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Another issue already? I'd rather watch paint dry. Let's see what drivel they're trying to palm off on us this time. Features on Madness

and Phil Collins? 1 mean, honestly, i don't suppose it's even occurred to them to interview The Strang ... oh, they have.

But as for the rest of it, who really wants a colour poster of Adam or the chance to win the new Gen X album? What happened to the Sky pin-up they promised us? What about the feature on pencil sharpeners, the win a string bag competition, the paper clip

giveaway? No sign of any of it. 1 mean, honestly. I'd write a letter if 1

were you . . .

VIENNA Ultravox 2 ROMEO AND JULIET Dire Straits 8 ROCK THIS TOWN Stray Cats 10 TAKE MY TIME Sheena Easton 13 IN THE AIR TONIGHT Phil Collins 16 ZEROX Adam And The Ants 20 THE BEST OF TIMES Styx 21 GANGSTERS OF THE GROOVE Heatwave 22 MESSAGE OF LOVE Pretenders 26 TURN ME ON TURN ME OFF Honey Bane 26 BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 33 TWILIGHT CAFE Susan Fassbender 36 1.0. U. Jane Kennaway 36 LONELY HEART U.F.O 43

1 SURRENDER Rainbow 43

MADNESS: Feature 4/5/6 PHIL COLLINS: Feature 14/15/16 ADAM AND THE ANTS: Colour Poster 24/25 THE STRANGLERS: Feature 34/35 DEBBIE HARRY: Colour Poster 44

DISC JOCKEYS 9 CARTOON 9 BITZ 11/12 CROSSWORD 18 INDEPENDENT BITZ 19 DISCO 22 REVIEWS 28/29 STAR TEASER 30 SOUNDAROUND/GEN X COMPETITION 31 BIRO BUDDIES 32

COMPETITION WINNERS ...! 37 LEHERS .„..39/40

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was rea//y limited. You know, I MAD-NIFICENT7 didn't like this geezer or that Davy, Dav-ee Hepworth (King Of The Wild Frontier) watches Madnau ride off into the sunset. Trigger-happy Fin Costello shoots geezer because he was a punk or first and develops later. whatever . . . but now everybody Is much more open to new things THEY REALLY ought to warn tables had been commandeered because of travelling and so people. Put it out on local radio by swarms of glassy-eyed girls forth. or something. "A lorry has shed ordering one cup of tea between "In this business you meet its load in Shepherd's Bush, three of them and examining every race, every creed, every resulting in a tail back of traffic Suggs in great detail. type of person. You meet the right across Hammersmith Up in the prosperous suburb of saps, the ponces, the grovellers, Bridge . . . Whitehall will be Hempstead, dogs out walking the intelligent people, the people closed between 12 and 1 today their owners on the Heath were who are into the music, the for the State Visit of the ambushed by the same seven people who are into the money. President . . Of Denmark . and young men, this time dressed up It just opens your eyes lot Madness are spending to a of the day as cowboys. Dogs, of course, ." things . . filming a video for "Return Of take this sort of eccentric 7" Bedders is about to say The Los Palmes . . . unless behaviour in their stride. Not so something but Suggs is too fast your business is of great the manager of the West London for him. importance, please remain hotel where the afternoon's "We were totally into madness indoors with the curtains closed shooting is to be done. when we started; the reggae and When he was asked to provide the ska and everything. And now The first to feel the impact was chicken salad and champagne for hopefully we're gonna branch the proprietor of a small greasy seven in his best banqueting out a bit. Hopefully we've left spoon cafe. Innocently enough suite, he'd no doubt imagined it enough doors open to do he gave his permission for a little was for some small formal something interesting." quiet filming to be done on the business lunch. True enough the What has surprised many premises. diners were all decked out in people is the ease with which Next thing he knows a van has thirties evening dress, dinner Madness, on the face of it the pulled up outside and begun jackets, starched wing collars, least weighty and fashionable of disgorging pop stars. Hundreds the full bit. the bands that emerged from of them. They occupied all his But nobody mentioned under the 2-Tone umbrella, tables and began ordering anything about Lee Thompson should succeed commercially, everything on the menu. Twice interrupting the meal by jumping outselling people like The with extra chips. on to the table and landing his Specials and The Beat Course, the word spread like Doc Martens smack dab in the effortlessly. wildfire, reaching the local middle of the lettuce. And then Suggs pretends not to be in school in a matter of minutes. proceeding to play a miniature the least surprised himself. them deeply you can get more Next thing he knew his few spare saxophone. This definitely "The reason is we're better out of 'em", points out Chas. wasn't part of the agreement. possibly be reported in a family looking, funnier, more cheerful "The kids, they can just hear Gingerly he enquires the name magazine. The Madness feature and more easily acceptable." 'Naughty boys in nasty schools, of the group who are responsible film, tentatively called "Take It Chas has no doubts of what headmaster's breaking all the for this havoc. Madness? Ah, it Or Leave It", is more along the Madness are all about: rules' and think 'that's me'," begins to add up. lines of a dramatised "Having fun, making money continues Suggs. documentary, tracing the and making people happy." The conversation moves to SHOOTING COMPLETED on for the progress of the band from early But do they not think that the compare the light touch of day, Chas Smash. Suggs and days to their first major London nutty business has tempted "Baggy Trousers" with the long Bedders loosen their collars and gig at The Nashville in 1979. people to dismiss the genuine winded, preachy tone of Pink settle down to talk. Not that Suggs explains the dominant quality of many of their songs? Floyd's song on the same there's much settling down theme. Songwriters who jump on salads subject, "Another Brick In The involved when Lord Suggs and "It's about the way it went and without adequate warning often Wall". Mr Smash — Carl to his friends — it ." the way could have gone . . find it hard to be taken seriously Suggs, who wrote their lyric, is are in the mood for a bit of This project, which will cost as creative artists. annoyed that his number was verbal. them a quarter of a million Suggs shrugs. unfairly written off as the usual Bedders sits between them, pounds that they haven't yet got, bit, I ." cheery "A . but don't care . throwaway while the swivelling like a Wimbledon will probably mark a full stop ". at . . there's some very condescending cliches of a bunch umpire as they rattle away on the end of Madness Phase One, serious lyrics on our last album," of old hippies are feted as Art. either side, considering himself otherwise known as The offers Chas, citing "Shadow Of Chas, who was knocking about fortunate to contribute a cough Jumping Up And Down Years. Fear", a tune about being Pink Floyd's studio complex or two to the conversation. Not that any of them are pursued by a bad conscience, as when they were putting together You seem to enjoy this video planning to purchase long an example. The Wall extravaganza, describes I business, venture . . . raincoats or synthesisers, it's Bedders spots a gap in the them colourfully as "spark out". "We enjoy everything," simply that the seven of them, conversation and seizes it with "They haven't been in touch announces Suggs and grins. unschooled and relatively both hands. with reality for God knows how "We're doing a film very inexperienced though they may "Lee is very profound. We can't long," he adds. shortly," announces Chas and be, have enough common sense understand his songs. He can't "Education for me was a pain," grins too. "And it won't be and realism to face the fact that understand 'em either." says Suggs. "But it was a pain for anything like 'Breaking Glass' changes must be made if the Suggs agrees. the teachers as well and momentum that has brought "He's very deep." everybody concerned. But it's The assembled company then them thus far is to be just something you have to go begin to denounce the aforesaid maintained. "OUR SONGS can be listened to through." film in terms which couldn't "Absolutely" was a step in the easily, but if you think about Continued over page From previous page He sneers at the whole idea of to confine live shows to the "teacher, leave those kids weekends and then only in alone" theory: "What do they interesting venues where they want? We should all go to can present their music in new communes and learn how to ways.

