AT RFK, CONCERTS CAUSES

Plans are being completed for two big concerts at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

On Sept. 5 the stadium will be the site of a major Greenpeace concert, half benefit and half consciousness-raiser; there will be a corresponding concert at Moscow's 100,000-seat Olympic Stadium, and the two will be linked by satellite and broadcast around the world. According to producer Michael Mitchell, a key player in 1985's Live Aid broadcast, "this will be the first major rock concert in the Soviet Union. In a sense, it's rock 'n' roll serving as a musical bridge between East and West." Mitchell says Greenpeace, the international environmental group, had been negotiating to do the concert for the last year. Artist lineups and further information are scheduled to be announced next week.

Word is already out on part of the lineup for a multistar RFK Fourth of July concert honoring Vietnam veterans. The event, "Welcome Home," will feature 10 to 15 major acts, including Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills & Nash, John Fogerty, James Ingram, the Four Tops and others yet to be confirmed. The afternoon concert will be taped for future broadcast by HBO. Although there is still some question about how tickets will be distributed, the concert is being organized by Welcome Home Inc., a California corporation that recently qualified as charitable organization; its purpose is to raise money to provide assistance to Vietnam veterans and to increase public awareness of their needs. Details and a final concert lineup will be announced at a press conference in New York next week.

The Summer Concert Rush The rock concert business tends to be cautious about announcing too many dates at once, for fear of flooding the market, but this summer looks to be one of the busiest, not only at traditional venues like Merriweather Post Pavilion and Wolf Trap, both of which have recently announced parts of their seasons, and Carter Barron and Fort Dupont, but also at Capital Centre and RFK.

After the May 23 Genesis concert (about 3,000 tickets remain) at RFK, likely dates there include a June 6 go-go show featuring most of the Washington bands; a June 13 Budweiser Superfest concert with Luther Vandross, Maze, the Gap Band, Club Nouveau and Atlantic Starr; the July 4 Vietnam veterans concert and the September Greenpeace event; and, probably in July, Madonna.

Capital Centre shows will include some multiple dates with Prince, the return of Bon Jovi (July 22), Bryan Adams (July 8, David Bowie, Neil Diamond, Def Leppard, Mo tley Cru e and Run DMC with the Beastie Boys (the Together Forever tour). U2 has American dates through May, then tours in Europe until the fall; Washington dates will probably be in October. Fall also may herald the return of Michael Jackson, without his siblings; Jackson's reported to be readying a European blitz before working the home front. Also touring, but separately -- Roger Waters and Pink Floyd (though they've not yet settled their legal battle over the rights to the Pink Floyd name).

More Beatles CDs Chapter 2 in "The Beatles Get Digital" begins tomorrow, when stores receive the CD versions of "Help!," "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver." Like their predecessors, these EMI-Capitol releases have been standardized to the British Parlophone configurations, which benefits 1965's "Help!" most by eliminating some instrumentals and doubling the song count from seven to 14 (including "Yesterday" and "Act Naturally"). Two songs from "Rubber Soul" are switched to "Help!," but "Rubber Soul" gains four new cuts ("Nowhere Man," "Drive My Car," "If I Needed Someone" and "What Goes On"), while "Revolver" gains three ("And Your Bird Can Sing," "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Doctor Robert").

And without much fuss, Capitol also has just released the first three albums by the Band -- "Music From Big Pink," "The Band" and "Stage Fright" -- which should also sound incredible in the CD format.

Jan Hammer's New Venture Whether "Miami Vice" stays at 9 p.m. on Fridays or moves back to its 10 p.m. showcase, Jan Hammer's not going to be there to propel the plots along with his music scores. After three years and two platinum sound-track albums, Hammer is leaving the show to get back to recording and performing on his own, with some production work on the side (including E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons' third solo album). Hammer is about to go into the studio to record a second album with the legendary Brit guitarist Jeff Beck, and a late summer or fall tour is expected to follow.

Clemons will be at the Capitol's West Front Terrace this afternoon at 2:30 as part of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, one of many stops along a 27,000-mile route passing through 50 countries over 103 days.

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