't think there's room in a group for five strong individuals or five people who write songs," says Rutherford. "In the Rolling Stones, one or two people write.

The Beatles wouldn't have lasted as long as they did if they'd had two song-writing teams instead of one. The members of the rock group all work on outside projects. "One r- te 11- yl 'e a 5, Le is )f interesting thing about our situaas tion is that we're the first band to have gone off and done endless dividual ventures yet stayed tom gether," Rutherford said. "That normally marks the end of a group. It's usually done because you're dissatisfied with what you have within the group.

"We're not dissatisfied. It's just that if your entire working life is with the same two musicians for)r ever and ever, it does get dull. Out-Ts side interests keep you alive, I think." The three musicians had gone their separate ways this year until they made the new album during the summer. Their first album was in 1969: "From Genesis to Revep lation." The group's name emerged from that.