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2 SMASH HITS August 7-20 1980 Vol. 2 No. 16 OH YEAH Roxy Music Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb talk 4 talktalk mutter an official PRIVATE LIFE spokesman said today rabbit Grace Jones 4 rabbit rabbit the usual superlative video game prize on the ASHES TO ASHES crossword gabble gabble gabble David Bowie 5 official waffle drivel drivel waste of time talktalk talk really good ALL OVER THE WORLD competition this time with 100 Electric Light Orchestra 8 Siouxsle albums (that's on page 26) natter natter natter rabbit BURNIN' HOT rabbit why are you reading all Jermaine Jackson 14 this? rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb mutter mutter mutter takes a lot MY GUY/MY GIRL of talent and training to do this Amii Stewart & Johnny Bristol 14 you know rabbit rabbit rabbit talk talktalk see you in two weeks (it Editor C30 C60 C90 GO

gets more sensible from here . . .) lanCranna Bowwowwow 18 .-'tr Features Editor DOES SHE HAVE A FRIEND FOR ME? David Hepworth /f Gene Chandler 19 Design Editor / Steve Bush SLEEPWALK Production Editor Ultravox 24 KasperdeGraaf SWEETHEART CONTRACT ^^^^^^HL i^/^ -^ Editorial Assistants Magazine BevHillier 24 Linda Duff OH BONDAGE, UP YOURS! Contributors X-RaySpex 29 Robin Katz '^^^^^^^^^^H^^^K^ Red Starr BANKROBBER Fred Dellar The Clash 30 Mike Stand Kelly Pike BACK TO FRONT Jill Furmanovsky Stiff Little Fingers 30 Mark Casto THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ? Steve Taylor 1^ Advertisement Manager Abba 35 i Rod Sopp NINE TO FIVE (Tel: 01-439 8801) Sheena Easton 35 Assistant Adie Harper B BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS: Feature. .6/7 ^ Editorial Consultant R o Nick Logan NEW MUSIK: Feature 12/13 H^HS tt. Publisher BAD MANNERS: Colour Centrespread .20/21 Peter Strong LIVERPOOL: Feature 22/23 X-RAY SPEX: Colour Photo 29 >«*«' t r JOHN FOXX: Colour Poster 36

NEXTISSIJE Editorial and Advertising^ SALI address: Smash Hits, Lisa BITZ 9/10/11 ON u COMIC STRIP 9 London WW IFF. PRIZE CROSSWORD 16 This magazine is published INDEPENDENT LABELS 17 by EMAP National Publications SMASH HITS SUBSCRI^IONS Ltd, Peterborough, and is STAR TEASER 18 Home and Overseas (Surface printed by East Midland Litho DISCO 19 mail): £10 Printers, Peterborough. COMPETITION 26 (Airmail rates on application). Copyright exists on all songs REVIEWS 27/28 Europe (airmail): £14.40 appearing in Smash Hits. They Write to: Parle House, 117 Park must not be reproduced LETTERS 32/33 Road, Peterborough PE1 2DS. without the consent of the GIGZ 34 copyright holders. J FRONT COVER PIC: LYNN GOLDSMITH SMASH HITS 3 'OH YEAH" ROXYMUSIC on Polydor Records

Some expression in your eyes Overtook ,„. me by surprise Where was I, how was I to l

Chorus There's a band playing on the radio With a rhythm of rhyming guitars They re playing "Oh Yeah" on the radio, ooh

And so it came to be our song And so on through all summer long Day and night drifting into love, ooh Driving you home from a movie show So in tune to the sounds in my car Repeat chorus It's some time since we said goodbye And now we lead our separate lives But where am I, where can I go? Ooh Driving alone to a movie show So I turn to the sounds in my car

3 band playing on the radio \^r'u^With a rhythm of rhyming guitars There's a band playing on the radio And It s drowning the sound of my tears They re playing "Oh Yeah" on the radio Words by Bryan Ferry; Music by Roxy Music Reproduced by permission EG Music Ltd.

Private Life By Grace Jones on Island Records

Chorus Your private life drama Baby, leave me out Your private life drama Baby, leave me out

Repeat chorus

J'en ai marre with your theatrics, your acting's a drag It's OK on TV but you can turn it off Your marriage is a tragedy but it's not my concern

I'm very superficial, I hate everything official

Repeat chorus

Sentimental gestures only bore me to death You've made a desperate appeal, now save your breath Attachment to obligation, that's so wet And your sex life complications are not my fascination

Repeat chorus

You ask my advice, I say use the door But you're still clinging to somebody you deplore And now you wanna use me for emotional blackmail

I just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry

Repeat chorus to fade

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Do you remember a guy that's been In such an earthly song I've heard a rumour from Ground Control ^ '%,5- Oh no, don't say it's true They got a message from the Action >^^ Man I'm happy, hope you're happy too I've loved all I've needed love > Sordid details following

The shrieking of nothing is killing Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis

And 1 ain't got no money and 1 ain't got no hair But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing y Ashes to ash and funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie

Strung out in heavens high f Hitting an all time low

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Time and again 1 tell myself > I'll stay clean tonight But the little green wheels are following me Oh no, not again I'm stuck with a valuable friend /4 I'm happy hope you're happy too A One flash of light but no smoking pistol y , I've never done good things I've never done bad things

1 never did anything out of the blue Want an axe to break the ice Want to come down right now

Ashes to ashes funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heavens high Hitting an all time low % My mama said to get things done You better not mess with Major Tom Repeat to fade <^->^-.

Words and music by David Bowie Reproduced by permission Bewlay Bros Music/Fleur Music Ltd BETTER OFF DREAD MIKE STAND TALKS TO BOB MARLEY IF THE first time you heard Bob Wallers concert which was being four years later with "Stir It Up" through their last great upheaval IVIarley and the Waiters was organised by supporters of Prime which was written by Marley. with the departure of Peter Tosh when "Could You Be Loved" Minister Michael Manley. Marley Marley and Bunny Waller and Bunny Waller, who both came skanking out of the radio was wounded, but he played the touched bottom with jail went solo. Then the key album you probably thought something gig. sentences for possession of "Natty Dread" was released. undramatic like "That's nice". It's no wonder he's become a marijuana, then in '69 emerged Marley, one of those small men And probably quite appropriate hero and an inspiring figurehead. into one of their classic periods. who somehow look huge on too in those relaxed But when I suggested this to Recorded by the most famous stage, followed up with two circumstances. him, he waved the idea aside as if reggae producer of them all, Lee stunning concerts at the Lyceum But when I got the chance to it was far too pompous to have "Scratch" Perry, they came up in London and triumphantly do a short interview with Marley anything to do with him: with two LPs and the singles burst through the supposed recently I tell can you that my "No, music is the one that is "Duppy Conqueror" and "Small barrier between British and West knees were knocking and my one the hero. We help the music. It is Axe". (You can find later versions Indian musical tastes. Pop was prayer to the journalistic gods the univershal language and we on their Island album "Burnin"'). never the same again. was "Please don't let me make a carry a certain message. But It was at this stage that their Marley says quite frankly that fool of myself". Because Bob Jamaican people not look on you rastafarian religion became the he couldn't live in this country Marley means a lot — in fact I'd as 'star'. Them have love an' core of their music. I couldn't because he feels so strongly venture to suggest that respec' an' t'ing. To tell the trut' I pretend to make informed drawn to his African roots and "I worldwide he's the most am not enormous person, me comment on it, but its visible like to be able to just walk upon important artist working in any just a man o' the ghetto." signs are the long, tightly-wound the concrete and be a dread," but aspect of rock. dreadlocks (like Marley's), often he loves the music scene here. I'm sure there are a couple of THE PLAIN man of the ghetto has piled up into a red, green and With a chuckle he acknowledged, dozen groups who've sold more been recording for 19 years now, orange wool tammy. "It rockin' in Englan'. Englan' is records in the last few years, but and it's worth telling his story Their beliefs relate to the place man. And 'Natty Dread' that's not the point. It's not even briefly. He was born in 1945, son Christianity while including a was a special album for us, the of the greatest significance that of an English army captain and a faith in the late Emperor Haile feelln' of it. Sayin' children get he is the major influence behind Jamaican woman, and by his Selassie of Ethiopia as the Christ your culture, won't win no battle the white reggae of The Police, early teens he had become reborn. One of its major practices if you just sit there." Elvis Costello, The Clash and Joe involved with the dynamic music is smoking marijuana ("ganja" or Those Lyceum concerts were Jackson. scene in what Toots and the "kaya", the title of Marley's 1978 recorded for an excellent "Live!" The really impressive thing Maytals christened "funky LP), which they see as having a album which produced the about Bob is Marley the status he Kingston". mystical healing power. group's first UK hit single, the has achieved in the black nations There is some disagreement Of late The Wallers have been tender love song "No Woman, of the Third World as champion about when Marley cut his first trying to express their rasta No Cry". With their ideals and of social and political change. disc, but the earliest offering I've goodwill in action by investing seductive dance rhythms. The He's acquired this through a seen was a single called "Judge some of the group's profits in Wallers captured minds and succession of songs, summed up Not" from 1961 which is community and youth projects, souls everywhere. in one line from the "Natty described as "lightweight pop". such as farms owned by Dread" album: "Them belly full The big step forward came three Jamaican people rather than WHILE THE chart ratings on five but we hungry." years later with the formation of vast, foreign (particularly British) albums and numerous singles Just how deeply he'd touched the Wailing Wallers, then purely companies. since "Live!" have never looked people was proved when he was a vocal group, including "It won't solve all problems, back, and despite him remaining invited to play at the Zimbabwe legendary Marley sidekicks Peter but is a beginning," said Marley. r/ie favourite in Jamaica, British Independence celebrations this Mcintosh (later "Tosh") and "Is something the government critics have gradually come to year. When I asked Marley about Bunny Livingston (later shoulda done, but them don't do accuse Marley of various forms it smiled he and sort of glowed "Waller"). it and them won't do it." of "sell-out" because of his with quiet pride but said very Marley 's initial Jamaican hit So their religion has its moves away from Jamaican little, as if the occasion had been "Simmer Down" was a ska political side. However, when I strict roots reggae style. a private one, although the number (covered this month by asked him about this, Marley I asked Marley how he felt concert and ceremonials were London band Mobster). He also was keen to stress its spiritual about the occasional slaggings conducted in front of tens of came up with "Rude Boy", which strength: and he said with the gentlest of thousands in a football stadium. is reckoned to be the first song "Politics — it dirty, y'know. A smiles: "We love them." He did mention one jarring about the snappy-dressing politician never know you till you Me (taken aback): "And do you note though. Before the historic gangsters of Kingston's shanty ol' enough to vote." agree with them?" midnight, a disturbance among town. Despite all the sunny Marley: "Sometime. It not the crowds jostling to get in was romance the name conjures up, it DESPITE THE hostility their faith always really true, but we answered by the police firing tear remains a violent city (over 200 attracted from some of their understan' why people say these gas. But Marley wasn't going to deaths by shooting in the first six fellow countrymen, the group's t'ing. I figure is great help let a minor upset spoil the months of this year). career was on the upward curve (chuckle). An' yet music can't honour and happiness he felt. The Wailing Wallers didn't sell which is still pointing skywards. ' stick to the same t'ing otherwise

