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35pUSA$l75 April 30 -May 13 1981

GIRLSCHOOL PAULWEILER THE FALL

GET ENOUGH THE BANDS PlAY pRYNUMAN^ ADAM ECHO & THE B TEARDROP EX gjGS^ Vol. 3 No. 9

GREY DAY ON THE LARCHES" lay bathed in the warm afternoon sunshine. Peregrine vas on the verandah, sipping a cool drink and dangling his toes in the When I get home it's late at night yping pool. Looking up from the Adam And The Ants colour portrait he I'm black and bloody from my life vatched a butterfly flit lazily from page to page, alighting briefly on the I haven't time to clean my hands ulian Cope feature before shooting off to inspect the Gary Numan Cuts will only sting me through my dreams entrespread. Somewhere in the distance he could hear the Head jardener whistling as he ran a heavy roller over the last part of The Jam It's well past midnight as I lie eries. In a semi-conscious state The only other sound to pierce the drowsy calm came from the back I dream of people fighting me age, where Samantha and Roderick were playing tennis on the Echo And Without any reason I can see he Bunnymen pin-up. Having completed his inspection of The Fall eature. Peregrine yawned and stretched. As Victoria began to rub the Chorus lirst of the tanning lotion into his back, he licked the end of his pencil and In the morning I awake Hon. ifl My arm* my lags my body aches The sky outside is wet and gray So begins another weary day GREY DAY Ma So begins another weary day CROCODILESJflio And Thj Builnymen After eating I go out KEEP OJpfvING YOU REO Speedwagon...|kga....8 People passing by ma shout this IT'SJPNG TO HAPPEN ....^A,9 I can't stand agony Why don't they talk to ma 1AGNIFICENT FIVE Adam And The Ants 15

the park I have to rest WIUDA TRIANGLE Barry Manilow...... 18 In I Ha down and I do my best Al NO CORRIDA Quincy Jones The rain Is falling on my face

I wish I could sink without a trace CANT GET ENOUGH OF YOU Eddy Grant ...... WEAK MY HEART AGAIN Whitesnake Repeat chorus ^ND THE BANDS PLAYED ON Saxon 26 In the park I have to rest RIDE A WHITE SWAN T. Re*.... 5 I best JEV--V I Ha down and do my HIT & RUN ...38 The rain Is falling on my face

I wish I could sink without a trace BABY LOVE Honey Bane. 39

KICK IN THE EYE Bauhaus 47 In the morning I awake My arms my legs my body aches (TIL BURN) U.K. Sobs...... 47 KEEP ON RUNNING YOU The sky outside is wet and grey So begins another weary day begins another weary day Feature 4/5/6 So IpETEAlJHE TEARDROP LODES: So begins another weary day ADAM AND S: Colour Poster...... 14 So begins another weary day THE FALL ndent Bitz Special 17

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FRONT COVER PIC: BY JILL FURMANOVSKY -.::!' "f' GREY DAY ON STIFF RECORDS

When I get home it's late at night I'm black and bloody from my life

I haven't time to clean my hands Cuts will only sting ma through my dreams

It's well past midnight as I lie In a semi-conscious Stat*

I dream of people lighting me

Without any reason I can see

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In the morning I awake My arms my legs my body aches The sky outside is wet and grey So begins another weary day So begins another weary day

After eating I go out People passing by me shout

I can't stand this agony Why don't they talk to me

In the park I have to rest

I lie down and I do my best The rain is falling on my face

I wish I could sink without a trace

Repeat chorus

In the park I have to rest

I lie down and I do my best The rain is falling on my face

I wish I could sink without a trace

In the morning I awake My arms my legs my body aches The sky outside is wet and grey So begins another weary day So begins another weary day So begins another weary day So begins another weary day

. . BLESS HIS COTTON SOCKS

He's Julian Cope, he's twenty-three, he's married and he sings and writes songs for , a group he formed in 1978 when he moved to from his native Tamworth to study drama at teachers training college. So many musicians have passed through The Teardrop Explodes since then that even Julian has difficulty recalling them all. Ian McCulloch and (nowadays leading Echo And The Bunnymen and Wah! Heat respectively) were just two. After making three singles for the Zoo label, they signed up with Phonogram and put out an . This they called "Kilimanjaro". "Kilimanjaro" was packaged in a sleeve that still makes Julian Cope wince. (It's currently being re-packaged.) again. Their first Phonogram single, "When I Dream", scraped into the charts and scraped out "Reward", its successor, did better. It made the top ten and Julian got to be on telly. By this time The Teardrop Explodes had gained a few more ex-members. Alan Gill and Dave Baife left and were replaced by , Alfie Agius and Jeff Hammer. These days The Teardrop Explodes is basically Julian Cope and drummer Gary Dwyer plus help. The new Teardrop Explodes single is an old one called "Treason". The new Teardrop Explodes album is finished, says Julian. All they have to do is record it. Julian Cope likes from the 60's, , flying jackets, talking and writing epic songs, some of them seven minutes long. His hero is ballad singer Scott Walker and at the moment he's compiling an album of Walker songs which he's going to call "Fire Escape In The Sky — The God-like Genius Of Scott Walker" which is just the kind of understatement that Julian goes in for. Julian generally makes quite an impression on the people he meets. We talked to him about himself and then we asked various friends, colleagues and relations for their comments on the phenomenon that is Cope. A Hepworth — Ellen Production. Portraiture by Jill Furmanovsky

said it THE LAST CLASS: Being called Julian in the "REWARD": Phonogram THE BREAK UP OF

I it LINE-UP: were doing that gig Midlands was like the worst wasn't commercial. But knew We it's at Leicester and everybody's name in the world. Particularly in was commercial because

is shouting for and I just a comprehensive school. good and anything that's good more came

I kept hearing off totally cold. And it was just a Especially with my voice which is commercial. it while were in . It was Dave a really posh Midlands accent. reports about we The States and it was like Balfe and me. I was totally And I was determined not to hide watching another band going up against being professional and it or deny it because I've got too

I he much respect for my parents, too the charts. Then came back and was utterly consumed with professionalism ... I believe that much love for them. But at the suddenly loads of people recognised me on the street and I everybody has a role that they do same time I got on with most just couldn't believe it. best, and I don't believe it's any people because I used to make good asking Gary what he thinks them see how silly their accent was. of a lyric just because it's

democratic . . .

SINGING: I just had a desire to be LOOKS: The weirdest thing was a great singer. It used to be a real playing America and getting a

joke in Liverpool, the idea that I load of real groupies at the front was going to sing. The Teardrop of the stage. I'd be singing away Explodes was going to be the and I'd look down and they'd all MUM: She used to teach English band that was going to make it be staring and I'd be thinking 'this and History, so it was never a despite my vocals . . is ridiculous!'. That's why I like chore to learn. She used to read these trousers, because they're

me bits of Robert Browning and baggy. I really like baggy clothes

the I really hate body. It's she used to quote me things and I "WHEN I DREAM": That was because my didn't even know that it was easiest in the world to write. really pale and skinny and

horrible it's un-macho . . . poetry. I just thought that was All it is is just a celebration of and so Continued over page how mothers spoke . . . being in love . . . HE'S IN THE NEWS From previous page not 'aren't I wonderful'; it's just they're moaning all the time. ADULATION: I like it, I do like it,

it is 'it's all I believe of it. I WORK: I can't believe that it's like 'isn't great that this what They say not glamour'. but don't any don't .' working, apart from when I do I'm doing . . Whereas I'm walking down the believe anything that people things like 'Jackie' photo street and I'm looking in mirrors write about me. And I know that sessions and stuff like that. That's FAME: Because I've always all the time and I'm thinking 'oh when you come down to it I'm work because I'd rather not do it. assumed that I'd love to be yeah, really good!'. And it's like a the same idiot that started two

But like I'm sitting at Phonogram famous, it's come as a real film. . . years ago. Exactly the same idiot. the other day and a girl comes in surprise that when it happens I You want to glorify what you're And it's great to go and see your and gives me the words for the don't really care for it that much. doing — you can't help it. I glorify parents from time to time and

French version of 'Treason' and it in my mind so I might as well they say 'brush your teeth' and all

. . I'm thinking 'God, this is work?' GLAMOUR: I think a lot of people glorify it actually . . . that stuff . It's just like a total ego trip. It's have this sort of lifestyle and

The /Newest) Teardrop Explodes: (left to right) Troy Tate (),. Alfie Agius (bass), Jeff Hammer (keyboards), Gary Dwyer (drums) and Julian Cope.

A WORD IN EDGEWAYS

TROY TATE famous intellectual gymnast. all the things he's said about mel the average Romantic terrific "When Gary Dwyer and I were Troy: Is he willing to give up his He's — extrovert, bright Merseybeat tradition. From his trying to form this band called job stacking shelves at Tesco?" and funny. When he's here the recent interviews he doesn't The Gin And Tonics last house is full of him. He's a great seem to have changed much

Christmas, the following clown and really cheers us up. He since I knew him, but why he is so conversation ensued . . . writes daft poems on our obsessed with me is something I "He's gullible, lovable, Gary: We need someone who birthdays and talks in ten wonder about a lot." laughable; a bastard, a friend, a looks a bit like and different accents at the same business associate and I never

. . time. Turns on the to all Luke Skywalker . ." charm want to see him again . . ." Troy: Oh, you mean that pseudo my friends . . PETE WYLIE (OF WAHSHEAT): with the flying jacket and "He's given dunderheads inflatable trousers? JULIAN'S MUM MARK SMITH (OF THE FALL): everywhere an even chance. But

Gary: Yes, A. B. Copleman, the "At last I can get back at him for "J.C. & Co. are great wallahs in I'm mad about him really." 6 $ + -

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n iL I've read it in a magazine

I don't wanna see it again

I threw away the magazine Looked for someone to explain

I don't wanna look back

I can't look around

I gotta see what's coming round

Now listen to the ups and downs Listen to the sound they make Don't be scared when it gets loud ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN SWaSKaSBStS You gotta look tall Gotta see those critics crawl

I know you know

I know you know

I can see you've got the blues In your alligator shoes Me I'm all smiles

I got crocodiles

I don't wanna look back

I gotta look round

I gotta see what's coming down

This is the voice speaking . . . this is the band speaking . . . the world's a

prettier place . . . when you got something to take . . . the world's a

prettier place . . . when you got something to take . . . when you got

something to take . . . when you got something to take . . . it's easy . . .

. . . all live hay . . . you get pie in sky you «ft* it's easy work day on the when

die . . . work all day live on hay . . . you get pie in the sky when you die,

die, die . . . get pie in the sky when you die . . . gotta bop, bop, #||fa you you bop, bop . . . you gotta sing, sing . . . you gotta move, move . . . you got

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bop, bop, bop, bop . . . you gotta run . . .

