STRAY CATS HOWEYBANE iR^coLoim ^ tHI^^tnJRAN Mws-iiim ^^ Vol. 3 No. 5 TOP SECRET: What To Do In Tho Evont Of A Nuclear Warning Wbila Roading Smash HKs. By Status Quo on Vertigo Records Gathering your personal belongings, Adam Ant posters, toasters, pets, etc., move immediately to the Talking Heads exclusive; there a car will be walthg to I see you everyday walking down the avenue rush you past the Poll Results and Stray Cats colour poster. You will be dropped I'd like to get to know ya, but all I do is smile at you at the corner of the Duran Duran feature where a one-legged match seller will Oh baby, when it comes to talking my tongue gets so tied conduct you to the Honey Bane colour shot on the back page. (He's not as blind But this sidewalk love affair has got me high as a kite as he looks.) Assuming that you can then answer a short series of cjuestions Yeah, yeah, there's something 'bout you baby I like designed to test your knowledge of the latest songwords, news and gossip, you will be allowed to press a concealed button in one of the corners. This button will Well, I'm a slow walker but girl I'd race a mila for you then convert the entire issue into a concrete radiation-proof shelter complete Just to get back in time for my peek-a-boo rendezvous with lawnmower. After memorising the above, kindly eat this page. Well, maybe baby it's the way you wear your blue jeans so tight I can't put my finger on what you're doing right Yeah, yeah, there's something 'bout you baby I like Yeah, yeah, there's something 'bout you baby I Ilk* i SOMETHING 'BOUT YOU BABY I LIKE Status Quo....2 FROM WHISPER TO A SCREAM Elvis Costello ...10 Well, I'm standing on a corner \ A Smiling by a telephone ' WALKING ON THIN ICE Yoko Ono 10 I'd love to check you over BOYS AND GIRLS The Human League 13 Get to know you with a fine tooth comb PLEASE DON'T TOUCH Motorhead/Girlschool 19 But baby, when I get horn* 1 turn out the light 19 DON'T GO Judas Priest Then you come a strolling through my dreams •vary night IT'S A MYSTERY Toyah 23 Yeah, yeah, there's something bout you baby I Ilk Yeah, yeah, there's something 'bout you baby I Ilk* I'M IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL The Freshies 24 [ Yeah, yeah, there's something bout you baby I Ilk* (SOMEBODY) HELP ME OUT Beggar And Co 26 Yeah, yeah, there's something 'bout you baby I Ilka Yeah, yeah, there's something bout you baby I ilka PLANET EARTH Duran Duran 31 E.R.N.I.E. Madness 39 V\/ords and music by Richard Sup§ Reproduced by permission Screen Gema/EMI Mualc Ltd. STAR Kiki Dee 42 KIDS IN AMERICA Kim Wilde 42 JONES vs. JONES Kool And The Gang 45 CAN YOU FEEL IT The Jacksons 51 TALKING HEADS: Feature 4/5/6 POLL RESULTS 20/21 CHRIS SIEVEY: Feature 25 STRAY CATS: Colour Poster 28/29 DURAN DURAN: Feature 40/41 HONEY BANE: Colour Poster 52 FACT IS 9 CARTOON 9 BIT2 14/15/16 SPANDAU BALLET COMPETITION 18 DISCO 26 REVIEWS 32/33 STAR TEASER 34 CROSSWORD 35 INDEPENDENT BITZ 36 BIRO BUDDIES 44 LEHERS 47/48 GIGZ 50 special thanks this Issue to Jo Dale (design). This magazine is published by EMAP National Publications Ltd, Peterborough, and is printed by East Midland Litho Printers, Peterborough, Copyright exists on aft songs appearing in Smash Hits. They must not t)e reproduced without the consent of the copyright holders. FRONT COVER PIC: ANDY EARL ^:* iy^<ii^m tr^f. by Eno, who seems the closest and The they're EXPRESSION "preppy" music playing right now understands why he wrote them that biggest influence on the "inspires different THE this a kind of feeUng way. The ideas just sUp into his is not exactly common in all-important Byme. in country. In America, me". head. "Once In A Lifetime" is an Tina in particular, during the I enquire whether he also feels however, it's accepted shorthand instance. There he was playing the course of an interview with The employed when describing the that it is less knotty and disturbed. backing track at home, pacing Face , depicted the two of them as Time was his privileged sons and daughters of the when songs seemed to round the room, when suddenly he schoolboys so taken with each other wealthy and white families of the be infested by two types of began to sing, "And you may find that they almost began to dress character; those who had committed East. The term