"It was an I I experience for an' enough records to feed five They launched their own label. it become mechanical: music y'know, strong feh watch the mouths and so they split up. Tuff Gong, in 1970, successfully have to have fluent, music have t'ing workin' out," he said in his Marley then spent a while in this time, and enlisted the to have some kinda adventure, calm, quiet sing-song manner. America with his mother before Barrett brothers, reputedly the enjoyment, it go and you come." "And we feel good feh taste little returning to join up with Tosh hardest rhythm section on the I wondered where he placed tear gas in Zimbabwe, little get a and Waller again in a short-lived island. the new album, "Uprising", in his o' th'oppression there." attempt to go independent with Speaking of which, their 19 years of recording. Marley is no tourist talking their own Wailing Souls label. breakthrough to recognition " 'Uprising' come like the first about "oppression" from a safe Its collapse led to a confused outside the Caribbean followed album," he said, "the first from distance. He grew up in poverty for phase Marley which had one when they signed to the British now. It recorded in our own in Jamaica and even when he positive result: in 1967 he began label. Island, who promoted vicinity, it going forward. We became an international "star", working with Texan soul singer them through the albums "Catch work at all our records with full he stayed so close to the front Johnny Nash. Nash came to Fire" A and "Burnin"' (including energy an' . . . full self. So when line that in December 1976, record in Kingston and later had "I Shot The Sheriff" which Eric we finish it we know wha' we gunmen in Kingston attempted a series of reggaefied singles in Clapton made into a hit single). put on it, we respec' it. We don't to kill him two days before a British the charts culminating In 1975 the Wallers went record a song if we don't love it." 6 SMASH HITS All Over The World By Electric Light Orchestra on Jet Records

Everybody around the world

Gotta tell you what I just heard There's gonna be a party all over the world

i got a message on the radio

But where It came from I don't really know

And I heard these voices calling all over the world

Chorus All over the world Everybody got the word Everybody at the world's gonna feel tonight

Everybody wajking down the street Everybody moving to the beat They're gonna get hot down in the U.S.A. (New York, Detroit, LA.)

We're gonna take a trip across the sea Everybody come along with me We're gonna hit the night down in gay Paree

Repeat Chorus London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, I Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo L.A., New York, Amsterdam Monte Carlo, Shard End and Repeat Chorus \ Everybody all around the world

Gotta tell you what I just heard % Everybody walkin' down the street

I know a place where we all can meet Everybody gonna have a good time Everybody will shine till the daylight ilk. Repeat chorus to fade Words by Jeff Lynr^e Reproduced by permission April Music Ltd.

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FREE, FOUR . . FIVE! THE RAMONES pay a short visit to Britain this month to play five dates. These are: Hammersmith Odeon (19), Belfast Ulster Hall (21), Dublin Mansion House (22), Edinburgh Playhouse (24) and Liverpool Rotters (25). Support band is The Spectres, the new group formed by Glen Matlock and Danny Kustow. THE PAINED looking hairy above HAVING ALREADY completed is none other than Dave production chores on the Edmunds, the Welsh Wizard, upcoming album by After The pictured back in the year 1971. Fire, New Musil<'s Tony The reason this less than Mansfield is about to get down to flattering shot has been dusted work on a joint project with Mike off and unleashed on an Oldfield. Mike and Tony share the unsuspecting public is that EMI DESMOND DEKKER, the man behind such reggae smashes of the same management and mutual have just compiled yet another past as "The Israelites" is back with a new album on the Stiff label

called . . . admiration has led them to album of old Edmunds material wait for it . . . "Black and Dekker"! Here he is pictured collaborate on a few tracks. dating from his late sixties days with some specially bred 2-Tone dogs. No doubt it will only be a Whether these will see the light with Love Sculpture and beyond. matter of minutes before some greedy clown starts knocking out of day as singles or an album is We here think they should let this special ska dog badgesi not yet known. man alone.

