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Blondes Have More Fun By Rod Stewart on Riva Records
Is it a matter of opinion You can keep your black and your redheads Or just a contradiction You can keep your brunettes too But from where I from. come I wanna girl that's semi intelligent All the blondes have more fun Gimme a blonde that's six foot two, boy and that ain't all Well just watch them sisters on a Saturday night Peroxide causing all the fights oh yeah oh yeah Yeah I dig this blonde
I had a crush on Bardot I took a rose in Texas She gimme plenty of practice I fell in love with Monroe Read about them in the nationals But I couldn't touch the surface All them juicy little scandals Cos of a recent face lift But I never saw em dancin' at the hall She had no idea what loves all about county With the short fat guy prematurely bald Except a one o'clock call on the casting couch oh yeah oh yeah oh no no no no no
" Dig this Sissy from New York Was on the cover of a new Vogue You can keep your black and your redheads I ain't supposed to be available You can keep your brunettes too So completely untouchable Don't want a subservient woman I got a limousine 'n bodyguard and chaperone Gimme a blonde that's six foot two, boy and that ain't all But God knows Rod I just need to ball oh yeah oh yeah Oh yeah
The Best Days Of My Life
You always said living with me Was impossible Both songs by Rod Try it I said just like the wind Stewart and Jim I'm changeable Cregan. Reproduced by We ain't got money but we sure got laughs permission Riva Lots of loving too Music/Warner So I confess on my behalf Bros. Music. You're giving me honestly the best days of my life
Your whispering girls said don't be a fool Don't give in to him He's an animal treat you like dirt then he'll * Turn you in
You two are not compatible It'll never never last
They said I wasn't even suitable But you're giving me honestly the best days of my life
Sometimes I wonder why does she bother With me at all. So staid in my ways let's face it my dear I'm insufferable
Crazy nights spilling into days With all my noisy friends They all love you
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"KNOCK On Wood" has for more than ten years now SO THERE we were with been one of the classic bated breath, waiting to find R&B songs, a number that just out what we ought to be about every '60s soul band wearing this summer. Were had to be able to play if they donkey jackets about to wanted to get an audience make a comeback? Would dancing. Since it's so the editor's wellies continue familiar, maybe it's not to be the envy of swinging surprising then that the London? The cry current disco version by immediately went up: ASK Amii Stewart is enjoying BILLY IDOL! Now why didn't' such a good run. I think of that? If anyone Written in the mid-'60s by ought to know, it's him. You Steve Cropper and Eddie can catch him every other Floyd, it was initially a huge week on Top Of The Pops, hit for Eddie Floyd and has dolled up to the nines. been revived regularly ever "Ah, but," he said when since. David Bowie made the we got him on the phone, charts with his version a few "I'm not interested in back. fashion fashion. I'm not years Amii Stewart, a 22-year-old interested in trends or styles. American, is no stranger to We'd like to create an Britain. She visited here a alternative fashion. We've couple of years ago with the always done it. Back in the cast of the "Bubbling Brown Old days we used to design Sugar" stage musical as a our own T-shirts. We tried to dancer. She is also jsaid to be as creative as possible have appeared in the movies with what money we had. "King Kong" and "Revenge We still can't really afford it." Of The Pink Panther". Mmm. Well that's that line of enquiry finished. Tell us about your songs, Billy. What's "Valley Of The Dolls" all about, then? "Well, Tony (James) wrote that about one of our gigs. It's about the communal feeling you can get when everybody's there, and it's all going really well.
Actually, I don't know if you want to get this deeply into
it, but it's a sort of dream, a sexual dream. It's to do with an audience full of girls and it's full of metaphors."
Enoughl I shall blush. What about "King Rocker"? "I just wanted to write a Billy the Kid checks out street fashions. Both pics by Sheila Rock. rockabilly tune and Tony came up with the title. It's everything that the Stones third album and are looking
not about ourselves. It's a have ever recorded, and I around for a producer.
jokey kind of song. I wrote it was sitting at home playing "What we want to do this
because I was fed up with all old records ail the time and time is to get back to the
those bands just writing off so I just wanted to kind of immediacy we used to have. The Beatles, Elvis Presley say something on behalf of The last album was finished and the Stones. Like The these old acts." months before it came out. Clash were slagging off all Future Gen X plans are a This time it's got to come out
these guys, and I know that mite vague at the moment, just a couple of weeks after
Mick Jones (Clash guitarist) although they have written we've finished working on it.
has got absolutely enough songs to make up a Slap it down and get it out."
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COULD kill you with one Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, Big "It's pornographic. That's why blow or put your eyes out," Macs and bubble gum, I it's in French, because English Euroman 1 II Jean Jacques Bur nel coolly surreptitiously check out an people night get offended/' He: 1 " informs me. Since the Stranglers escape in starts + route case he to recites it to me and t am suitably TSpfefks his bassist is known to j have floored get personal. But he's in full embarrassed. (I don't parlez the more than one journalist i^haVjOtlr ^ in his philosophical flow and doesn't lingo, but everything in French time, and since I am a feminist get down to any specific cases sounds suggestive to me.) "Most nervously expecting J^Wericaii; a clash with for abuse. of it's very electronic and there's Jean Jacques over his group's "They say don't generalize, but an R&B track from 1 963." attitudes to women, and since governments act on a nation's So does the solo LP indicate a furthermore I am the behalf and I don't dig Americana. split in The Stranglers? "I can't easily-intimidated type, you may "We're Europeans and we say the rest of The Stranglers r holds her take it that this not - so - idle don't need American TV, for would approve of some of the ] boast was guaranteed to keep instance, crammed down our album I'm a bit fanatic about
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tease and an incorrigible people trying to foster that _j Who band. —— L — , -j J- ^ [ leg-piUljB!4_-i--f--1_uJ— 1.1 this I wants country to become a "'Euroman Cometh' is L_L He was telling me about his place living off its stamps arid Euro-rock, which style is a that .