'•* Met someone just the other day :.:'

I said wait until tomorrow

I say hey what you doing today He said I'm gonna do it tomorrow

Repeat last verse to fade

Words and music by Sergeant/McCulloch/Pattinson/D* Freitas. Reproduced by permission Zoo Music/Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

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You should have seen by the look in my eyes baby There was something missing REO SPEEDWAGON You should have known by the tone of my voice maybe on But you didn't listen

You played dead but you never bled Instead you lay still in the grass ail coiled up and hissin'

And though I know all about those men, still I don't remember 'Cos it was us baby way before them, and we're still together

And I meant every word I said

When I said that I love you

I meant that I love your forever

And I'm gonna keep on loving you

'Cos it's the only thing I wanna do

I don't wanna steep, I just wanna keep on loving you

And I meant every word I said

When I said that I love you

I meant that I love you forever And I'm gonna keep on loving you

'Cos it's the only thing I wanna do

I don't want to sleep, I just want to keep on loving you Baby I'm gonna keep on loving you

'Cos it's the only thing I wanna do

I don't want to sleep, I just wanna keep on loving you

Words and music byK. Cronin Reproduced by permission Warner Bros. Music Ltd. KEEP ON LOVING YOU UNDERTONES f'S GOING TO HAPPEN! $ $ i ARr^Ki GARYNUMAN

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1. : I Am The Walrus (). I don't know how anyone could have written a song like this, and the production amazes me. I love

records you can listen to again , and again and still hear something new. 2. THE MOVE: Fire Brigade (Zonophone). This is one of that excited me so much as a kid. It made me want to get

into the music business, and I

told Roy Wood so when I met him them on tour with us recently, recently. (I liked "Blackberry and they dedicated this song to HISTORY-IN-THE-MAKING Way" too!) me when I went to see them in 3. : Stevenage! Don't Dream It, Be It (Polydor). 7. : Piece Of My SPOT I've seen the live show and the Heart (CBS). It may be old hippy film about a dozen times music, but I've never heard a The birth of a rock 'n' roll legend, Nashville rockabilly ensemble. altogether, and I'd still go and see singer to top Janis! or just four blokes making a Rock Therapy, when he heard the it again. Tim Curry is one of my 8. ROCKETS: Electric Delight racket in a record shop? Well, a distant strains of the London favourite performers, and I love (Rockland). France's top bit of both, as it happens, quiff revival, packed his bass and his singing too. electronic band, and if they could Glasgow's own Shakin' headed for sunnier climes. He'll 4. GINA X: No G.D.M. (Dedicated only sing in English, they could Pyramids (for they it is), not be joining the Pyramids' May To Quentin Crisp) (EMI). One of be big here too. content with just watching the invasion of Poland. And why the more original "futurist-type" 9. EDITH PIAF: No Regrets (EMI). sales of their debut LP "Skin 'Em Poland, you may wonder? sounds, and we hope to get her My manager says I'm like a

Up", decided to speed things up Because a member of the Polish over here for our next tour. modern version of her, and I think with a few live extracts. State Agency heard the band at 5. THE FOUR SEASONS: Rag Doll I might do a cover of this song The scene being the Virgin Dlngwalls and claimed they were (Fontana). /discovered Frankie one day (in French, of course!). Megastore, Marble Arch, imagine exactly what "the oppressed Valli's voice quite late on, and 10. : The Leader their surprise — not to say people of Poland need for wondered how someone ever Of The Gang (Bell). One of the delight — when the character on cultural appeasement". Wait 'til came to sing like that. I love this great all time pop stars, and this the left comes leaping out of the he gets to Grimsby. song, and lots of other hits they record always makes me think of steaming throng clutching a very wrote too. hundreds of kids with hands in large violin. Much strummin', The Shakin' Pyramids are 6. THEATRE OF HATE: Original the air chanting "Come on — slappin' and howlin' was the signed to the Scots' Libre Sin (SS). It was great having Come on!" outcome and so pleased were Label (now distributed by the Pyramids, they enlisted the Virgin), Cuba Libre being a bassman on the spot. cocktail containing lime juice. Preston Rumbaugh, who's Coke and rum (and a good deal SHEENA EASTON is all set to already changed his name to more intoxicating than Bucks sing the theme song from the Preston Lanks, was formerly in a Fizz, that's for sure). upcoming James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only' »mids hit the racks. (Left to right): Preston Lanks, James G. jhton, Davie Duncan, "Railroad" Ken.

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CORNEB COCK-UP BEFORE GOING into the studio Hammersmith Odeon (21), to record their fifth album, XTC Brighton Top Rank (22), Garvey d* - Co B^OCKjADOV^^as„ DM1DY , have planned a short British tour Birmingham Odeon (24), accidentally" of J«» fair lens for the month of May. Dates are Norwich University Of East "0t n Y weeks ° ^?n b£ lAp'" *? coUrteSV ^s aid this as follows: Sheffield University Anglia (29), Dunstable reported*"^ £• ^d. FurmanoysKV-vs£ nCope (May 15), Edinburgh Odeon (18), Queensway Hall (June 1) and picofJu«» Newcastle City Hall (19), Cardiff Top Rank (2) Liverpool University (20), 11 — . :

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AND GO . . . THE UNDERTONES play the following June dates to round off DESPITE IT being nearly 16 the tour to promote the new LP months since the Kampuchea on Ardeck, "Positive Touch"; at Hammersmith Odeon STING'S into Swansea Top Rank (June 1 ), Bath FIRST venture book in late '79, neither the event nor Pavilion (10), St. Austell Riviera publishing, "Message In A its message have lost any impact. Bottle", not be the longest (1 1 ), Portsmouth Guildhall (14), may If you saw the TV highlights, Malvern Winter Gardens (16), read in the world but it's bound to you'll recall the impressive roster Cardiff Top Rank (17), Bristol cause a few storage and display of musicians that assembled to SPECIAL DURAN Colston Hall (18), Torquay Town problems for the nation's try and raise some funds to save Hall (19), Northampton Lings booksellers. the Kampuchean people from the GIG Why? Because it's DUE IN Guildford Civic ) (20), (21 and threat of further war, famine and will be playing a Poole Arts Centre (22). bottle-shaped, that's why. As you disease. one off gig at London's Rainbow John fe turn each perfectly sculpted page The occasion, of the Taylor (his hair an arresting one most Theatre on May 1 as a benefit for new your gaze is greeted by a couple — £ successful and significant of its the unemployed march from burgundy shade) and drummer t of lines from 's MADNESS kind, was hosted by Paul Liverpool to London. Among the Roger Taylor dropped in at 5 mega-hit illustrated in colour by the Carnaby Street the other to McCartney and double LP other bands on the bill will be The week -> Rossetta Woolf and Sharon Burn. THE MOTION features some now-historic People, the new group formed by tell us the details of the band's < Normally this item would set tracks from Wings, Clash, ex-Selecter men Charlie forthcoming tour, which looks - you back £3.95 but Virgin Books PICTURE Costello, , Pretenders, Anderson and Desmond Brown. like this: a: in their generosity have donated Queen, , Specials, Who Brighton Dome (June 29); A MERE four weeks under the twenty-five copies for the and the "cast of thousands" Southampton Gaumont (30); winners of this 'ere special Bitz lights and greasepaint and the *-»-—— Rockestra. It'll set you back Leicester De Montfort Hall (July THE brothers, better Madness movie, "Take It Or competition. around £6. MAEL 1); Manchester Apollo (3); SK^**"^"--*** What you have to do is suggest known as Sparks, have been Leave It", has already "finished Newcastle City Hall (4); Glasgow signed to a world-wide deal by shooting" (as they say in the biz). another hit song suitable for Tiffany's (5); Edinburgh Odeon "WE JUST liked the sound of instead for all-synthesiser Vince. "It's a word that's caught in Why-Fi Records. There's a Stiff boss and film director Dave publication an appropriately new (6); Liverpool Royal Court (8); 'Depeche Mode' — it has no instrumentation. on, that's ail." FAN CLUBS Robinson informs us that shaped book. For instance you single planned for release on Oxford New Theatre London much meaning at all." That's how the This in turn attracted the "Just because we use (9); fun was had, despite his falling might suggest that "This Ole Rainbow (10) and Birmingham band describe the way they came interest of Daniel Miller, head of synthesisers," echoes Dave, "we taken off a ladder and bruising an ankle House" be made into a bungalow DEPARTMENT S from their new and Odeon (11). to their (literally Mute Records, this country's get classed as a futurist band. adopt name 60 Parker gloriously titled LP, — which held things up for three shaped volume or that "Mind Of St "Whomp The boys' fame is continuing to "hurried fashion") II thought it most important electronic label Our music's not futurist. Vince Holborn days — and everyone having to A Toy" be turned out like a baby's London WC2 That Sucker". spread around the globe, with the meant Fashion-conscious fish — and already the home of The just writes pop songs." get up at 8 in the morning. rattle. STIFF Japanese magazine "Music Life" EdJ from a French magazine, but Silicon Teens and Fad Gadget. In fact Depeche Mode are quite LITTLE FINGERS The Big Screen Epic should But no doubt readers of your c/o taking the prize for cock-up of the in some ways it also neatly sums The outcome of Daniel's interest happy to describe their light, Sarah and Jane intelligence and imagination can come to your fleapit around up the band themselves. was the excellent "Dreaming Of uncomplicated and very melodic 45 Park Road , of Japan, has month with its pin-up picture September. Meantime come up with something more decided to hang up his guitar featuring John Taylor of "Dulan Madness Depeche Mode have been in Me" which has been hovering sound as "pop", something they Didcot undertake what they succinctly original than that. Send your strap. He leaves the band, he Dulan". existence for just over a year outside the Top Forty for the past see as covering lots of fields. Oxon describe as their "Absolutely entry on a postcard to "Message says, "to give both parties more And talking of Fame, a cover now, formed initially by Basildon few weeks. "Nice" and "happy" are other Madness One Step Beyond Far In A Bottle", Smash Hits, 52-55 freedom to work in their chosen version of Bowie's song is to school pals Martin Gore and Apart from the single, the band words they use when talking 9 Disraeli Road East Tour" taking in Australia, Carnaby Street, London W1 to directions". will still play on appear on the flip of to Andrew Fletcher with have also contributed about their music. Putney Rob a soon be New Zealand and Japan before reach us no later than May 14th. their tour (starting May 7) but released twelve incher of and ex-folkie(l) Vince Clarke. "Photographic" to the recent "It's not serious," Vince London SW15 playing dates in L.A. and On that day we'll sift through the isn't featured on the single "The "Careless Memories", the next New Vocalist Dave Gahan arrived later "Some Bizzare" futurist agrees. 'That's quite good in York. mailbag and choose twenty five BAUHAUS INFO Art Of Parties", released 1 single. after auditions and completed compilation but, despite the fact itself." CLUB May The single "Grey is also winners. And don't forget to 22a High Road Day" the present line up. that Dave was once a regular Nor are there any messages out on cassette, a snip at £1.1 5. include your address! East Finchley Around this time the band Blitz attender, it's a connection coming over in the lyrics. London N2 CAREER: were still using conventional which the band are keen to play Andrew maintains that the music LOWEST POINT OF instruments but these were down. Already their own use of is more important than tour. abandoned, according to Vince, make-up and flamboyant clothes words while Vince admits that TO COINCIDE with the release of PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: because the band were "fed up has been toned down. They view his main interest in the lyrics is in the Popeye movie, Virgin Books Making a record. Bowie. with the sounds, or their inability futurism as an artificial creation "the sound of words rather than have put out "Popeye: The First HERO/HEROINE: Dawd "Heroes to create interesting sounds." and it's not an image they want the meaning." Fifty Years". As the title suggests, DESERT ISLAND DISC: Nearly all Intrigued by a synthesiser which to be saddled with for life. Which is where we came in, is this book is a guide to the birth TRUE CONFESSION. Martin had acquired, they opted "It's just a fashion," say ot? Ian Cranna and development of the legendary cartoon spinach eater F7vOUR.TE.TEM OF CLOTHING: FULL NAME: Sean Feargal rather than just a collection of old More authentic than most, this Martin Sharkey. funnies. A large format lj.b.oo.,_-„ KSTEBREAKFASTFOOD: STONES BORN TO includes sections of Bruce's BORN- Deny, N. Ireland, paperback, it's generously SISTERS Tea & Toast. onstage monologues, almost as BROTHERS AND Loud-mouthed illustrated but somehow rather Michael, PET HATE: integral a part of the show as the NAMES: Jimmy, ROLLING RUN AND RUN lifeless after the TV cartoons. Diarmuid, Ursula, Bridgin and music. MISTAKE I EVER MORE PROMISES from the SPRINGSTEEN FANS unable to Inspect before parting with your THEBIGGEST born. Rolling Stones camp. They're get tickets for his postponed UK £3.95. INSTITUTIONS MADE: Being EDUCATIONAL OF SOCKS: Blue or recording a new LP — as yet dates could do worse than invest Also published by Virgin Books ATTENDED: Christian Brothers. COLOUR is "Wonders", weighty black. untitled — in Paris and intend to the equivalent sum (£4.95 in fact) a HIGH SPOT OF EDUCATIONAL American paperback subtitled tour the UK and Europe around on the new biography from CAREER: Failing Eleven Plus. "writings and drawings for end of July to coincide with Omnibus Press. Titled FIRST RECORD PURCHASED: child in us all." With a handle like its release. To keep the waiting (inevitably) "Born To Run", it's "19th Nervous Breakdown" by that you can bet it's aimed at out of wanting, another Stones already been the subject of the . adults — at £5.95 the price r*£? compilation is now available. kind of praise usually reserved FIRST LIVE SHOW ATTENDED certainly is — but actually it's Called "Sucking In The for the man himself. Taking up The Undertones. nothing like as corny as the blurb Seventies", it's a fairly tasty the story from the forming of The PREVIOUS JOBS: TV Man. suggests. In fact it's a pretty neat selection of that decade's output E. Street Band, it's packed with MARRIED OR SINGLE: collection of illustrated but only features one previously photos and enlivened with a poems Ellen. ' Wife-to-be, -» 'i ',rf§yp and short stories to dip into from unreleased track, "If I Was A well-written and exhaustively "'j^Mf CHILDREN: None. Dancer (Dance Pt 2)". researched text by Dave Marsh. time to time. Check it out. PRESENT HOME: Derry, Ireland Dave Robinson breaks an ankle. Madness just break into song. 7 ' / 9*

