35pUSA$i75 Mayas- June 101 ^ S */A -sen ^^ 15 HIT UfRiasmolding StandAndDe^^r iMimnliMl Being Wj LANDSCAPBin colour KIM WILDE m u ) Vol. 3 No. 11 IF YOU'VE already sneaked a peek around the back of this issue you'll have twigged the fact that you're dealing with something out of the ordinary. So welcome, friends, to the first (and the only?) double sided edition of your favourite musical publication. In effect you get two magazines, each with its own cover, bumper feature, songwords, competition and Bitz section. Soon as you get fed up of poring over this half, just flip it and play the other side. Now you may well ask why we've taken the unusual step of standing the entire magazine on its head. Well, there are a number of reasons; 1 To confuse newsagents 2) We couldn't decide who to put on the cover In 3) the hope that some dummies would buy it twice 4) For laffs THIS SIDE STAND AND DELIVER Adam And The Ants 2A NORMAN BATES Landscape .8A DON'T LET IT PASS YOU BY UB40 9A ROCKABILLY GUY Polecats 9A GHOSTS OF PRINCES IN TOWERS Rich Kids 11A IS THAT LOVE Squeeze 14A BETTE DAVIS EYES Kim Games 14A BEING Vi/ITH YOU Smokey Robinson 17A HOW 'BOUT US Champaign 19A STRAY CATS: Feature 4A/5A/6A BITZ (A) 12A/13A CARTOON 17A DISCO ISA STAR TEASER 20A THE BEAT COMPETITION 21A SINGLES REVIEWS 23A LANDSCAPE: Colour Poster The Middle THAT SIDE FUNERAL PYRE The Jam 2B HOUSES IN MOTION Talking Heads 8B THE ART OF PARTIES Japan SB BAD REPUTATION Thin Lizzy SB THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY) Bob Marley 11B ANGEL OFTh£ MORNING Juice Newton 14B KIM WILDE: Feature 4B/5B/6B BITZ(B) 12B/13B UNDERTONES COMPETITION 15B LEHERS 16B/17B INDEPENDENT BITZ 1SB GIGZ 20B/21B ALBUM REVIEWS 23B The charts appearing in Smash Hits are compiled by Record Business Research from information supplied by panels of specialist shcps. This magazine is published by EMAP National Publications Ltd, Peterborough, and is printed by East Midland Litho Printers, Peterborough. Copyright exists on all songs appearing in Smash Hits. They must not be reproduced without the consent of the copyright holders. 2A FRONT COVER PIC: AUAN BAUARD/SCOPE FEATURES • iwiii previQus page His professed admiration for "Yeah, I know exactly what you "rebellious young bands with a mean," he says, recalling one girl gripe about something" is aptly he met that afternoon who borne out by his suitably appeared to have travelled thirty chequered career. Activity such miles on a bus just for the as the following eventually got privilege of calling him "an him slung out of both home and idiot". "I swear to God I was school. always proud of my heroes, or if "I once shot out all the lights on one of my friends made it, rny block with a B.B. gun (air y'know? And the bands rifle). The neighbours went crazy! themselvesi Like a buncha old I used to go eggin' houses on washerwomen I All this jealousy Hallowe'en too. Not malicious, and chit-chat goin' on! The mind, just a prank thing. Y'know, Polecats sayin' stuff about us. you'd get some old crab who And The Blue Cats, wouldn't The Meteors. I give you any candy so hear it all and I honestly don't you'd egg his house and stick give a damn. pins in his doorbell. We used to "\ think," he considers, "that have swordfights on the subways that's maybe a very American too. Take the posters down, roll thing. If someone drives by in a 'em up, use 'em as swords, get big Cadillac in America, everyone the old people nervous. Nothin' goes: 'Look at that Cadillac! I'm dangerous." goin' to get me one them some By his mid-teens he's day!' developed a taste (much like his "In England, they'd just throw new-found friend Adam Ant) for rocks at it." early Roxy Music, "because it was a really wild image yet still THE SUDDEN epidemic of Stray rock 'n' roll." Cat fever Brian attributes mostly Jim Phantom, then playing in a to the band's invincible drive and blues band called the Mad Vipers ambition. Like the Cochrans, the with Lee, was evidently much Vincents, the James Deans, in taken with Brian's baggy suits, fact, he's a diehard believer in bowling shirts and greased quiff. The Great American Dream. He He used to model himself on the gives the strong impression that young Setzer and turn up to all when he cashed in his lot for a his gigs before being enrolled plane trip to Blighty, he never (with Lee) into the Stray Cats trio. even