judo prowess. Already a black tourism?" I X-LLuj-J -i has evolved that is distinct. I I belt, his expertise was boosted think The Stranglers together are by a spell in Japan last autumn "EUROMAN Cometh" happened moving more to Euro-rock." - training with a master. as a solo album because, as is I i T I I I j Fortunately for more than a often the case, Burnel didn't have OF THE new live Stranglers* few citizens and representatives a home to go to at night when album, "X Cert", Burnel says: of the music press, an important The Stranglers were recording "It's the end of a period for The lesson of judo is that it teaches the "Black And White" album Stranglers We got a lot of letters self-discipline and restraint. "When everyone had left and 1 asking for a live album and we j You're not supposed to use ~ t didn't have anywhere to go at r~T had recorded a lot of gigs. u your skill to mutilate people midnight I stayed over in the "And since this is the last time
willy-nilly just because they studio some nights," says < i-444- Jean they'll hear this kind of thing, we aggravate; you. Good thing, Jacques. wanted it live rather than {—I V-
' because there are certainly a lot While he was there he sticking masters together in a -i- - people • Of and things that make naturally started fiddling around compilatiom. - j 44-hh f-T i— Jean Jacques mad. recording things by himself. The "I think we're the most Nowadays the biggest bee in L songs, he says, he wrote here unpopular band In Britain in the Burnel's bonnet is Europe J_J andthereoverninemonths, L L_i_ media," Burnel comments with
French birth, British I by by! although, "It really only took i__ i L some pleasure. "It must piss education and European inL_LJ_I about six days altogether to dp them off that we're a success. It outlook, he's all for it them;" doesn't bother me. I kind of dig In fact, as his first solo album Some of the tracks are obvious being the outsiders. The media, "Euroman Cometh" in meaning "Euroman" — and which is quite responsible for , demonstrates, he's obsessed "Do The European" for example success, had no part in our with it. There is also a number about success It makes me feel One of the keys to Jean Freddie Laker, the single self-righteous. It makes me Jacques' support of "Freddie Laker (Concorde & ' confident that we're the only I Europeanism is his indignation at Eurobus)", a song In German true underground band." what he sees as the infiltration F which 1$ a retort to the anthem And with a brief flash of ; and domination of America on "Deutschland Uber Alles" and humility from a hard-core sexist the British and Continental ways ; says Germany is notabove he adds, "And we're not
: Offiftf. This, after all. isrthe man • everything, and one track on blue-eyed boys. We're uglyr' 1 — said, who Once "Americans have which J.J . uses his beloved "Oh, I don't think you're ugly "I small brains." Triumph motorbike to provide tell him. - — — i—L*l -Lf—l— Since I - am an American Who backing noises I "Well, we're not God's gift to J was brought up on a diet of — There is also a song in French mirrors." 1 f j 1.1 J'. - f " ' ' "Tt~-i"t i 1 1 i~rt 4-Li TT TTT-H xnun i- The Stranglers (who measure Force 9 -H- Opposite page: J. J. gives on the Bichter Scale) the ruins i-U- survey i his famous impression of Reykjavik after their recent gig , of Napoleon (arid you're there. Left to right: Dave Greenfield, right*te wouldn't sa yt/hat Hugh Oornwell, Jet Black, J. J. Burnel. to his face!)
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Jim's mum made market. companies, who had previously of record counteract the slowing down $ current 12 inch of "Pop Muzik tea and sandwiches While Otway Like they used to say on Stiff refused to touch anything of the - a wind-up gramophone.—~——t— by M which has two tracks I— did^shrffrl——i~— Records : 'The sound-is-in*the™~~~~* sort, started to issue nearly j I'm even told there was a Diana pressed on one side by a 'double plastfc'. everything in some kind of j Dors in the mists o f album back 5 groove' technique, which means ALL IN all there is a lot to be said gimmicky style. pressed in flesh history that was that you put the stylus down • -for imaginative packaging, but Then, of course, the disco Mostofthe ipcbrds . hownqi colouredI vinyl! | without knowing which track it's important that you don't let boom hit top gear and the 12 these) pages ire no longer j Nowadays though, the whole you're going to hear. It gets snobbery and one-upmanship Adverts often state that only inch single began to available in these sp 'cial forms. make things picture disc hoopla seems to maddening when you only lik fere with buying just what first the few thousand will be even more complicated. (If you have got well ojjit of hand and, one of the songs. you like. Don't end up with .starts, as if available in Special form in the think you've got you couldn't problems considering how expensive they Then there's the wordless something you didn't really want guess, with the charts. hope that those first records will keeping track of all this gear, The most ere, it seems ridiculous that song. John Otway's "Frightened in the first place just Because* it sell quickly and produce a high spare difficult task a record company is a thought for your local people should th ink them worth And Scared" single was pressed was made to appear shiny and faced with is how to get a single initial chart position. They may record dealer.) I 'MI\IOT saying that I'm investing in. Why not buy a plain up with three copies minus the attractive. into the bottom half of the chart. also supply these special editions The 12 inch had been in use for ancient and decrepit but I can version end a separate picture to vocals. The idea was that anyone I've got this ancient Beach Once that is achieved, only to the shops that help quite a while as a special device the , II actually recall the days when record ~gaie-at while listening?. 