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Artist Adam And The Ants Title The Magnificent Five Label CBS Year 1980 Requested by Danny Payne, London EC1

AdAM & THE ANTS

Long ago in London town A man called Ant sat deeply sighing He was wondering Which side of the fence he was on Prick up your ears Prick up your ears ' Prick up your ears Prick up your ears

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16 FREE FALL DEANNE PEARSON DISCUSSES THE FUTURE Left to right: Mark Smith, Paul Hartley (drums), Mark Riley (guitar), Steve Hartley (bass) WITH MARK SMITH, LEADER and Craig Scanlan (guitar). OF MANCHESTER'S MOST — were formed just MILITANT COMBO. over three years ago and previous material (four albums and six the line-up has seen several changes since. singles, variously on Step Forward and Rough Although their records have never made the Trade). It's more melodic, jazzier. IF YOU'RE one of the millions who never buy There seems main BMRB charts, they regularly reach the records, don't read the music papers and hear to be more obvious thought and direction, upper echelons of the independents. though that's no reflection the earlier the radio only as a background buzz, The Fall on "Which means," laughs Mark, "we sell a records (that's a band) -nay just appeal to you, which were certainly rich in few hundred records — enough to put out our spontaneity according to founder member, singer, and ideas. next record. That's a popular joke around "It's probably technically better too," songwriter and leader Mark E. Smith Mark Manchester you know." concedes somewhat grudgingly. "We never The Fall — from Manchester and proud of it Mark Smith — thin and wiry, his voice as dry deliberately played badly, despite what a lot of and crackling as his wit — looks and is people think. Everybody in The Fall has always distinctively north-country working class played to the fullest of their ability and (without the flat cap) and could be anything obviously everyone's improved, just from from 15 to 55 years old. He is the thinking playing fairly regularly over the last three man's Andy Capp. years." The band he's always building around himself (currently Paul and , THE FALL'S records have never been noted for Craig Scanlan and ) are much the production, although this too has improved same. They're a very elitist bunch — or, as with each recording. They try to produce Mark readily admits, they've attracted an themselves, but again they don't have enough elitist audience through producing music technical experience. which is not strong on melody; their approach "But a producer hasn't got, and probably to the recording studio is hardly traditional. couldn't understand or won't accept our

What The Fall are about is playing for ideas," explains Mark. "I mean I have a theory

themselves. Anyone who wants to listen is about production. I believe that good welcome, so long as they don't come with production is one of the things that's sort of preconceived ideas or make demands. killed off music. I'm not saying that all good

Mark's lyrics are long, confusing and heavily production is bad, but I think there's a lot of political. They may take you years to decipher things that could be covered up by good and even then you may never understand production — personality, I suppose. them. They're personal to Mark E. Smith, who "Personality in music is not coming through will only sit back and laugh at outsiders' any more and our ears are becoming dulled efforts. because we're looking at everything through The Fall, in short, are not an instant pop rose-tinted glasses. band who passers-by can pick up on, hum and "Every studio The Fall go in we have a huge dance to for a week, and then just as instantly battle every time, trying to convince guys forget. who're, like, ten years out of synch, that there are other ways of doing things. But they try to dazzle new bands with all their flash BUT MARK has been thinking about The Fall's equipment. And it is a bit awesome, so young audience. kids get frightened and hand over the reins to "I've decided there's a vast mass of people these blokes who used to be musicians ten out there who have little or no interest in years ago and want to lay their sound on music, who've stopped buying records, and everyone else. who could like The Fall. They're the people I'm "That's the mockery of the whole new trying to reach." underground music scene in Britain I think, How, if they don't buy records, don't listen that it's all run by acid-damaged hippies really. to the radio, don't read the music papers, will It's not a youth movement at all. Basically I'm he reach them? fed up with the whole thing."

"Well I don't know really," he admits, Thus, The Fall are shortly off to fresher

adding hastily — "I mean I know exactly what fields, to Germany and America, and won't be

I'm doing though. I know we could lose the gigging in this country for a while. It may audience we've got now and end up with seem as if they're anti everything, set to nothing doing this." self-destruct, but there's method in Mark 'This' refers to "Slates", The Fall's new 10" Smith's madness. vinyl offering on Rough Trade, which is He wants people to listen and think more deliberately neither single nor album. for themselves. The reception of "Slates" will It's radically different from the band's show whether the public are ready for him. 17 ft i ho CORRIDA

I hold you, I touch you This spell that I'm under In a maze can't find my way Has caught me, I'm in a daze

I think you, I drink you Your lightning and thunder I'm being served you on a tray Sets my poor heart ablaze

You see girl, that's what i go You see girl through every day You thrill me ts this the way it should feel? Half kill me That's what you do Pinch me, I'm dreaming But if it is don't let me know Repeat chorus three times I'm drowning don't save me It's just the way I'd like to go I hold you, I touch you You see girl In a maze can't find my way You thrill me ! think you, I drink you Half kill me I'm being served you on a tray That's what you do You see girl, that's what I go through every day Chorus Is this the way it should feel? Ai no corrida, that's where I am You send me there Pinch me, I'm dreaming is Your dream is my command But if it don't let me know I'm drowning don't save me Ai no corrida, I find myself No other thought It's just the way I'd like to go Just you and nothing else You see girl You and nothing else You thrill me Half kill me Before my heart saw you That's what you do Each day was just another day Night, the lonely interlude Repeat chorus to fade Just came, then blew away You know girl Words and music by Chas Jankel/Kenny Young Everything was come what may Reproduced by permission Heathwave Music Ltd. 'Lazy Lizzard Music/ Until you fell in my life Intersong Music Ltd.

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I say Barbados isn't bad She says I'd love to see Bermuda Lying lost and lonely on the island sand

And I say woman are you mad When a lovely stranger says Hello and takes my hand Bermuda triangle it makes people disappear And soon she's sitting on my blanket Bermuda triangle don't go too near (don't go too near) And then we're going for a swim But she doesn't see my angle When I say what about your boyfriend And she thinks I'm being dumb She turns and waves goodbye to him So Bermuda triangle here we come Bermuda triangle it makes people disappear Lying with my woman on the island sand Bermuda triangle don't go too near (don't go too near) I look up and see her with Look at it from my angle A stranger hand in hand And you'll see why I'm so glad I see her sitting on his blanket Now Bermuda triangle not so bad I see them going for a swim

And when I run to find my woman Everybody, Bermuda triangle it makes people disappear

I find her running after him Bermuda triangle don't go too near (don't go too near) Look at it from my angle Bermuda triangle makes my woman disappear And you'll see why I'm so glad Bermuda triangle don't go too near (don't go too near) Bermuda triangle not so bad Looking at it from my angle Do you see why I'm so sad Words and music by Manilow/Sussman/f Oh Bermuda triangle very bad Reproduced by permission Chappell Music Ltd.