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Riot Stories, cannot modelling themselves on the dub version of "Stand Down accept DEXY'S MIDNIGHT Runners, not any more material for 2-Tone "sound" when they Margaret". publication until are currently working content with attracting ridicule by further notice. should be developing a style of The band Seems manuscripts piling up a substantially new set to be their high handed refusal to do are up their own. Having failed in their to the ceiling their interviews, have been ruffling down there. attempts to introduce a major debuted on upcoming French tour on which they feathers at their record company, change of direction, they feel it is support The Police. EMI. Unhappy with the terms of best for them to part company ^TOThe Specials and strike out record dealer, has highlighted signed when they were young on their own. the plight of people trying to get and naive (about six months ago) The first release under large record companies to listen The ALLTIR^ and number one singles were Selecter's new arrangement with to demos. To tie in with the just pipe dreams, they decided to Chrysalis is "The Whisper" TOP TEN release of an independent single force EMI into giving them a BEHOLD THE new look Sting with cropped barnet and National backed by "Train by Holocaust, the heavy band he To Skaville", Ian McCulloch better shake. Health welding goggles. Could it be, we ask ourselves, that this available in both seven manages, he decided to test out and (Echo And On the day that their debut new sinister visage is anything to do with the fact that the man is twelve inch versions. Although negotiating to play part the A&R men who decide which The Bunnymen) album was completed at the of the villain in the new James Bond one of the most highly respected flick? talent will be signed up. Chipping Norton Studios (pretty Taking new bands to emerge in the last 1. LEONARD COHEN: Famous Since the success of "Quadrophenia", Mr Sumner has been some cheap cassettes, funky lil ol' place, sho' nuff), year, The he recorded some already Selecter have not Blue Raincoat (CBS). This song producer Pete Wingfield was showered with all manner of movie offers, one of them coming managed to notch released tracks by established up really has more atmosphere than any lured out of the control room by from heavy American director Francis Ford Coppola, but the Bond consistent record artists and sent them off to sales, unlike other I've heard. Len put me there various Runners while other project is apparently the one that's tickled his fancy. bands like Madness certain major companies under and The on Clinton Street with him and band members swiftly removed Meanwhile the band are closeted in a studio in Holland putting Beat, who used invented names. To CBS he sent 2-Tone as a for that I'm eternally grateful. the irreplaceable master tapes down tracks for their third album which is stated for autumn stepping stone to launching their release. a tape of "Embraceable You" by 2. THE KINGSTON TRIO: Try To and made off at top speed. They own careers. the world's top jazz trumpeter. Remember (Capitol). It makes me then curtly informed the played by (M Jonathan No doubt they feel launching passion: Kate and her band, feel older than I am — nostalgic Miles Davis, under the and ; name Sam The iust Daniels company that the tapes wouldn't their own label is the first Music and ex-Vibrator); PM for THE MO-DETTES have They then continue on their Wallace. CBS rejected it, despite step to Pr^ceTcary Tibbs (Roxy now. be returned until matters were p establishing their Wingett. announced a short string of dates own with Manchester Mayflower the fact it's available on their own identity (Quadrophenia) and Mark 3. IGGY AND THE STOOGES improved to their satisfaction. and getting out of for August. On the 11th and 12th (15), Dudley JB's (16), Leeds F the : own label. shadow of Search And Destroy (CBS). One Wingfield, the producer of all they will be supporting The Specials. THOUGHT might like of the all time nihilistic classics. Madness Club (17), Liverpool Gatsby's (20) A&M received two Steely Dan YOU to know about a particularly hysterical A their successes so far, is press release we got concerning tapper. at Nottingham Theatre Royal at and London Electric Ballroom tracks credited to Joseph ^ the upcoming rock movie, toe apparently sufficiently tired of the two concerts which will be filmed (23). Following this the girls Shaughnessy. They returned fl "Breaking Glass", starring Hazel O'Connor and Phil Daniels. 4. THE FALL: Mess Of My band's pranks that he has content for showing on TV later in the depart for The New World and a them with a curt note that V Not with claiming that the movie "mirrors the problems, (unrecorded). My favourite Fall resolved to terminate their THE GAP Band got their start in the year. stringof U.S. dates. described them as substandard. temptations, the power, the lust and passion of life behind the song. relationship. Although Tulsa, working Oklahoma, when the three rock music scene", 5. RCA turned down Neil Young, they modestly describe Ms O'Connor as "the VELVET UNDERGROUND: he agrees their deal was a little Wilson Brothers, Ronnie, Charles WEA and EMI gave the thumbs most exciting talent to emerge in the entertainment world of the ; Sister Ray (Verve). Seventeen on the unfair side and remains and Robert, were a vital part of down to Wishbone Ash, while 1980s". minutes of sheer inspiration. fond of their music, he feels that the choir at the church where A&M emerged with the biggest Nothing like a little quiet understatement, is there? We can't 6. DAVID BOWIE: The Bewlay tactics like these are taking their their father minister. was As they wait to see it. That is, if clanger of all by rejecting a Neil we're not too busy lapping up the lust and Brothers (RCA). As "modern" as tough guy image a little far. grew up, their parents' influence Larsen track whicli they'd only passion of life behind the rock music scene in Carnaby Street. Only anything he does now without was vital in encouraging them to recently released. lust and passion you get round here is when Bev buys everybody the conscious effort. It's got I take up an array of musical There were a lot of red faces in an ice cream. everything. instruments. CAT TRACKS plush offices when Mayer 7 DAVID BOWIE: Lady Stardust Nowadays, Ronnie plays THE FIRST 2-Tone single from revealed his game, declaring that A NATIVE Yorker, I (RCA). This song, more than any trumpet, flugelhorn, New trumpet new signing The Swinging Cats his theory that the record piano and other, made me want to "jump player Tom Browne started his will, of course, be a double A percussion while Charles, as well up on stage". Pure atmosphere. companies are out of touch had musical education at that city's as singing, takes care of the side, now pairing "Mantovani" been borne out. Small wonder much respected "High School 8. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN keyboards. Youngest brother Of with "Away". the majors are claiming that j Music And Art". While studying Over the Wall (Unrecorded). This Robert, who plays the The band are gigging bass, does something for but I times are bad I jl physics at college Browne me admits to being influenced throughout August, starting off at became more don't know what. heavily and more involved I J.B.'s Dudley on August 8th and by Yes and is inclined to 9. SEX PISTOLS: Anarchy In The in jazz and eventually graduated continuing as follows: ON AUGUST 13th, Ultravox play say all kinds of gushing things I've this i to sitting in with i}K{BM\). picked one out Manchester Ardri and not about them. distinguished I Birmingham Cedar Ballroom (9), No doubt this I for the way it made me feel when Rotter's players in New York's jazz clubs. Wolverhampton Lafayette as previously embarrassing ailment will soon * (10), He was plucked from it came out — when The Pistols announced. They have also pass. obscurity London Hope And Anchor (11), were perfect. Also for the doors it added two dates to their by Lonnie Liston Smith and London Rock Garden (12), The band's current hit, "Ooops kicked open. schedule; they play Derby Ajanta eventually fixed up a solo Nottingham Theatre Royal (13), Upside Your Head", is taken from JOHN LENNON: Mother contract with Arista. His London 101 Club (20), Sheffield on August 9th and Coventry their second album, their first for 110. current disco success, (Apple). Honesty, soul and Tiffany's on the 12th. label. "Funkin Limit Club (21), London Half new Mercury. sadness — sung by the rock 'n' for Jamaica", is also included on Moon (22) and London Electric roll voice. 10 SMASH HITS his new long player, "Love Ballroom (23). Approach". Against the company's wishes, long-dead German army man Knee deep in keyboards and cables, who saw him as a solo act, he reacted to "culture". I reach for Tony Mansfield makes New Musik. brought in Phil, Tony Hibbert my revolver. and Clive and insisted that the Surely every band mucks Tape Op: D. Hepworth. Stills: V. Turbett. songs should be pushed as a around in the studio until it band project. achieves its desired effect. This doesn't qualify them to call WAY south DOWN of the River He got the guitar and BUT SURELY. I argue, except for themselves experimental. Plus it Thames lies Tooting, lilce a town continued to operate a the rare occasions when New seems to me that New Musik's that's been in the sun so long it's succession of semi-pro outfits, Musik perform live, it's hardly a experiments stop pretty abruptly begun to peel. Come out of Reeman Zeegus and The End Of band in the normal sense. The when they land on a Tooting Broadway station (as The World being but two, trying other three don't seem to carry a commercially appealing tune. Wolfie Smith does each week), to get his foot in the door of lot of clout. Not entirely true, Tony clarifies matters. note the boarded up facade of various recording studios as a Tony counters, they're all quite "A lot of people don't realise Tooting Municipal Baths, hang a session man and using any spare happy with the arrangements that certain sounds don't work right into Mitcham Road, time at the end of bookings to and Clive has been allowed to with other sounds." proceed past the Tooting put down his own ideas. contribute an instrumental to the He is very disdainful indeed of Granada and you'll find Tooting Tony declines to tell me just material for the second album. bands who simply hire a Music Centre above a disused what sessions he took part in However, it's clear that New synthesiser for a session and fall shop. prior to the formation of New Musik is Mansfield's baby and for the first vaguely attractive Downstairs a sign issues a Musik, claiming they were either it's up to him what goes out sound they can get out of it. This stern warning about the embarrassments or flops or under its name. He's confident seems fair criticism. consequences of drug smoking embarrassing flops. Phil Towner that the other three wouldn't "You're learning all the time," on the premises. It's something is the only one with anything to submit anything that didn't he emphasises. "I'm going to be

that seems unlikely to unduly boast about, having provided the accord with the concept. learning in ten years' time, if I'm bother the small, eager to please thumping bass drum on "Video So what's the concept? Tony still around." individual who occupies the Killed The Radio Star". The rest explains it is terms of the musical He plays me another backing upstairs control room. was all put down to experience. history of The Seventies. Back in track, the bare bones for a song Right now Tony Mansfield is Came the day when Tony had a the Reemen Zeegus days, when he intends to call "Churches" more concerned with his diet. decent selection of tapes, he his hair was so long he got which he plans to write on the And his permanent cold. He legged it to GTO Records who dandruff in his turn ups, the subject of religion. He explains reaches for another Kleenex and were suitably impressed, bands he admired belonged to that the song isn't written yet; blows. particularly with a couple of the progressive rock tradition; he starts with a title from the list Tony Mansfield is credited on Eurodisco efforts which are the acoustic side of Led Zeppelin, of doomy phrases he keeps in an the record company crib sheet as currently in the process of being early Tyrannosauras Rex, exercise book. I'm not sure if he's Writer, Producer, Singer, covered by Delegation and The Genesis. joking or not. Turns out he isn't. Guitarist and Keyboard Player Three Degrees. New Musik (left to right): Clive Gates, Tony Mansfield (foreground). He confesses having been a No, he says, that's just the way with New Musik. They neglect to Tony Hibbert and Phil Towner. snob where pop bands like The he is. Pessimistic. His songs are mention whether he also makes all about serious subjects. the tea and collects the pools / "World Of Water", he informs me money. He fusses around the sunnily, is about "drowning in control room, flicking switches il society". "Dead Fish" details his and adjusting faders with fears of nuclear war. practised ease until a backing THEIfVPFUANCE^OF SCIENCE At this stage it gets difficult to track comes swirling out of the t^' f tell someone that you find their studio's giant monitors. Sweet were concerned. observations on the human Mansfield is laying the "The hero bands," he explains, condition a little on the trite side. foundations for New Musik's "were the bands that made "That's just me being honest," second album and at this stage albums. They were the bands he says without a trace of he does most of the work alone. worth getting into. New Musik is arrogance. "Certain bands will rhythm ticks A box away, a a band that writes music that tell you how wonderful life is. pre-programmed bass line takes the deeper aspects of an We're just trying to make people negotiates the scale while album band and puts them into a think. various lay synthesisers a pop mould. "You switch on your telly and cushion of soft, agreeable sound "It's fashionable now to be a there's always something going for the vocals to relax on at a pop group whereas a few years wrong. How long are we going to later date. ago it wasn't and, let's face it, to be around? That's what it's all reach people you've got to get on about. What is there to be happy I SHOW Tony the biography that the radio. That we seem to have about? That's what I'm asking." was provided GTO. little by The succeeded at." But surely it's just as much a information it provides, titles the They certainly do. "Straight distortion to say that life is all and chart positions of four hit Lines", "World Of Water", doom as it is to pretend it's all singles, seems hardly enough to "Living By Numbers" and now smiles? base an interview on. I ask him to "Sanctuary" makes it four At this Tony does at least m'^m^sft give me some background. records on the trot slipping easily admit that he's thrilled about the He grins, looks nervous, grins on to radio playlists and jyjk OO all T's»'AS\iable cotton, baby his wife is expecting. colour-last again and offers, mm. inDayGlQ "We don't really clambering up the charts. nU^^******I I ^.^AV^ilWT_U#»Z» &LUrid colours /S? come from anywhere. 1^ We've just But Tony's theory strikes me TONY MANSFIELD comes over _TflP C^A» .PUVK. Pf5r»SP/2i S0» • C)?(\55 JVMBOt* AWmWh-Js been doing ® basically what we're as a bit woolly. He can only as a pleasant, talented pop BOTTOM LfOPARD» Plt.»t>^Bt^»VK50BS» CH(S)09 • QUCStIoM doing now, but for other justify his light, seductive pop by craftsman, but one who should people." pointing to the underlying sort out what he has to say Further questioning elicits the "seriousness" of his lyrics and before he says it. At the moment fact that Tony, drummer Phil "sophistication" of his he seems to undervalue his skills Towner and bassist Tony Hibbert arrangements. He seems to and overestimate his originality. went to school together while imply that pure pop is not quite Pop can be the vehicle for an keyboards player Clive Gates enough. enormous range of ideas and was acquaintance an from "The thing with New Musik is emotions. But the ideas that Tooting, their home base. that although it's a pop group make an impression are the ones On leaving school, Tony there's no reason why you can't that reach out and shake you a endured a spell as a menial in the produce more experimental little. New Musik haven't done Art of Records Department Decca music. We call it an experimental that so far and it's Mansfield's before leaving to for his work band which is literally self consciousness that stands in father's building firm. That way experimenting with what does the way. he thought he'd be able to buy a and doesn't work." I think he should start again by better guitar and devote INDIVIDUAL TRADING CO DepI S more writing about something a little l^"'' ^hfqu'« time to his real obsession, TO: 81. TAVISTOCK ST. BEDFORD. Tel. 0230234 216692 NOW I tend to react to the word closer to home. He could start playing in bands. "experimental" the way some with the baby. 12 SMASH HITS SMASH HITS 13 Burnin' Hot By Jermaine Jackson on Motown Records