1 ., 'lucky' enough to get one of the Boys single with the label gets is compile the chart, thus ensuring for club DJs, who liked all records were either 12 or on the radio, in the public the I By the way, it has come to my three specials could have John peeling off, the bag ripped in half that "tie eye (and ear) and stocked all you haye to go to the one stronger bass and drums sound Dainjiecf seven inches across, were by notice that some people are i Otway come round to their shop in town where sales count you pressed in a sort of shiny black the shops. You then have a fair can get if you spread the putting out clear vinyl discs, house and sing the song in their towards the chart in order to get sound over colour and were packaged in chance of a hit. a greater area. carefully wrapped in cellophane, these plain white bags with a This means that the sales The same records can also with a picture placed behind the ...bole thoughtfully provided during the first few weeks of a have the bonus of a few minutes record to give the impression .../was somewhere near the centre so record's life are crucial, and mean extra playing time, as is the case that what you're buying has revived a few years back by the with that you could read what was the difference between a the "YIVICA" or "Mighty actually got the illustration Stiff Sand Chiswick labels in order Real" being sung and who was doing massive hit and total obscurity. 12 inch versions. And in pressed into the vinyl. Very to appeal to the collector in all the singing. (Remember that only"three-|rr™ of general, although you ought to us, the person who wants to Nowadays; they're square four of the 80 or so singles put think twice before paying some have* a nice and tidy complete round, triangular and every other out every week are going to set of the prices being asked for 12 of current 45s inchers, they're —-shape but cylindrical. They staTe make it big.) often a good idea This was swiftly followed by a and, unlike at you from the shelves of shops This is where you, the coloured or picture rash of coloured vinyl, and even vinyl, high like liquorice all-sorts in every consumer, come in. Anything on sound quality. that the release of the s^me record in colour of the rainbow, in picture can make you choose this different colours in the hope that PICTURE discs are, sleeves that tell you everything record rather than that one is strangely some people would be dumb enough, but how to make good custard. definitely worth a try. nothing new; back in enough to buy the same thing And that's not even including the Anil if you're attracted by the 1940s, When record vinyl three times over. Would you manufacture —t2tmfft jobs and the picture pretty or by an exploding was basically an believe that discs! sleeve, then that's What you'l some people actually did? 19719 is undoubtedly the year of get. 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33 17 BYTHE WAY YOU DANCE/BUNNY SIGLER SalSoul 126 When I got out on the dance floor I just froze up. It was really frightening, 34 22 LOVE AND DESIRE/ARPEGGIO Polydor 130 'specially with all your friends staring at you. Still, at 35 least I tried (and she was really good, too — 33 ROCK YOUR BABY/FORCE Phil. Int. IMP 124 Biased Ed.) Two boys got first and second prizes girls 36 U13XI IT MUST BE LOVE/ALTON McCLAIN & DESTINY Polydor 120 and no were chosen, 37 which I thought was a bit unfair. Never mind, we can't all be John 19 1 (WHO HAVE NOTHINGI/SYLVESTER Fantasy 132 Travoltas can we? 38 U13lCM SATURDAY NIGHT/T-CONNECTION TK 133 Talking of John, he's got a new record out: "A Girl Like You" 39 fil3HM SHAME/EVELYN 'CHAMPAGNE' KING RCA 133 (Polydor). I didn't like his last one (too sloppy), but this is 48 KOia CHASE/GIORGIO MORODER Casablanca 127 surprisingly good for dancing to. That could have something to do Imp • Import. BPM = Beats per minute. with the fact that he's backed on this single by Gary's Gang of "Keep On Dancin'" fame. The Disco Top 40 is compiled by Record Business magazine Another favourite of mine getting a lot of disco plays is based on sales at specialist disco shops. The chart is also used McFadden and Whitehead's "Ain't No Stopping". At the moment by Radio Luxembourg, and selections from it are played by it's only available as an import Rob Jones on his Thursday and Sunday shows. on the Philly label, but it's due for U.K. release soon from CBS. You may have noticed that it went straight into our last disco chart at No. 15. You might also check out "The Dancer" Rob Jones' Disco Pick by Gino Soccio (Warner Bros), ft hasn't got to me yet but a lot of people are raving about young Gino, and he's worth watching. EXILE: How Could This Go Wrong Earth, Wind And Fire also have a new single, "Boogie Their follow-up to a record called "Never Can Wonderland", on CBS. No doubt they have another hit on their Stop", which I thought was one of the best singles hands — hope so anyway, they're such a terrific group. of last year though it didn't Let's do a thing. hope Before I go, I'd just like to say "thanks" to Miriam and Johnny "How Could This Go Wrong" goes right, since their Kustow, who helped me out a few weeks ago up at llford Odeon. first hit "Kiss You All Over" was very popular both Give my love to Danny (happy birthday for the 10th). Also "Hello" here and in the States. Exile have been together for to Matthew, good luck with the Leyton Buzzards. What a bunch of Rob Jonas 15 years and are from Kentucky. That's all for now, good blokes they are! Bev see ya in a fortnight. 18 SMASH HITS Repeat chorus to fade Zt't^T" 7 Ario,a Reco«* present The *10 '1 Droud Adventures^T^LoJLT^J' 'V ni'dnight, Sad r Dateline T somewhere in the citv Sfn.K f "«day steal the heart *" fpXy Love of The Man of"s2& Crusader Love Crusader - Love Crusader One Way Ticket By Eruption on Atlantic Records Chorus