grow apples? Nobody gets "We've stopped doing all this educated that way. As far as Pink touring," says Chas, "because Floyd are concerned we can all it's spoiling things for us. There's live in fields and pick daisies." no way you can go out every Interestingly enough, the night and do it and believe in it. I teachers who inspired that feel sorry for a lot of the people They hope to be able to fit in made redundant. Learning the wonderful line about "passing who came along on our last tour shows for their younger fans, trumpet is his current priority. round the ready rub" were not ." because we were sometimes many of whom can't get into the "Initially," he says, "I was . . the middle aged metalwork men "... doing two shows a night, and I clubs or stay out late. Suggs says a hanger on," finishes that I'd pictured, all leather know it can't have been as good it started "because we've seen Chrissy Boy as he takes a seat. elbow patches In and covered as it should have been." kids locked out or squashed Chas begins again: "initially, I chalk dust. Suggs modelled ." them . down the front . was really insecure. I felt that I In these circumstances I always on a couple of younger members "We've made a gesture," threatened felt dust off the same old question. Suggs and he of staff at his school. He continues Chas, "and maybe threatened by my presence. But Don't you owe it to the fans to remembers their Laura Ashley tour? now a lot of groups will start we resolved it and we joined frocks and copies of "Socialist doing things for kids. People forces, which is the best way. Suggs agrees but points out Worker". Pink Floyd fans, maybe. sneer, you know — 'here they We're a real unit and we're all that they just have to take a bit are, the teenybop band' — but gonna sink or swim together." WHATEVER THE future does more time and think up turn what's that all about? On that note I start wrapping something out to hold for them. Madness new. Everybody's got a right to enjoy up the tape recorder. Chas are determined not to continue "Jumping up and down and themselves." complains that he didn't get his the almost constant live work the Nutty Dance is what got us When fVladness first blinked in "quote" in. I switch it on again. that's taken up most of their time where we are today. It's just a to the light of day, Chas's Chas clears his throat. since the unexpected chart matter of having a bit of time to position was none too secure. "Squares," he announces, success of "The Prince". Like The think of something new, These days it's hard to imagine "have all the angles." Specials, Revillos, Clash and something a bit more the band without him. Not that They really ought to warn others they would like to be able interesting." he's taking any chances on being people. 6 ~ "^^^HIK .J L J r\ ji ^ ^^w r^ 1 SW^WklKiS^S'^i^'^^^^^^^i^^1 ^™ ]ISvAw i^ # ,

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A love struck Romeo You promised ma everything Sings a street suss serenade You promised me thick and thin Laying everybody low Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know With a love song that he made I used to have a scene with him Finds a street light Steps out of the shade Chorus Juliet, He says something like when we made love You used to cry You and me babe how about it You said I love you like The stars above Juliet says hey it's Romeo I'll love you till I die You nearly gimme a heart attack He's underneath the window There's a place for us You know the She's singing hey la my boyfriend's back movie song When you gonna realise You shouldn't come around hert; It just that Singing up at people like that was the time was wrong Juliet Anyway what you gonna do about it I can't do the talks Like the talk ^ Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start on TV , And I can't do a love song And I bet, and you exploded in my heart Like the way it's meant to be And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realise I can't do everything But I'd do anything for It was just that the time was wrong, Juliet you I can't do anything except be in love with you Come up on different streets .•*,«:? They both were streets of shame And all 1 do is miss you And the way we used to be Both dirty both mean | M ^A~''f ^tJSl . rM Ail 1 do is keeo the Yes and the dream was just the sam*' ^ beat "j/M ji And bad comoanv And I dreamed your dream for you ^^H ' 5 All 1 do is kiss you And now your dream is real ^H| Through the bars of a rhyme ™ How can you look at me as if I was ».: Julie I'd Just another one of your deals do the stars with you anytime Repeat chorus When you can fall for chains of silver You can fall for chains of gold Words and music by M. Knopfler -^ You can fall for pretty strangers Reproduced by permission Rondor Music Ltd./Straitjacket Songs I And the promises they hold Lm. i OURMM durmN PLANET EARTH

FIRST SINGLE EMI C/W LATE BAR DISC JOCKEYS-A PsychiatristReports Next Monday sees the publication of a new book dealing with an old problem — "Disc Jockeys And How To Avoid Them" by Doctor Otto Krantz, head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Berlin Institute Mental Deviance and Of Out And Out Fruitcakes. In this exclusive preview of apiece of research which is bound to set everyone talking, Dr Krantz outlines his main conclusions for Smash Hits readers. Dingly Dell und Captain Beaky is childhood spent in a pram mit der ADRIAN JUSTE amusing, a person who cannot resist top down. Ah, ze textbook case! Mr Juste is telephoning innocent citizens and Mr Travis needs love und care und just one of ze many thouzands off pestering zem wiz der stoopid treatment. Should zat be peeple in Britain today who suffer put-on voices. unsuccessful, he can be tortured. from ze illusion zat zey are Kenny It is my belief zat only a rest cure Everett. can alleviate dis serious condition. To rid him of this misconception I Ten years should do it. PAUL BURNETT recommend a short holiday in a darkened room, und continual DA VE LEE TRA VIS beating about ze head und shoulders Mr Travis grows ze hair all around mit a dead penguin. ze face und refers to himself as ze "Hairy Monster" und ze "Hairy Cornflake". He also lafts when zere is no joke und wears ze rally jacket all ze live long day. Zis condition obviously dates back to a miserable

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9 . STRAY CATS ROCK THIS TOWN Arista Records Weil, my baby and me went out late Saturday night right I had my hair piled high and my baby just looked so Well, pick you up at ten Gotta have you home by two

Mama don't know what I catched off you But that's alright 'cause we're looking as cool as caa be

Well, we found a liMe place that realty didn't took half had I had a whisky on the rocks And change of a dollar for the jukebox

Well, I put cold rock into that cc>n But all they played was disco, man Come on, baby baby, let's get out of here right away

Chorus We're gonna rock this town

Rock it inside out We're gonna rock this town Make 'em scream and shout Let's rock, rock, rock, and rock

I'm gonna rock till we pop Gonna rock till we drop We're gonna rock this town

Rock it inside ou

Well, we're having a ball just a-bopping .t the big dance floor Well, there's a real square cat - e looks a 1974 Well, he look at me once, he U. v at me twice Look at me again and there's g^ na be a fight We're gonna rock this .jwn Gonna rip this place 'part