Chorus (Burnin' fever, you give me fever) Burnin' hot (Burnin' fever, hey, hey, hey) Hot (Burnin' fever, you give me fever) Burnin' hot (Burnin' fever)

Light my flame with your desire And make me burn with raging fire (Hey, hey, hey) Hot

Repeat chorus

(Hey, hey, hey) Ooh . . .

You know how much I want you pretty baby You got the kind of love that drives me crazy

(Burnin' fever, a-burnin' fever) Hot (Burnin' fever, a-burnIn' fever) Burnin' hot (Burnin' fever, you give me fever) Hot (Burnin' fever)

Turn me on, turn me round Turn me loose, but don't turn me down (Hey, hey, hey) Ooh Hot

Ad lib chorus

(Hey, hey, hey) Oooh . . .

You know how much I want you pretty baby You got the kind of love that drives me crazy

Ad lib chorus

(Hey, hey, hey) I'm burnin' hot, hot, hot, hot Guy My Girl I'm burnin' hot, hot, hot My love, hot Gotta have your By Amii Stewart and Johnny Bristol on Atlantic Records Hey, hey, hey, burnin' hot

Nothing you could say could tear me away from my guy I got fever, fever the yearnin' fever Nothing you could do cos I'm stuck like glue to my guy From I got fever, fever I'm sticking to my guy like stamp to a letter, like From the burnin' fever Birds of a feather we stick together Repeat verse Chorus There's nothing you could do to make me untrue I'm burning (fever) I'm burnin (fever) Nothing you could do to make me untrue to my guy I'm yearnin' (fever) I'm burnin' hot

(Hey, hey, hey) Oooh . . . I got sunshine on a cloudy day You know how much I want you pretty baby Now when it's cold outside, I got the month of May You got the kind of love that drives crazy this me Well I guess you would say what could make me feel way It's my girl, I'm talking about my girl Alright, hot I'm burnin' hot, yeah, yeah I got sunshine (sunshine) on a cloudy day Hot When it's cold outside, I got the month of May this Well I guess you could say what could make me feel way Words and music by Jackson/Molinary/Foelber My girl Reproduced by permission Famous Chappell/Jobete Music Ltd. My guy I'm talking about my girl, my guy My girl My guy

Repeat chorus

Nothing you could do to make me untrue to my guy Nothing you try could make me tell lies to my guy I'm sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter, like Birds of a feather we stick together

Repeat chous

to (my guy) No matter what I do I'm gonna stay true my baby There's nothing you could do to make me untrue Nothing you could do to make me untrue to my guy

I won't tell no lies to my baby no, no, no My guy My girl

Repeat chorus to fade

Words and music by Robinson/White Reproduced by permission Jobete Music Ltd.

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Webber ACROSS: 25 Chic's strange French dance 1 ^pinners love song (2,5) 4 Bowie's label (1,1,1) .Ze & 21 Eldest of 17 across ^,.8 John Foxx's old band 9 Female singer DOWN: .to A game sort of group! t2'Punks going to Hell? ,./f^ob Marley single (5,3,2,5) 14 His real name was John 2 Radio 1 DJ (5,6) Beverly 3 Turn a bone lid into some- 15 Biggest group of all! thing good to see and hear! 17' English-born trio given new ,5 Hygienic, like a Buggies hit life by disco (3.4) 6 All girl band who have a hit ,W Selector's was a three-minute with an old Stones song (3,8) one 7 Scottish new wave group 20 The Jam's third album (3,3,4) 11 Fierce FA star (anag. 6,6) 22 Followers >3' Group you could strike sparks off! . 23 Vi/hat Elton and Lydon have in common 16 Lemmy's hard rock outfit ,24 Hit musical written by Tim 18 Police single (2,6) Rice and Andrew Lloyd 21 See 26

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ACROSS: 1 "Wednesday Week"; 7 (Average) White (Band); 9 (Peter) Gabriel; 10 "Electricity"; 12 Sister Sledge: 15"TalkOf The (Town)"; 17 "Waterfalls"; 19 Regents; 20 Clash; 21 Don (McLean); 22 Jeff Lynne. DOWN: 1 "Who Wants The World"; 2 David Essex; 3 Sax; 4 (Secret) Affair; 5 "(Close To The) Edge"; 6 Eric (Clapton); 8 (Kenny) Everett; 11 The Chords; 13 "Sultans Of (Swing)"; 14 (Brian) Eno; 16 Peter (Gabriel); 18 "Silly (Games)".

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tunes. The result is really surprisingly listenable and melodic. The rhythm tracks are subtle but strong enough to make the music accessible, while all the distorted vocals, taped effects and electronically treated noises hang together in a quietly effective way, expressing a "feel" more than a precisely stated object. The lyrics (or what can be made out through the deliberate distortions) present an impression of things happening In the world around them — vaguely political, but pointing out album rather than force feeding — and CABARET VOLTAIRE: The Voice it's done in a similarly subtle Of America (Rough Trade). fashion. Recorded at their own Western In case you think this is all Works studios, this third album simply a new variation of posing from the pioneers of with electronics, there's one track experimenting with tapes and here which dates from 1974, electronics gets off to a flying showing Cabaret Voltaire have start by not having anything to do been working In this field years with Berlin, melodramatic before it became fashionable. futurism or wanting to be a They are now close to having machine. something really significant to Instead this Sheffield outfit go show for their constructive for building something outside approach. singles (Distributed by Rough Trade.) the mainstream of rock music, (Contact: SAE to Scott at Rough The Exploited's "Army Life" by putting together this collage of Trade, 202 Kensington Park Road, Sector 27's "Not Ready" (Panic (Exploited Records) is a three noises rather than conventional London W11.) Records) comes on much harder track EP for which the word crude and heavier than Tom Robinson's Is altogether too subtle a earlier work and features a description; heads down no independent singles top 30 clipped, punchy rhythm section, sense mindless skinheads a la TWOTwn an energetic drummer and of Cockney Rejects. The rear cover THIS WEEKS course Tom's familiar vocals. The portrays these shaven headed WEEK AGO TITLE/ARTIST song, something of a goons inviting you to go Mod J ' Will TEAR US ^0« APART Joy Divismn straightahead chant — isn't his bashing and then petulantly ,''!,')' •7 ?->mA^ME^r^MMicny hobgoblins p.h p„,.„ k ih. T greatest by any means and I complaining "No thanks l-!!gklP«V IN CAMBODIA Dead Kennedys much prefer the 'B' side "Can't whatsoever to the Edinburgh chenv Red I 4 5 FIGHT BACK lEPIDiscliarge Keep Away", a much more promoters." My sympathies lie 5 23 TRANSMISSION .iny nii/i.inn controlled effort combining entirely with the Edinburgh ^ 6 MY WAY Of THI NKIWC/I genuine feeling THINK ITS G0IN6 TO BAIN TOOaTiM with much better promoters. Jimmy Pursey has a 3° CALIFORNIA i UBER ALLES Dead Ki-nn^Hy. writing. An album should follow lotto answer for. i_gioggYRgygL soon on Phonogram, the band's (Distributed by Red Rhino, 9 UTioN^;^RsoNs UNKNOWN c,.ssiPo, ' san~'^;;r~K::7 - new label, but I can't help Gillygate, York.) ARMYUFEExD lnilad , , .. ~— Exploited^ wondering if really 10_ 8 REALITIES OF WAR DischaTg^ Tom has Something altogether much 11 found his true musical better healthier Is 10 REALITY ASYLUM Crass niche yet. and the long (Available through Faulty awaited Prats' "Pop 1990" EP 12_ 11 YOU DREAM IN 00 COLOUR? Ri ll Nelson 13 Products; Contact — SAE to 258 (Rough Trade) which is really fine 9 MAN NEXT DOOR Slits Pentonville Road, London N1.( despite the rather dodgy sleeve. 14 7 JUST LIKE EDDIE/SUN FUGHT Silicon Teens is 15 John Mayer the Edinburgh Now down to a three piece. The 18 FINAL DAYS Young Marble fiiants record shop owner who showed Prats have certainly matured 16 '2 NO ROOM Athletico SpfeTjgn up the major labels' talent since the days of "Inverness" and !Z - KING AND COUNTRY TV Personalities spotting division recently (see Fast Product's "Earcom 1". ^. TERROR COUPLE ^ KILL COLONEL Bauhaus Bitz), and Holocaust are his local The overall style remains the '6 you CAN y BE YO U (GIRL ON THE RUNI Hn„.. R .n. proteges. Holocaust are Heavy same: simple, direct and catchily 2° 21 NOT READY Sector 27 Metal. My views on this cretinous tuneful though now they can also 21 17 LIKE THIS FOR AGES Cu pnl music are not favourable but I boast improved technical skills. 22 20 MADMAN Cuddly Tny s expect a lobotomy might change It's the lyrics that really stand out

