note: sarah was not able to appear on this broadcast and therefore is not on the TNT special.

SARAH MCLACHLAN is scheduled to appear at an all-star Bob Marley tribute event that will be taped in Jamaica on December 4th, 1999. The TNT cable network is scheduled to air the Dec. 19 ''One Love Concert,'' which will feature Rita and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers with Erykah Badu, Busta Rhymes, The Roots, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, SARAH MCLACHLAN herself, Seal and others.

For Concert Travel Packages, call Air Jamaica Vacations at 1.800.LOVEBIRD

10.10.99 - Second Sarah McLachlan Stalker?

Could Sarah McLachlan's song "Possession" have been inspired by a stalker other than Uwe Vandrei, the fan who made headlines a few years back? Apparently, according to Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail. The paper reports that Judith Fitzgerald, a biographer (Building a Mystery: The Story of Sarah McLachlan & Lilith Fair), tracked down correspondence from McLachlan's lawyer to Vandrei's lawyer dated 1994 that indicates there was another obsessed fan in the picture. And it was the latter, the letter states, that fueled the song "Possession."

Before this revelation, it was widely assumed that Vandrei was the subject of the song. In the early '90s, Vandrei sent McLachlan flowers, gifts, photographs of himself, and letters; McLachlan sought legal action to get him to cease and desist. In a strange twist, after the song "Possession" was released, Vandrei, claiming McLachlan had used his letters as impetus for the song, filed a lawsuit against her. The case generated a lot of press, but Vandrei was found dead in his car in 1994, taking his own life before it could go to trial.

In subsequent interviews, McLachlan has referred to Vandrei as a stalker, which, The Globe and Mail reports, has prompted Vandrei's family to consider taking legal action against her for "malicious falsehood" or "misappropriation of personality." They claim the singer had never obtained a restraining order against Vandrei, as she had for another unidentified man, nor had Vandrei ever threatened her. Quoting Fitzgerald, the story states, "The family 'wants her to stop calling him a stalker.Ö The estate is suing because they don't want their son to go down in history as a stalker who committed suicide.'"

09.22.99 - Mirrorball DVD and VHS

Both due out next month in North America on October 12th:

The DVD will have over two hours of music, 23 songs in 5.1 Surround Sound, and features nine tracks which did not appear on the Mirrorball CD. The DVD also features a one-on-one interview with Sarah, a photo gallery and discography. The VHS version only features the full two-hour concert.

As well, the songs 'Sweet Surrender', 'Fear', and 'Into the Fire' will feature multi-camera options on the DVD, wherein you will be able to choose from multiple-camera angles throughout those specific tracks.

Here's the official track listing:

Building A Mystery
Plenty *
Hold On
Good Enough
Do What You Have To Do
Witness *
Wait *
I Will Remember You
Ice *
I Love You
I Will Not Forget You *
Path Of Thorns
Mary *
Adia
Fear
Elsewhere *
Vox *
Into The Fire *
Possession
Ice Cream
Sweet Surrender
Fumbling Toward Ecstasy
Angel

* Previously Unavailable

09.19.99 - McCartney Moved by McLachlan Song

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sarah McLachlan's mournful ballad ``Angel'' had Paul McCartney nearly in tears at an animal rights awards show.

McCartney, who was hosting the event sponsored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Saturday night, returned teary-eyed to the stage after McLachlan's piano solo.

He explained that the song was brought to his attention after his wife, Linda McCartney, an active animal welfare crusader, died of breast cancer in April 1998.

It includes the lyrics: ``You're in the arms of an angel. May you find some comfort there.''

08.01.99 - Album Sales as of <-

Sarah McLachlan nabbed two certifications during the month: Her Arista disc ``Surfacing'' ascended to 7 million units, while her current live album, ``Mirrorball,'' topped 1 million.

07.06.99 - Sarah McLachlan Pumps Up Energy With Live Album

Singer/songwriter says recordings on Mirrorball capture what was missing from studio albums.