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CAT LIHER ANYONE WANT a young, keen WAITING rockabilly band, hardly used and I raring to go? Well, Bitz is inundated with 'em. No sooner FOR have The Stray Cats THE put their first single in the charts than every other record company in the WEEKEND capital is bopping out into the night and signing up the first YET ANOTHER band decide that quiff it comes across. conventional touring strategies First out of the starting are not for them. The Specials gate are The Polecoats, signed have announced their intention only the other week to Phonogram to play only small halls and clubs after being hotly pursued by every in future and will confine their cheque book in appearances to weekends. The London. And just when we were getting used band's disillusion with the to the SlOUXSi S ANNUAL fact that The gigging treadmill was deepened Polecats were the SIOUXSIE real hot AND The Bb iees play their only British shows this recently when Jerry stuff, along comes a Dammers year during February a March, stwting off with and Terry handout from Charly Records two s jws at Hall were convicted on London's Hammersmit alaison announcing the signing of The F» 16th and 17th. Tl y a charge of inciting an unruly continue with Poole Blue Ar entredS; ortsmouth Gui^ tail crowd at a gig Cats, apparently the only (20), in Cambridge last Leicester Oe Montfort h rockabilly band capable (22),Derb \ssemblyHall i), Leec^i year and fined heavily. of University (25), Edinbur„ Playhoust. ._,..„„„ :7), Liverpool oyal Cot t While The Clash have capturing that old authentic shown (March 1), Blackburn King leorges H no sign sound. By the time you read this f2)andNev> jstleCity lall of covering the country to (3). promote "Sandinistal", we will no doubt have been Madness After they come off the road the bai introduced to The Neutered are going i o the studio! are similarly disinclined to Cats, to record a new album for release in A ust. Its commit The Tabby Cats, The Cats From rel jse will be themselves to long, marked, we are told, by Number Twenty Three and a Special Ever restricted • fan club wearing stints of live work. See The ~«»nhor<; onlv. Cats . Dunitagain . . feature on page four. DUMBO MARKETING ploys MARLEY BRUM BRUM department. WEA have issued a ON number of copies of the current STATUS QUO have THE MEND added a John Lennon single, "Woman", second concert at Birmingham's on cassette and intend to adopt AFTER MONTHS of treatment at National Exhibition Centre to this idea as company policy if it hospitals in America and their tour schedule. They will proves beneficial to sales. The Switzerland, Bob Marley is now play on Sunday, March 22nd Pretenders new single, "Message reported to be back on the road to as well as the night before, tickets Of Love", will be the next to get recovery and planning to record for which are already sold out. the tape treatment. in America during February and tour in May. There are still conflicting rumours about the Mounting Flame (CBS). One of nature of Marley's complaint, the best and best-sounding with the official line being that records by a fusion band. exhaustion was the main 5. WEATHER REPORT: Boogie problem. The unofficial version, Woogie Waltz (CBS). See above. however, names a form of cancer The perfect introduction to them. as the reason for the treatment. 6. STEVE MARTIN: Comedy Is Around the middle of December, Not Pretty (Warner Bros). / like all PARKER just a few days after John his LPs, to the point where they Lennon's death, it was widely now monopolise my believed in London that Marley conversation. RECRUITS had died. 1. EARTH, WIND AND FIRE: I Am Made 7. STEPHEN BISHOP: COLLARED VIA the telephone the The single biggest (CBS). (ABC). Marvellous song to get other day, Graham Parker influence on me over the past few depressed by. confirmed his split with The years. 8. THE MIRACLES: Going To A Rumour but wishes to make it 2. THE JACKSONS: Lovely One (Tamla Motown). This Go Go clear that all concerned are still (Epic). The record that shows one of a could have been any pals. He is looking to America for them and their great horn section singles from this dozen Motown a new backing band and plans to to the best advantage. period. record in the near future. He also 3. THE ACTION: I'll Keep Holding (ABC). Classic 9. ACE: How Long took time to deny rumours that On (Parlophone). One of myall single he is planning an acoustic album, time favourite groups. 10. TONY HANCOCK: Pieces Of pointing out that Van Morrison 4. Hancock (Pye). One of the finest, THE MAHAVISHNU did the job pretty well on his 1969 ORCHESTRA: The Inner funniest comedians ever "Astral Weeks" set. MARKED FOR SIGNING ON, DEMOLITION STING HAS penned "Demolition SIGNING OFF Man", the new single from famous lamp post and clothes MEANWHILE, BACK in the horse Grace Jones. Is the man boardroom . . . Simple Minds are out of his mind? Has he not heard reckoned to be saying bye bye to the actual this Arista Records and heading bodily harm that Chrissie Polydorwards, unhappy with the woman inflicted on Hynde's "Private Life"? Beats us. way the former company have His sense of humour gets harder handled their three albums. The to fathom all the time. Undertones, who have been free agents since leaving Sire in October, have been busy working on their third long player and BRUCE ON look set to put pen to paper with either EMI or RCA, depending on THE LOOSE Ms BEHAVIOUR which company promises to BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S spring leave them alone the most. visit to Britain is slowly turning "I'VE BEEN soooo lucky," New York, California, a year on a It is also widely believed that into a proper tour. With five enthuses Jane Kennaway, house boat in India's Kashmir UB40 are severing their ties with Wembley dates already sold out, sounding not unlike a younger mountains. Then boarding Graduate, the Birmingham a second Birmingham show has and more bubbly Penelope Keith. school. independent which has made a been slotted in at the National Her first single, "1.0. U." has just "I used to wonder where my name for itself through their huge Exhibition Centre on March 28th. glided into selling debut album. Of the New venues on the tour schedule the bottom of the sister kept disappearing to. I was 2,000,000 records that Graduate include Apollo charts, aided on its way by the jealous of her so I bullied my Manchester kind of intensive airplay that parents into letting me go to have sold worldwide during (March 23, 24), Edinburgh could make "Keith Joseph Tap boarding school in Edinburgh. 1980, UB40 obviously account for Playhouse (30) and Newcastle a large percentage. City Hall (31). Dances In Finnish" a chart The moment I walked through

contender. the door I realised I'd made a

She talks about luck. Maybe mistake, but I couldn't go back on determination's more like it. my word. U." "1.0. has been on every demo "But it did make me quite tape RECORD PURCHASED she and her band, Strange independent . . . having no FIRST Behaviour, have sent out in the mother to go and cry to or help "Tears Of A Clown" last couple of years. Thanks but you with your homework." FIRST LIVE SHOW ATTENDED: no thanks was the usual reaction. As an independent young girl, Big Youth, 1977 But now, with "I.O.U." a playlist Jane started playing music at the PREVIOUS BANDS: The Dum fixture, she's in the pleasant Anglo-America college in London Dum Boyz Mechanic position of being courted by and then undertook a tour of Italy (PREVIOUS JOBS: those who once showed her the which left her suntanned, (GIRLFRIEND: Angela Birmingham door. At the very least, it's stranded and broke. Back in PRESENT HOME: achieved the modest aim she set London she attended endless PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: for it. auditions, purely for the Travelling the world Police, Clash, "We just put it out to attract a experience, finally joining a band HEROES: The record deal. We had two called Trigger Happy while still Trinity, Black Uhuru Great thousand pressed up on our working in Lightning Records' FAVOURITE FILM: 'The label. Growing Up In Hollywood, mail order office. Rocl< 'n' Roll Swindle" and distributed them through When Trigger Happy folded FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMME: Pinnacle. Then we did a session she formed The Sneaks, the "Tiswas" _ for Peter Powell with "I.O.U." on forerunners of Strange Behaviour FAVOURITE ITEM OF CLOTHING trousers it and he kept playing it and and a "kind of jazz punk" band. At Jazz funk, punk V, FOOD: Deram picked it up to distribute it the time her big heroes were New FAVOURITE BREAKFAST ." sausage, beans and. . York's Television. Cornflakes, beef «ANK/WG a Chrysalis look most likely to get "I snuck in through the back ROGER or tomato on toast and Jane's name on the bottom of a door at one of their soundchecks smashing cup of coffee HATE: Tortoises recording contract but it won't be and met their guitarist, Tom FULL NAME: Roger Charlery PET first MISTAKE I EVER her brush with fame. Her Verlaine." BORN: 22/2/67 BIGGEST on "Tiswas' father, James, was a noted writer The awe is still in her voice. BROTHERS AND SISTERS: MADE: Going Iter until his death in all "The Bucket Of Water the mid-sixties There's no better experience for Equilar, Annie, Christina, Greta know and as a child Jane travelled all dealing with fans than having EDUCATED: Corpus Christi & Song" _ J J over the world with him. She been yourself. COLOUR OF SOCKS: Red and one „ Arch!Archbishop Williams R.C. School, grew up in a variety of Black places; Jon Swift m, BirmiBirmingham 12 m TAKE MY TIME By Sheena Easton on EMI Records

When 1 was young people used to say Someday the right one will come your way Could be tomorrow could be todav

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I need somebody to tie me down

