30p June 26-July 9 1980 Words to the TOP SINGLES Including The Bed's Too Breaking The Waterfalls UNDERTO E UB40 PET GABRI J Ii 'i!;.\\:H\lill'UI - .-the LAMBREITAS TltE LAMBAETTAS ncwalbllm Beat bCWS In IIIC Jcl aac The Lambrettas debut album 'Beat Boys in the Jet Age' is going places. It includes their new single 'DA-A-A-ANCE' which is already a hit, as well as their previous hit single 'POISON NY'. WATCH THIS.ALBUM GO! r.:,,. "'' ,,.1 ,,y /,;S;j\ LPTRAIN IO t/.:..l pno,,og,a,11 \!!!I MCSHUNT10 2 SMASH HITS __ ., r------- I June 26-July 9 1980 Vol 2 No 13 WHO WANTS THE WORLD? The Stranglers .......................................... 4 Hey, are we on the news stands? WEDNESDAY WEEK We are7 Oh good. What with half The Undertones ........................................ 4 the ~ away or on holiday and THE BED'S TOO BIG the rest ol us dashing around trying to be sh< people at once, it The Police.................................................. 5 was a close thing for a minute !­ SUBSTITUTE there. Still her• we are, all br'9ht i;; tailed and bushy eyed and ready ~ Liquid Gold ............................................... 8 to go. In addition to all your usual i: MY WAY OF THINKING features, news and songwords. l we've got a couple of spacial i3 UB40 ........................................................ 13 Items lined up. There's our ~ IN THE NIGHT fantastic: riew video crossword Barbara Dickson ..................................... 15 prize of course, but also a couple of wacky competitions - The ME MYSELF I Barracudas' Surfboard Special on Editor Joan Armatrading .................................. 15 page 24 and a chance to visit a lanCranna recording studio with The Slits! 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So it's Features Editor Teena Marie ............................................ 19 welcome to a slightly crazier David Hepworth BREAKING THE LAW than usual issue- you have beenwamedl Design Editor Judas Priest ............................................ 22 Steve Bush ELECTRICITY Editorial Assistants Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ...... 23 Bev Hillier HOT LOVE Linda Duff David Essex ............................................. 26 Contributors WATERFALLS Robin Katz Paul McCartney ...................................... 27 Red Starr Fred Dellar SANCTUARY Mike Stand Iron Maiden ............................................. 29 Kelly Pike Jill Furmanovsky SIMON TEMPLER Mark Casto Splodgenessabounds ............................ 39 Steve Taylor TWO PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF Advertisement Manager CRISPS PLEASE Rod Sopp Slodgenessabounds .............................. 39 (Tel: 01-4398801) Assistant Adie Harper THE UNDERTONES: Feature ................. 6/7 UB40: Feature/Colour Photo ....... 12/13/14 Managing Editor Nick Logan THE GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL SWINDLE: Colour Centrespread ......................... 20/21 Publisher PETER GABRIEL: Feature .................. 32/33 Peter Strong JONA LEWIE: Colour Poster................... 40 NEXT ISSUE Editorial and Advertising address: Smash Hits, Lisa ON SALE House, 52-55 Carnaby Street, BITZ 9/10/11 LETTERS 36/37 London W1V 1PF. 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Peterborough PE 1 2DS. copyright holders. fflONTCOVERPfC, LAURIE EVANS SMASH HITS 3 Wednesday Week on Sire Records Here she comes to say goodnight I'll get no sleep tonight With a classroom vision she still can't see She was the girt for me Wednesday week she loved me Wednesday week never happened at all There she goes, I won't see her again She's gone to school with her best friend She only does the things she likes to do Now she wants something new Wednesday week she loved me Wednesday week never happened at all Wednesdey week she loved me Wednesdey week never happened at all Here ehe comes to say goodnight I'll get no sleep tonight Who Wants The Wednesday week she loved me Wednesdey week she loved me World? Wednesday week never happened at all on United Artists Records Words and music b y J O'Neill Reproduced by permission Warner Bros Music Came down on a Monday Somewhere In the Midlands Tasted man, tasted flea Couldn't tell the difference Asked around on Tuesday Got nothing from a tree The guide had said what talks Is red That's all there Is to see Chorus Who wants the worfd7 Who wants the worfd7 Who wants the world? Not me, not me, not me, not me looked around on Wednesday Took in