Smash Hits Volume 40
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ROXY MUSIC FLESH + BLOOD Phone 01-200 0200 To find out the nearest shop where you can obtain "Flesh & Blood" at a minimum of £1.00 off the album's R.R.P. ALBUM & CASSETTE te^oj P^ jj I J» NEW AMSTERDAM June 12-25 1980 Vol 2 No 12 Elvis Costello 4 It's tough at the top. Jerry TIN SOLDIERS Dammers just popped in to Stiff Little Fingers 4 borrow a picture of himself. Seems he was trying to cash a CHRISTINE cheque at the bank and the Siouxsie & The Banshees 5 people didn't recognise him . CRYING Our apologies next to the folks who were disappointed by the Don McLean 8 absence of the promised Dexy's CHINATOWN colour poster in the last issue. See, the cover had already been Thin Lizzir 14 rattled off to the printers before THEME FROM M*A*S*H the actual shot arrived and we decided we needed to do better The Mash 14 So have patience and we'll bring LITTLE JEANNIE you one soon. This time around we've definitely got a fantastic Elton John 16 video game for our new IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG crossword prize, our irresistible T-shirt offer on page 26 plus a Rod Stewart 16 Features Editor Suzi Quatro competition on page David Hepworth EVERYBODY'S GOT TO LEARN 28. So just think yourself lucky — we used to live in a rolled up SOMETIME Design Editor wspaper in the middle of the Steve Bush The Korgis 19 d . BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Editorial Assistants BevHillier Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 22 Linda Duff THE MAN WHO DIES EVERYDAY Contributors Ultravox 29 Robin Katz TO BE OR NOT TO BE Red Starr B. A. Fred Dellar Robertson 34 Mike Stand DA-A-ANCE Kelly Pike The Lambrettas Jill Furmanovsky 35 Mark Casto FUNKY TOWN Steve Taylor Lipps Inc 39 Advertisement Manager TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Sopp Manhattan Transfer 39 (Tel: 01-439 8801) Assistant ROXY MUSIC: Feature 6/7 Adie Harper SQUEEZE: Colour Photo/Feature 12/13 Managing Editor ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES: Nick Logan Colour Centrespread 20/21 Publi JERMAINE JACKSON: Mini-Feature 26 Peter St MATCHBOX: Feature 32/33 NEXT ISSUE Editorial and Advertising B. A. ROBERTSON: Colour Poster 40 address: Smash Hits, Lisa ON SALE House, 52-55 Carnaby Street, London W1V 1PF. BITZ 9/10/11 LETTERS 36/37 This magazine is published PRIZE CROSSWORD 18 GIGZ 38 by EMAP National Publications DISCO 22 SMASH HITS SUBSCRIPTIONS Ltd, Peterborough, and is INDEPENDENT printed by East Midland Litho Home and Overseas (Surface Printers, Peterborough. LABELS 24 mail): £10 application). 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SMAS & on F Beat Records for lilies You're sending me tulips mistaken »l me silly You give me your lip after punching the brain drain You turn my head till H roll down If I had any sense now it back again I wouldn't want Chorus much too much New Amsterdam, it's become possession of everything she touches Till I have the to get out of her clutches I on the brake Till step Double Duchess speak Double Dutch to a real Till I H Down on the mainspring Listen to the tick tock ^^ ^& Clock all the faces Who move in on your block Twice shy and dog tired Because you've been bitten Everything you say now ghost-written Sounds like it was Repeat chorus you to heart after a little Back in London they'll take while at home Though I look right exile I still feel like an down at the dockside Somehow I found myself Thinking 'bout the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhithe The transparent people who live on the other side like suicide Living a life that is almost Repeat chorus Words and music by Bvis Costello Visions M Reproduced by permission Plangent By Siouxsie & The Banshees on Polydor Records She tries not to shatter kaleidoscope style Personality changes behind her red smile Every new problem brings a stranger inside Helplessly forcing one more new disguise Chorus Christine, the strawberry girl Christine, banana split lady Christine, the strawberry girl Christine, banana split lady (sees her faces unfurl) Singing sweet savages lost in our world This big eyed girl sees the faces unfurl Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle Disintegrating Repeat chorus Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle Disintegrating Christine, Christine Repeat chorus Christine, Christine, Christine, Christine Twenty two faces, disintegrating Christine, Christine, disintegrating Words and music by Sioux/Severin Reproduced by