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JUST wouldn't believe and that their own son; i YOU bread familiar. It's very important that the stick I have to take for described by them as similar business. people remember the title; if liking Racey records. 1 0cc or the Eagles, have been put By 1969, he had made enough they don't, they buy something Friends tend to steer clear of me temporarily on hold. money to start his own label, or plot to have me taken away by Rak, and to turn his attention to men in white coats. Either that or MICKIE Most is by far the most discovering and developing acts THE TROUBLE with this think I'm sarcastic. they being consistent hitmaker that this specifically for the teen market, production line approach is that Can't see it myself. There's country, and possibly even the the people responsible for the the bands themselves don't nothing wrong with a dose of world, has ever seen. Although majority of singles sales. For matter much, as long as they can unashamed bubblegum pop, born here (real name Michael each act he had a formula. The play and sing reasonably, and particularly when it's produced Hayes) he emigrated to South only thing he asked of the actual look good. Groups who leave by Mickie Most and written by Africa in the late '50s where he band was that they do as they Most don't very often go fat Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. enjoyed 11 consecutive No. 1 were told, leaving the Choosing Mud handed in their cards a few Not that Racey like to be records as a singer. But all the of the song and the arrangement years back and haven't exactly described as "a Mickie Most while he was learning the art of to him. The most that the band set the charts alight band". They insist that they have producing, the crucial business had to do was turn up at Top Of subsequently. «eir own style to offer, and that of how to put together a sound The Pops on time, look clean and Although Racey now have two ey're not nearly as much under that sells. do a little dance. huge hits under their belt, they Most's thumb as people think. He returned to Britain in 1962 He took Suzi Quatro from have so far played only two live Although lead singer Richard at the outset of the beat boom American obscurity, put her in shows in this country. When I Gower is delighted with the and looked around foi suitable leather, gave her some nifty met them they'd just flown back chart success of Racey's two bands to record. The first were songs and made her an from the Continent and were due singles, he makes a point of The Animals, a Newcastle band international star, one of the to set off again the next day to saying that when it comes to whose members included Eric biggest-selling female artists in record another TV show. They picking their singles the band Burdon, Alan Price and Chas pop history. Hot Chocolate were were extremely tired. Their plan have as much say as anyone. The Chandler. Starting with the his pop/soul outfit, moving is to wait until they have enough best song gets chosen whether enormously-successful "House cleverly from out-and-out disco hits to make up an impressive it's a Chinnichap song like Of The Rising Sun", they turned to smooth smooch whenever live act before they go on the "Some Girls" and "Lay Your out a string of world-wide hits fashion dictated. They are road. Love On Me", or a Racey original. with Most at the controls. probably Most's most They say they want to However, it's difficult to argue Herman's Hermits followed consistently successful band. "progress" and hope eventually with people who have such a with "I'm Into Something Good" He signed Mud to make bright to gain acceptance for their own history of hits; it can't to and took America by storm. be easy poppy singles for the teen and songs. I would be more prepared tell people like Mickie Most, Donovan, Lulu and Jeff Beck all pre-teen market with songs that to believe them if I didn't recall Nicky Chinn or Mike Chapman owed their best-selling records were generally written by Chinn hearing exactly the same pleas that you know better. to Most's ability to find the right and Chapman, two gents who from Mud a few years back. Racey were plucked from sound and to find hit songs. did the same job for Sweet and Would it be too corny to say that obscurity and a pub in He wasn't concerned with various others. they ought just to sit back and Weston-super-Mare building by Most up complex images, Like Most, this pair approach make the Most of it? Yes, I after he heard a demo tape by creating acts who could fill the business like a science. suppose it would. the group. There's little doubt massive venues, or bands who Mickie Most has a theory about *3a, . . . make the that they've been carefully sold millions of albums. All Most song titles. 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million years if I hadn't seen the first single are on the flip. AHEM, cough, shuffle, record before hearing it. One of etc. Unaccustomed as the tracks on the flip is, like the BONEY M: Hooray Hooray, It's A released as a single? Well th topside, from their forthcoming Holi-Holiday If I am to public (Atlantic, pic bag). satirical stab at discos cries out to 4 film Kids Alright", FIRST of all, I think I owe you all SISTER SLEDGE: We Are themselves don't sound even "The Are but knees-up in squeaking, I have a a a holiday camp be put back on its album. It's only the other is real a very sincere apology Family (Atlantic). This is more remotely interested. A bottle of brief message for all a collector's item with mum and dad and Auntie mildly amusing and it's far too regarding the Bee Gees. I mean, like it. of Chic wrote, smish hatters. Five — their first ever recording, "I'm Winnie and Uncle Tom Cobley is disjointed to work well on single. Two tomato sauce has more The Face" (when they were called your idea of you must have got • nasty arranged and even played