?2 13 WHERE'S CAPTAIN KIRK? SpizzFner,, my mind. "Heavy Metal Mania" though — check out "Disco 2* 24 DIEMATROSENUIipul (Phoenix) suffers additionally Pope" or the more ambitious "No

25 19 SOLDIER SOLDIER SpizzEnergi from flat/too polite production one Noticed". The Prats look to 28 - WHITE MICE Mo-Dettes but will doubtless appeal to HM be taking over where The hordes anyway. Comes in 7 Mekons left off. ?Z 26 BETTER SCREAM Wahl Heat and 1 2 inch versions, the latter with Speaking of whom, the Leeds 5 !l_gO!!!!gIHgOUGH THE MOTIONS The Prcfert. " an extra track. seven piece have with a 22 FINAL SOLUTION PereUbu come up 30 (Contact: SAE to 14 Melville their first offering since the split - STRANGE EFFECT Spectres Terrace, Edinburgh.) with Virgin. "Snow"/"Another Still In Edinburgh, there are three One" (Red Rhino) is really pretty independent^lbumstoplo more bands there with new different to their old carefree TWO THIS WEEKS singles to their name. First up are musical approach. "Snow" Is WEEK AGO PAK (formerly Metropak) with TITLE/ABTIST much heavier with a synthesiser their third _1 1 CLOSER Jov Divlslcin single "Balinese lurking in the background, while Dance"/"Sexual Cult Thing" "Another heavily -? 6 UNKNOWN PLEASURES Joy Divi^ One" leans on (Metropak Records). Like its two Reggae. They still retain J 2 LIVE AT LAST Blacic Sabbath some of predecessors, however, this the spontaneity of old as well as ~ Z_C9'.0SSAL YOUTH Young Marble Giants quirky record potters along the simplicity and melody, but as rhythmically but aimlessly, never usual It's the lyrics that LJ0I*!£STUR carry J N7(irSN0i;if or NEVERI The fgll really getting anywhere or them. The Mekons do seem to be -1 4 MUSIC FOR PARTIES Silicon Teens making any real impression. drifting a bit these days though. J_ JTHE VOICE OF AMERICA Caharnt Vnl»,,, Sorry, PAK, but pretending to be (Contact: SAE to Red Rhino, 9 J_ _10__WE ARE TIME Pop Grou p weird is no substitute for a strong Gillygate, York.) 10 8 DIEKLEINENUNDDIEBDSENnAF song. Nice sleeve though. Red Starr Compiled by Record Business from a nationwide panel of specialist shoos SMASH HITS 17 Only titles not connected ' with major record companies are ."ofhi" 1 ! E

Every day I get a brand new show Were out of stock'

Off the TV, records and radio So I don't buy records in your shop I breeze with the sleaze on my cassette Now I tape them all cos I'm Top of the Pops — yeah Cos I got the affirmative Magnolia! — Man Now I've got a new way to move It's shiny and black and don't need a groove C-30 Chorus But I don't need no album rack C30,C60,C90Go I carry my collection over my back C30. C60, C90 Go {C30, C60, C90 Go) Repeat second chorus C-3-0, C-6-0 Policeman stopped in C30, C60, C90 Go me my tracks Said hey you, you can't take that C90 Go, 3-0, 6-0, 9-0 Go You're under arrest 'Cos it's illegal A bip bam boogie and a booga rooga So I shrugged him off My cassette's just like a bazooka And he blew his whistle A blinga a blanga a bippity bop I'm €90 a pirate and I keep my loot Well I'm going down to the record shop — yeah! So I blew him out with And the boss said my bazooka LP. single picture cover or plain Repeat second chorus I got all the hits and all the big names You get the biggest discounts in my store K you're rich enough If three you buy records To have a record collection I'll give you four I'll bring my bazooka round for an inspection

Sometimes in bed I get a hit twice as fast Second chorus 'Cos I press my playback to make it last C30, C60, C90 Go I breeze with the sleaze on my cassette Off the radio I get a constant flow I got the affirmative Magnolia! — Now Hit it! Pause it! Record it and play Turn it rewind it and rub it away Repeat second chorus

Repeat chorus Repeat chorus It used to break my heart Words and music by When I went in your shop McLaren/Barbe/Ashman/Gorman. said on EMI Records And you my records Reproduced by permission Moulin Rouge Ltd.

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EVERY INCH the American music. Never mind the quality, feel professionals. Odyssey are a the width . . . There's no problem in threesome consisting of Billy seeing why they mix 'n' match the McEachern and the glamorous Lopez brands — it's simply because, out of sisters, Lillian and Louise, and they're eight tracks featuring standard disco, over here to promote their number grilling funk, drip dry airy ballads and one hit, It "Use Up". friendly pop songs, you're bound to Big sister Louise first trod the like at least one! boards with teething problems at the Liquorice allsorts have nothing on age of three, Billy's and been this band when it comes to the stage yodelling in his own high style since repertoire either. They do the hit time out of mind, receiving his first singles, of course, but you also hear acknowledgment of the public's jazz versions of three Beatles oldies, approval when his name appeared on songs from "Evita", "Sound Of a Sunday School programme. Music" and "J.C. Superstar ", the edge Both sisters, meanwhile, studied being added to the evening with a piano voice. and They further sprinkling of rock 'n' roll numbers. explained the intricacies of making I'm told these last do just fine to set and selling records, all sharp points the mums and dads alight and reelin' being levelled down to the big factor. in the aisles, and Louise adds: As the lady said: "We would like that if the the kids "Let's face it, it's primarily a came with their mothers ..." business." But for now it's the future that The trio's ultimate ambition, apart matters. They may record some old from making money, is not only to be soul hits by Smokey Robinson and established as a madly successful especially Sam Cooke, the latter international band, but one whose recently remembered in the charts records will still be going the rounds with The Detroit Spinners' rendition in five years' time, preferably at of "Cupid". aaVarpm but 45 would do! But best of all, they ended, "It's all "Hang Together" is their third so important that it's danceable." album and features a diverse range of Linda Duff

Does She Have A Friend? By Gene Chandler on Twentieth Century Records

She's so easy to look at Oughta know someone out there She's got style, she's got grace Does she, does she? I got a little money in my pocket I would do anything Just to be in your place And I wanna honey just like you've got You're my best friend, you Icnow that Is there one out there for me?

I would do you no wrong favour There's a moon out tonight You could do me the Help me shake off the blues And I don't wanna be alone Here's a dime for the phone she'll Chorus I don't think refuse Ask her, ask her, does she have a friend for me? You're my best friend, I know that Does she, does she, does she have a friend for me? You would do me no wrong

I just want me a woman We could drive down to Gino's I could call all my own Maybe take In a show We could come back to my place Repeat chorus twice »l Where the lights are down low I just wanna know I know love is a gamble Got my eyes open wide 'Cos that pretty little thing you got there out there Spin my heart like a wheel Oughta know someone Does she? does she? I feel lucky tonight

in . . . Repeat chorus I got a little money my pocket Words and music by Bob Stone/Mark Gibbons I just wanna know permission Music Ltd. 'Cos that pretty little thing you got there Reproduced by Sunbury

SMASH HITS 19 BAD MANNERS headline Sp«.lcul««lSl»l«P^

The grapevine says Liverpool is going to be the Next Big Thing (again). Steve Taylor investigates.