And so I waited patiently

Will it be like my fantasy

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t§^f^" FIRST it looks like a and roll. Quite smart arrangements, like to think we're exempt from that home in Chobham secured him familiar story. Singer actually.' the AT in blanket criticism', he says, 'that job. After a two-week interiude of huge-selling rock group has On 'Face Value' the feeling we're not as boring as the Floyd, not decorating houses for a friend — time on his hands, a little too much comes through partly in the writing asponcy as Yes.' 'the only time I've done (or the a proper money tax man's liking, — tracks like 'Behind The Lines' To give his case further weight, he day's work in my life' — they began perhaps, and a few sketches for and 'I Missed Again' are composed recalls a chance encounter at trekking around the nation's clubs. songs knocked out in the inevitable very much in a late '70s disco/funk Heathrow Airport with Topper home studio on his afternoons off. vein — and in the choice of Headon, the Clash drummer: 'He COLLINS believes that The result? The Dreaded Solo musicians: bass player Alphonso made sure no-one was looking PHIL and 'we were one of the last bands Album, guaranteed to be Johnson (ex- bought by Weather Report) and came up to me to say 'I really like to do it that way, squeezing every diehard enthusiast on the the Earth, Wind & Fire brass your drumming.' Collins connects into the Wake Arms, Epping or the morning of its release and vanish section. the incident with one of the guiding Nottingham Boat House where without a trace. you Collins is particularly proud of the principles of his career: 'I've always had to dismantle the staircase to get So, when the third member of fact that the EW&F horns were wanted to gain the respect of my your equipment in. Since then the Genesis — drummer and singer willing to contribute: 'They don't fellow musicians.' huge amount of gear that bands ('Definitely nof the other way spread it around — the only things CAREER began in started using has killed the clubs.' round,' he insists) Phil Collins they do outside their THAT own band is earnest when he was He's right, of course. Ask any announces that he's following on the stuff like the Emotions. I sent a tape seventeen. Up until then he'd fledgling band today and they'll tell heels of his colleagues Tony Banks you they lose hand over fist on even and Mike Rutherford with his own the crummiest club dates. It's no LP, the reaction is predictable. longer only the likes of Genesis who 'Here we go again.' wave their fees goodbye to P. A. But do we? Collins doesn't hire companies and lighting exactly need the money, one OLD DOGS speciaUsts. suspects. Last year's Genesis album, Punk, as Collins himself 'Duke', sold like hotcakes, showing appreciates, may have offered that none of the band's commercial temporary relief: 'suddenly you popularity had been lost in the didn't need a degree in technology emergence of a new, younger rock AND to go out on the road.' But the audience. Collins still lives in the economics of gigging have simply comfort of his £140,000 house in the got worse. stockbroker belt of the Surrey Genesis hit the trail in the far-off countryside. days when 'If you got a gig at the And it can't really be TRICKS a shortage of NEW Marquee, you were happening.' opportunities to play drums. Singing And they continued to rely on and fronting Genesis on their Leading Genesis doesn't keep Phil Collins anything performing. 'We never,' he says massive tours hasn't stopped him like busy enough. So he firmly, 'got anywhere by our holding firmly to the studio makes his solo debut with a record records; we didn't even have a drumstool. And the more complex, that shows all those modern bands a thing or two. He al# successful single until 'I Know What jazzy side of his playing finds a free finds time to talk to Steve Taylor. I Like' in '74. We always had to go rein in Brand X, the jazz-rock out and play. The radio never troupe with which he's made a played us, except John Peel, and handful of albums. of the songs to the saxophone player drummed in a number of amateur our albums never made that much It can't be a hunger for recording, and he agreed. Then I took the basic bands while pursuing a successful money until 'Trick Of The Tail' as he's recently done the honours tapes of the album out to LA and stint at acting school. 'When I was a which did it in America. for guitarist and singer John Martyn their arranger, Tom Tom 84 (a small kid,' he says, 'two things Curiously, 'Trick', which Collins his on last album 'Grace And gentleman, not a digital computer), happened. I was always the token describes as a 'bright upfront album' Danger'. Nor can it be nostalgia for came with a cassette player. I played child in any of the celebrations, followed immediately on the heels the sweat 'n' slog of the small-scale the tape of the song and he said pantomimes, etc. that went on at my of Peter Gabriel's departure from club gig, as he's done a nine-date "Sing what you want to hear." The parents' sailing club — so I had the band. Gabriel had been the tour with Martyn plus some odd following day they all came back plenty of expertence of being up on lyrical and theatrical focus of gigs. Why, they were playing and played it!' stage. And mf uncle made me a Genesis up until then and his Bracknell Arts Centre only last Phil recorded the beginnings of drum kit, which I really took to.' eccentric lyrics, combined with an week and came away with a each track, usually piano and drum The acting gof off to a precocious elaborate parade of stage costumes, handsome thirty pounds apiece. machine, at his house in the small start with his appearance in a West had reached a peak in the 1974 CoUins has his own explanation eight-track studio next to his End production of 'Oliver' as the double story-album 'The Lamb Lies which revolves around the songs bedroom. Neighbour Eric Clapton Artful Dodger, only to end rather Down On Broadway'. themselves; quite simply, he 'knew — 'he's well known round here for unspectacularly a couple of years When Gabriel left, the big that they wouldn't get done by the speeding about in his Ferrari, later: 'The last thing I did was a question was whether the band band in the way I wanted them knocking corners off walls' — children's film for Saturday morning could carry on in the shadow of his done.' Some of them, he says, were dropped in to add some guitar to cinema (an old English custom from former role, one which Collins says 'very simple' and although Genesis' one track. the days before 'Tiswas' — Ed.) has been exaggerated. Although he writing style had moved in this Then the tapes were taken to called 'Calamity The Cow'. I fell out says 'it was a happy band right to the direction over the last couple of Virgin Records' Townhouse studio with the director. When you're end in my memory, whatever you albums, it still wasn't in Shepherds Bush and transferred sixteen you don't want to look a may read', the split was already back-to-the-basics enough for him. onto normal 24-track footage so that berk, you have your own ideas. So imminent when they were writing Collins and engineer Hugh he wrote me out of the film when I the 'Lamb': 'We'd be in one room to the first single LISTENING Padgham, who he'd met on the was away on holiday.' offering from writing the music, and Peter would the Phil CoUms sessions for Peter Gabriel's last 'I thought, "If this is what goes on be in another writing the words.' 'Face Value' album, a album, could take them to L. A. ... I want to drum!".' His father, Given his working musician's haunting sliver of tunefulness that who'd worked in insurance for forty mind, Collins was already has found favour with DJs and the a touch produced the years, was very disappointed, not chart-funding COLLINS dissatisfied with the state of the public with indecent record himself and the least because he liked telling his band and became frustrated by the ease, it is surprising that he hasn't finished effort has impressed colleagues that Phil was on in the expanding theatrics: 'I could be caught some of that simplicity from the other members of Genesis West End. His mother, a theatrical the newer playing my arse off and nobody bands. After all; drum enough for them to have made the agent, was less worried though they would notice.' So, aided by a push machine, one-finger synthesiser radical decision not to use their needn't have bothered. Collins of encouragement from his then melody and voice — almost the long-standing producer David couldn't have fallen in with a nicer wife, he offered to take textbook elements of garageband Gabriel's Hentschel on the next group album, bunch of young men. electronic pop. place, so that 'at least the songs but produce it themselves with He answered an advert in the would be heard properly.' He disagrees: 'I would trace my Padgham's help. back of 'Melody Maker' requesting simplicity To the listener, the huge surprise back to the stuff I grew up Phil Collins offers this someone to come and fill the of the with: a changeover was the amazing black simplicity.' Collins' information in defence against the drumstool in Genesis, who had similarity admiration for black between their vocal tones. music dates oft-voiced criticism that the band begun as the school band at Collins' voice sounded like nothing back to this first teenage bands: 'I represent the old guard of rock Charterhouse, a genteel started public less than a purer version of his my career as a drummer bands, the bland, unadventurouj school in Surrey. predecessor's. The one thing that playing Tamla Motown, not rock dinosaurs of 'progressive' rock. I'd A visit to Peter Gabriel's parents' Continues over . . . 15 OLD DOGS AND NEW TRICKS From previous page broke up. had to change radically, though, was That sad event, he admits, presentation. governed the mood of much of the The costumes were out: 'I hated material on 'Face Value', which all that aspect of singing — Freddie dates from a period of eighteen Mercury and wiggling bums — months ago when he shut himself off drumming was a respectable gig and in the house and just wrote and I'd only front the band on a similar played. 'In The Air Tonight' was the basis.' result of improvising words out of the blue, singing along to a backing COLLINS HAS continued to track he'd made at home. front the band since then, as The way the track became they've dwindled to the Collins' debut solo single is a good central threepiece of himself, illustration of the subtleties of keyboards player Tony Banks and record production. Ahmet Ertegun, guitarist Mike Rutherford. Collins the head of Atlantic Records in the still plays drums on record and they States, heard it and said to Collins recruit a regular team of additional 'You've got to put an off-beat in musicians for touring. there; add some drum beats in the They live within a few miles of right place to the album track's each other; ironically Collins has drum machine beat and the kids'll