on personality. Blue can certainly issues ago I criticised a good time, then One of rock's most inventive shock when you copped an this album so it's not surprising do better. Besttrax: "Strangers Elvis Costello's The High Numbers in 1964), you might possibly — just characters is starting to grow old eyeful of the dreaded drips that the alike. Town", "Victim". (3 out of 10). "Oliver's Army", since which is a rewrite of bluesman possibly — enjoy this ungracefully. two sound Slim Harpo's "Got Love If themselves plastered all over Smooth as silk, light as a when it has been a You excrutiatingly dreadful Want It". last issue's page 27. I I feather — this is a very classy smash hit and 99 Vi singalongaboney. But make no ABBA: Does Your Mother Know? know certainly did. What we need album made by people who million readers, or so mistake, whether you love it or (Epic). When it comes to pure, THE BABYS: Head First around here is a new editor if care about good disco albums it seems, have written JOHN TRAVOLTA: A Girl Like hate it, you will hear it . . . and no-nonsense pop music (Chrysalis). Currently successful you ask me. (What we'll be rather than a quick profit. The in demanding my You (Midsong International). hear it . . . and hear it . . . performed with flair and no hint in the States, this crew of British getting around here is a new energy level drops on side two head on a chopping LEIF GARRETT: Feel The Need of condescension, Abba exiles sound like a junior album reviewer if you don't but the rest is irresistible dance block. If I admit that, (Scotti Bros, pic bag). ADRIAN MUNSEY: The Lost generally pull it off better than version of Bad Company. (Virgin, watch it — Ed.) music. Besttrax: "He's The although I still don't Two pin-up heroes who have Sheep pic bag). Surely most. This time, to these ears, Likeable but largely But onwards in search of Greatest Dancer", "Lost In think it's one of El's become popular for reasons this must have been issued on they've excelled themselves with unmemorable, the songs are truth, justice and all that Music". (7 out of 10). best efforts, I've now other than their voices, both April Fool's Day? A string a lively rocker that I'll be happy to '60s style heavy pop complete Superman jazz. Actually this come to realise that it featured on potential hit orchestra plays sedately; sheep hear on my tranny any time over with long hair and hoarse week's platters are a pretty is better than my pop/disco remakes of old songs. bleat rudely; wind blows the next couple of months. vocals. Good background music mediocre lot. Pride of place original estimate, will Travolta's was originally easterly. Sounds like something MAGAZINE: Second Hand for parties — sample side two. really belongs to The Human you please stop recorded by The Young Rascals dreamt up by the Monty Python Daylight (Virgin). After the Besttrax: "Head First", "Love League with their splendid sending in letters of in 1967, Leif's by The Detroit team. magic of "Real Life", this is Don't Prove I'm Right". (5 out of "Dignity Of Labour" twelve complaint? We can Emeralds in 1973. The most disappointingly ordinary. 10). incher on Fast Product, but hardly get in the front important people on these new THE DICKIES: Banana Splits There's some good that's only an EP that slipped SINGLES BY door. Ta very much. versions are the producers and (A&M, pic bag). Arguments have instrumental work in the nine into my pile accidentally on And now for this studio musicians; Leif's record is been raging about whether these long, flowing numbers, but the ROXY MUSIC: Manifesto CLIFF WHITE far the high-speed purpose. Still, it certainly week's thang . . . by better of the two. Yanks are melodies are weak and the of this (Polydor). I dread reunion mickey-takers or a mutant breed upstaged most band lack conviction. Also, albums bunch . . . as they usually mean ROBERT GORDON: Rock Billy of punks. Judging by this though his lyrics are more that once creative people have '/ LENE LOVICH : Say When (Stiff). suitably sensitive treatment by Boogie (RCA, pic bag). Officially, typically frantic version of the direct than last time, Howard crikey, CHER: Take finally run completely dry of Oh another confession to Dennis over an unsurprising, tho'. New York rocker Gordon's kiddies' TV show theme, they're Me Home Devoto is starting to get more ideas, but this is an interesting make: I haven't actually got this nice enough, Jamaican rhythm laboured version actually a new wave edition of (Casablanca). Despite looking than imaginative. of the old pompous and imaginative album. Bryan single yet. it like a hatstand outer space But should be on track. Reminds me a lot of the Conway Twitty classic, "It's Only The Monkees. from Pity. My copy also jumps in sale the cover, Cher's Ferry's singing mannerisms by the time you read this, pre-reggae days when every Make Believe", is the A-side of on venture several places (especially "Feed remain as irritating as ever, but and as it's one of into disco on side one is the most other Jamaican record was a this single, but I'm betting on the EXILE: How Could This Go The Enemy") so check if buying otherwise this is remarkably exciting tracks on Lene's actually okay. A bit short on ska-beat adaption of an American fact that RCA will flip it over. Wrong (Rak 12in, pic bag). A and hang onto that receipt. Best free of the usual Roxy I tunes very "Stateless" album felt you soul standard. Just right for new "Boogie" is a fine, rockin' Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman memorable but trax: "The Thin Air", "Back To affectations. Basically a ought to know about it as soon as wave mods. recreation of the Johnny Burnette (makers of hits for pure pop danceable. Side two Nature". (6 out of 10). collection of straight songs, it's poss. It's a wild, almost Bo Trio song that's already a firm people) song and production. degenerates into