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in itself. HIT N RUN LOWER Carol Jiani Champagne "Since people are constantly Al NO CORRIDA Quincy Jones A&M looking for a new image, they 10 NEW CANDIDATE FOR LOVE T S Monk Mirage understand what groups have 11 ]]_ CANT GET ENOUGH OF YOU Eddy Grant Ice/Ensign Reg always gone through. Disco fans 12 6_ LOVE GAMES Level 42 Polydor 106 who want to keep pace have to 13 14_ HUMPIN' Gap Band Mercury 1 18 do a little research as to what 14 13_ MAKE THAT MOVE Shalamar Solar 116 looks good under the lights. We 15 AINT NO STOPPIN- - DISCO MIX 1981 E igma don't want to compete with that 32^ Creole 130 audience. 16 4 LATELY Stevie Wonder Slow 17 JUST THE TWO Graver Washington Jnr "So we just keep our image 20_ OF US Elektra Slow conservative and traditional and 18 22_ CAN 1 TAKE YOU HOME Mel Sheppard TSOBUmpI 121 let the music come first." HYING HIGH "Imagination", the album BODY MUSIC Strikers Prelude(lmp) which includes "It's A Love GRAND PRIX Fuse One Thing", is a slickly produced LOC-IT-UP Leprechaun Excaliber 119 collection of everything from EASE YOUR MIND Touchdown Record Shack disco to ballads with a lot of 24 NEW BODY TALK Imagination sentiment between the lustily 25 NEW ARE YO U SINGLE Aurra

arranged strings. LOVE {IS GONNA BE ON YOUR SIDE) Firefly "We sure weren't going to JITTERBUGGIN' Heatwave an album consisting make of four MONSTER MAN Jeff Lorber Fusion non-stop disco cuts," says MR. BRIEFCASE Lee Ritenour Nicholas. "I think that's cheating GET TOUGH Kleeer Atlantic 116 the public. People aren't in the GROOVE CONTROL Dynasty Solar 118 mood for disco 24 hours a day. YOUR PLACE OR MINE Scratsch Band THE WHISPERS, who've just We put some mood music on the HOW BOUT US Champaign topped the success of "And The album especially for when you IF YOU FEEL IT Thelma Beat Goes On" with their latest come home from the disco. Houston RCAIImp) smash, "It's A Love Thing", have "We want to be part of THE B REAKS KatMandu Uniwave(lmp) no hang-ups about the faceless people's lives when the lights are IT SUP TO YOU Touch EMI 130 image of disco stars. up In the dance hall and when ILL BE YOUR PLEASURE Esther Williams RCA "We don't want to go to any the lights are low in the living TAKE IT TO THE MAX Flakes Salsoul(lmp) extremes," says Nicholas room." WHO'S BEEN KISSING YOU Hot Cuisine Kaleidoscope Caldwell, one of the five singers Robin Katz JONES Vs JONES Kool And The Gang

Can't Get Enough Of You EDDY GRANT on Ensign Records

Just sit down in the back row If you wanna play in my game Guess you won't have to worry 'Cause all films look the same Just put your arms around me And I'll make you sing out of tune Won't nobody watch you 'Cause we're lovers in the same room

Chorus One, two, three Sit yourself beside me now Did you like Clark Gable Put your sweet tips up closer to me And imagine that we're one and not two Say I think so but t don't know This is not F one, two, three Oh say you saw a sweet guy I don't wanna shock you And this is not the back row anymore But baby I'm in love with you Oh can't remember his name I can't get enough of you Sit yourself beside me now And the way that he kiss was Can't get enough love Like Clark Gable all the same You better close your pretty eyes when I say Can't get enough of you I can't get enough of your love Repeat chorus Repeat chorus to fade Can't get enough of you Can't get enough love Oh just one knock on my door baby Words and music by Eddy Grant Can't get enough of you And when your people ask you, at home Reproduced by permission I can't get enough of your love If you enjoyed the show Marco Music Ltd./lntersong Music Ltd.

21 SMASH HITS

i^Nfce^ COMPETITION ANOTHER COMPETITION? Go The first 25 correct answers to on, admit it — we spo/'/you! be picked out of a bag on that Especially those of you day will find a cassette requiring a copy of the brand winging its way in their new Stiff Little Fingers album, direction. "Go For It". Readers of less generous music papers will 1. What town do the band actually have to part with come from? hard-saved cash for this item, 2. To what label were the but Chrysalis Records have band originally signed before kindly handed us 25 cassette Chrysalis? copies to give away FREE. 3. The band's manager also Ponder the five writes their lyrics. What's his brow-creasers opposite and name? send your answers, including 4. What was the name of the your name and address, on a original drummer (who quit postcard to STIFF LITTLE soon after "Inflammable FINGERS COMPETITION, Material")? Smash Hits, 14 Holkham 5. What's the title of the BBC Road, Orton Southgate, Play For Today in which Jake Peterborough PE2 OUFto Burns is soon to appear? arrive no later than May 13th. (UK/Eire only)

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Rock n' roll even We were strangers in the We sat in the sun woa-oh Repeat chorus to fade

Words and music by Saxon Music Reproduced by Saxongs/Carlin wff/MW THE FUTURE SHOCK IS NOW!

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by Mark Ellen

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: SPIRIT: We've Got A Lot To Learn BERLIN BLONDES: Framework Dumb Waiters (CBS). It had to happen (Beggars Banquet). A track from (EMI) Tricky stuff. Just as you're sometime — the first "cover" the "Potatoland" LP, inexplicably beginning to think you've had it version. No, not that kind. You shelved for nigh on a decade and up to here with intensely modern actually play the cover. Its only released as a stab at the Bowie-spawned disco tracks, grooves conceal a three-track nostalgia market. Spirit were they strip off the vocal, sieve it taster of the forthcoming "Talk later to progress to a more through a beanbag and slap it on Talk Talk" album relayed in such caustic kind of psychedelic again, backwards. Fooled me, featherweight guise that you're tapestry so these gushing hippie anyway. really none the wiser. Let's hope sentiments are doubtless a it overcomes the mixed identity source of great embarrassment. THE WANDERERS: Ready To Snap (Polydor). Sad to relate, of "Dumb Waiters". It's part a The fact that the song's still THE MODERATES: Yes To The time has stood still for this bunch. disdainful leer shouldered by a palatable is a measure of the Neutron Bomb (Hyped Records). A shotgun wedding of a Dead sluggish Velvet Underground band's timeless excellence. Whaddya mean, a gimmick!?Tm Boy Stiv Bators and half of Sham backing, and part scored with a sure The Moderates are gleaming Teardrop-type horn THE : Stray Cat (Albion). 69, they are, they claim, "living in 999: Obsessed Picture Strut (Arista); THE BLUE CATS: absolutely sincere about their the Rat Race/In a high-rise arrangement, but never really the scene down the stockade . . . Wild Night (Charly). The running pro-Bomb propaganda. Have concrete shell". If they had commits itself to either. Best yet, Indians it with any Red whooping up battle current in all matters Cat Bomb, they reason, and you can brains, they'd evict themselves. mind you. Pirates, Highwaymen cavorting seems to be a tooth-and-claw bid blow people up and then nick all with Camel-herds, when for "authenticity". Frankly, I don't their money. Beats working any a of bullets SANTANA: Winning (CBS). suddenly bouquet micro-vat of Bat's grease day. Hear it quick, it was only Whitesnake, Hot Chocolate and give a rips through the night air. To a who's got the longest quiff or released on bail. cantering disco romp-up of a now this from the prolific pen of track record. When it comes to Russ Ballard. Versatile he may Clint Eastwood movie theme, the jukebox, there's just no be; compelling he certainly ain't. replete with tribal grunting, 999 contest. The Strays parade a TV SMITH'S EXPLORERS: The Still, "Winning" weathers a deal thunder across the skyline in a scowling bass and bin lid drums, Servant (Kaleidoscope). Those better than Santana's recent spell desperate bid for the "Wild street-lit with a glistening recalling as a ragged of aimless jazz noodling and I'm Frontier" stakes. It couldn't jazz/blues guitar. Real Tin Can mob at best will welcome the sure that's nobody's loss but happen, could it? Alley stuff with lashings of spit confidence and precision brought theirs. and polish. The Blues are a little to bear by TV's new charges. A ORANGE JUICE: Felicity less essential, a ferocious pity the delicate structure is JAPAN: The Art Of Parties/Life (Postcard). Not so much a single, steam-engine backbeat blunted blurred by his annoyingly Without Buildings (Virgin). These more a fanzine with free flexi. with a distinctly docile vocal. overblown vocal . As the title being times of the rapid image Rockabilly Rule One: never say reveals, he's been in for a "role "Felicity" is not, I hasten to add, change and corporate facelift, the most sympathetic setting for HOLLY AND THE ITALIANS: "street", say "jungle". reversal". This may be the Japan ride out the storm by the inimitable Edwyn. The Wanna Go Home (Virgin). Virgin problem. playing what's known as "a sound's flimsy at best and the Boss to Marketing Dept. : "Could DURAN DURAN: Careless safety shot". This keeps a finger song leans so hard on a worn be on a winner here, Oscar. Stick Memories (EMI). Sensibly in every pie known to modern OTTAWAN: Hands Up (Give Me structure it almost falls flat these Italian folk side-stepping the over-ploughed '60s 2" music. A 1 with titles filched Your Heart) (Carrere). Side A is on its face. Great for half a quid with some Big Name producer "sensitive" disco field (Spandau from the camp, the the whole works; Side B is just though. (Send 50p + SAE to 67 chappie who'll make 'em sound etc.), the persuasive force of the topside's technical funk with the backing, vocals. Pity it isn't Grosvenor Rd, West Finchley, N3. like . Y'know, all ten ton drum sound is not lost on no Sylvian's voice a rare bond of an E.P. Then we could have the First 150 get fanzine plus free beefed-up powerchords and this lot. Buried beneath layers of operatic Bowie and Ferry at his no vocal/no backing version. I flexi.) team ranting. Then give 'em a silk finish is a construction so most plaintive. The reverse is a know which I'd prefer! chord sequence that's made the staggeringly basic you wonder if few of their favourite synths. Top Twenty at least 4,000 times. their punk roots don't extend Good. Something like ''. back to the Dry-Ice Age. Can't fail, old boy." By rights, it : The THE TOYS: Ba Ba Badap (Open shouldn't. (Had to be re-mixed Sound Of The Crowd (Red). I see Door). The Toys — the toast of though). it now ... the year is 2000! fit so Bath's Independents — Revivalist groups are trying to snugly into the Americanised reconstruct the genuine sound of it a crime teen-pop bracket seems : Louise (We Get It the synthesiser. This they achieve still have to sell advertising they Right) (Stiff). A one-time by banging a hammer on a their record sleeves. space on bar-room R&B vendor, Jona's corrugated roof in time to an is Monkees; "Ba Ba Badap" The enjoying something of a second assortment of fog-horns, is Beatles, complete the flip The wind on the strength of "Stop humming kettles and with acoustics and Cavern The Cavalry". This may well finely-tuned cake tins. Much like paint-stripping harp. Brilliant. for make the same ascent the this in fact. And very good it is, simple, essential, reason that too. there's nothing remotely like it in THE UNDERTONES: It's Going earshot. A deluge of To Happen! (Ardeck). Proving machine-made sounds chug at a THE BROTHERS: that six months minus a sedate pace — cut with a Bee Gee DIAGRAM MARTIAN DANCE: The Situation Bricks (New Hormones). Four recording deal still can't dampen chorus — as Jona falls limply in (EMI). Drums take a tribal "Keep blokes, one surname — Diagram an Undertone's spirit. love. Must be the weather. Fit" bass jumps a row of Irrepressible buoyant pop that course, — and this release under the produce a roars off to muted guitars, a hurdles, umbrella. An uneasy of doom-laden flourish of brass and a slipped THE CHICANES: Cry A Little smokescreen funk, in which two guitars appear Sublime crack powerchords while a voice tries disc of a chorus section as if in (Dinosaur Discs). to throttle each other, celebrates Attractive in celebration of the ancient Irish at coasting classic pop that to resist suffocation. the much-maligned house-brick of "The a morose sort of way. Just what motto: "Life's a melody if you'll knocks the mothballs out as "a very pleasant object". As however, is only hum the tune." Top 20 even Boys Are Back In Town". Buy it "the situation" is, arresting as Neon's legendary put Hazelmere on the map. impossible to deduce. as I write! and "Don't Eat Bricks" and almost as sound advice. 28 albums