BEING A band from Liverpool has been, a "pop" musician. the showbiz and exhibitionist escape. "The last ones to make it loads of credibility on a cult level, As one native remarked, tendencies which seem to lurk were The Yachts," they'll sigh, according to Teardrop Explodes' "After the Merseybeat boom, inside many of the city's young wistfully, dreaming of a letter lead singer, Julian Cope. Only — even the guy who drove your taxi hopefuls, but have since made from the London record he grits his teeth at the other end had had a single out last year and far more impact after their company and a fistful of train of the telephone line — "I don't was just looking for the right dissolution through the tickets. ." efforts of all is for the want us to be associated with people to form another . . individual the band Yet not smooth that at all." The truth is that originality members. bands who do make the fateful It's an opinion shared by a was thin on the ground even in Clive Langer, for instance, has connection. Deaf School sunk whole broad sweep of new those halcyon days. Very few of channelled his wackiness into a under a massive weight of Liverpool groups. They've seen the musicians got beyond neat line in bright poppy general hype; Big In Japan, even too many others settle for a absorbing the American production work, i.e. his with the support of the rock short-term existence spent in influences which steamed into transferring of Madness' on press, knocked on the door for fighting and cross-slagging each the port as early Motown discs, stage lunacy onto their debut two years before splitting; and other while ignoring the comics and so forth. album in outstandingly The Yachts have fared little all-important problem of Once the Stateside influences successful fashion. Bette Bright, better with a modicum of breaking out of local fame and which produced their distinctive Ian Broudie of Original Mirrors American success only to release stamping their musical identity regional hybrid had been and Clive Allen of The Planets are a very disappointing second on the collective mind of the digested, the city fell back on other Deaf School graduates album, "Yachts Without Radar." nation. past laurels and waited for the with promising new careers. city It's simply been too easy since next boom. It never came. Travelling to Liverpool from CURRENT INTEREST in the the heady days of Merseybeat in London always makes you feel focusses on the wave of bands the early 1960s, when the city LIVERPOOL MUSICIANS — the like you've moved in the right who surfaced around the autumn indisputably dominated "Beat younger ones that is — now look direction. The people srefriendly of last year. They have been "" Boom" scene, to take a romantic back over a very lean time indeed and less aggressively more successful in negotiating "ei/v Strei>f Mith Julian Exp tell that since competitive, and there seems to the kind of major label record Teardrop view of the 'Pool as a bottomless and you huoe • to be huge well of talent and world-beating Merseybeat nothing has come be a more democratic social life, deals needed for large scale The soon from bonanza will recount a painful Deaf School occupy a peculiar But Liverpool musicians talk Explodes now all have major stomping ground (which is founding of The Zoo. the police, who were objecting to interesting band to emerge from time when everyone you met in slot in 'Pool history. They failed about the opposite journey as deals yet still live in Liverpool. basically anywhere that Pete Balfe and Drummond have the renewal of the drinks licence. Liverpool since the OMD/Zoo Liverpool either was, or had to capitalise on their cocktail of though it's a mythical route of OMD have gone to the trouble Burns, the bizarrely dressed consistently argued against "We'd decided to close phase. leader of the recently defunct staying isolated and even against anyway and on the last night Naturally, they'd been Nightmares In Wax, is likely to be the outlook and principles were putting on a final bill of connected with just about every spotted "hanging out"). behind small labels altogether. Wah! Heat and The Psychedelic other group in some way; the Julian Cope, Teardrop They now manage three bands Furs. We were taping Wah! Heat leading light behind the band, Explodes' lead singer, says that who are signed to London record and suddenly the police steamed Pete Wylie, once shared the their recent tie-up with Mercury companies: Teardrop, Echo and in, dogs and everything. Most of stage with Teardrop's Julian

has already been fraught with OMD associates Daiek I. Add Pink them were plain clothes, wearing Cope and Bunnymen's Ian difficulties arising from the Military and much-touted mod hats. It was very heavy McCulloch. With typical modesty distance from London, adding: newcomers Wah! Heat to the list physically — on their part." they were christened The Crucial "We were lucky, really. and Drummond says: Erics has since been taken over Three.

The Bunnymen started at the "It sounds kind of nasty, but I and is re-opening next month as As to criticisms that whole same time, so we were able to look upon those five bands as the Brady's which, some Liverpool hearted Wah! Heat are still rather share rehearsal facilities and only things that are any good in punters suspect will be a ragged live in spite of a things. And the Zoo label started Liverpool now. Occasionally Blitz-type Bowie/Ultravox club. memorable debut single, Fulwell at the same time. Dave (Balfe) someone will get something Fulwell thinks this unlikely, as says in Wylie's defence that and Bill (Drummond) who run together for a month but it'll fall the new owners already run such "He's always saying after gigs the label thought it was a really apart. People don't work on a venue and have intimated that that he's pouring out his heart to complacent thing to record local things; that's typically they're going to try and retain them and there they are, just bands for the sake of it, the Liverpudlian." the original flavour of Erics. wanting to be entertained! He'll ultimate chauvinism! "Even bands that seem to have There are also a smattering of have to come to terms with it "They were into doing it on a been around for some time and one-off gigs — the Original Club, sooner or later." major level: we didn't spend £30 about to go somewhere fall apart Rotters, Pickwicks — which on our first single because it's without getting anywhere. Fulwell sees as "are almost like BUT MAYBE he won't have to. more ethnic or anything — if Nightmares In Wax have just 'after Hiroshima, here comes the Liverpool bands seem to thrive we'd had £2,000, we'd have done it; Pete Burns is about to storm'. It's as if people are trying on the contradictions between

spent it. I hate all this revelling in get married, so goodness knows to cash in on the aimless Erics their showbiz instincts and their

being underground. what'll happen to him . . . audience who are wandering sensitive souls, on their "I like Liverpool as a place "Apart from that, there are around looking for somewhere conflicting interdependence and

because I wasn't brought up here countless bands getting together to see bands." jealousy, on their need to stay

and didn't come her until I was like in any other city. I think all At the time of Erics' dramatic close to home and a strong drive '76. 18 in 1 was at college for six the Liverpool bands hate being demise, Fulwell and his partner, towards recognition and months and left in May '77 associated with each other. The Roger Eagle, were in the middle success. because of the punk thing. bands hate each other, there's of recording the current Pink When the next wave of new "As we were getting Teardrop constant friction, and they all Military album "Do Animals outfits comes through, which going it was as if a lot of people hate the Liverpool label." Believe In God?" for the Eric's Fulwell estimates should be in like the NME's Paul Morley label. Through a licensing deal the late autumn — though he's seemed to want a Liverpool AS FAR as live music goes, Pete with Virgin, they were able to naming no names — one scene; they'd drained Fulwell, who was one of the finance the complete session at wonders just what strange Manchester. We came along at partners in Erics, Liverpool's Rochdale's Cargo studio. mixture of those qualities they'll the right time for us ancf them." premier new wave club, Fulwell and Eagle disagreed, each display. These eyes, for explained how it had met its end however, as to the merits of sure, will be on Liverpool in COPE, WHO'S just polishing off in March of this year: another new local band, Wah! eager, but slightly wary, the forthcoming Teardrop "It was on a financially dodgy Heat, so the former released their anticipation. SMASH HITS 23 -w o. WaMHeat. /,- ...>- ^ith the incomparable \ate o.^V/gM.are. Pete Wylie (centrel V.e unJta*aa.re pR" Sleepwalk By Ultravox on Chrysalis Sleepwalk sleepwalk Sleepwalk

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Caught on the outside I'm crumbling and crawling Watching the day drag away

Spiralling deeper Sweetheart Contract I can't feel my fingers Grip round my throat as I dream By Magazine on Dream dream dream Virgin Records We drank from cups Sleepwalk Sleepwalk On standard issue sofas Sleepwalk Under scaffolding

Informed sources said Repeat to fade We were seen by observers It's d meeting Words and music by Ultravox Reproduced by permission Island I received an education Music/Copyright Control I was dominant for hours

I won myself a wealth of weapons Supermassive wealth Under a sweetheart contract Which clearly stated Strength is always health

I had one upper hand

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I want to be there On thefar sideof sin I've been putting myself through hell Waiting for hell to begin

I got insurance

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My tour-de-force is to forget All that's gone on around and about me My manners are forever And whatever sells the newspapers suits me

I got an education

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1 KINKS: Live EP (Arista). Like The RELUCTANT STEREOTYPES: LINDA MCCARTNEY: Seaside SINGLES Beatles, The Kinks wrote some Confused Action (WEA). Woman (A&M). Delightful front great songs which hardly date, Reluctant maybe, but still pretty cover portraying fiendish yellow this live EP kicking off with the predictable, Ska'd backcloth women wearing green hats and By Deanne Pearson original version of David Watts, decorated with a rocky rhythm striped bathing costumes, and a which has more drive and guts interrupted by occasional horn scruffy collection of colourful ADAM AND THE ANTS: Kings Of than The Jam could ever kick into bursts and all overladen with wooden huts on the back. The The Wild Frontier (CBS). This is it. But it's the live atmosphere smooth west coast America type song comes somewhere in the new Ants line-up and Adam that complements the record the vocals. This lot don't believe in between and should be played in has obviously chosen well, as the most — toned down enough not jumping just anybody's fresh enthusiasm and drive to drown out anything, but bandwagon, they hitch rides bursts of this record. Plenty of out from everyone. handclapping, drumbeats (two apparent enough to give that extra kick. Other tracks are drummers, Terry 1 and Terry 2), "Where Have All The Good Times TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS: chanting and strong melody line. Gone", "Attitude" and "Victoria". Stick It Up Mister EP (Island). I A record packed with activity and bow my head in shame to put this sounding liice a new wave Indian original artist anywhere near war dance. ska the previous record. This is COMATEENS: Late Night City slower, more measured, clear (Criminal). Delicious number with and bright and soulful, nearer to clear, creamy synth/organ that straight reggae than ska (especi- ally if consider Bad Manners seems to run underneath and all you over everything, while the Teens and Mobster ska). Every track is laid down with the same care and (if I may be so familiar) sing a repetitive but addictive pop ditty attention, and the last is the original version of Specials' that sounds like something The The Archies might have done. "Monkey Man". nursery schools everywhere — guaranteed to send the kids off to SHAKIN' STEVENS: Marie Marie ANGELIC UPSTARTS: Last Night sleep. Linda hasn't got a bad Another Soldier (EMI). I was in a (Epic). Good ol' rock 'n' roll with a voice (and hubbie Paul backs her good frame of mind, I really was, touch of C&W in the vocals. As up all the way) but it all sounds so after listening to Toots, but I'm such it breaks no new ground, homely and twee, with a simple plunged into instant depression and doesn't leave much of an domestic melody. painful nostalgia this impression in the old. The sort of and by record that gets put on jukeboxes THE PHOTOS: Now You Tell Me squalid mess of sound, raucous, MOBSTER: Simmer Down/ everywhere but never played. That We're Through (CBS). shouting, vicious voices and Mobster Shuffle (Ensign). And matching instrumentation. It is a You've doubtless heard this a while we're flirting with ska . . . little more subdued than usual SECRET AFFAIR: Sound Of hundred times already, as the Mobster too are trying it on, with Upstarts platter, but that Confusion (l-Spy). Confused? poor man's Blondie is all the subtlety and charm of Bad thankfully just makes it all the You're telling me. I don't know guaranteed maximum airplay, Manners' Buster Bloodvessel. No easier to forget. what Secret Affair are playing at, and therefore success. A good, thanks boys, I've heard that line but they're changing the name of catchy song this, but how many before. the game, that's for sure. Forget variations on the lost lover theme TOUR DE FORCE: Nightbeat about mod, because this do we need? There's something (UA). Tour De Force are an all-girl ATHLETICO SPIZZ '80: Hot spokesman for a generation (Ian distinctly familiar about this feminist band, and this song, Deserts (A&M). Never did see predictably, is about a girl alone Page) has. Unfortunately the whole song but it's probably just what all the fuss was about, but at night, walking the streets. conviction in Secret Affair's that it's as wet, lacklustre and at least Spizz changes his tune as music and Page's voice has insincere as everything else The There's a certain hard often as his band name. This in disappeared hand in hand with Photos have done. determination and tension the one's bright and bouncing with a the whole the song the mod tag and we're left with, music, but on cheeky guitar solo midway and drive well, confusion. Even the horns lacks and momentum and rather strange lyrics. Not as have piped down. DAVID BOWIE: Ashes To Ashes never really gets anywhere. instantly addictive as "Captain (RCA). Rather a strange choice for Kirk" but takes in more thought NOISE: Faith (Pre). a single. It sounds like it's been MANICURED and inventiveness. lifted from the middle of an Grey and gloomy this, its only