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YOU'RE IN a band? Well, everybody knows Steve Taylor, Smash Hits contributor and managing director of Latent that your band won't be a proper band until Records, offers a step you've made a record, until you've stamped by step guide to the O.I.Y. disc business. your musical personality on to a sliver of vinyl, until you can hear your voice, your music blaring out of the nearest music centre. BASICALLY EACH single costs 16-17 pence to Don't worry. This is 1981. You can make make, each sleeve around 4 pence. your own record. You'll need some basic But when you have your first batch materials — a couple of songs, the made there are several extra costs. The sound has to instruments and personnel to record them, be transferred from tape into grooves; this is and — why does this always seem to elbow its called 'mastering' way Into the proceedings? — some money. and costs around £25 per side. Then at the pressing plant the 'acetates' You can beg, borrow or scrape together all have to be turned into the metal 'stampers' your other needs. If you're super-jammy you which press the squidges of runny vinyl might even find a pair of loonies like me and into playable discs. Making the stampers is my partner. We put our savings into making a called 'processing' and is usually charged — record by a band and we weren't even going extra we paid £35 per side. to be on the thing! On the printing side, you need to have labels Seriously, there are a lot of people who printed before the pressing plant gets to work, would like to become involved in putting out as they are put on inside the press. This may small-label singles, so if you can't put the cost £30 for a photographic plate plus pennies together yourself get a rough tape of another £30 for a thousand labels. Sleeves cost around your songs and take it to people you think may £35 for each be interested. plate (one for each colour used, including black) and £60 per thousand. Unfortunately, we're talking about several The encouraging thing hundred pounds here. We shopped around is that many of the costs are not repeated if you order another and cut corners where it didn't affect the batch — they simply whip out the stampers, quality, such as in rejecting a full-colour sleeve plates, etc., and run you off another load. producer or journalist first, if you in favour of a black and white one. So, if can. Go and you can get recording costs down to a see independent distributors like Rough minimum, say £75, the total cost for 1,000 Trade, Bonaparte, Red Rhino, who'll listen to singles could be as low as £550. Between four the record and, hopefully, buy some. members of a band that's £137.50 each; work, Then you wait some more. For cheques to save, forget about that motorbike for a come back from distributors, for the papers to

while . . print details from your press release, for John Recording is where you really can control Peel to play it. Our high spot was a three-week your outgoings. The best minimal recording run in the NME Independent Singles Chart. budget story is probably David Keep writing and talking to people, do what Cunningham's; he made "Money", Virgin you can to keep the buzz going. If you're Records best selling single of 1979 for just successful the distributors will continue to £6.50. Tape recorders such as he used can be order further batches until you run out. hired or borrowed. Latent, our label, hasn't got that far yet and our first release, 'She's In Love With Mystery'

WHEN I bumped into another South-London by the Thompson Twins, hasn't set the world based journalist at a free pub gig near my flat alight. But this is small-label land and you and found out he was keen to start an learn to scale your expectations down in independent label, that we'd both saved some keeping with your economics. Having said

funds that, I can still and were ready to look for a band, I remember hearing the final bars agreed without hesitation. Luckily we had to of the song fading out on my radio one Friday look no further. The band that played that night and Richard Skinner's voice, saying, night were excellent; they had already put out 'That's the Thompson Twins and that's a very ' one single themselves but had run out of good single . . . money, spare time and energy. That was Tuesday evening. On Thursday we were ready to see a new, and therefore cheap, studio. The engineer seemed lively and competent (more important than worrying about a producer at this stage) so we booked two days. Recording is very hard work and ought to be, as you pay for every unproductive hour you use. We took a lot of trouble over the drum and bass backing track, using this solid basis for the rest of the guitars, vocals, etc. We drew up the artwork for the labels and sleeve at home and took it to the printers. Took tapes to the mastering man — it's probably worth bringing them to London to get someone well-known on the job. Took lacquers to pressing plant people. Arranged for printers to deliver sleeves and labels to pressing plant. Waited. And waited. 5«ES You have to keep 'phoning, keep gently W/ovfj^^y hassling people. Eventually, they'll send you 'test pressings', sample records you can play. Ours were fine and we gave the go-ahead. More waiting, then at last the finished product. Magic! "She's In Love With Mystery" is available from 8, Hugenot Mansions, East Hill, London THEN ANOTHER phase of slogging work SW18 for 80p. The ZigZag small Labels starts. Photocopying press releases, sending Catalogue lists local labels, pressing plants copies to radio stations, DJs, Music Press. and studios and costs £1.25 (inc. p&p) from 'Phone and get the name of an individual ZigZag, 1 18 Talbot Road, London W1 1 1JR. 19 zEPm Records A A Tho Antsants on Doi^ K By Adam And The

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Honey you and I "Cause I'll take any risk

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I know you feel these are the worst of times I do believe it's true When people lock their doors and hide inside Rumour has it, it's the end of paradise But I know if the world just passed us by Baby I know, I wouldn't have to cry

Chorus The best of times Are when I'm alone with you Some rain, some shine We'll make this a world for two

Our memories of yesterday Will last a lifetime We'll take the best, forget the rest And someday we'll find These are the best of times » These are the best of times

\ The headlines read These are the worst of times I do believe it's true I feel so helpless like a boat against the tide I wish the summer wind could bring back paradise But I know it the world turned upside down Baby I know, you'd always be around

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Words and music by D. De Young Reproduced by permission Rondo Music Ltd. ^^^>:r. The Royalty, Winchmore Hill Rd, Wonder's "Lately" (Ensign) with mind, girl.) Southgate, London N14. brother Eddy getting production David Bendwth had some chart Cheques/PO's should be made credits. It's an attractive reggae success a while ago with "Feel payable to Showstopper. orientated version which with The Real" and returns with "Love The "mafia" are also featured airplay could be a monster. Collect" (Ensign) which isn't in an all nighter at the Top Rank This week of great releases really up to much. K's a bit drawn (SS^ Suite, Brighton on Friday 27 sees Edwin Starr bringing out a out and half way through I lost February starting at 10pm. new version of the classic interest. Finally, it's the big E for Tickets for this are £4.50 and also "Twenty Five Miles" (20th the last two singles, which are available from the Royalty. Century), great record which 'Too Tight" by Con Funk Shun Being the patriotic sort, we'll could be a hit all over again. (Mercury) and "Don't Know

. start this week's singles with Beggar and Co's latest What to Say" by Blackbyrds two British acts. Beggars "(Somebody) Help Me Out" (Fantasy). They're both a trifle Banquet have signed Freeez, an (Ensign) is already registering in repetitive for my liking. English jazz funk band and the Happy Valentine's Day J^t disco chart but personally I released an album "Southern think it's useless. (Speak your S.W.A.L.K. Freeez" and a single of the same Beverly name. Although the album is mainly instrumental, the single features a girl vocalist and AFTER A slow start '81 finally proves the band have their own GANGSTERS OF THE GROOVE seems to have started brand of jazz funk. It's their first By Heatwave on GTO Records happening. Caister '81 will be record and it could well be a hit. taking place on Friday April 3 Central Line are a British band I We're the gangsters of the groove through to Sunday and it will be saw a couple of years back Got a contract out on you held at the original site (Caister supporting the Real Thing, where We're the syndicate of soul Holiday Centre). All the mafia they left me and the rest of the Gonna take control jocks will be appearing including audience thoroughly impressed. Chris Hill, Robbie Vincent, As yet they haven't enjoyed any Check out the stiff that sits in the corner Froggy and Big Tom Holland and single success but this release, a Don't you know that could be you? other guest appearances as double 'A' side, "(You Know) You Jump on the riff, we're giving the orders usual. Can Do It"/ "We Chose Love" Watching everything you do Tickets are £25 per head and to (Mercury) could well change Don't try to steal, we'll be gunning you down secure accommodation you that. Got to deal, spread the message around should send £10 deposit plus two The multitalented Grant family That the mob is hitting town tonight passport sized photos and your have turned up trumps again. name and address in a SAE to Rudy Grant has released Stevie We're the gangsters of the groove Got a contract out on you (There ain't a chance that you'll survive) We're the syndicate of soul 40 Gonna take control top (You've got to join winning disco the side) We're the bandits of the beat Gonna dance you off your feet (There ain't that RAPTURE Blondie a word you can say) s Better just you're told nnni-T STOP Yarborough 8. People do what Let the times roll _mJRNRUBBER0NMOa£J?2!^ good (Come out and join us all today) GANGSTEK^FT!!li!55yL]lS?5?5!?5 _ALU^IGHTJ^NM*!