GILLAN : Future Shock (Virgin). and — most of all — fun, then this Get out your cardboard guitars should do nicely. (7 out of 10). kids; Gillan's back in town. Mark Ellen "Future Shock" contains all the ingredients necessary to send headbangers everywhere into a REO SPEEDWAGON: Hi Infidelity frenzy. From the 16 hour guitar (Epic). Programmed power rock, solos to the drummer who interspersed with hook-attached sounds like he trained on a ballads and even a snippet of building it site, conforms exactly soundtrack from a 1937 "Our to the standard formula. It Gang" short to thrill nostalgia includes their fab hit "New freaks. Yes folks, it's the sound of. Orleans" and comes complete middle America brought to you with colour booklet containing by a band who are almost as big such info, useful as "Bernie as Kentucky Fried Chicken on Torme can play guitar with his their own side of the Concorde teeth." Wow, I bet he could run. But in downtown Hartlepool suffering through lack of real manage three Shredded Wheatl they won't mean much, or even musical identity. Having gone for (4 out of 10). in central London come to that. long periods without a regular Geoffrey THE MODERATES: Yes To The Dearie Then, we Brits never in band, Snips has had difficulty went for i Neutron (Hyped Records). Bomb outfits that started out in zit developing a recognisable style I'm Whaddya mean, a gimmick!? cream ads! (4 out of 10). and has often been prey to sure The Moderates are FredDellar producers with Grand Schemes. absolutely sincere about their His collaboration with Midge Ure pro-Bomb propaganda. Have worked well (see "Nine O' they reason, and you can Bomb, THE KEYS : The Keys Album Clock") but Chris Spedding has blow people up and then nick all (A&M). Twelve tracks of pure rather blunted his pop instincts their money. Beats working any pop: light, bright and and what emerges is well-drilled, day. Hear it quick, it was only commercial. The vocals strike a intelligent but ultimately lacking released on bail. deliberate balance between in fizz. (6 out of 10). Secret Affair's Ian Page and The Daw'd Hepworth Keys' producer Joe.Jackson; the TV SMITH'S EXPLORERS: The music's a cross between Servant (Kaleidoscope). Those second-rate Sixties beat and THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Grand recalling The Adverts as a ragged second-rate Joe Jackson with Slam (Epic). "Ain't got no soul ." mob at best will welcome the second-rate Beatles overtones. . . This album is arranged and confidence and precision brought Not much substance, but a produced so that any kick, drive to bear by TV's new charges A marketing eye in the right or character the assorted congas, pity the delicate structure is direction. (5 out of 10). harp and keyboards might have blurred by his annoyingly Deanne Pearson impressed on the music given overblown vocal. As the title half a chance, have been gently reveals, he's been in for a "role but firmly repressed, creating reversal". This may be the QUINCY JONES: The Dude mere background music to lazy problem. (A&M). Aptly-named Quincy laid-back vocals which sound as Delight Jones once more leads if they'd really rather be the disco dance, "The Dude" somewhere else. The record has being his OTTAWAN: Hands Up (Give Me most deliberate stab at a similar effect on the listener. (5 Your Heart) (Carrere). Side A is ****^*W^ chart domination to date. Stevie out of 10). Wonder and the whole works; Side B is just are Deanne Pearson > just the backing, no vocals. Pity it isn't two of the stars aboard, while an E.P. Then we could have the the music has its own fair share of pulling power, the hit no vocal/no backing version. I GIRLSCHOOL: Hit And Run parading know which I'd prefer! (Bronze). With more punch and version of Chas Jankers "Ai No fewer pretensions than your Corrida" being matched in punter average thud and blunder appeal by the Wonder mashed "Betcha Wouldn't THE HUMAN LEAGUE: The specialists, Girlschool do at least Hurt Me" and keep things the ready rapped title track. Not Sound Of The Crowd (Red). I see reasonably direct and to the bad for a 48 year oldl (7V2 out of . point. But it now . . the year is 2000! even they can't 10). Revivalist groups are trying to seem to themselves reconstruct the genuine sound of from the hard rock straightjacket Fred Dellar the synthesiser. This they achieve which dictates that songs are by banging a hammer on a little more than convenient pegs SHARON REDD: Sharon Redd to hang (Epic). corrugated roof in time to an spare riffs on. I mean, if assortment of fog-horns, the world really needed another A debut album that proves humming kettles and tune called "The Hunter", there conclusively that Sharon's no would have one hit wonder. Apart from finely-tuned cake tins. Much like been a petition or "Can THE You Handle It" (included) SCARS: Author! Author! this in fact. And very good it is, something. What's wrong with there's enough (Pre). A taste of great things to too. singing about something, girls? good material here to come! Retaining virtually (5 out of 10). suggest that Ms Redd can easily nothing of their '77 punk roots, David Hepworth hold her own with the Natalie Scotland's own Scars flash Coles and Candi Statons of this back with a THE DIAGRAM BROTHERS: delicious (and : The Swords world. "Try My Love On For Size" well-timed) blend Bricks (New Hormones). Four of florid is an uptempo ' spine-tingling pop Of A Thousand Men (Stiff). dance number blokes, one surname — Diagram which wrapped around a muscular ' Thankfully Tenpole's new-found would make a good 45 — and this release under the while "Leaving Bunnymen/Teardrop core. The Cavalier wardrobe doesn't result You Is Easier Said Buzzcocks umbrella. An uneasy Than Done" production mirrors the music; in a lyric "theme" on this, their shows that she can funk, in which two guitars appear turn her hand to slower, adept, ambitious, supremely first LP. It merely gives advance more to throttle each other, celebrates soulful colourful but never once using warning of the kind of numbers just as easily. (8 the much-maligned house-brick out of 10). textures solely for effect. Even if re-upholstered '50s rock 'n' roll, as "a very pleasant object". As the second side plumbs depths of boosted trampoline beat and Bev Hillier arresting as Neon's legendary gloom at odds with its buoyant raucous vocal revelry that "Don't Eat Bricks" and almost as flow. Side A is, quite simply, comprise its 13 slightly similar SNIPS: sound advice. La Rocca (EMI). What we brilliant. Buy! Buy! Buy! (8 out of tracks. If you like your music have here is one of our most 10). rowdy, rough-edged, compulsive talented singer/ still Mark Ellen ACROSS DOWN

1 Formal event for New Order? 1 Futurist combo fronted by 4 I'll nag rocker Ian! recent Smash Hits cover fi'k Police lieutenant? (4,7) personality (7.8) 8 What Gladys hears when the 2 Current smash from phone's engaged? "Journeys To Glory" 9 & 16 down UK band ^Tene's was lucky from Handsworth area of 4 Former Roxy person who's Midlands now one of Adam's Ants (4.5) JKf Annual TV bore 5£ee11 11 & 5 down Vintage 7 Like the river or the colour Blockheads costume drama purple (in a manner of speaking) 8 Human Leaguer (4.5) (3.5,3.7) 12 Obviously an under-stated 14 A powerful new use for leads! disco band! JVDebbie Harry movie; Blondie 13 & 17 A Jam pun at 33rpm had a hit with a song with a 16 See 9 similar name (5.4) 17 See 13 16 See 20 18 Something repetitive about 19 She's extracted from Tokyo! Ian McCullough 20 & 16 across This was a massive '70s hit for singer/writer Don McLean 21 Music to get religious by! 22 Paul/ /Bates ANSWERS ON PAGE 46

30 IN THE LAST OF OUR FOUR PART SERIES ON THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE JAM, MARK ELLEN SEES PAUL WELLER TURN POLITICIAN, PHILOSOPHER AND PUBLISHER, AND STILL LISTEN TO A FEW RECORDS AS WELL. PAUL (part 2)

PAUL WELLER forcefully stubs going to affect me, so — therefore out a fag, sighs, then skates a thin — I'm involved in it. So my paperback across the table-top involvement keeps my interest open towards me. A second volume and that keeps my ideas open." follows close on its heels. "What ideas?" I enquire, and he "People keep saying 'why don't gives me a sideways smile, tapping

musicians try and do something his head furtively as if it contains his outside the sphere of music?' They answer to "The Thoughts Of Ik criticise you for being too Chairman Mao". narrow-minded. But when you "I've got my manifesto in here," actually do do something, they just he grins. "I work it out in the ignore it. They don't take a blind bit bathroom every night and then

of notice." forget it ." The books in question are "Notes This is somewhat typical of 0: /. From A Hostile Street" and Weller. He tends, in conversation, / "Mixed-Up Shook-Up". Both to keep the barriers up, but every so collections of poetry; both compiled often forgets and careers off at full and edited by Paul and published — throttle on some vividly conceived along with the fanzine "December political theory or other. In Paul's Child" — by his company Riot case, a little idealism certainly goes Stories. The first is the work of his a long way. long-time friend Dave Waller; the Does he feel obliged to give away second's a collection of verse from more of himself simply because a lot about twenty assorted young poets. of people have become interested in It's easy to see why Paul likes them; him?

they both reflect something of his "No, I don't feel that carefully observed, romantic, but responsibility. I think that anything slightly vulnerable tone, so often the I feel is in my songs anyway. backbone of his own lyrics from "In Regardless of what people seem to The City" up to "Setting Sons". think, I don't hold anything back." He's annoyed that neither earned He applies the brakes for a moment

much more than a scant reference to reconsider. "Well . . . maybe in the music weeklies when they that's not quite true," he reflects. came out (late 79 and mid-'80), "I've tried to develop a new attitude though, I should imagine, that's on "Sound Affects" 'cos it's just because they don't feature The pointless sitting on the fence. Works Of Paul Weller. Nor, it Anyway," he adds, "it gets boring, should be stressed, could his this kind of 'social reporting' and intentions have been less that, like on "Setting Sons". self-serving. Some people, it seems, "I mean, a pop song ain't exactly

consider such ventures to be Paul's going to change the world, but it can attempt to ' with his act as a vehicle for thoughts and roots'. Needless to say, it's nothing carry those thoughts world-wide. of the sort. Touring gets boring — travelling's "That gets me really annoyed. boring anyway — but the good thing Like, there was this reporter in about it is the more people you meet Sweden who said something like in different countries, the more you that. Something like 'what's going realise that they're exactly the same to happen when you lose touch with as you and everyone else you know.