album, where it should have redeeming factor being the DON McLEAN: Since I Don't

been left as it needs things wandering sax which attempts to Have You (EMI). Oh dear, the

around it. That said, it is an pull some musical shape into poor chap just doesn't seem to interesting collection of sounds apparently lifeless matter. It fails have any luck with his women rolled into a clean, fluid melody and the song sinks heavily into does he? It sounds like he's punctuated by hollow echoey the mire. getting bored with telling the tale snare drumming and Bowie's now, certainly of finding ways of beautiful voice just giding and SUSPICIONS: The Laughing expressing himself. It really is flowing and mixing with perfect Policeman (Arista). Anyone for a becoming a bit tedious. Sounds skill and clarity. Not a hit, but Ska/reggae version of The as if he made this up in the bath

bodes well for his next album in Laughing Policeman? I didn't while the music gurgled away September. laugh the first time round. discreetly beneath him. SMASH HITS 27 L^--

MAGIC MICHAEL: Millionaira penned some of ONJ's earlier more to do with patriotism than (Atomic). Help Michael pay the hits), it ranges from whispering taste. What we have here is a rent giving this single great ALBUMS by a acoustic material to big band rather slight collection of high review, begs the press release. LINDA CLIFFORD AND CURTIS music and includes duets with tech pop which takes in a wide Well, he won't go homeless but MAYFIELD: The Right Cliff Richard, The Tubes, and variety of post-punk styles and neither will he be living in a Combination (RSO). But the co-star Gene Kelly. Very much does boast the odd appealing result of this. It's mansion as a wrong idea, since while duets soundtrack music. (6 out of 10). melodic flourish. But it does lack very ordinary, very orderly might work well enough for one Red Starr substance in the songwriting (surprising with Damned or two songs, seldom is the department and tends to come members Rat Scabies and material strong enough for a THE KINKS: One For The Road across as a mite secondhand. (5 Captain Sensible contributing) whole album. Linda Clifford has a (Arista). From the cliched title to out of 10). with yawning, affectatious superb voice and Curtis Mayfield the boozy, self congratulatory David Hepworth it ain't, vocals. Magic and Michael has written some great soul atmosphere, this double set Is as a Millionaire won't make. Sorry. material in the past, but sadly convincing an argument for JOHN OTWAY AND WILD BILLY there's very little to get excited banning live albums as you'll BARRETT: Way & Bar (Polydor). about as the pair sing, stomp and find. The Kinks lumber through Deplte all appearances to the go all gooey through this their paces with all the elegance contrary, John Otway is quite a remarkably unmemorable and zip of a superannuated clever bloke and a more than disco-funk outing. Pass. (4 out of boogie band while large reasonable songwriter. Why he 10). American audiences bellow their persists with this nutter act is Red Starr approval. Rarely can so many beyond me, since no one is likely great songs have been to take his talents at all seriously, STANLEY CLARKE: Pebbles And assembled in one place. There however entertaining he is. That Sand (Epic). Apart from one are few survivors. (4 out of 10). said, this is still a good, varied obvious funk track, a newcomer David Hepworth album with some neat, tuneful might well think this belonged to songs and a few smiles along the the heavy rock brigade. Side one DAVE EDMUNDS AND LOVE way. Recommended, despite the is over the top but likeable SCULPTURE: A&B Sides clown prince image! (7 out of 10). (Harvest). A rather unflattering Ian Cranna compilation of early Edmunds TRICK: CHEAP Everything Workr taking In his flashy blues guitar LOU REED: Growing Up In Public If You Let It (Epic). Great revving period as well as his early stabs (Arista). An album of two moods intro which drives straight on at revamping classics. It's only — personal songs about Reed's through the number chased by recently that Edmunds' childhood and more detached, Rick Nellson's powerful vocals. cleverness has been matched cynical observations. Plenty of go in this song, but it's a with good taste and this album Unfortunately the personal songs bit like driving down the j only hints at what he's capable are delivered In a passionate motorway — no change of i of. Besides the compiler didn't quiver that sounds like a bad scenery and quickly becomes include his brilliant version of imitation of Bruce Springsteen, monotonous. "Promised Land" and must while the witty, clever songs — therefore be regarded as like most witty, — THE B52'S: Give Me Back My clever songs clinically deaf. (6 out of 10). become Irritating after a few Man (Island). Not as shrill and David Hepworth plays. The is vibrant as previous B52's singles, music inventive but too often the with more electronic emphasis words get In the DESMOND DEKKER: Black way: an toning everything down. Even And unhappy mixture that driving technoflash rock, while Decker (Stiff). Moderately doesn't work. the vocals are smoother and (4 out of 10). t'other side is a three part successful comeback from the Alistair mellower. The running rhythm is Macaulay concept affair original ska maestro punctuated with echoey snare and rather less which leans straightforward. Great funky bass heavily on re-recorded versions SIOUXSIE and darting keyboards but AND THE BANSHEES: playing in the middle of of his big hits of yesteryear. With Kaleidoscope (Polydor). Not a somehow it's all too subdued and mainstream American hard rock the help of some nimble playing significant in has none of the unique chattering move any new — check it out as it could well and occasional writing direction and so should appeal of "Rock Lobster". satisfy appeal to a wide variety of contributions from The Rumour, their fans. The distinctive TUXEDO MOON: Scream With A musical tastes. (6 out of 10). Desmond turns out some Banshees sound Is still there — View (Joeboy). Tuxedo Moon are Red Starr amiable dance music and proves soaring Siouxsie vocals and air of a San Franciscan electronic band, that his quirky vocals are in as modern mystery — with the and this is full of variety, real ELO/OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN: good a shape as ever. Worth forty exceptions of "Red Light" which experimentation with sound and Xanadu (Jet). The film minutes of any rude person's uses drum machine and clicking effect yet still keeping that soundtrack, it'ssplit between the time. (7 out of 10). camera to great effect. Both all-important human feel. two big names. You know what David Hepworth recent singles are included and Muffled voices are surrounded by ELO sounds like so there are no side two is excellent. A fair album active cluttered sounds, and yet surprises on side one (which also SPLIT ENZ: True Colours (A&M). by their own standards, good by the whole Is cleverly arranged contains the title hit.) Side two, A monster hit In their native anyone else's, but where do they and obviously under perfect however, is vastly different. Australia after years of work, but go from here? (7y2 out of 10). control. Written by John Farrar (who it's tempting to assume this has Alastair Macaulay 28 SMASH HITS n Artist

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Some is rich and some is poor Records CBS And that's the way the world is

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So we came to jazz it up Never loved the shovel Break your back to earn your pay And don't forget to grovel Repeat chorus

An old man spoke up in a bar He said, I've never been in prison But a lifetime serving one machine Is ten times worse than prison

Imagine if all the boys in jail Could get out now together What do you think they'd wanna say to us While we was being clever?

Someday you'll meet your rocking chair 'Cos that's where we're spinning There's no point to wanna comb your hair When it's grey and thinning Repeat chorus

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Strike out boys, for the hills -«i^--ia*«' I can find that hole in the wall I know that they never will Repeat chorus to fade Words and music Strummer/Jones Reproduced by permission Riva Music/Nineden Ltd.