all the sights The promised land they'd left to man Been ruined over night Peering through the port holes Tear drops in their eyes The ship they took For one last took At Thursday's setting sunrise Repeat chorus Who wants R the World? epear to fade THE POLICE The Bed's Too Big Without You on A&M Records The bed'• too big without you The cold wind blowa right through that open door I un't al"P with your memory Dreaming dream• ofwhat uHd to be When ahe left I was cold lnalde That look on my face WH just pride, yHh No regrets, no love, no tears Llvln9 on my own wH The leHt of my fHrs Chorus The bed'• too bl9 without you Th• bed'• too big whhout you The bed's too bi9 Without you Without you Without you Wlthoutyou Repeat chorus Since that clay when you've gone I just hed to cerry on, yHh I get through the day But late at night Made love to my pillow but didn't -m right Everyday juat th• Mme old rule• For the um• old game All I 9aln waa heartech• All I mede was one mistake OhyHh Repeat chorus Words and music by Sting Reproduced by permission Virgin Music Publishing Ltd. A CONTRADICTION IN 'TONES OR, WHY THE DERRY LADS AREN'T KIDS ANY MORE WORDS BY IAN CRANNA. PICTURES BY LAURIE EVANS IT'S THE kind of gig that nothing else to present short of ··we picked him because we addressed from the upstairs gladdens the heart really. actually having to think, and it's thought it would be interesting window of a house by the then Outside the "Sold Out" notices one they've consistently refused to see what he said," Damian Home Secretary, Jim C.llaghan. are up, while inside the support to let go of despite such evidence explains, adding with heavy "I was about there," he says group, The Moondogs (also from as Feargal's and John O'Neill's irony, "And of course the cover casually, pointing just off picture. Derry) have the audience up and engagements. was Feargal in the house with his In fact it's the quality of their bopping to their tight, tuneful "At the time when we first Ma.'1 songwriting that concerns The and energy-packed set. The came over to England it was " 'Undertones Of Innocence' - Undertones most in not singing Moondogs certainly are gifted quite true," Feargal admits with ach, it's so corny,"heshakes his about the troubles. They feel enough to be big and judging by that frank openness that makes head. " It really is, It's not really they couldn't do it well. the response they get (two The Undertones so disarming. true." "If we get up and sing about encores for the support band?) 'That's the way we were. We Another part of this false politics," Fearg&I offers, "And they're off to a flying start. were naive and everything else, impression created by the media there's a number of people who The Undertones, however, but that was a year and a half is that The Undertones are buy our records and listen to it, only have to set foot on stage ago and a lot of water has gone home-loving boys who don't like then maybe we have a chance of and there's a huge cheer and a under the proverbial bridge since to be away from their native getting a message across to mad rush to the front. Within then. Derry to tour. In considerably them full stop. seconds the whole place is alive "I think it's blatantly obvious aggrieved fashion, Damian "But millions of people live in with dancing bodies of all ages to anyone that wants to look complains that he and Feargal England - it'd have to be done and sizes. Even the bouncers are nowadays that we're not like have always enjoyed touring. really subtly and really well to smiling. that anymore." Now that the band are clear of have any real effect. It's The Undertones themselves Feargal's frustration at the the travails of being a support something that's very hard to do. are little short of magic. With the London Press's inability to deal band, Feargal says there's no one John has tried but it was always introduction of their newer, more with the way the rest of the that doesn't enjoy the touring. a bit too contrived and naive." satisfying songs from country lives and thinks without Mickey even compares it to The others agree, though "Hypnotised" the set is stronger patronising "country cousins" being on holiday. Damian adds that he'd love to throughout but just as much fun, remarks about clothes or accents "It's the part that you're most have written a song like Elvis while their increasing mastery of is echoed by the rest of the band. in a group for," Damian insists, Costello's "Oliver's Army".