us ordinary people?' As if, y'know, So that's the optimistic side of it. The Bomb drops tomorrow and I That's really inspiring. Despite can't be affected because I'm a 'pop language barriers, we can all speak star' and 'pop stars' are immune to the same language." He checks nuclear bombs. As if," he himself again. "I'll admit I am exaggerates to drive home the talking about a type of person — the Russia and places like that, 'cos that music lies — in that communication. point, "I've got some bomb-proof person you meet at our gigs." would be the real proof of it. I'm And it's up to the bands to see that recording studio where It The Jam's must be reassuring that — in sure that if you could talk to the . . . and the audiences to see that. going to hide so's we can release the any country — the songs seem to people there, they'd virtually say That's where the responsibility lies. first record after the nuclear war! speak for themselves. the same things as you anyway. With all of them, not just one Anything that's going to happen is "Well, that's why I want to go to "That's where the importance of person." Continued over page 31 From previous page really Big Thing out of it. Splashed for what's becoming an increasingly to. it all over the covers saying — in so accurate and ominous account of He's typically broad-minded THE WORD "communication" is a many words — y'know: 'Isn't this future politics, "1984". Paul says he about the whole movement. "Well, frequent fixture in the Weller great? Wallow around in all your finds a lot of similarities between at least they're putting a lot of monologue. A few months back, he poverty and then forget all about it Orwell's vision and his own ideals thought into what they're wearing. reveals, he actually wrote to the by reading how the other half lives. about music. So it's only about clothes, I know, producers of the TV programme Isn't it exciting?' I really hope the "I've just finished reading but they're still thinking about "Something Else" to ask if he could working class won't take that much 'Homage To Catalonia" by Orwell them. Alright, so that's very direct one of their shows. He longer." (written in '38). It's about the superficial and it doesn't realy mean outlined a few experiments he Don't the papers get away with Spanish Civil War. The main thing very much, but it's a thousand times thought could usefully be tried and stuff like that because so many that struck me is the first few better than thousands of brainless was pleasantly surprised when they readers are impressionable? A lot of chapters, when he describes getting people flocking to Wembley to see got in touch with him and arranged people just tend to accept the way a to Barcelona when all the workers ... I don't even know who plays a meeting. They seemed story's slanted without really have taken over the city. I mean there . . . or sympathetic, though there haven't questioning it. there's a lot of talk these days about someone." been any concrete plans since to get Paul sees it differently. "I don't the 'Egalitarian' society" — (a state So what's his impression of the his ideas on the air. think that's true of the young where all people are supposedly return of Glam 'Pop' groups? I working class these I equal) "but this was it, actually in Paul elaborates: "One plan had days. don't — "There's some good music was to get some young kid think they're ready to put up with it existence, which for me — and for a coming through. And there's been interviewing — anymore. lot of people I'm sure — is Margaret Thatcher some great singles coming out, which they thought was a bit "I think that if it came to the something that's very hard to that's another change I've noticed in 'far-fetched'. Another was maybe to crunch, there'd be a lot of trouble. imagine. the last few years. I'm glad there's a something on Class. Like, get And deservedly so. But I shouldn't "That actually existed, even do lot of different styles as well. If public school think it would get to that stage." though it was for a short time. And one from and you're going to talk about 'pop' another from a very different What kind of "crunch" are we it worked! So it is possible. I wish groups as such then if it's going to environment, put them together, talking about? that could be possible world-wide, be anyone, I think it should be get to discuss their different "Well, it's hard to talk about y'know, but I suppose that's the them Adam And The Ants who at least viewpoints. 'revolution' 'cos Britain's never kind of thing that's got to evolve have got a bit of style and do it with "I've written a lot about class," experienced one, probably because slowly." a bit of class. Paul admits when I bring up the Britons have always been so Where does he feel there's "There's loads of good bands subject of "Eton Rifles". level-headed. But revolution is common ground between his ideas though," he resumes. "I really like "But it's all true, all that stuff possible. This is such a weird era," and Orwell's? The Beat and Department S. And I about that 'Right To Work' March he adds, somewhat bitterly. "If "I think in placing more love the Teardrop Explodes album. that went through Eton last year" — people are desperate, anything's importance on the individual. Their music's so enthusiastic, so (when Eton school-boys openly possible." Thinking for yourself more, which is optimistic. Their words mean jeered at unemployed marchers) — what music's really all about. Or absolutely nothing to me," he adds, "so 'Eton Rifles' wasn't that ALL PAUL'S interests, he says, should be about." laughing. "I don't know what Julian far-fetched at all. I mean I revolve around music. Two years How does he feel then about the Cope's talking about but it doesn't exaggerated it out of all proportion ago he used to complain about New Romantics (for want of a matter 'cos the music's great. trying to put a bit of humour in it." having a mental block about reading better label)? They've been accused "It's an emotional level so In terms of breaking down class books, but that's something he's by some of not thinking for on therefore it's important," is the way barriers, the very fact that Jam recently overcome. He refers, with themselves, of blindly following Paul sees it. "It's the same with albums sell to both 'privileged' Eton obvious passion, to the author their leaders. Acting how they feel Madness. They're great. They're boys and working-class kids is surely George Orwell, who's best known they should act, not how they'd like inspiring. They lift you!" a positive step in itself. blatantly dislikes a lot of "Yeah, it is," Paul agrees, "but I As he attitudes in the weekly want to get that situation and take it the music one stage further. papers, I wonder if there's any "In fact," he pauses for a second, fanzines he reckons capture the "there's just as much 'inverted enthusiasm of ? snobbery' in the working class." "Well, 'Making Time' is really The main reason he disapproves enthusiastic. When you read it, the of a lot of the daily Fleet Street words seem to leap off the page. We papers is the fact that they maintain need all the enthusiasm we can get this kind of 'working-class-and- at the present time. The other proud-of-it' mentality. It only papers," he explains, "are makes people more aware of their becoming closer and closer to Fleet social differences. Street. They've got their politics and "I'm proud to be working class," that's it. They won't move an inch. he declares, "but I want to work It's boring and it's irresponsible. In towards a time when I'm completely fact," he decides, "it's dangerous. It class-iess. And everybody is. Even dampens people's enthusiasm. I now," he points out, "it's crazy. know I'm always saying this but People still treat you as 'inferior' everyone knows we're going just because you're working-class." through a crappy time and so the I suggest that, by definition, last thing we can afford is to be 'class' has come to mean something narrow-minded." different over the last twenty odd He seems acutely conscious of years. 'Upper' class used to mean world events. you had — basically — more money "Everything worries me." than the 'middle' class, who, in turn, had more than the 'lower' class. Now people tend to be judged a IS THERE still something of the certain class by their attitudes. "fatalist" in Paul Weller? Paul takes up the lead. "Well this "Hard to say," he reflects. is it. Money's got nothing to do with "Sometimes. But then things that it anymore, and yet the rich — happen are going to happen especially in this country — really anyway. That's the other thing I've proudly parade their wealth. I find felt differently about recently," he that astonishing. It's like, a few reveals, referring to his lyric writing. months back, there was this story in "You've got to retain some kind of the papers about all these rich optimism or else it's pointless. people flying all the way to the However misplaced or naive that south of France for some stupid sounds, you've got to retain some." party and then flying all the way Had there been more than two of back on the same day or something us in the room, I'm sure we'd have stupid. And the papers made a heard applause. 32 8 HSELLIHPSBBITYRAGE ERI UQSSI RHCJSI UOLR /dlP JNAPNBWYJIMLEANI |o|AAICAEOIEDORORIAU teaser HUCCHHSTSV 1 EORCDSQ NLOKRNRT 1 NVVYKAKRS

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Witty, insane, lunatic, very humorous and We are two girls Gaynor (14) and Janet totally mad 15 year old female desperately (15) who would like to write to 2 boys needs penpals. All letters answered. No aged 14-17. We like going to football photos needed. Musicel tastes, don't matches and . We are into mind, willing to agree about anything. Madness, O.M.D., Specials, Adam And Write immediately to: Linz, 5 Ashfurlong The Ants etc. Needn't be mates. Please Close, Oore, Sheffield S17 3NN. send pics to us at: 11 Hartley Grove, Higher Irlam, Manchester M30 6HL. I'm 14, have auburn hair and am 5' 10" tall. Thanks a load.

I am not into any type of pop but I do like The Look, Visage and some Gary Numan. 14 year old modette would like to hear I'm not really outrageous, don't go to from any other i discos often, but if there is a lonely lad or modettes/skins/rudies/mods etc of lass out there of any age, write to: Julie around the same age. Into Madness, Doyle, 7 Granville Gardens, Shaftesbury, Specials, The Beat etc. Dislike heavy Dorset W SP7 8DG. metal and rock n' roll. Photo if possible w to: Julie Ashby. 71 Wycliffe Road, 15 year old Jam, Who and Lambrettas Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7DU. All letters fanatic who loves all things mod answered. (especially scooters and parkas) would like to write to 15-17 year old male mods. Girl (18) into loud, pulsating noises (not Send letters to: Ailsa McAdam, 11 Raikes HM) would like penpals with good sense Avenue, Skipton, North Yorkshire. of humour and outrageous dress sense. Likes a good night out on the town. Pic Rude boy (nearly 14) wants rude girl or not essential. Write to: Julie Brathwaite, skinhead girl (13-15). Must be attractive 2 Hooks Farm Way, Bedhampton Havant, and like Madness, Specials, Beat, Hants P09 3DX. Bodysnatchers, Bad Manners etc. Send

photograph if possible to: Ian Darcy, 104 My name is Anne Hall. I like badminton, Priory Avenue, Chingford, London E4 8AD. hockey, discos, make up, lively people,

listening to records and Radio 1. 1 like Robert McDonald (17) into most good most pop groups (, The Police) music, such as Adam And The Ants, and dislike heavy metal, Elvis etc. Female 2-Tone, especially Madness, wants to penpals 12-13 preferred. Write to: hear from females (15-18). Write to: 20 "Lynwood, 54 Hamgreen, Pill, Nr. Bristol Winifred Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife. B5Z0 0HB.

1 am 17 and interested in roller discos, Male (16) who lives around the Liverpool spending a fortune on "Police" posters area is looking for someone who lives and buying pop magazines and papers. around the London area. Must be into Music likes: Police, Police and more Madness, Specials, Beat and Jam. Also T\ Police. Dislikes: Showaddywaddy, Darts, must like Discos, fashion and parties. If Abba. Please write to: Michelle Dunne, 36 interested, write to: Michael Leason, 8 Seapark, Malahide, Co. Dublin, Eire. Ferguson Avenue, Ellesmere Port, . 2 soul girls wish to contact some soul boys aged 14-16. We both like Yarborough 3 desperate, ravishingly beautiful & Peoples, Gap Band, Light Of The World (guaranteed) 14 year olds want immensely and Stevie Wonder. Our hobbies are: ice good looking boys aged 14-16. Must be a skating, buying records and, of course, fan of all or any of the following: Police,