Back To Front Stiff Little On cheap returns to summer places Fingers Awayday herd all out in heat Kicking black looks in sunshine faces A race to vote with their feet Back to front

Flock off to find someone to play with He's not like us, he must be done Buckets of spades to make your day with It hurts so good it must be fun

Chorus And it's made in London town Fists are up to knuckle down Because we are the boys who got the noise and clout And it's argue upside down Black and white and wrong way round Infight, outright, uptight, downright, inside out Back to front

Fight on the beaches and back home streets Welcoming in with outclenched hand Standing on others with your own feet You got to prove that you're a man Back to front Back to front Back to front Oy! Repeat chorus Back to front

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DEAR SONY (issue July 10), Oil! You leave Winston alone. Axa, A Very Annoyed Queen Fan,

I'll have you know we've been St. Helens, Merseyside. engaged since the last Numan DEAR THING, concert a year ago, so I don't want any other cheap hussies God I hate you ! We've had a vote and you're hated five out of giving him the eye, or it'll be more than yer transformers that six with one abstention. Geoff IN REPLY to the letter from C. A. nicked your "mag"(?) out of the Unfortunately though, I can't WITH REFERENCE to the letter DEAR SMASH Hits Readers, get blown! Lotdssue July 10). agree with what he/she/it said. new W. H. Smith in Dudley and from Two Of The Hypodermic I am writing to apologise Kisses and condescensions, How can you judge a certain It was said that disco fans don't now he sez he's gonna ask for his Bottoms {issue July 10): because I am a sinner in your Gary Numan's Polymoog. style of music by its record sales? retaliate to money back. frequent knockings I P.S. If one person puts thought it was common eyes. I like punk, heavy, rock 'n' more The fact that Heavy Metal from We hate the petty, snivelling hasn't the barbarous multitude knowledge that Pink Floyd and roll, reggae, mod, jazz, two tone, another box of chocolates on my had many No.l's doesn't mean because their remarks, especially in the reviews music is so Buggies were not heavy metal disco — ALL TYPES OF MUSIC!! keyboard, I shall go up a semi that it's less popular than disco. popular. This is of course true but tone. section. In issue July 10 we want bands but are in fact mod groups. Also I don't dress normally. I to what this person Being I know a HM fanatic myself, I think disco people are far too Duncan, Reading, Berks. don't parade the streets in denim prefer to spend AT LEAST the present Hepworth is on about. my money on busy being happy to worry about jackets or safety pins, pork pie going to concerts and seeing my the state of the nation. government will be pleased with Listen, David Woolworths — I ASKED for a penpal during hats, slicked hair etc., nor do I fave groups live, ratherthan The trouble with mods, punks Smash Hits, as at least they are who cares what you think about January and I got a lot of replies. fight my fellow human beings in spending keeping some people in a job these records? We wanna know money on singles. I and what have you today is that Thank you very much, but please the street. (namely the reviewers) went to see Whitesnake recently they spend far too much time who what they sound like, i.e.. The don't write to my old address any I realise now I have sinned and should be on a dole queue. How and it was a sell-out, so how can being depressing Plasmatics — "Butcher Baby". I and morbid. more as I've moved elsewhere. If disobeyed one of the you say isn't you can expect reviewers to have never heard this record but HM popular? After all, isn't the main purpose anyone wants a penpal over here, commandments according to make a worthwhile contribution The fact that all I can gather from what David there have been of music to be I enjoyed? get write to me and I'll try and find Smash Hits readers; "Thou shalt 17disco No.l's inthe past four to assessing how good a record writes is that they're punk and he worries as well but when I listen friends who want one, and I've like ONE type of music and thou years doesn't prove is, I don't know, seeing as it is doesn't like them or the record. anything to real I dance music feel so much got quite a few who want Shalt fight tooth and nail for its impossible for everyone to agree I Tab, Geoff, Panda, Jayne, either. mean, Lena Martell and better. penpals. cause. Amen." with them. Fern Kinney did it as well! Also the majority of the Jessica, & Snaps, Dudley. Consequently I Christina Demetriadou, 28th have decided to A Reader Who Would Be Pleased Cozy Powell's No. 1 Fan. so-called "disco" records only crawl into a October Street No. 9, Laxia, cave somewhere and DEAR SMASH HITS, the If Smash Hits Disposed Of Their make charts because squares Nicosia, shout to passers-by: "unclean, Cyprus. Reviewers. I now know why Red Starr !" I THINK, dear buy them because they are C. A. Lot, that unclean I you Maybe one day may described the lyrics to Toyah's ROCK N ROIL singalongish, which is RUTS need your head examined. I why disco see the light. Farewell, I AM writing to congratulate the I WAS very angry after reading "The Blue Meaning" (issue June WHERE CAPTAIN KIRK? agree that music has had such a KISS there are a lot of disco bad name. producers of the North Geordie Lover. the view "composed" by Steve 26) "meaningless" East pro- A Music as and SQUEEZE in These days it's records the Top 75 but most of almost SID WIPI gramme "Alright Now". I think its Taylor (issue July 10) concerning "garbled". They take intelligence these do not get above the Top 40 miraculous when a genuine SLITS content is great, the pop stars (or DERE SMESH Heets, Queen's new album "The to understand. THE CURE as they are commercialised dance record is a hit, e.g. "One UB40 otherwise) who are chosen are Ah'd jis laak to saye howzitt to Game". We don't mind you Subtle Toyah Fan, Cheadle, COCKNEY REJECTS rubbish on one subject. Nation Under A Groove" by GANG OF FOUR first I class, and am just sorry I awl tha Smesh Heets reedas, end comparing it to rockabilly, funk, Manchester. There may not be many mod, Funkadelic. HUMAN LEAGUE wasn't there when the show was ah jis wanta seey ma name een hard rock, singalong and KATE BUSH punk or ska records but they are Please print this so that the TO STEVt'Taylor, reviewer NEW MUSIK being filmed — it's pretty good yaw magazine. Howzitt ya'll. even . . . Fleetwood Mac! It just JAGS of high quality about ignorant hordes can see that ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE down to stuff! Baw tha whey, ah theenk thet goes to prove that Freddie and extraordinaire. earth subjects to do with youth disco fans do have opinions. are not mindless they SPIZZENERGH My sympathies are with the Gery Newmen ees jus to the group go out their way to Queen — ATHLETICO SP122 80 today and political innovations, The Happy Dancer, havea totalof 32 'O' Levels and ONLY! MADNESS Swansea. poor sods who live down in the fentesteek faw werds. Heow provide something for everyone. NUT not a megalomania of unreal 10 'A' Levels between them. U OEXVS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 48 TUBEWAY ARMY NUTTY South and whose local TV about mor ov heem? Thenks. Fair enough, it is different to £1.00 15 DAMNED <9TEENB£ATS DEBBIE HARRY romances. People who buy disco DEAR Axa (again). Still ARCHBISHOP of stations have not yet their usual albums, but eyen the Annoyed And PER PAIR 16 JOHN FOXX SO TOYAH LAMBREnAS Entellektewal Gery Fen, Jo'burg. JDHNNV ROnEN records are a lot of fanatical Canterbury (issue July Still Living In St. Helens. ' "JAM 51 ANGELIC UPSTARTS 10): their fact they even (dare I it) FREE MONOCHROME SET acknowledged need for (An example of a South African used say POST 19 JOE JACKSON 52 UK SUBS poseurs. I've 19 MODS S3 VAPORS SIO LIVES never seen you in our better music programmes a synthesiser (sob) still doesn't not accent.) 20 MODDEnES S4 SID VICIOUS SAO MANNERS BLOOO VESSEL A Genuine Modette From A Wimpy. Or are you the one with aimed at teenyboppers or make it unoriginal corn. DEAR SMASH HITS, 21 RUDE BOYS 55 IAN DUR» BUSTER SEND MONEY 4 YOUR ORDER TO: 22 RUDE GIRLS 56 ELO I SHOT JR Poseur-Thick black cords and studded leather attitude Please could you tell me if PISS OFF Area of London. parents. Perhaps if you were to Tony Blackburn My to reviewers who 23 S99 57 fUNKS WHY DOES keep ROCK ON jacket who drinks a strawberry protest strongly, constantly bring down the group Dexy's Midnight Runners have a 24 GARY NUMAN 58 GOO SAVE THE OUEEN you might get a saying "That's a sensation", 26 POLICE 59 IGGV POP DELTA 5 PSYCHEDELIC FURS WHITESNAKE I milkshake and has a share in the "There, There, 26STNC 60 WAS very pleased when I read showing! can be summed up in two "What a sensational sound" and 27 PIL 61 SID & NANCY J0» DIVISION There" the letter by C. A. Lot in issue July cheeseburger every Saturday But as we've always told you, fingers. After all, when Queen adverts or vice versa? JOY DAVISION "That's sensational, isn't it?" ADAM S THE ANTS night? Yours pleadingly 'cos I need to ML TIES SUCK PRIHT OK RED lEATHERLOOK SUM 10. I'm glad that at last dance everything's better in the can satisfy thousands, why worry MOTORHEAD Norfhl Please could you tell me the TRADING m. roun choice of group or slogan printed CO AC DC music fans have woken up. Me, Canterbury. about the moanings of a few see my letter printed. FOR JUST £1 POST FREE Jill The Patriot, N. Yorkshire. answer? In return, I will tell you (SH) THE WHO critics? Me, At My House. g B A ROBERTSON 45 CHURCH LANE, WHITWICK, COALVILLE, LEICESTERSHIRE

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I wake up every morning He takes me to a movie I stumble out of bed Or to a restaurant Stretching and a-yawning We go slow dancing Another day ahead Anything I want It seems to last forever ly when he's with me And time goes slowly by t I catch alive Till babe and me's together Ig^ Only what he gives me Then it starts to fly l\Aakes me feel alright

'Cos the moment that he's wfth me 1 Repeat chorus Time can take a flight The moment that he's with me ^ Ail day I think of him Everything's alright iL.M Dreaming of him constantly 'aSiiiiijiuiiSiiiiiii Night time is the *^ right time I'm crazy mad for him and We make love He's crazy mad for me That is his and my time When he steps off the train We take off Amazingly full of fight 'ork all day to earn his pay Chorus J So we can play all night My baby takes the morning traiiI He works from 9 to 5 and then He Repeat chorus to fade takes another home again To find me waiting for him Words and music by Florria Palmer ON SALE Reproduced by permission Pendulum Repet. Music/Chappell Music Ltd. AUGUST 21

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