braying Diddley-beat ballads with tinge. lavishly decorated with busy rocker with a great favourite in rock 'n' roll clubs Exile are a group of six a country THE WHO: Long Live Rock — rhythms and some fascinating spontaneous garage-band feel to around Britain. Guitarist Chris extraordinary-looking poseurs Approach with caution (Polydor, pic bag). Originally the JONATHAN RICHMAN: Back In instrumental work. Hardly it; a sharp contrast to "Lucky Spedding (who recently joined from Kentucky; the song is a you've probably got better at musical spokesmen for old wave Your Life (Beserkley). The trailblazing stuff but well worth Number" but just as good. The Gordon's band) proves mixture of disco beat and home already. Besttrax: "Take world's cleverest clown opts for checking out. Contains both single will be a remixed version mods, of course, but you'd never Me Home", "Wasn't It Good". handsomely that he can rock it cabaret-style candy-floss; a realise it from the topside — a a cheapo '50s style sound this recent singles. Besttrax: and have two new recordings on '50s-style with the best of 'em. possible hit, but to my ears out of 10). time out as he jaunts and "Manifesto", "Ain't that the flip. fine sentiment set to one of immensely boring. So". (8 Chuck Berry's half-dozen familiar quavers through this collection out of 10). Pick Of The Week By THE UNDERTONES: Jimmy of his.and other people's Default. melodies, performed as if by a THE CHIPS: Rubber Biscuit (Pye songs Jimmy (Sire, pic bag). Hmm. with his usual of DAVID BOWIE: Boys Keep mid-west American college rock International). One of the craziest mixture good Either my record player is going Swinging (RCA). The thin white band. It's alright, I'm not uptempo vocal groups records humour and touching honesty. wonder has back on the blink again or The It's distinctive all right but, like gone to singing knocking it, but I'd never have ever made, reissued from 1959 BRIAN ENO: Music For Airports Undertones real songs again! Great. have made a Cliff, I can only take this in small The guessed it was The Who in a because of interest created by the (Polydor/Ambient). Howard drift disappointingly weak slab of doses can't help wishing general of this one is that us Blues Brothers' recent version. and Devoto, Bryan Ferry and now chaps all have a jolly good time nothing special, stitched together that Jonathan would turn his Looney but lovable. Eno — it's a poser's paradise in from bits of other people's old undoubted talents to something (thereby implying that girls here this week. This is just four rock hits. They can do a lot better, more substantial. Best trax: don't). Can't say that I fully agree BARRY WHITE: I Found Love very long, nameless and and probably will. "Affection", with the sentiment but the sound (Unlimited Gold). After several "I'm Nature's tuneless instrumental Mosquito". (6 out of 10). of it is agreeable enough. 85 comparative flops, the bear-like background tracks, made up of Adopting a new butch voice S&bwon THE ONLY ONES: Out There In Mr. White (no relation, I'm glad to spacey synthesiser wisps and specially for the occasion, he The Night (CBS 12in, blue vinyl). say) sounds as if he's made an wordless vocal harmonies. This sounds like a cross between At least this is a lot more original extra effort to recapture some of BLUE: Fool's Party (Rocket). will either make you very restful Bryan Ferry and Village People. than The Undertones' effort, his past glory, i.e. this is similar to Despite some nice touches or very restless — a couple of although by The Only Ones' own some of his early hits — and His best for ages. ALBUMS BY occasionally and excellent minutes listening will tell you standard it too is far from their therefore sounds somewhat value at 46 minutes playing which. Besttrax: Er, possibly best. established in The group's dated 1979. Get too close and time, this is a staggeringly dull 1/1 and 2/2. (5 out of 10). DENNIS BROWN: Ain't RED STARR That fans (of which I'm one, in a small he'll hug you to death. album. There's no punch, Lovin You (Laser). Originally a way) will quickly grow to like it scarcely a memorable tune, But The Human League Rule, Memphis soul hit for Luther (as I have) but I can't see it FRANK ZAPPA: Dancin' Fool boring lyrics and the band OK? Ingram in the late '60s, this winning them many new (CBS). You know how some tender love song is given a *B& admirers. Both sides of their rare album tracks cry out to be 24 SMASH HITS SMASH HITS 26 '
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Jeremy Tagg he He magazine, and I really look writes in, so if your friend would up. Red, you're not without slagged off Red Starr for saying forward to buying it every like to tell us her name and your supporters, too . . . the Bee Gees are drips. . . Too . . . fortnight. But alas I have a address we'll pass it on to the KISS right are! OR they largish complaint. There's not Rats' office. 44 Seymour Place, I WOULD just like to say a few Starr is the staff of Red on SH enough Rock 'n' Roll in your mag. London W1 , IS the right address I DON'T believe it! I've read it IN THE last issue Red Starr words to Red Starr: Thank-you. to review records the way he I find this very unfair, because for the fan club by the way. Now ninety three times and I still wrote certain things about The Although you said nasty things thinks is right. Anyway I agree I'm devoted to Buddy Holly, Gene hold on, there's another Gen X don't believe it. Stranglers' latest, "X Cert". about The Stranglers' new with most of his reviews, and Vincent, Elvis, Eddie Cochran and missive coming up. is What this "thing" that calls Before that I admired him, but I album, which I will forgive you Jeremy can stick to the Beano all of the great Rock 'n' Roll itself Red Starr? I just cannot don't think he would call The for, just this once, I like a lot of — it's all a person with his singers, and even