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On my television (television)

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Just a plastic vision (plastic vision) On my television (television)

I video'd your soul (your soul) Then I let you go (let you go)

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It was just a radio fantasy But now it's my television memory It was just a radio fantasy But now it's my television memory If was just a radio fantasy But now it's my television memory It was just a radio fantasy Now the reason we're here as man and woman But now it's my television memory Is to love each other and take care of each other When love walks In the room, everybody stand up Repeat chorus Oh it's good, good, good

Like Brigitte Bardot It was just a radio fantasy But now it's my television memory Now look at the people in the streets, in the bars Repeat to fade We are all of us in the gutter But some of us are looking at the stars Words and music by J. Pursey/H. Bane/P. Godwin Look round the room, life is unkind Reproduced by permission Singatune Publishing We fall but we keep getting up Over and over and over and over ...

Me and you every night, every day We'll be together always this way Your eyes are blue like the heavens above Talk to me, darling, with a message of love

Now the reason we're here, every man, every woman Is to help each other, stand by each other When love walks in the room, everybody stands up Oh it's good, good, good

Sgy I love you, I love you, I love you . . .

Talk to me, darling Talk to me, darling Talk to me, darling Talk to me, darling

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It's a basic BLUNSTONE: What Becomes Of iaradise Theatre that it would probably churn Glaswegian growl of "Can ye no out of 10). (A&M). be a hit if The around the "Since you been see Broken Hearted? (Healthy). radise Theatre" is the Unilever bought it up as a soap ah'm dancin'?" Chic meets Bevi name gone" theme Ah now, speaking of bass, if of a venue built ad. which lacks the Andy Stewart. A giggle. you in Chicago in focus, hookline or actually have no further use 1928 and demolished identifiable for THE STRANGLERS: The a mere sound to give them the hit they're your home you may care to try thirty years later due to THE FRESHIES: I'm In Love With Meninblack (Liberty). Wl the angling for in openly ROSE ROYCE: Golden Touch this little 45 out as a portable ravages of television. The Girl On The Virgin commercial you've got a sinister ima, Hence the fashion. With no aesthetic (WEA). 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This Davii your After three minutes little sticky towards the inside leg tods". Yeah, indeed versions of the title — to avoid basic, high-speed rock 'n' roll. of this I had one was recorded at a Reagan — , no, groove I saying abdominal convulsions, mean. wis truly amongst us, (2 out "Virgin" on the radio? If Some day Mensi should let but I'm soundcheck and has never of been MIKE.BATT: Waves (Epic). it's not sure whether so mighty peculiar because himself sing though. It doesn't they were mirth out on a studio record. Stevie DOLLAR: You Take Whatever else he is, Mike or wind. Is My Breath I Ronnie the last two verses catalogue automatically make you a nancy. Joe Dolce the new Nicks and Christine McVie Gurr Away (WEA). Thereze not so does possess a gift for writ every major record Chico Marx or St. Winifred's serenely harmonise company in much Bazar as the annoyingly addictive School Choir? Jumble Sale if you trash' the country (except MCA, the one venerable Beach Boys hit with The sad ask me. It would be difficult to thing is that when that didn't turn him down). the usual economic Mac back-up. gets down CHEAP TRICK: World's Greatest argue that Dollar are less worthy PEARL HARBOUR; Don't to penning soni' Simply pretty to the point of Follow a mite Lover (Epic). than Abba though, and intelligent Me, I'm Lost more committed thi Cheap Trick had one irresistibility. Too (Warner Bros). journalists "WomblingFree"hedriftrf memorable song and I've argue that the merits of theirsVick girl the kind of tedious forgotten it. I've never emptiness so IS certainly a bit different morasslhat perhaps this is from "serious" composers understood the appeal of their Art too. Nothing to Sheena's. She comes over are wont to get steamed up about as a fall into. Here Batt writes of the shapeless thrashing, but at least either way, tough as nails rock 'n' roller sea in this that's for sure. 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In the day sweat.it out on the streets of a runaway i,_ American dream At night we ride thrdi 1 mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on Highway 9 I Chrome wheeled, fuel I injected I And steppin' out over the line his town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap B We gotta get out while we're young ^nps like us, baby we were born to run

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., 'he highways jammed with broken heroes On a last chance power drive Everybody's out on the run tonight But there's no place left to hide Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness I'll love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place mss^': Where we really want to go And we'll walk in the sun But til! then tramps like us Baby we were born to run Ah honey, tramps like us Baby we were born to run Come on with me, tramps like us Baby we were born to run

Words and music by Bruce Springsteen Published by Intersong Music. Reproduced by permission