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I'D OFTEN wondered what a hen dream. Don't Touch" — in the dubious doing something with Motorhead night at a '.". Working . Men's Club is Girlschool take it all in their company of their sort of . the world's most came up, it seemed as if it would chose them as a support a member of the Abortion Law "I've always liked heavy rock," like. An afternoon in ". the company stride, seemingly unaffected by unlikely popstars, Motorhead. . . birds?" tries Enid through act for Motorhead's first Reform fit I major Society, really well. mean, Lemmy they've had little says Kim. "Even when I was of Girlschool began to put me in the ghosts of the thousand bad Beauty her stuffed nose. and the Beast (well, that really likes all the old rock 'n' roll tour. to do with the dourer, more younger. Quite a few girls like the picture. ". British movies which . . The Motorhead Girls?" stalked the sort of thing). and everything. And we thought Three of them are from South dogmatic elements of the heavy rock but most of them Rehearsing for their current barn of the room they are using. suggests Kim. it'd be good fun to do together — London, growing up in and women's movement. This gig when they grow up don't even tour first ". — the in large . venues — They're immune to all that. . The Motorhead groupies around the free especially for Valentine's Day." republic of was an exception and a mistake. hear any. If it wasn't for my at Shepperton Studios, the four Girlschool are a phenomenon. form a band?" offers the WE GO to the red plastic bar to "Please Don't Touch" was the Tooting. Kelly, however, is from "That felt weird. There were all cousin, I'd never have heard young women were being waited Apart from the photographer, ever a minor success of talk. Only Denise has any money; lead track on an EP entitled "St model of over the water — Enfield, a good these women — but they didn't any." on by a host of 30-year-old, The Bodysnatchers and The tact. she counts out enough pennies Valentine's Day Massacre" and ten miles north of the Thames. look like women, half of them. Kelly feels differently. "I used bearded roadies. Attentive to Mo-Dettes, they're the first all-girl from her They laugh at his remark. I jeans pockets for one credited to "The founder members, Kim You could tell there were no men to like . A few girls in their band's every need, the band to take up residence in the drink apiece. breathe a sigh of relief and Enid," (Motor)HeadGirl(School). It was and Kelly explains as she intherewithoutevenlooking.lt my class at school were into roadies their knew place. They charts since Op-Art miniskirts Democratically wonder if they ever feel the need spots her they elect a intended more as a fun gesture knuckles with glittery was a strange atmosphere." but I'd listen to it played among the coils of electric were the fashion. And, more to smarten up Lemmy, who tends spokeswoman to tell the story of than a shot for the top of the nail varnish, "...started off a "I sneaked my boyfriend in," and think, how boring, it's all the spaghetti, content that 'their girls' impressively, to look like a very dirty they've managed "Please Don't Touch" — Kelly charts. Uncle band, a silly little band, Painted remembers Kim. "He put on his same, there's no tune, no were . to win over the headbangers, Ernie. that Johnson, the tall blonde lead "I think we were expecting Lady, doing cover versions round fur coat and sat in the corner. The melody. I'd rather listen to The Like all roadies, they were most "He's quite clean. masculine of audiences, guitarist who looks a bit like a something like a top twenty He has a bath the pubs — how everyone starts. organisers had wanted him to sit Beatles orT. Rex." happy to serve — more like without ever responding to the younger Linda McCartney. every night on tour." "That for perhaps but we didn't expect it to was a couple of years outside in the van." Kim stands her ground. "I used faithful old retainers from a cries of "Get 'em off!" "It had to But what about the disaster happen", Kelly go that high. It probably did that and they recruited me at the tail to like it for the noise." bygone age than technicians They don't pimp or preen or manages before the area between his lips? end of that. mouthiest well because it was funny. We Then we got Denise Do they listen to hard rock handling banks of modern show off bit "Oh yeah," says a of thigh. In fact, for member of the band, don't want to write a heavy metal Kim. "He in and changed the name to SINCE THOSE early days, they've now? technology. And when their the rehearsal, wants to get stainless they're so dressed rhythm-guitarist-with-panda- bash-bash." steel teeth, Girlschool. That was in March, put two singles in the lower "No", says Kelly firmly. employers were short of cash, down that they look less like I think." '78 eyes-and-Bruce-Forsyth-chin, Having established themselves April . . . Slogged around, put regions of the charts: "Race With If you weren't in Girlschool they bought the drinks. popstars than their Denise has just returned ratty-haired Kim McAuliffe, takes over. as the Peters And Lee of hard with out our own single and that got The Devil" and "Emergency". would you listen to Girlschool? roadies. Bassist Enid the drinks. "His teeth are Williams' "It's just because we'd known rock, will they try again with clean. us the Motorhead support tour." Their first album, "Girlschool", Kelly titters at the thought. "Oh mangy fake fur over a drab, each other for a few years and They're just a bit rotted." Enid takes over. sold about "They heard 30,000 copies. I Motorhead? They've no ... like a few tracks ... I SHEPPERTON WAS once the shapeless M&S crew-neck is a they've got the same the single and really liked it. At just released a album, "Naaaah ... I think it's best new "Hit really like two tracks." home of British cinema. James particular highlight of their lack of management, producer and that we don't because we don't that time, all the little bands that And Run" and its title track is "I like Motorhead," says Kim Bond was brought to life here. flash. record THEY DO feel a bit awkward company as us. And it want to get too associated with were around were punk bands. scuttling up the charts in the loyally. Now it's mostly the preserve of And yet, this year, they've about being lumped with seemed like a good idea. Vic Motorhead. We were going for a We were one of the only rock wake of "Please Don't Touch". Kelly clarifies. "Don't get us the new aristocracy of become Top Of Motorhead so The Pops (Maile, their producer) had the long time before we met them. much. Saxon, they bands about that were small." All four of them were inspired wrong. We do enjoy what we're entertainment, providing large regulars. say, have toured with What seemed like every song. It's an old Johnny Kidd We only did the one tour and the Motorhead One hiccup in the onward and to play by parents and older doing." hangar-like sound stages where Thursday night, there they'd be, just as much as them but no-one song and we really liked it, we one single with them but because upward progress of Girlschool brothers — Denise's 35-year-old "We're happy playing what bands can perfect their timing, looking like they were associates Saxon with the titans having were going to do it ourselves at we've got the same management occurred at a women-only benefit brother is drummer with we're playing. It's exciting," playing and lighting. A chilly, great fun, playing the of tastelessness. Girlschool have sexiest onetime. and record company we tend to early in their career. Although Angelwitch. They fell in love with concludes Kim. "It's just that we windswept home for the new record of the year — "Please their own history, which "But then when the idea of get associated with them, seen as Girlschool are virtually the loud crash of heavy metal don't want to sit down and listen stretches back to long before unconscious feminists and Kim is . to that sort of stuff all the time." 1 I was out in the cold Alone in the night nf How could I carry on Felt so empty inside All you gave me were promises HIT AND RUN Nothing better than lies Hit and run Hit and run BY GIRLSCHOOL Hit and run Hit and run on

Told me how it could be Showed me how to believe

But I just didn't realise It was all in my dreams All you gave me were promises Nothing better than lies

Hit and run Hit and run Hit and run Hit and run

But I know better now

I found another way

One thing I know for sure I'm gonna live for today Say good-bye to the bad times Now I'm free on my own Say goodbye to the bad times Now I'm free on my own Hit and run Hit and run Hit and run Hit and run

Repeat to fade Words and music by McAuliffe/Johnson Reproduced by permission Acton Green Music Ltd. B

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Need to hold you once again my love Feel your warm embrace my love Oo-oo-oo-oo Don't throw our love away Baby love my baby love (don't throw our love away) I need you oh how I need you Please come to me to stay But all you do is treat me bad (don't throw our love away) Break my heart and leave me sad I'm not happy like we used to be Tell me what did I do wrong Loneliness has got the best of me my love To make you stay away so long My baby love

'Cause baby love my baby love I need you oh how I need you Been missing you, miss kissing you Why'd you do me like you do Instead of breaking up (don't throw our love away) (don't throw our love away) After I've been true to you Let's do some kissing and making up (don't throw our love away) (don't throw our love away) So deep in love with you Don't throw our love away Baby baby baby Babe in my arms why don't you stay? This is hurtin' me Need you This is hurtin' me Need you Baby love ooo baby love Baby love, ooo baby love Don't throw our love away Baby love my baby love (don't throw our love away) Why must we separate my love Don't throw our love away All of my whole life through (don't throw our love away) (don't throw our love away) Don't throw our love away

I never loved no one but you I get this need (don't throw our love away) Need to hold you Why'd you do me like you do Once again my love

I get this need Feel your warm embrace my love (Need you love, need you love, need you love) I'm still in love with you (baby love) Baby love Repeat to fade

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David Read, Sutton, Surrey; Michael Papworth, Conington. Peterborough; Christopher Leech, Saltash, Cornwall; Debby Tudge, Weoloy Castle, Birmingham; Victor Gemmell, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire; Judith Gibbons, Harpenden, Herts.; Donal Mullane, Peckham, MOONDOGS London; Toni Weibel, Thetford, Norfolk; Morna Hinton, Windsor, Berks.; Mark Williams, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.; C. White, Richmond, Surrey; Debbie Butlin, Far Cotton, Northampton; Howard Aspden, Clitheroe, Lanes.; David Marsh, Rotherham, South Yorxs.; A. M. Minhall, West Bridgford, Nottingham; Vivienne Nixon, Northwich, Cheshire; Sarah Ball, Rotherham, South Yorks.; Bernadette Smith/Wakefield, West Yorkshire; Mark Joseph, London N16; Sue Hadfield, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear; Gary Himer, Lea Village, Birmingham; Ian Reid, Forest Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne; C. W. Eaton, Ilkeston, Derbyshire; Rohini Bhasin, Wallington, Surrey; Max Thomas, Southcrest, Redditch; Mary Coates, Woolsery, North Devon; Anthony Ash, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire; Angie Sibbald, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear; Jackie Hazzard, Peterborough; D. Phethean, NEW SINGLE Wythenshawe, Manchester. _.-'

On January 22, the prize of 25 "Mondo Bongo" albums by The Boomtown Rats was won by:

Jane McClure, Glengormley, Co. Antrim; Jphn Allison, Chorley, Lanes* Abigail Mortimer, Watford, Herts.; Martin Ling, Enfield, Middlesex; Thalia Cudby, Dore, Sheffield; Mathew Riley, Filey, North Yorkshire; Adrian Turner, King's Lynn, Norfolk; Jackie Ford, Manor, Sheffield; Michael Johnson, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear; Duncan Sheekey, Benfleet, Essex; Amanda Connery, Northway, Glos.; Jamie Grampton, Watford, Herts.; Andrew Prince, 'IMPOSTER' Drybrook, Glos.; Andrew Rainey, Bretton, Peterborough; Alasdair Malcolm, Prestwick, Ayrshire; Andrew Tomlin, Leicester Forest East, Leics.; Dave Butler, Guildford, Surrey: Sikandar Nanji. Canterbury, Kent; Paul Lemmon, Harwich, Essex; Miles Bartaby, Hendon Way, London; Christine Amos, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear; Kathryn Rayment, Ramsey,

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Next came a collector's item, "Kiss Me Deadly", the final LP by Gen X which offer was on in our competition of February 5th . It went to:

Peter WestbUry, Cannock, Staffs; Mark Reeves, Bartley Green, Birmingham; Neil Campbell, Crawley, W. Sussex; Paul Middleton, Oadby, Leicester; Chris Reed, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts.; Sue Wilson/Luton, Beds.; Doug Scholes, Worsley, Manchester; Roger Spivey, Cowlersley, Huddersfield; Patrick Chadwick, Brobkway, Haywards Heath; Kenny Watkins, Gillingham, Kant; Jane Castle, Long Stratton, Norfolk; Brian Woodhouse, Cheadle, Cheshire; Jennifer Bendelow, Hedon, Hull; Bobby Cowan, Madison Avenue, Glasgow; Katherine Byrd, Saltdean, Brighton; Teresa Dunne,