permission Pure Noise/Chappell MacKay had JUST OVER a year ago, a brief surprisingly warm and open too. the place. Not in a bad way, saxophonist who saying to myself 'How do I been moderately successful in history of Roxy Music might have Although it was always the with the ended by wondering whether insisted that Roxy's break was a become commercial? Ah, I'll meantime music for listen to radio all day'; TV's "Rock Follies"; plus original changes in musical fashion might deliberately temporary one to American Paul not have overtaken those allow them to pursue their you don't do a thing like that. drummer Thompson and bass player Alan Spenner, a very pace-setters of the glitter era. individual projects, there was a "I thought it would just accomplished musician indeed. Well, cast your mind back to feeling at the time that the happen. And it did to a certain Subconsciously." "I could watch him all night — the first post-reunion hits of band's time was up. Now that extent. he's a real master." "Dance Away" and "Angel Eyes" Roxy Music are once again a In fact Bryan wrote just two or to the way "Over You" major feature on the rock songs there, "This Island Earth" On tour, however, the bass steamed up the charts and landscape, how does Bryan see and "Can't Let Go", which player's slot had been filled of late by ex-Vibrator Tibbs there's your answer. their "trial separation"? reflected his very depressed Gary personal state of the time (who's also about to make his And if you've copped a good "I had this very successful solo screen in "Breaking earful of "Flesh + Blood", the career at the time," he replies, especially after his girlfriend, debut Texan model Jerry Hall, had left Glass".) Gary also played on the new Roxy album, then any "but I'd never toured as myself. I him for Mick Jagger. occasional track on "Manifesto" doubts ought to be well and truly just felt I wasn't being fair to that "A hundred sleepless nights and "Flesh -f Blood' but Bryan's knocked on the head; Roxy are particular career, seeing as I was preference for back with a vengeance. two people, Roxy Music and have left me wasted and so cold, Spenner shows it, the old conflict between Like the title track from Bryan Ferry. but lean take I'm hangin' on "is its "session" players "Manifesto" said: "Stronger "I'd done a tour every year one lyric which made way and "band" his still continues. through the years". with the band, but I'd also had onto next solo album "The Most noticeable of all in this more success in a lot of coutries Bride Stripped Bare", which he respect is BUT ROXY Music's position as Bryan Ferry." recorded in the depths of the that original Roxy drummer Paul Thompson is hasn't always been quite so In fact Bryan Ferry the solo Swiss winter. completely absent from "Flesh assured. After their initial artist had had platinum records Bryan still stands by his music + Blood". Bryan is very coy about storming success in the early in countries like Holland and on "The Bride". this and won't really say why. seventies when they dreamt up Australia, where his version of "At least I got something good What say the such an original mixture of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's out of that strange winter, I got he does about new album is that it's more musical styles and such a striking Gonna Fall" was a huge hit. on with the music. If bad things image, things haven't always run That was typical of the kind of happen to you, you should at controlled. smoothly. outrageous gamble Ferry was least channel it into something "Some songs escaped on 'Manifesto'," he admits. "They First Eno, their weirdo able to pull off. "Hard Rain" was ROXY: else." electronics and synthesiser an angry and anguished But "The Bride" failed to sell, weren't fully realised, 'Cry Cry first "failure". Cry' being the major offender. To wizard, left — supposedly anti-nuclear war song; to sing it Bryan's He blames that out because of tussles for the in a highly artificial and stylised the change in his fortunes on the me song shouted rise of the image of Bryan Ferry, 'single' and we never really got it limelight between him and manner and make a pop hit of it STRONGER THRCUGH THE YEARS right. It's a bit Roxy's founder and vocalist required a special sort of talent. playboy and darling of the gossip wooden." columnists — the rock star Well, there's nothing wooden Bryan Ferry. Then Ferry himself Even if it was only the ability to who finds he's than just a gigolo or the began pursuing a solo career imagine what might just work.