\% Words to the TOP SINGLES Boogie WcmdMand NolSong In Heaven Shine A little Love Ain't No Stopping Us Hi By Sparks on Virgin Records Chorus ^B Gabriel plays it It's number one all over heaven Let's hear him play it It's number one all over heaven It's number one all over heaven Repeat chorus The number one song all over heaven The song filters down down through the If you should die before you awake clouds If you should die while crossing the It reaches the earth and winds all around street And then it breaks up in millions of ways The song that you'll hear I guarantee It goes la la la la la la la la la la la la etc Repeat chorus Ooh in cars it becomes a hit The one that's the rage up here in the And in your home it becomes clouds advertisements Loud as a crowd or soft as a doubt And in the streets it becomes children Lyrically weak but the music's the thing singing Ooh la la la la la ia la Gabriel plays it Repeat to fade God how he plays it Gabriel plays it God how he plays it Words and music by Ron Mael/Giorgio <f> Gabriel plays it Moroder/Russell Mael. Reproduced by God how he plays it permission Heath Levy Music. 2 SMASH HITS ' d n oat an l!; ace s de e° ?„gula' '^.sh^"? in , S»° McF^ h v ' g$> sp0 cke b£ mm&*#'punIk * ( 6 issue yo^ainJ"" s Vde» see v we ii. g^S. pajg. h \r\< bag £a^ *5J3*B pa^e? ss^fS^fsa^sS page. ^e^Ng^i^l i\te9' s^U^n^S J3i5i§£ veS§£ X^^^T^^^Sge AT so^S c£* AC*: 7pa$£ ^mZzcvk adj \*<±\&£ o^H ^a^®^ aa/a* pajg. A9, eitttot»*\ C^^§ "paS® ^^sfa£ X3& ?aj®. AC5vf*9?^ejrs ?*&* #S^ 26 * a°-Jv\att §9^ 5*5 \|\|eb&£L ?&& SSafc i *©£ \s/\a* paQ© W ,005! E*j^ 2©. t^o^ G$&- ?aS® GO v3»\K&& %^%mr Jo* !*** WmmM0^ A*SS bQ9 taw*** A ^-<2Stifti**?S». •^^otott^: odU cOP feP« uW froo* SMASH HITS 3 , During the subsequent few months the band broke up and reformed several times because they couldn't get work anywhere other than The Casbah, as all the other venues in the city catered either for heavy metal or showbands. Their first real break came when they were invited to record JJM* for Good Vibrations, a small independent label in Belfast. In a matter of eight hours they laid down and mixed three tracks for release as "The Undertones EP". The A-side, "Teenage Kicks", is a record that 1 still haven't recovered from. While rock and roll intellectuals back in London were theorising about Pure Pop p0irtfaii Q'Ntiill For Now People, The Undertones sat in a makeshift studio in II we wanted to Simms provided themlllxwitrra^^K^^ bomb-scarred Belfast and just we were five whacked out the original article, shed behind her house which <|<^\ ;es a record so fierce, yearning who just they soundproofed, and there &>%< and tralfbrm a downright complete that it fair band." they spent most of their time ; ^*Xk JKUrw&ijrtories took your breath away. The story starts rehearsing, venturing out only to with John, Vincent word, for those prepared to and Damian, play the odd school dance or the brothers O'NeiM. (Families neighbourhood party. listen, was that here was a band to didn't make seem be the current in thing!) By the end of 1978, they had that just pop music. John and Vincent Here were five regular guys, got together enough songs worked up to look with school friends straight off the street, who just jej^l'fove the Billy Doherty for proper gigs In Derry The only and Michael were music. guitar sound, Bradley back in 1975 place that would take them on pop -o^^^^P^x 2^% and paid out The record attracted the pjflt^ simplicity, their a pound each week was a club called The Casbah. r to a mail order attention of people like M^arJkTrjgout haunting firm to buy Although they insist that T John guitars, mikes Peel, and Sire Records (home of ac ,.^eir economy and and drums. Troubles never really affect Young Damian the group's heroes The 'sound tike The then replaced their early days. Dee casual. J^SxxXx: brother Vincent, Ramones) stepped in and signed ^Irritd nobody else and a class mate inform^ me that The Casbah has of Billy's, very quickly 1 they tan make somebody name of Feargal been housed in a Portakabin them Sharkey, was drafted in When 'Teenage Kicks" was me, who is {sigh} no longer a as (the original premises were singer That was the shrewdest * given a proper release, the boys ^£ner, fe$l like I just got out of e«oto"a big hole" by a and most telling from Mrs Simms' shed found ^$»^»f^oi fpr