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The Stranglers war* featured in our competition of February 19, and fifty copies of their latest T.V. album, "TheMenlnBleck", ware distributed to : SHOW Leslie Jackson, High Wycombe, Bucks.; Francis Anderson, Southall, Middx.; Dawn Roughsedge, Breightmet. Bolton; Sue Cassell. Croydon, Surrey; Mark Knight, Ipswich, Suffolk; Sam Crabtree, Barry Island, Sth. Glamorgan; Gavin Curry, Wallasey, Merseyside; David Norris, Swindon, Witts.; Timothy Smith, Shipley, West Yorks.; Stephen Fulcher, Horsford, Norfolk; Katherine Pillans, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear; C. Corrie, Darlington, Co. Durham; M. Lynch, Darlington, Co. Durham; P. Martin, King's Lynn, Norfolk; Andrew Piper, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.; Andrew Sutton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.; David Marston, Guisborough, Cleveland; Mark Havelock, Ormsby, Middlesbrough; Gavin Mosson, Stourbridge, W. Midlands; Paul Billings, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport; Ruth Turnbull, Rufford, Lane's.; Nick Dodson, Aldershot, Hants.; Paul Clements, Tamworth, Staffs; Fiona Topping, Accrington, Lanes.; Keith McLeod, Wallasey, Merseyside; Simon Roberts, Norwich, Norfolk; Debbie Brown, Dewsbury, W. Yorks.; Kevin Rooke, Keighley, W. Yorks.; Stephen Piatt, Harpenden, Herts.; D. Dyer, Chelmsford, Essex; Philip Cole, Runcorn, ' Cheshire; David Watkin, St. Helens, Merseyside; Alison Jones, Warrington, Cheshire; Linda Barker, Orton Waterville, Peterborough; S. Wright, Malton, N. Yorks.; Peter Green, MOONDOGS Halesowen, W. Midlands; Terry Hudson, Selly Oak, Birmingham; Philip Long, Welton, Lincoln; Brian Mould, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne & Wear; Catherine Beynon, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Ian Walker, Whitehaven, Cumbria; A. Hesser, Worthing, West Sussex; L. Adams, Banstead, Surrey; John Cox, Humberstone Lane, Leicester; Marco Silvestri, Bournemouth, Dorset; C. Ayliffe, Thornton Heath, Surrey;; Katherine Rowley, Sedgley, W. Midlands; Nicola Hampson, Altrincham, Cheshire; Brendan Murphy, Nether MATINEE' Edge, Sheffield; Keith Hayward, Keynsham, Nr. (Bristol.

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, H. Playford, Broadstairs, Kent; Charlotte Sellars, Denton, Manchester; 0. Orman, Trowbridge, Wiltshire; Sarah Fordham, Gravesend, Kent; C. O'Shea, Dagenham, Essex; Shsun Cole, Hsngoed, Mid Glam; Kenneth Crawford, Dumbarton; Jayne Pawley, Rochdale, Lanes; Simon Crossley, Stannington, Sheffield; H. Bolus, London N12; Martin Eigood, Mansfield, Notts.; Fiona Adams, Twyford, Berks.; Peter Westbury, Cannock, ' Staffs.; J. Vernel, Gillingham, Kent; Andrew Nixon, Carterton, Oxon; Mark Hamilton, TUES4 15I.T.V Eastleigh, Hants.; Claire Stephens, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.; Karen Orritt, Chepstow, Gwent; D. Stock, Kirkby, Liverpool; Collette Coll, Gloucester; Graham Manville. Huyton, Liverpool: Debi Rowland, Brockley. London; Jane Paton, Wirral, Merseyside; Wendy Staden, Bracknell, Berkshire.

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waist down? Do I go about naked But still if you "kids" are WHILST READING your issue having below my Ballet button? a good time, go ahead, buy their dated April 1 6-29 at work (what a MY FRIENDS and I have been Original Osmond Fan, Chez Moi. records, posters, T-shirts, busy lot we are), we came across arguing about the singer in tickets. Put warpaint across your Spandau Ballet. Is his name a photo of Undertone Feargal Long as you keep yer Tony naughty face. Make them rich. Just Sharkey doing rather leave Bradley and did he recently grow a good Blitz covered (I) me alone with my memories and a beard? impression of . It don't call yourselves Antpeople caused an uproar as none of us President of the A.A.A.A. (Adam (try "consumers"). Or still, could agree on what he was better Ant Adoration Association). buy a bootleg tape of the early using as a spare mouth. Maggie Ants and hear what you missed. His name's actually Hadley, but thinks it's a sandwich, 'Arry says Juanito The Bandito (Retired). it's funny you should mention it's a pair of false rubber lips and ANTAGONY the facial fungus . . . Hissing Sid says it's a piece of AFTER BUYING your mag, I water melon. flicked through it and came to the DEAR CAROL, and all the recently Could you please solve this Letters Page. There were various recruited "Antpeople", little fracas so that our office can letters of heated discussion on OK, so I am proud that Adam get back to its normal busy who actually is an "Antperson". I and his Ants have hit it high, and boring everyday routine. read these letters with a mixture they deserve it, but I am also Yours for one week only, of humour and disgust. disgusted that they are being 'Arry, Hissing Sid and Maggie, I As am a good few years older exploited so much. I can't pick up Rugby. than your average reader (I'm a mag now without some prat or 21 ), I was lucky to see the Ants in other offering "Adam's Hussars In fact it's a very rare pic of their early days (late 77 /early Jacket"; either it's Feargal before "the operation". a cheap '78). Then, they were a force to be it Looks better now, dunnaa? imitation or else costs about reckoned with. Their music was £30 and is still a cheap imitation. real Sexmusic; songs with titles I don't think that people have like "Red Scab", "Friends", caught on that the whole thing "Bathroom Function", "Christian about "Ant" is to be original. Dior", and many more. FIRST DEGREE They Now, how many people have I were exciting and sharp, much seen with that bloody stripe BURNS better than the wishy-washy across their nose? half-baked crap they churn out Cleo, Somewhere in Egypt. IN YOUR issue with dear old (not these days. so much of the old, thanx) Midge The original Antpeople have all on the Front, you printed a deserted the Ants now, disgusted picture of . So what's and disillusioned with them. The wrong with that, I hear you ask? Antpeople were people who IF THE (wonderful ears). Well, you emerged in '76/77. Yes, punks, SACRE wassocks, you didn't show us his — real punks — not the CAPSTICKS ... legs. Has he got any? How the mail-order plastic punks who BLEEUGH! THE hell can you print that hell can I hope to clone his have emerged since then, trying HOW 'ELLO MES petits choux! Wat iz song by Mr Tony Capstick? He all zis? You — 'eaven forbide — may work 23 V2 hours a day and

arr trying to copy moi mutherre have rickets and eat Hovis, but I languidge, n'est pas? Tz, tz, tz. couldn't honestly care. SAL SOLO WRITES Very noughty of yoo. No matteur. A devoted Stumpy Ant fan I 'ave ze peu mots petits et well He speaks well of you, too. chosen to dire a yoo. I zink zat 'Oney Bane et Cote a Cote ne

I AM anxious to clear up an peuvant pas chanter. Ma impression given in a paragraph Grandmere can zing beeteur zan of the recent Classix Nouveaux her while 'anging off le Tour FUNKIN FOR interview mentioning Richard Eiffel. Burgess in connection with The Au revoir mes concombresl SOUTHAMPTON News. Isabelle, Leighton Buzzard HAVE YOU ever wondered why Around four years ago, when hardly any songs about Great The News had no permanent Britain and British towns get into drummer, Richard was asked by the charts, whereas efforts about the band's manager to audition other parts of the world manage with a view to recording an DART ATTACK to frequently? is album. Why it WHY OH why does everyone take apparently so unfashionable to There was never any question the mickey out of Kelly Marie? sing about Rochdale, Cardiff and of him becoming a full-time She may not be able to sing, Torquay? member, as he was at the time in dance, etc., but there is one good There are a few good two other bands, one of which thing about her — her posters exceptions such as "London was Landscape. make jolly good dartboards. Town", "Living In The UK", Sal Solo, EMI Records. Telling her to sing is like telling "Hersham Boys", "" and Dennis Healey to go and join "Hooray For The English", but Legs and Co. Radio One DJs seem to be biased A thing on Mars towards playing records about 43 From previous page MM foreign towns and places. Is it possible to Briticise records? — HIPPY SHAKE e.g. "Kids In Birmingham", "Grimsby In Spring", "Live In DOWN Luton", "Paris Collections" and "Funkin' For Southampton". IN YOUR issue dated April 2-15, other The patriotic, Self-Adhesive Sex we — and we're sure many Object, Cambridge. heavy metal fans — read your interview with Dave Stewart and Don't quite have the same ring were very angry. Why? We'll tell though, do they? you why! In saying that David Stewart was a former hippy, you referred to them as "long-haired, blue jeaned bores". This we must OH! BANDAGE disagree with. Hippies are free-going people who want UP YOURS peace with others. As for wearing jeans, nearly everyone does! We DEMENTED SMASH Hits, don't refer to Modettes and You seem to have become Punks as weirdoes etc. because incredibly fond of a certain of their taste in music, so please "creature" known as Nash The leave us alone to enjoy our music Slash. First you had a flexi-disc of and reading. it, then you probed further into Two heavy metal fans, . the horror by doing a Personal File on this gruesome being. How much longer do we have to be confronted with its uncanny bandaged "face"? All its talk of requiems and cold pizzas gave me the shivers to say IS TERRY HALL A the least. Please stop printing pictures of this mummified VENUE? monster or I will stop reading your mag and that will be a slap I'M WRITING this letter with in the face, I can tell you! plastic gloves on my hands. You Holly, Hove. see I've just been to the National Youth Unemployment Rally and had my hand autographed by the 2-Tone leader himself (yes folks, your hero and mine, Jerry TAM FOR JAM Dammers). My friend and I spoke to Jerry, Lynval and Brad and, as we SCAM suspected, they don't think much DEAR EDITOR, of Margaret Thatcher. But they the wearer is so ignorant he ANNOUNCEMENT: Tarn thought even less of the probably thinks Terry Hall is a but sweet lifetime) is all about McCombe is a mod, and he does skinheads who were chanting the concert venue in the East End. Blacks and Whites.

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KICK IN THE EYE ON BEGGARS BANQUET RECORDS They spoke of pastures green

I was never told why Each journey lasts an age My throat feels dry It must be the lesson Deep inside It must be the lesson So roll the tide

So I began the crossing My throat burned dry Searching for satori A kick in the eye And the end of reproduction Given no direction Every care is taken In my rejection

Kick in the eye Kick in the eye Kick in the eye Kick in the eye

Every care is taken With my rejection And my injection For my addiction ON GEM Every care is taken RECORDS With my protection Run boy run Run boy run And my abduction You've got tome road to burn Put yourself in overdrive From my addiction Don't let tham shoot you down The city girls are pretty Kick in the When eye (oh, oh, oh) your back is turned One could be yours tonigh Kick in the eye (oh, oh, oh) Chorus Run boy run Kick in the eye (oh, oh, oh) Kick in the Keep on running 'til you burn Run out of the crowd eye (oh, oh, oh) Keep on running 'til you burn You don't have no future Kick, kick, kick Keep on running 'til you burn In the underground Repeat to Keep on running 'til you burn fade Repeat chorus to fade Run boy run Words and music by Bauhaus Don't look around Words and music by Reproduced by permission Too many blades Cibbs/Harper Beggars Banquet Music Wanna cut you down Reproduced by permission Ltd./Andrew Heath Music Co. Sparta Florida Music Ltd.

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