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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
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"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. Perspectives have tent as fast as most other venues perfect. to investigate the same seam. changed somewhat dramatically. around Europe and Scandinavia This sullen, almost petulant Does he feel that such an The last time I encountered the bar Germany. ("No sense of pose is achieved with the help of essentially American music form band was in Bristol in November, humour, the Germans," is Brian a wide range of tattoos, studded loses any meaning to foreign playing to a handful of locals in a Setzer's reasoning). shirts, quiffs, drainpipe jeans and ears? smoke-filled loft. This time I'm I nip into a record shop to scuffed leather boots. (The "I don't think being American airborne, en route for Nice, enquire why they're never off the buckles are unfastened and jingle stops it from being European as gazing out of the plane window at air and receive a very simple as they lope along.) Not for well. It's just . . . rock 'n' roll. It's the snow-capped French Alps explanation: both records are nothing have they become the about struggling kids. It's about below and congratulating myself Number One in the radio charts; face and soundtrack of teenagers going through a lot of for still having failed to find a there is, in fact, no Number Two. rockabilly's second wind. problems and that happens "proper job" yet. Being in the constant glare of everywhere in the world. As a
the media, there's inevitably WHEN I manage to separate matter of fact," he reflects, "I THE STRAY Cats' current status been a few changes of character Brian briefly from his entourage heard a damn good Swedish in France could only be news to as well. When I catch up with the and head him towards a rockabilly band. Nothing original, the deaf. Ten minutes out of the band in their hotel lobby, they're restaurant and an inch-thick mind, but what they did they did airport and I've already heard being pursued by a posse of pizza, I get an avalanche of very well. both "Runaway Boys" and "Rock pressmen. The unchecked glowing reports. "I think a lot of the attraction is This Town" blaring from a cafe exuberance of old has been Finland, he claims, hadn't seen that it's a lot of fun to get all radio, followed by the breathless replaced by a more professional anything like it since the advent dressed up and wear your hair
like . . •EE ROCKER sense of routine. Presented with of The Beatles. Teenage girls this, but also . how can a camera, they know exactly how lined the airport (though not anyone resist a good rock 'n' roll
actually hurling jellybabies). The band? Much as I like Madness band had to be ferried and stuff like that, ska's not in me. everywhere in cars for fear of I can't dance to it, or to reggae danger to life and limb. The hotel and stuff. A good rock 'n' roll was literally besieged all night by band? Ya just can't lose I" chanting fans. What about all these so-called At one point Brian was dragged 'purist' rockabilly groups who out of the protective grasp of his reckon The Stray Cats are too Mohican-headed permanent commercial, that they dilute the 'minder' only to be retrieved with original rockabilly blueprint? most of his clothes missing and, "I think 'purist' rockabilly is
need I add, loving every minute cool, but they should listen to of it. Bassist Lee and drummer other sorts oif music as well. How Jim, I'm told, weren't about to could you just listen to pure suffer the same fate. Not of the rockabilly?" he wonders, a note same mould, really, are they? of indignation creeping into his "We're as different as Night East Coast drawl. and Day," confirms Setzer in a "How could you not be moved
tone that betrays his two-year by an old R&B song? I like old
lead. (He is, in fact, nearly 22 as R&B. I like old blues, rock 'n' roll opposed to the 19 his previous and rockabilly. And, oh my Gawd, agent had ill-advisedly there's some rockabilly in announced to pressmen hungry Englandl 'Farmyard Rock' by for chinks in The Stray Cats' Rooti-Tooti Grazell on the Pigsty armour. Lee and Jim really are Label," he offers. "That 'farm 19) "Those guys are very private. music' is everywhere! They don't like none of that. "I like 'roots', though. How
They're living . . . very fast, could you not like old blues when V'know? that's just what the old rockabilly
"Me? I loveatt thati I like being guys copied from?" recognised in the street, and all
the other typical things about I ASK him if he's felt there's been being a 'star'. Like, y'know, when a change of attitude towards you sing a ballad number at a successful pop stars over the last concert and all the girls start few years. There was a time screaming. Do you know what when, if a band suddenly hit the
that does to your ego? It's like . . . top, the fans would happily Heaven!" applaud their ascent. Now you
I hardly need add that Brian sometimes get a feeling of subscribes to what he calls the resentment from those who were "Live Fast Die Young Thing" behind you at the start; a originated by first wave suggestion that you'd 'deserted' rockabilly stars like Eddie them.