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When people started he could probably coma back and ears, people that love money, resembles a rocic and roll disaster spot on the chart. Now, however, what they read in the papers, but fired from their Jobs and stuff, so wringer as punishment for earlier saying he was great he didn't end having movie. In up his own TV how. people that love power, people 1977 they seemed set things seem to be changing, if now it's changed over there. I hear. They're all growing up, sins. But still they haven't gone create as well." You've got to think of love to fair to establish themselves as theM that hate people, people Hugh Cornwell's almost genial There's a lot of new clubs aren't they? They're not eighteen the way of so many British bands things in modern terms but that love animals. I don't see the the first punk rock combo to manner is anything to go by. He opening up in every town and anymore. They're twenty one, who've been confronted with THE STRANGLERS' latest ." people don't. So it's kind everyone talks about . . capture the mass market, to shift underwent the Smash Hits people are not Just listening to twenty two, some of them are public apathy and enormous creation is a single, 'Thrown investigations of a certain albums by the lorryload, to sell Inquisition without what they've read about. Has he ever exper/enced the complaint. They're married, they've got family legal problems; they've not split Away" from the forthcoming phenomenon." kind that everyone talks out major tours, to be numbered The Stranglers have just going along to see if they like it responsibilities and are getting about? up or lost a member and Hugh "Meninblack" long player. Is amongst the big boys. he religious? "I've probably experienced returned from their second visit or not." into thinking about the future for insists they never will until they Despite a slowed down Gumby "I'm /nterested In religion. I'm Infatuation It wasn't long, however, before to America. The first tour, two And they apparently like The themselves." more than anything get their proper ration of respect. voice, it's exceedingly cracks to not religious, but I think rollgion began appear in their years ago, only took in three Stranglers. Something to do So has Cornwell matured in All the more surprising in a commercial and a good single on is the most influential professional armour. They cities and was mainly notable for with their smaller brains the same way? "Oh sure. Yeah." band who weren't exactly spring anyone's terms. Cornwell phenomenon in allowed their relations with admits huntan AFTER A year in virtual obscurity. the the furore that followed their perhaps? Looking back, does he regret chickens to start off with, who'd that the band don't know what a behaviour. Because whan paopla The Stranglers media to degenerate from pally much-publicised remark about "That was a bit of a bigoted anything? look set to return been plodding the circuit for single is these days. plain hostile, encounter things thay don't to the wonderful world of Radio to walking out on Americans having smaller brains, statement," Cornwell admits. "I "No, not at all. i learned a lot quite a while as The Guildford In the past they would understand they're TV shows, making the kind of frightanad of One and "Top Of The Pops". a crack hardly designed to think that since we've been from it. Every experience you go Stranglers before the advent of deliberately choose tracks with them and they than baooma "Thrown Away" should outrageous and ill-considered endear them to the inhabitants meeting Americans that can hold through is a learning experience. be the punk. How close have they come little or no commercial potential aggressive political statements because they don't single to arrest their decline on that were of the US of A. This time they their own when you talk to them I mean my sojourn courtesy of to breaking up? purely in order to annoy the understand and that bound to provoke unfavourable their attitudes causes the 45 front and that in turn seemed determined to prise and have changed Her Majesty was a learning "I think everybody in a band record company. Nowadays they them a lot of problems. If people should speed up ticket sales for reactions, surrounding open a previously closed door. a lot over the last two years, experience. Everything you do is thinks of that every day. The go along with the majority tried to understand instead of the British tour. I wonder themselves with the Finchley Two weeks into the schedule, definitely. It was really good, a learning experience, be it incentive to go on is the fact that verdict. Talk turns to the nature being aggressive and frightened, Boys (a private army of whether Hugh has any idea how however, they had all their gear really exciting being there this unpleasant or not. I think you you haven't achieved the of "Meninblack". Is it, for want of then there would probably be a their support stands as of now. •trongarm men who didn't flinch pinched, an incident Cornwell time." learn more from the unpleasant recognition for what you do and a better word, a concept album? lot less violence in the world. It's from violence when it to With a rueful smile and a came calmly describes as "disastrous." ones in fact. I don't regret that you think you deserve. "It is. In the sense that songs a basic human failure." slightly nervous laugh, dealing with the band's The new, more mature THEIR attitude to the that's it's he CHANGED anything happened — When you get that, it's time to are linked together and they He's already thinking about the confesses to having idea. supposed enemies), kidnapping Stranglers were not to be put off New World is also reflected in been great." no stop and do something else. I'm follow the same theme — the themes of the next album Journalists, dispensing sexist weeks Nowadays he lives in the and, encouraged by the warmth the nationality of their new The reference to his short glad we're still struggling in a investigation of the religious before "Meninblack" is in the jibes and generally of countryside outside Bath and coming on audience receptions, carried manager, an American himself. prison term for drug possession way because artists always work experience as we know it today. shops . . likes nothing better than an obnoxious. on with hired equipment. Also no longer in evidence are prompts me to ask what he was best when they're struggling and What would happen for example 'The next album will evening spent drinking rough Over a period of time they "We're going back in March for The Finchley Boys who, at one actually charged with up against a wall. — on a track called 'Second investigate another cider in the neighbourhood pubs. seemed to he deliberately three and a half months," says point, looked as if they would be possessing. chemists shop, "A "As soon as rt becomes soft Coming' — if Jesus Christ came phenomenon called 'love'. We're He seems to have finally grown alienating whole sections of the Hugh. "We didn't bother going loyal to the last. What happened basically." the quality of what you do goes back and didn't look like the way going to investigate that and see up. Let's hope the bass player's press and public. Their sales back for two years because in '78 to them? The problems have come so down. It always happens. Look at we imagined him to look? what that consists of. I don't see getting there too . . 34 36 :

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i The music grabs me ^ Spms me round and around My spirit soars, no longer smashed to The the ground cares and worries of a busy day Just slide across me as I start to play

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(Oh) A sea of faces swims before my eyes You vvalk towards me giving no disguise I find no words to say, say, say Beautiful ending to a hard, hard day

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Please rush ... catalogue(s) and/or Poster No(s) and/or "FOTO-ROCK" I enclose £ . (including postage and (allow about 10 for days deliveryl packing, as priced above.) 38 vm¥^ JAM CLASH Jam they're going to make me I've gotta write about that Miss walk the plank. I've been flogged, Snotty-nosed Thomas. If you DEAR JAMMY Joe, hanged, drawn and quartered. don't like the language, you don't I am not writing to knocic The Please give me a last request and have to look at it. I've been didn't do? Jam as I thinl< they're really good. I also want to know when the buying SH for a long time and However, you say Joe Strummer Lennon was a boring, next Jam concert is. I want a frankly, I don't sob why you humdrum musician really just doesn't care for his fans and who ticket this time because last time I should buy one oppy, sit on your died in 1966 along with the last his only skill is slagging other fell down the drainpipe after the high horse, and everyone. I Beetle gigs, whereas Zepplin groups off. This is not so. The ^g bouncer shut the window on my adore the letters page. Seeing released good, interlectual Clash go out on lengthy tours and f\e Heavy hands and just by coincidence a different sides of everyone's ' Metal with meaningful lyrics. make triple albums at a low price tinyfragmentof beard was • argument (and other bits) keeps Lennon's lyrics might have been so their fans are not ripped off. in caught the window and it is me open m/ndecy. Tell your | "meaningful" if he had been This usually ends up in them '/ still claimed to be seen today. darling mother that people do honest. All that love and peace making a loss. Joe Strummer PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use bad language in everyday life stuff was just a gimmick and a was merely giving one example PLEASE ME. and people do write letters. chance for Lennon and his wife to in The Jam. If you actually took This was Steve The Wonk I know SH would find it grab an extra million pounds time to listen to their music and reporting from Carol's Cafe, impossible to please everyone at here and there. read what he has to say you will signing off. the same time, so please allow it realise how caring and truthful he P.S. How do you spell please turn the freedom to give it a good tryi Dazed And Confused, Ace Led really is. over? I was standing on my chest Michelle "Peanuts" Phillips Zepplin Fan of Nantwich, Joe Strummer Is not a cretin; when this was written. P.S. Could you have a rock and Cheshire. he is probably one of the most heavy metal top 1 0? I'm not honest and influential paople left My my, don't you lead an asking for much, just 10? Please P.S. doubt this letter will in rock. No not exciting life? get printed because "Smash Karen Burnell, Homchurch, Don't you thinl( that Essex. would be Hits" will be hurt by its LANGUAGE: YOU WRITE just a bit too open-minded? significance and because of the childish backlash it will receive. HALLO, IS that Smash Hits on FIRSTLY, THANKS for cutting that end? Because I need help. down the disco RUBBISH page and just Just shows how wrong you can Bluebeard, Redbeard and Nick sticking the chart in the corner, THE ISSUE on January 8th, on O'Teen have be. We've run your letter because me under close where I fortunately missed it first album reviews, some berk called it's possibly the dumbest we've surveillance and if you don't time round I 'predate it! Beverly Hillier wrote what she ever received. The backlash hurry and print something on The Same issue (December 25th), thought of the Showaddywaddy should be interesting . . . album "Bright Lights". She wrote a lot of rubbish. Why do the people who write REVIVING THE REVIVAL about the albums and singles put DEAR DISILLUSIONED ex-Mod their own point of view? Why not (issue January 8th), just write about what is on the I've been a Mod for ages now actual album and not what they and I get mocked like hell think of it? because there aren't any Mods in It just annoys the fans of that my area. The Mods round here group for no reason. No-one is haven't given up though and going to decide whether to buy it there's a Mod Revival taking just because of what some place even round our school. person wrote. It's people like you that let us I think many readers must get Mods down 'cause you're not angered sometimes by what prepared to stand up to the people put about their favourite mocking and laughing. What do groups. People such as Mark you think Time For Action is all Ellen, who I wouldn't mind giving about? And the first verse of Beat a face change. Boys In The Jet Age proves how Yours crossly, powerful Mod can be. A Showaddywaddy Fan, Yoxall, Burton I like all this electronic stuff but it's not going to affect the music I believe in. If there are no Mods A reviews page with just a list of around to buy the records they contents would be pretty boring, aren't going to get into the charts, don't you think? No-one says you and other people won't get the have to agree with our chance to hear how great Mod reviewers, but at least you get an music is, so there won't be any honest, considered opinion. more Mods adding to the ones that are left. JOHN LENNON This letter probably will not be printed but I am writing on behalf

WHEN JOHN Lennon died I of all Mods, not just myself. expected the older Beetle fans to Andy (who wishes David Brady be distressed and I expected his would drop dead) death to get a mention on the T.V. news, but all this fuss and bother So now is the time for all good is totally astonishing, depressing men to come to the aid of the and, most of all, pathetic. I mean, party, is that it? what did John Lennon do for music that the late John Bonham Continues over . 39 From previous page