entertained the possiblity of Brian claims it was a failure. Or if he did, he certainly long-standing love of England isn't letting on. His desire to that made him forsake everything eventually own that elusive including his beloved "corn beef 'SLIM' JIM PHANTOM Cadillac we know as success on rye and tuna fish with seems as permanent as his rash pumpernickel." of tattoos. doesn't miss the old country. "When I was about five," he guitar. So I had to play guitar too. "Whenever I miss it, I just think remembers, "I heard The Beatles I grew up in the Plastic Age, the of the kind of treatment I used to and I thought they all played the '60s, when everything _BRIANSET2ER cool came get on the streets for lookin' the from England. I dressed like The way I do. It's a pretty dangerous Beatles, and listened to the place to live. I got beaten up Stones," he admits with a there. But then," he reflects, "I passion that's confirmed later got beaten up here once tool" when Stones' bassman (and Nice I notice he doesn't have such a resident) Bill Wyman turns up at ludicrously high quiff these days. the gig to add his seal of There's mention of a recent approval. cartoon of a rockabilly with a The English seem more quiff so elaborate it needed the receptive to Stray Cats' Style than support of crutches. the New York Club circuit. "Oh yeah," he laughs. "Like a "Too right. In New York, when surrealistic Ted or something. they have 'Rockabilly Night', the Well . ours did get a bit audience dresses rockabilly. exaggerated, a bit out of hand for When they have 'Mod Night', awhile." they dress mod. And in the daytime, they dress like perfectly AS WE pay up and head off down normal people. In England," he the seafront for the show, he adds, "they are One Thing and proudly displays his latest tattoo, they really believe in it. And that's jt's his trusty guitar. He had it great! inked onto the inside of his arm "But the English are very around the time his girlfriend had finnicky though. They really know a saxophone etched onto her what's going on. Little kids came right shoulder-blade. up to me in Liverpool and said: "Every one has a meaning. 'Ah, now, Dave Edmunds is Behind this Tom Cat I'm gonna producing your album and he's get a '50s jukebox and a girl, a pretty good . How many points glass, a deck of cards. That's, does he get for production y'know, my life. The Tom Cat and credit?' . and . 'What do you The Tiger, that means . have to do for Top Of The Pops'? aggressive. And when I'm sixty You record on Wednesday and it years old," he deflates the whole goes on the air on Thursday, act, "I'll be looking at this faded right?' tattoo and saying (in an old "I mean /didn't know this until crone's voice): 'Weeeell, I usedto a few months ago when we be this ." Tiger, my boy I . actually d/dTOTP. But they know. And if you get fed up with They know everything, man." them? Being such a full-blooded "I'll have to cut my arms off," American, I'm surprised he he replies. NO-ONE BUT a fool would deny James Dean, star of the that the rock 'n' roll world was influential movie "Rebel Without one built largely on dreams. And A Cause". no-one but the most cast-iron "I don't mean by that that 'I'm optimist would expect many of tough and I'm trying to be cool'. I them to come true. mean we really all do live like Thus I'm sure that If you'd quit that. I think most people do. Well, the homestead at the tender age most people in the music of 19, with the parental promise business havelo live like that." that "you'd soon be back with Does he think it matters that your tail between your legs", to there's a whole new generation carve some kind of musical of rockabilly fans who don't even foothold in England, you'd be know who Eddie Cochran is? No, surprised, nay, flabbergasted, to he says, because The Stray Cats have notched up three Top Ten are like "the new Eddie singles, a gold album in three Cochrans". Anyway, discovering countries and 1 8 months of world Elvis Presley made him want to touring. And all in the space of track down all the nine months. original versions of his records. To Long Island's own Stray announcement that they've sold best to project the look they've Discovering The Stray Cats, he Cats this has become hard, out Nice's beachside 2,000-seater strived so long and hard to hopes, should persuade people glorious fact.