though they THANKS FOR the great mag but I believe that there are people Stranglers a pack of overgrown the I like stuff wot you write. mentality is fit for. are all dead, there are a few great was pretty annoyed at your alive today who don't think The school-bullies to their faces. "X El wot you said about Costello, Blue, Menai Bridge, Anglesey. Rock 'n' Roll groups out at the Generation X feature in the last Stranglers are the ultimate in Cert" is not a samey boring LP. Squeeze and especially the Bee moment such as Darts and issue. You really dragged them music, and then this Red Starr Marty Burns, Beechmount, Gees!! Thank you. I deeply apologise for MOST Whirlwind (I'm also devoted to down but I (and many others) describes them as "four Belfast 12. (Princess) Mandy, Grantham. these loons who think you James Dean, but he think they're the best thing since unpleasant over-grown school couldn't be a critic to save your unfortunately didn't sing). sliced bread! Please print this as bullies who think that acting RED Starr doesn't know good life. I don't want to sound rude but I'm sure many people agree with nasty constitutes a threat to Heavy Metal when he hears it. I DON'T want to creep, so here's This so called Jeremy Tagg I'm sure quite a few people would me. society". What is he going on He said the UFO's "Strangers In what I think to your mag: It's knows where he can put his agree with that me your mag is J. Mortimer, Blediao Road, about?! II The Night" is a pain in the ears. average! NME. I completely agree with definitely in need of some Rock Saunderton, Bucks. If Red Starr doesn't I think he is a pain in the ass. Secondly, I think your bloke you about the Bee Gees' new 'n'Roll. appreciate Argent, brilliant music when Richard Leigh-on-Sea. Red Starr is OK! (What a load of "well, us album So do rockers a favour and Tracie and Lorraine of he hears it, then he ought to be Yes Red, I don't believe um"!) make our lives a bit happier. I hung from the top of the Shrewsbury are two more who you're a toad (but I do think the Paul Baldwin, Gt. Yarmouth. mean Rock 'n' Roll is here to stay. agree with you. They've met Billy Humber Bridge by his toenails! Gosh, it looks like Red's upset Bee Gees are drips). Anyway P.S. Tell Angie I would love to A Queens Park Teddy Girl, and the boys and say that they're If I ever get my hands on him, one or two of you again. In you're entitled to your own have Duffo in my house, he's in Queens Park, London. not posers. Hi girls. then may he rest in peace. addition to the above, Sophie opinion, aren't you? Isn't the same boat as me: no brain. Jackie Blenkinsop, Boothferry of Oxford suggests taking his everyone? And another thing: I LIKE your mag, it's the best one I HAVE just read Cliff White's Estate, Hull. milk away; an Angry Bee Gees you're very fair with your marks SMASH HITS is the greatest out. But I have a complaint. I hate review of The Clash's "English Fan from Crawley wants him to for albums, and you write great thing since Generation X Punk. Civil War". I quote: "Surely RED STARR: he's done it again! . . . erh . . . get stuffed; Dean (whatever that beautiful toad reviews. Mr Starr, you've got a In ail your mags Punk has had Jones and Strummer could have Look you pathetic little worm, Williams of Swansea thinks he friend here. Red Starr thinks about their out the headlines. Elvis Costello, The come up with something better why can't you write a decent should have his ears tested; album). Red Starr/toad, you are By the way, issue 5's write up Clash, Generation X, Sex Pistols than 'Johnny Stranglers Showaddywaddy. Steve Jones of the Pistols! Comes Marching review on The Live Kim, Stephanie, Gail, Yvonne, on Ian Dury by David one of my most favourite Hepworth and all the rest of the stinking Podge, Heysham, Lanes. Home'? On the other hand, the LP. I've got it and it's ace, so Elisa, Jenny, Elisabeth and Liz people/amphibians at the Ian Clarke (The Superted), (sounds like a tailor) I didn't like, Punks are spoiling pop very familiarity of the song could stuff it. I agree with Debbie from Manchester want him moment. I am descended from Shirebrook, Nr. Mansfield, Notts. I 'cos dig Dury. But then if I I say nowadays. am a Ted, yes a Ted P.S. Seriously! Could you print help sales." First, "English Civil Groves who calls you a toad. So locked up; and Vanessa of the Royalty of Ireland (I would too much I will be contradicting 9 (the ones who rule over Punks). the words for the flip side of The War" is a political song, against why don't you just take a walk, Stalybridge thinks he needs A WELL I would sure like to myself won't I! keep have to be) so anytime you feel So pen So please could you fix a Clash's single? It's called the National Front. The NF are a eh? your is Anyhow mag great, GOOD TELLING OFF! We've like being a human again I will congratulate you on a great mag. Red. I pushing, favour for me? would like you to "Pressure Drop". Thanx a lot! bunch of Nazis and should be put besides the slip-ups. tried, I even found odd Vanessa, but he doesn't Lori Gruber, Gt. Barford, Beds. willingly give you a smacker (a my mum looking at run a crossword for any Rock 'n' down now. Just look at the lyrics: Pat Coyle, Blackpool. listen, that's the trouble with kiss you frog!) it and she wouldn't part with it PS. Your mag is really neat Roll record. DAMN! I've forgotten what I was "Nobody understands how it youth today. A Stranglers To explain my apparent until she had sung nearly every (didn't creep did I?). My dad is also a Ted, he has going to write. could happen again". Nuff said! MRS. TOAD: Put down that Bristol thinks he's fart, song, read fan a madness, I can never thank and nearly every you never let it die out. He has been a crayoning Ian "The Booth" Booth, Duston, Second, The Clash didn't want set Toad, that Welsh Wendy says he's a enough for calling the Bee Gees article. But there is one snag : I Ted since he was about 1 5. Rock Northampton. this track released, Stranglers LP is far too very but CBS complex turnip-head, and Anon declares drips, and I really think was disappointed to see 'n' Roll is the best music out wanna sell the LP. for your inferior mind. We are him an untalented goon. "gormless pap" is so nothing on Elvis Presley or Rock today. Please could you print FIRST I will introduce myself: the Anyway the mag's great: at referring to the review Toad Stephanie Smith of Sleaford appropriate (although you must 'n' Roll. So come on Mr. Editor, some of Elvis' songs such as Blue World's No. 1 Generation X fan. least you take notice of punk gave The Stranglers "X Cert". wants to kill him. Kill Him, KILL admit the title track is good, less Punk and more Ted. Suede Shoes, Rock Around The And now I will tell you that I was groups, and I mean punk groups. We (yes there are more than HIM (that might be going a bit ..KILL sigh). Oh, and there's just one more Clock or any other fast Elvis totally unimpressed by your of . . . NOT Sham 69, Buzzcocks, one us) are avid Stranglers too far Staph), and Paul of You are one of the main thing, believe it or not I have an records. article about them. They are a who were good up to their first fans and we have travelled the Bedford would like to get his reasons for being a idea for your mag. By the way, Who's Red Starr my friends, Martin terrific if My Robinson, band, and you've ever LPs but now they're just in it for country to see them, bought all hands around Red's neck. This dedicated Gen X fan, because I'm only 1 3 so don't expect too Gavin Dogal, Sean Dale and seen them in concert you'll know the money. Listen to "Borstal their records, and the songs on may explain why Red's been upset this week?! you really sloshed their album much. I think you ought to have a Kevin Over (all Teds) are hoping what I mean. Their latest album, Breakout" and "Questions and "X Cert" are some of the best going with his collar "problem page", where people around up so I just HAD to buy it, and I to form a Rock 'n' Roll group. "Valley Of The Dolls", is brilliant Answers", then "Boredom" and they have ever . . . done and we think (I seem to be the only one can write and get their problems Also, try to fix a poster of and the more you play it the "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" know what we're croaking however) that it is great. solved. Well whaddaya think? better you like it. about. . . .spot the difference! Perhaps at this point I ought to Jill Abbott, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Apart from that article, the rest The Boomtown Rats were pop The Stranglers are not bullies, redeem myself — do you like Notts. FAN CLUBS of the mag was as usual very boys all along and Gen X are just nor are they nasty. At least they Graham Parker and The LEIF GARRETT: We reckon we cater for a lot of good. And I liked the picture of middle-class posers. The best are getting where they want to Rumours (you were very nice PO Box 4WE, London W1A different tastes, but we have to Billy Idol on the back. punk groups are: Sex Pistols go (maybe you are just a little about The Rumours' album)? 4WE admit that if one particular group By the way, my friend wants to (with Lydon only), Clash, Stiff 'green' with envy!). They are Emma Edgecombe, Deal, Kent. of fans have had a raw deal then know if you printed the right doing for Little Fingers, Siouxsie and the more music than you PS. I'd hug Red Starr if you RACEY: it's you Rock 'n' Roll freaks. We'll address for the Boomtown Rats Banshees, Penetration, Slits, and many other people. could assure me he isn't too c/o Jennie At RAK, 42 make a special effort to put that fan club, because she wrote and Members, ATV, Wire and So if you can't do a decent slimy. right, OK. Meanwhile, here's one sent an S.A.E. but still hasn't had Damned. review on a superb band, just Sharibert Street, London PPS. Two weeks is an awful a reply. NW8. rocker action pic to be going on Please print this as it will tell keep to something more in your long time without my darling with. Thanks for the suggestion Jane Hunter, Place, people who think they're punks line, i.e. The Smurfs. At least Spoutwells toad . . . SQUEEZE Jill. We've got a lot of ideas for Scone, Perth. because they've got "Rat Trap" they don't try to be something PPPS. Anytime you wanna get making Smash Hits better and that aren't. they aren't. c/o A&M Records, 136/140 they Punk will never Who wants to be a hitched I'll have lily a pond better, and we hope to be The Rats fan club say they've slimy, smelly green toad New Kings Road, London die. installed. introducing of cleared most of the backlog of anyway? So c'mon Toad, SW6 a lot new features The Liverpool Punks. PPPPS. What do toads like to over the coming months. mail arriving since Xmas, apart "Something Betta Change". eat best? Squashed fly biscuits? VILLAGE PEOPLE: from letters addressed to specific Good job you didn't give us an Anna Kissed and Sue Wei. PPPPPS. I've arranged croaking Can't Stop Productions, 65 WHAT'S the definition of members of the band — these address. We'd have sent Tracie PS. J.J. Burnel is God. lessons and am knitting you a East 55th Street, New York, embarrassment? Smash Hits will be answered over the next and Lorraine and Jane and her PPS. I bet you wear flared jumper for spring (groan, croak, Manhattan 10022 being asked to print the words to few weeks when the group gets mate along to soundly box your trousers, you milksop. From Claire Pun tan of II ford. groan). "Friggin' In The Riggin' " by back from America. They keep a ears! 28 SMASH HITS SMASH HITS 29 . * * * * * o * m * *** m*** * * 4^7/r. * * Friday (May 4) Stylistics Birmingham Night Out Rush Hammersmith Odeon Neil Sedaka Blackpool Opera House Roxy Music Birmingham Odeon Magazine Cambridge Corn Exch. 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