is derived from the yourself .... living in a shot gun alike. Judging by the fact that there acts preparatory schools these young of violence and those who were shack." And so on. have been no changes in the basic just thinking people attend en route to the about it. "That gave me the direction for Une-up, these remarks are best seen Because his songwriting distinguished universities of the verse, but I still had no choms. as the gentle, affectionate mockery technique involves Harvard and Yale, a career in Law his getting inside Then somehow I came up with the of old friends who know each other or Banking and marriage to another the skin of a personaUty and using water theme and that seemed to too well to be really at odds. their voice as a vantage (suitably eligible) preppy. point, have something to do with the David plays me the video for people have made the Had David Byrne's head not been mistake of subject in the verse and I really "Once In A Lifetime", in which he assuming that David is as turned by music it's likely that he Byme Uked the way they had something to appears solo, and when I ask him if deranged would have gone down that as the guy who plays the do with each other and yet this means that he's The Boss, able title role in well-trodden route, as would the "Psychokiller" or any of contrasted." to tell the rest of the band when and the fractured other members of Talking Heads. personaUties he Like Bowie, Byme is a great one where to get off, he seems genuinely depicted (Byrne was actually bom in on "Fear Of Music". for collecting groups of words or surprised. "It's natural," Scotland but his parents emigrated he says, "for phrases that somehow seem to No, he says, he doesn't Uke to when he was but a toddler.) people to identify the message with belong together. think of it that way at all. He just the messenger. When the Talking Heads rhythm But there's nothing "Eventually I do have to sit down hopes he c-an guide things in certain to section, Chris Frantz and Tina be done about that." and pull the thing together, but a lot directions. But who has the final Weymouth, became married a But where do these kooks and of time the initial inspiration seems say? I enquire. weirdos couple of years ago their wedding come from? to come from who knows where. It "Well, I guess I do," he admits, ceremony was a high spot of many "Most of them come from doesn't really seem to make sense though unwillingly. elements an East Coast social calendar, of my own character — but I think somehow, in the When I ask what he himself likes maybe some small marking as it did the union of two element that I've choosing, there's something guiding to listen to, he produces a box of exaggerated, prosperous and respected families. or maybe it's a part of me, telUng me this phrase fits with cassettes. There's Islamic Even Jerry Harrison, the most me that can be sympathetic with a this one and this one belongs in the drummers, Bahnese Gong character experienced working musician in that's quite different from song and this one doesn't. And I Orchestras and Modern Jazz. But me." the band, a veteran of Jonathan don't exactly know what it is that mainly it's Diana Ross, Kool And Richman's original trailblazing David admits that often his songs tells me that." The Gang, The Jackson 5 who Modem Lovers, had studied don't really add up until months Whether his songs are the product provide his domestic soundtrack. architecture at Harvard. later, when he catches them in a of intuition or some weirder magic In this era, as in so many others, certain Ught and suddenly Even now, five years after their Continues over page . it's black music that calls the pop emergence as a force to be reckoned tune. Scan the chart. Take the with, they still prefer their shirts current singles from Blondie, plain and well-laundered, their Spandau ballet, Adam And The collars buttoned down, their hair Ants. Take "Once In Lifetime". neatly trimmed. They project the A Take note of those elastic rhythms, self-assurance of people who those glistening keyboards, that haven't had to seek approval or slicing backbeat. of the tools in attention. 90% that armoury of sound came directly That doesn't imply any from that most despised, most arrogance. David Byrne, in spat-upon music: disco.