People: Aug. 25, 1986

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Don Johnson has a new look for the new season of Miami Vice: the stubble is still in place, but the wardrobe is darker, the hair shorter. He also has a new celebrity interviewer: Miss Piggy of the Muppets, whom he squired around Miami for the latest issue of Muppet magazine. Johnson gallantly allows to Her Porcinity that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, "they'll probably climb over me to get to you." Perhaps not. This week Heartbeat, Johnson's first album of pop rock and rhythm-and-blues tunes, is to be released. It features backup vocals by Willie Nelson, Whoopi Goldberg and Bonnie Raitt, who challenged the star. "If you run with them," says , Johnson, "you'd better have it together." He began singing in his uncle's church in Missouri and later got into acting through musical comedy. "I was also writing songs then," he says, "but as my acting career started to take off, I put the music aside." He has taken that up again too, producing the lyrics for two songs in the new album.