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It was Weller who wrote Dizzi's first single Jimmy Kemp and James O'Neill were playing their — ' The Gospel' — first heard on the Style Everly Brothers a la Eighties Council's ' Cafe Bleu' LP and now overhauled tunes down Birmingham's Bul- lring shopping centre when a for the all moving, non capuccino fraternity. Is busy housewife came, saw the ' The Gospel' good stuff. are Chinamen and was suitably conquered. She told her son and they've yellow? Dizzi still cuts hair too... now released their first single 'Silence', and supported Ho- ward Jones and Shakin' Stevens. And they say it doesn't hap- TOP 10 MOST ABSURD DISCO pen like that anymore... TITLES ( IN SILLY BRACKETS) 1 YOU WERE MEANT TO BE MY LADY ( NOT MY GIRL), Alexander O'Neal 2 ( NO MATTER HOW HIGH IGET) I'LL STILL BE LOOKIN' UP TO YOU, Wilton Felder 3 NOBODY CAN TELL ME ( HE DON'T LOVE ME), Jenny Burton 4 U CAN DO ( WATCHA WANNA), New Horizons 5 IT FEELS SO GOOD ( WITH YOU) Bloodstone 6 GET OFF ( YOU FASCINATE ME), • " JUST FOR your knowledge, Iwon't be doing as tinuation of ' Somebody Else's Guy', and hardly sur- Patrice Rushen much promotion on this record as Iwould like be- prising because it's written by the same production 7 PERSONALITY ( COMPLEX), cause I'm about eight months pregnant," says Jenny team of Allen George and Fred McFarlane. " Imet her, Idon't know her very well but she did one hell of an Eugene Wilde Burton of her current floorfiller ' Bad Habits'. " It's not album. But we're so different, we couldn't be in com- 8 MY SENSITIVITY ( GETS IN THE safe for me to fly. And the energy that Iused to perform with is being used to carry my child." petition with each other." Jenny of course came back WAY), Luther Vandross into the light with her contribution to the ' Beat 9 MY LOVE IS TRUE ( TRULY FOR So native New Yorker Jenny continues the trend of Street' flick — before that she'd been doing some YOU), the Temptations singers with child, and the trend of sounding like theatre and cabaret work, and before that, recording 10 ( YOU GOT ME) HYPNOTIZED, Ci Jocelyn Brown. ' Bad Habits' is apretty accurate con- as Jeannie Burton, although she's alittle hazy on it. Ci "We like to play fun music, but we don't like being laughed at." So says lead singer Olga of the Toy Dolls, those assailants of gentle pop 40 sen- sibilities. As their hatful of ha-has, ' Nellie The Elephant' rips up the continental charts, the Toy boys are set to release a new UK single, ' She Goes To Finos'. " It's ab- out a nightclub in Sunderland," says Olga. " Y'know, a sort of trendy place where they play Wham! and Go West." Not the sort of place for aToy Doll, they prefer the more heady aroma of say, afish ' n' chip shop. Bas- sist Pete owns amobile fish ' n' chip shop and sincerely hopes the rewards of rock ' n' roll will buy him another. With a new album ' A Far Out Disc' released at the end of this month, maybe he'll realise that dream... 4 NEWS hosted by Robin 'Lou Grant' Smith 10 TV & RADIO El STEPHEN TIN TIN DUFFY an artist mawks his wares KM SINGLES reviewed by the Scritti Politti collective 16 CHRIS REA this man is not dire ( geddit?) 18 ALBUMS 20 LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN lager than life FAMILY AFFAM S y & 24 The Family Stone NEW ORDER in k•T'S GROOVE ,','chie Berl & The Drafts fish- grappling Beano HARVEST FOR THE spankerama jape BrothersWORLD TheJAM, Islay JAM, JAM iAII Night Long) ri I ,Jrt PeopWs C hoke LET'S 26 GO WEST those muscies SJJ'i j J. Gt114TÓNPhti/aPcIerphfi: vog,gmag international: in video action Ali- Stars ALWAYS ) TH ERE Willie Bobo 28 JIMMY NAIL acrooner, _AR RARAANAl) ebster Lewis WAS not aslob THAT ALL UT WAS Jean Corn !WensetDexterTHEFeaturing SWEETEST Terry WelEs,PAIH 30 SIOUXSIE a- live a- live o Ell DISCO CHARTS • PSST, WANT to get put in the Club? Well CBS have just released 'Club Classics Volume 2' containing 11011 CROSSINORD nine great dance classics: ' Family Affair', Sly And The Family Stone, IKEIJAMES HAMILTON 'Harvest For The World', lsley double whopper, plenty of Brothers, ' Let's Clean Up The Ghet- sauce to', Philadelphia International All- Stars to name afew. To start you off on the right foot, 11111111PREFAB SPROUT Wendy we've got 25 of the albums to give Smith gets on her bike away in a simple competition. The first 25 people to answer these three 36 SPANDAU BALLET the questions correctly win. Australian for larger 1) Jean Cam recently appeared on ashow entitled: a) ' Saturday Night 38 RAH BAND pensioners' With The Graham Thorpe Colliery Band'... b) ' Saturday Night At The Pop Baths'... c) ' New York Jazz Explo- sion'...? 40 MAILMAN 2) The leader of Sly And The Family Stone is: a) Rolling Stone... b) 41 US CHARTS Just Stoned... C) Sly Stone...? I/LAST YEAR the Sinister Cleaners played their debut concert. It was 3) Which British pop band includes 45 UK CHARTS In Leeds, which couldn't have been much tun, and they only had the lsley Brothers' Harvest For The Iwo songs — which didn't exactly help, They were ably accompa- World' track in their live set: a) 47 nied on stage by various Hoovers, teapots and the odd armchair or Style Council... b) Motorhead... CHARTFILE two to make them feel at home — and no doubt take the audi- c) Bananarama...? ence's mind oft the music. Just send in your answers with This year, they put all such things behind them and release their your name and address on apostcard first single — a record as accomplished and confident as that night to RECORD MIRROR CLUB CLASSICS must have been brainshattering, The Gnomes Of Zurich' ( available COMPETITION, Spotlight Publica- on Aaz Records, through Red Rhino and the Cartel) has a touch of tions, Greater London House, Hamp- the Cramps, a smattering of Bauhaus guitar and some deep throaty stead Road, London NW1 7GZ. The vocals that must play havoc with vocalist John Parkes' tonsils. Len closing date is Tuesday May 7. III Cover photography by Liggins and Andrew Middleton make up the trio, providing the rest JOE SHUTTER of the noises, The Sinister Cleaners — putting silly names, and Leeds, back on U INDEX the map. COMPILED BY DI CROSS • EDITOR Michael Pilgrim • DEPUTY EDITOR Betty Page • NEWS EDITOR Robin Smith • FEATURES EDITOR Jim Reid • DESIGN EDITOR Jaqui Doyle • EDITORIAL Diane Cross, Mike Gardner, Eleanor Levy • CONTRIBUTORS James Hamilton, Alan Jones, Dylan Jones, Paul Sexton, Andy Strickland • PHOTOGRAPHERS Eugene Adebari, Paul Cox, Ian Hooton, Joe Shutter • ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Carole Norvell-Read • ADVERTISEMENT REPRESENTATIVE Tracey Rogers • AD PRODUCTION MANAGER Keith Miles • TELE SALES MANAGER Eddie Fitzgerald • PUBLISHER Brian Batchelor © 1985 Morgan Grampian plc, Calderwood Street, London SE18 6QH.