the summer, then only move. Feargal Sharkey has, in themselves on Top Of The Pops. TheGuardian Angel of rock »hd my humble ^^KiDily may have got .'' opinion, the best (Kids, it can be done! ) And ^^^^theymustbe. and mosix^V^ callous about it," he says, "but distinctive voice to although the follow up, "Get come out of life goes on Life has to go on In the New Wave Over You", was less successful, The only possible fact, y'know. The Troubles Hpo competitor is Johnny Rotten and probably helped us because the band had toured far and wide he K^\ doesn't sing good toons everybody came to Ma us and were building up a strong anymore. following on the mainland. because there was nothing else ft was, as Dee recalls, Their debut album comes "Just a going on Four or five years ago/\^ laugh, just something to packed tight with sharp, witty do. We there was nothing at all Derry s learnt all and self-mocking love songs. The the songs from 'Get got one of the highest juvenile Your Ya Yas the s keyword, as they say, is Fun. Out', Stones' alcoholism rates In Europe Xv live \ songs," explains Dee, album. We liked R&B because the pubs are the only "The because it was easy to play.' places where anything "are just about personal experiences that everybody can relate to. Like getting rejected by girls etc. We've been through all that." I point out that many New Wave bands have gone out of their way to write broadly political material, something that an outfit brought up in Ulster continue to live with their should have more reason than parents and commute back and most to do. Stiff Little Fingers forth whenever the need arises. from Belfast, for instance, seem "If we moved to London we'd to deal with politics to the yOO$ just get caught up in the music exclusion of everything else. ?&<a business thing. It's like deserting Have the Undertones not felt your hometown, deserting your compelled to write about the >Vv own country. There's nothing conflicts surrounding them? like Ireland. It's more friendly "Why should we sing about than any other country. And we them?" they argue. "Who wants don't really know anybody over to know about them? 1 know we here apart from the people we can't get away from them but it work with. If we spend a night in seems very contrived to sing London we don't know what to about them. All that waste of do." P%%3 '^^^^^ life." I can't see The Undertones ever getting "caught up" in the YOU MIGHT think that a band, music business. You can't really given the choice of getting out of see Feargal Sharkey in his Parka, Derry, would leap at the chance brown boots and baggy jeans to come to London but they all swapping gossip with Kate Bush SMASH HITS 5 XA.A. x\.\X I — — Shine A Little Love By Electric Light Orchestra on Jet Records Although the things you've done I wouldn't criticise I guess you had your way You see I've gotta make you understand I know it sounds a foolish thing to say. But it don't matter baby 'cos today's another day Chorus You shine a little love on my life You shine a little love on my life You shine a little love on my life And let me see Remember, tonight we're gonna run till dawn Remember, tonight we're gonna say We'll never stop, we got a good thing goin' on I know you've heard it all before. But I really need you darlin' every day I need you more Repeat chorus Can you understand? Yes I understand Can you feel it's right? I know it is Will you be the same? I'll do it all again, It's been a year now and it's getting so much better You came home without a word Though everybody said you'll soon forget her They couldn't see and they just didn't understand. And looking in the mirror they were fools at either hand Repeat chorus Can you understand? Yes I understand Can you feel it's right? I know it is Will you be the same? Life Begins At I'll do it all again. How many days had I been waiting there to tell you, I really can't believe The Hop We're walking out into the world tonight We'll do it all again until the break of light By XTC on Virgin Records And the feelin' in your heart will soon be shinln' In your eyes I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop ooh ooh ooh with to the church on the corner Come me the hop ooh ooh ooh Repeat chorus to fade There's nuts and there's crisps and there's c-c-c-cola on tap ooh ooh ooh Words and music by Jeff Lynne.