The Tiffany Vault
CHAPTER 7: Major Venues
Back home now. Tiffany began playing at major concert halls across America in February, and began recording the 2nd album around the same time.
Tiffany released "I Saw Him Standing There," a cover of a Beatles tune in March. The song reached #7 on Billboard's singles chart. Several critics harped on the notion that Tiffany didn't have her own original material like her counterpart, Debbie Gibson.
In their April 21 issue, Rolling Stone presented "The Selling of Tiffany," an in-depth profile which depicted Tiffany as the overworked, commercialized pawn of a Svengali manager.
At home, Tiffany's mother had reunited with her former husband. The stepfather who had helped Tiffany launch a music career, but then bailed and took the other kids with him when mom Janie's alcohol abuse got out of control.
Tiffany shocked the public when she left home and requested legal emancipation from her mother. She took a "no comment" approach to the press, so they took liberties to embellish the story and dig up all the sordid details they could about Tiffany's family history.
In late May 1988, Tiffany made a brief promo trip through Britain, France, and Germany. She was a last-minute cancellation for Prince Albert's Royal Trust Concert (which would have been a huge honor) on June 5.
On June 9, Tiffany appeared in a Los Angeles court to settle the emancipation dispute. She was denied emancipation, but was granted trust accounts and the right to live with her grandmother.
The publicity did not help Tiffany on music sales in the USA. Tiffany's fourth single, "Feelings of Forever" was released in June and peaked at #35.
June 15 Tiffany launched her full-on major concert tour and spent the rest of the summer touring the US and Canada.
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