Staff Writer Chris Nelson reports:

Sarah McLachlan sighed ever so slightly before speaking.

She'd just been asked whether her new live album, Mirrorball, contained any overdubs — splashes of sonic touch-up paint that some people say correct errors for posterity, while purists argue they mar the integrity of a truly live work.

McLachlan admitted some cosmetic surgery had taken place on the tapes.

"There were a few places that there was a note that was flat," she said Thursday from the garden at her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. "So I just sang that one note [again] and stuck it in there. Technology's amazing. But there's very few fix-ups, which I'm proud to say."

McLachlan's loyal fanbase apparently cares nary a whit about such details. Since the album — which documents a 1998 tour — was released June 15, it has sold more than 367,000 copies in the United

States. In its second week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it sits at #6, down just a few notches from its #3 debut.

At 10:30 a.m. McLachlan said she was still in her pajamas. She laughed easily, and lamented that recent steady rains had caused the roses in her garden to wilt.

It was a bit of relaxed downtime before the Lilith Fair — the popular, female-centered tour she founded two years ago — kicks off its third and final run in Vancouver on July 8.

The Vancouver show will include sets by McLachlan, singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, R&B singer Mya, funk-pop band Luscious Jackson, folk singer Beth Orton and others. At various stops on the 40-date tour, McLachlan will be joined by hard rockers Hole, rapper Queen Latifah, singer/songwriter Liz Phair and many more performers.

McLachlan said now is the right time to revisit older songs such as "Ice Cream" (from 1994's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy) and hits such as "Building a Mystery" , from the

Grammy-winning Surfacing (1997), particularly since she doesn't plan to make a new studio album for another couple years.

The 31-year-old native Canadian said she was especially happy with the way the concert version of "I Will Remember You" captures an emotional energy she described as absent from the original take (on the 1995 soundtrack to "The Brothers McMullen").

"My studio albums tend to be quite mellow, even in the rocking songs," she said. "The quality of the sound is quite gentle. Live, there's a lot more energy. There's an audience. You have to play and entertain them. So you tend to be a little more animated in your performance."

There are more than just artistic motives behind Mirrorball, McLachlan manager Terry McBride said.

Since she released her first album, Touch, in 1988, McLachlan has cultivated a dedicated legion of fans with her lilting songs of relationships and their tidal shifts.

Some of McLachlan's fans, who made Surfacing platinum six times over in the U.S. and elevated the Lilith Fair to the position of highest-grossing summer rock festival for two years running, also are willing to seek expensive bootleg recordings of her performances — for which she receives no royalties and has no say in the product. Hence, Mirrorball,along with the May release of Volume 2 and 3 of the live Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, which feature recordings of McLachlan and other artists from past tours.

"If you don't have anything live out there, it becomes a marketplace for inferior products," McBride said from his Vancouver office.

McBride credited the issue of two tracks — "Building a Mystery" and "I Will Remember You" — as free, downloadable songs through online retailer Amazon.com with driving the site's pre-release sales of Mirrorball to more than 10,000 copies. Amazon.com spokesperson Paul Capelli would not confirm sales figures, citing company policy.

But at least one traditional retailer found a few customers confused by the album. "A lot of people didn't realize that it was a live album," said Lorraine Blatt, a staffer at Vancouver's HMV Records, which has sold more than 200 copies of the disc. "But it's doing quite well. It's Sarah McLachlan, after all."

Marketing tactics and counteracting bootlegs are typically the stuff of a manager's business calculations, but McLachlan herself knows how to be organized and analytical. The songs on Mirrorball were culled from more than three dozen 1998 concerts, all of which contained the same 24-song set.

But back in her garden, McLachlan emphasized intuition, trying to find songs with the appropriate "feel." The album offers no detail about the place and date of its recordings, which McLachlan said was intended to foster a sense of a whole piece rather than a compilation. McLachlan said she insisted on taping each night of her tour so that she could do her best to forget she was recording at all.

"I didn't even think that we were recording," she said. "I can't, it puts such a weird spin on it. ... We just forgot about it and did our thing."