MOTORNECK FRACTURE: REQUESTS ¥Mmgot what you want — yet. Our CURRANT POSER very own D.H. is YOU WRITE DEAR TROLLOPS, just doing his job. i.e. scraping a living, trying to WHO THE hell does the Police fan If it isn't too much trouble, I DEAR EVERYBODY, make ends from West Malvern think he/she hope I'm meet and paying not asking too I I have a much, formal announcement. people like me to write in his is? Fair enough, everyone's don't want to interrupt you There will be no more Insults or defence. entitled to criticise something during your work as publishing cheap and nasty remarks about A protective Police fan and they don't like but this really went the Smash Hits must Indeed require handsome trio Motorhead (I devoted David Hepworth too far. Spandau Ballet have vast conc#itration crawler, mean this most sincerely — well, I am folks.) I first right at the worlfhouse, created a "New Sound". So what going to ek you something. It have had enough!! Dumfries. if they're posers — that adds to would be&afer for you to print You may find it funny taking the creativity of their music and what I ani going to say in the next the */!?*! out of Lemmy, Fast MR MARK ELLEN style. Also, Tony Hadley does not issue because I am a very hard, Eddie and Phil but I tell you there look like Richard Jobson, this rock hard punk who will make HAVING READ Mark Ellen's are some of us about that actually comparison is like saying review a find Red Stair good looking if you on Flash Gordon I swore one of them attractive! I.e. currant cake is like a gateau! One don't pftit P.I.L.'s fan club eternal revenge (it's worth at Phil Taylor! ! I Yes, and you may or more point I feel I must make is least may not more iwtures of John Lydon will 2y2!) However, I got to the believe this, but I am one the supposed similarity of be appBciated (you're lucky letters page of the same issue of them II Mr Silverton was lucky Spandau Ballet's single with 'causefou don't usually and, gasp, I find a photo of the enough to have the privilege of get big Martha And The Muffins. This actually wordsike that from punks). Ta. most gorgeous hunk imaginable seeing them. I envy him Police fan has really got From mE (of course). (yes, even better than Zitty Ben) SO CUT IT OUT YOU LOT! something wrong with his/her Mark Ellen (sigh, gasp). By the way, is it true P.I.L. don't seem to go for such that Phil ears. I suggest he/she takes a I fell madly in love at first sight, broke his neck in an accident bourgeois institutions as fan walk to the nearest doctor's so now, forgive about two weeks ago? Tiswas clubs. What was the big word? me for ever surgery! having wished you dead. had a phone call apparently from Yours suggestively, him in hospital, A blind but I heard hepWorthnotto moron from the other nothing of it on the news or even side of Jupiter A female Spandau Ballet fan who on the EMIiRATE? outposed Martin back page of the papers. P.S. Mark, will you marry me? Kemp at the Please tell the DEAlfABBA Fan (Jan Blitz. me truth. Ta 22nd), Sorry love, he's into more earthy muchly for the photo of my Yoii don't have to suffer types. heroes, how's about another to 'pathetic" articles on The Police Oh yeah, we noticed you. keep Smash Hits in my good every second issue. You could books or rather, good always emigrate to Sweden. In TOTP it POINTS magazines! I case has escaped your narrow MAYBE THE reason it's taken so Love 'n Port left-over mind, like it or not. The Police 'n are long to write this letter is because DEAR PAUL of Deeside,

Christmas cake 'n turkey big business over here as well. I too a I was stunned at the quality. What am Moody Blues fan, but

sandwiches, The article was about I the band in I'm referring to is Rock For am unfortunately from Mars and America, "after all they are don't qualify. A non-greasy, non-drunk, almost Kampuchea. I always knew TOTP popular". Debbie J. happy, loveable female, Philthy was a really crummy programme And as for those scathing after Animal Taylor fancier called but seeing RFK I just want to remarks suggesting DON'T THINK I'm prying, but I'd Katie. that David spew every Thursday evening. Hepworth just like to know how many should leave the There were so many top groups, You don't really fancy him, Smash Hits Shares do country! It would be such a my mate you? We recovOr^d especially The Pretenders who from the shame if he took all that crap to James holds because he's had a shock excelled, they were nothing short just enouqh to check up on heart. music lovers letter in your mag two issues We would be of excellence (clearly the best Phil's health and it's true, running. deprived of a fair, unprejudiced ones). apparently, that Chris, he broke his (grovel, grovel), talented critic. Brighton. neck. Why can't we have a Thankfully he's now out of So you've a right to an opinion permanent music programme of his I AM scribbling to question collar and on the mend again. too, but don't put down Dave and you such standards? Keep it It's a man's up ITV! about the lifestyle of the average life in IMotorhaad. The Police just 'cos you haven't 768 hamster. Is it nocturnal? i.e. Does it sleep during the day P.S. Oh wonderful, wondrous and walk about and do such things Smash Hits (creep, creep) — as a hamster does at night? when people ask for a picture you Gary The Guinea Pig, Glasgow. print it so in return for my excellent letter could you print a EYES RIGHT P.S. Have I got the right picture of the best group ever, magazine? namely THE PRETENDERS (I mean face it, you haven't I HAVE got Gary Numan's mentioned them much this year Telekon and I have you?) when hold it up to the light it is red and you can see P.26, 768. through it. I would like to know if it a collectors' item. I WAS quite happily watching Thank you. "Top Of The Pops" when up pops Rob this stereotype of Toyah Willcox. Her name is Honey Bane. I think Don't know about collectors' SEE THOSE sh^ was tryirig to cash in on eyes? Reckon you know which musical person they item. D'you think someone's belong to? You Toyah's recent documentary by do? O.K., write the owner's name on a postcard trying to contact you? with your own signing up with a major label. name and address and send it to EYE CONTACT This Smash Hits, 14 Holkham really annoyed me, and I'm Road, Peterborough PE2 OUF to arrive no DEAR JAMES Benning, later than February sure a lot of other people too. She 18th. The first ten correct entries will each win Hear, hear! an autographed copy was singing a song called "Turn of the latest single by the character who's M/

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SPILT ENZ FrenzoftheEnz Caroline Thompson 207 Camden Rd LONDON NW1 STRANGLERS ALBUMS MADNESS TO BE WON (Information Service) c/o 9-1 1 Woodfield Rd LONDON W9 42 LONELY HEAR By UFO on Chrysalis Reco

Sarah has her dreams and makes her pi wants she To get what she when . A little bit of heaven was all she asked fdr In those silent moments deep In the night She'd find herself and make it feel alright And hungers for the bright life something more With her young heart so gently beating By Rainbow on PolydotRecords A secret rendezvous a lover's meeting

Out in the night, out in the n,n,n,night I surrender, to your heart r Do anything that you wai

Baby's gone lost, they found her shoes J^^^^ j^ ^ feeling I never k

You better turn out the light That's not the way it wafflheant to be Chorus Spend my time waiting b^ the phone You go walking on the wild side Oh darling come back to^me Learn how to run 'cos you can't hide Better steal yourself away Chorus I I surrender Another page another day in your surrender, I'm giving the role of pretender La, la, la, la, la lonely heart up Beating out in the dark Oh be tender, girl be tender Can't you feel the love that I send you La, la, la, la, la lonely heart

I surrender With hungry and so desperate eyes I surrender The souls who get hurt believing their lies

You only betray, only betray I remember, seems like a life time And now you cry yourself to sleep Can't believe it's a matter of days Against the odds you wanted to beat Since you left me, oh I'm near to heartbreak You never say no, never say no, no, no, no I want you so bad, don't turn away Left with the promises that you swore What does it take to stay by my side The price you pay, the love that tore You know I'll do what you want me to this feeling inside fylow where did it go, where did it go Don't take away I'm still in love with you Repeat chorus Repeat chorus ad lib to fade

Words and music by Chapmar)/Way/Mogg Words and music by Russ Ballard permission Thth Music/Chrysalis Music Ltd. Reproduced by permission Island Music Ltd. ^'.

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