Cochran, Gene Vincent and Continued over . .
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RockabiUyGuy Well I'm goin' down the road lookin' mighty cool
I may act funny but I ain't no fool
Chotus Rock-a, rock-a, rock-a, rock-a rockabilly guy Rock-a, rock-a, rock-a, rock-a rockabilly guy • Rockabilly guy, I ain't never gonna change my style •• Well I go to the Royalty and rock around When I start boppin' I'm heaven bound ••• ••••• •! ••••a an Repeat chorus ^^'^""'^^^i^^^^^^J^^^^^^^^^^gg^ Repeat chorus Well I'm gonna rockabilly 'til the day I die 'Cos I'm a rock-a, rock-a, rock-a rockabilly guy Repeat chorus Well I'm goin' down the road lookin' mighty cool I may act funny but I ain't no fool Repeat chorus I'm gonna rockabilly 'til the day I die 'Cos I'm a rock-a, rock-a, rock-a rockabilly guy Repeat chorus to fade Words and music by P. Bloomberg POLECATS Reproduced by permission Nervous Music TOE Records on Mercury j Don't Let It Pass You By r-—~— ~' i By U.B.40 on DEP International Records ---—---=J There's no one coming with that freedom train There's nowhere you can go where you feel no pain Take the blinkers off your eyes The power's in your hand 1 Stop waiting for your ticket to the promised land 1 Don't let it pass you by I |H^\ Don't let it pass you by 1 Don't let it pass you by f There ain't no heaven and there ain't no hell 1 ^^^ (Don't let it pass you by) 1 Except the one we're in and you know too well 1 (Don't let it pass you by) | yj^^P j There's no one waiting on, waiting on a higher high 1 i fl| let m Don't the only world 11 You're ever gonna live in, pass you by Ul ^H^^^HH^^^IP ^d m'**'/«J Don't let it pass you by |_ " Don't let it pass you by 1 Don't let it pass you by 1 There ain't no heaven and there ain't no hell 1 (Don't lei it pass you by) 1 K^— ..Jm Except the one we're in and you know too well 1 (Don't let it pass you by) I There's no one waiting on, waiting on a higher high J Don't let the only world 1 You're ever gonna live in pass you by | i / m^i Don't let it pass you by 1 it Don't let pass you by j J Don't let it pass you by i J Repeat to fade M VI Words arid music by UB40 01 "~"~— —---~.,-._Jx, Reproduced by permission Copyright Control f 9A J J .-^ i.abelEMl l::i2^.>ANPRFwr>ENNmc.Bms.ot tr* * V ,egan,glbnM^ The dHferwice between those who have You know there're those who make it And there's those who never may And it's fascinating cause it's really very clear You've either got it honey, or you aint Welt you'll go and you tell me all your ambitions But then you'll say Rome weren't built in a day Weil Thomas The Imposter, he lived a lie But it mattered not 'cause that was his way ^*Itl.'b\»-1.'i«'jl>JI.'V MHlMt'1.4 Jt-M Just like ghosts of princes in towers Such soft ones, and how Such soft ones, and how They're ghosts of princes in towers * They're ghosts of princes in towers They're the sharp ones, they're now They're the sharp ones, they're now And it's, one . . . remember number one So these ghosts, these princes in towers Two . . . and it's true that It seems to me they've got it made Three . . . it's free and easy now 'Cause they sulk and they strut for no reason Be-four too long we come back to this Weil maybe they ain't afraid We're just singing about ghosts of princes in towers Such soft ones, and how They're ghosts of princes in towers They're the sharp ones, they're now They're the sharp ones, they're now ^.i^xir(is';apcl by<7i!raJlock/New , rnupc Rei^&cfucecl by^perrn'tssion Warmir'%rds.M '' THE NEW ALBUM FROM RON MAEL RUSSELL MAEL INCLUDES THE SINGLE TIPS FOR TEENS 10A SHAKE, RAHL^ AND SCROLL THE NEW album from Van Halen, "Fair Warning", comes complete with a little certificate that declares the holder to be "a true rock & roller and a member in good standing of the 1981 Van Halen Fan Club". Kinda gets you here, don't it? THERE'S NO rest for the unemployed. Steve Garvey, since he departed the Buzzcocks fold, has pieced together a new band I< for the purpose of playing, Is recording and avoiding obscurity. Now known to the world as Motivation, they comprise the legendary Garvey (on bass) and taught sharing "boiled three unknowns — Dave Price SHOULDN'T BE allowed, should it? Not in public, anyway. The amorous couple songs), Dave Daniel Merle "The IVIouth" Woodgate (Woody (vocals, keyboards, sweet in this mystical, magic moment are none other than (guitar) and a Rowbotham to all the world) and his ever-loving wife, Jane Mo-Dette. drummer whose best friends call And wiiatever the film was, we can be quite sure they missed most of it. him Snuff. lucky recipient A BIG hand please for June Shepherd of Hull, North Humberside. She's the Issue April 2. of a TV Video Game nnachine after winning the PiL Comp in "Flowers Of A smaller hand for the 25 runners-up, all of whom get a copy of PiL's Collen. Romance" LP: M Cartlich. Ealii g; Laurence Windle, Gillingham; James Robert Huntingdon; T. Park, Darlington; Gary Bower, Barnsley; Frank Quinn, Poole; Wootton; Mary Badtiams. Cropthorne; Wendy Lawford. Borrowash; Sean Perry, Steele, Oldham; West Bridgford- A. Price, Tipton; Phil Hale, East Grinstead; Wayne Cheatham, Stowmarket; Q. Miriam Shepherd. Wigan; David Middlemiss. Barrow-in-Furness; J. Page, Scoble, Randall, Ot. Yarmouth; Kenny Watkins, Gillingham; D. Walshe. Harlow, Paul Dartmouth; Michael Harlow; Jacky Barley, Harrogate; L. Baker, Haverhill; Chris Ash, Lowry, Nth. Lancing; Owen Wilkins, Cold Norton. Searchers. FIRST LIVE SHOW A' Small Faces (can't remember where). PREVIOUS JOBS: Docker. PREVIOUS BANDS: None. MARITAL STATUS: Yes. NAME OF WIFE: Cindy. PRESENT HOME: Greenwich. LOWEST POINT OF CAREER: None as yet. PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: Recording last album ("East Side Story"). FAVOURITE FANTASY: Live on The Isle Of Wight and record with Sheena Easton. HERO/HEROINE: Tony Hancock. DESERT ISLAND DISC: "Around Midnight" — Julie London. FAVOURITE BOOK: "Harpo Speaks" — Harpo Marx. FAVOURITE FILM: "Fantasia" (Walt Disney). STUDY THE above snap. Hardly "action-packed" is it? Looks more like FULL NAME: Christopher Difford. FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMME: is treading on BIRTH: the winners of a Vertical Sleeping Contest, one of whom DATE AND PLACE OF ^'Coronation Street". /54. the Umpire's toe. Greenwich, 4/11 FAVOURITE ITEM OF CLOTHING: quite eventful, it EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Cravat. By all accounts, the real occasion was actually being three furious bouts between Ron and Russell Mael (Sparks to the ATTENDED: Greenwich FAVOURITE BREAKFAST FOOD: well-informed) to assist the sales of their new and purposefully titled Secondary Modern. Lager and Lime. EDUCATION: LP, "Whomp That Sucker". HIGH SPOT OF PET HATE: Toenails. Cheerleaders at the Hilton Hotel ringside included Clem Burke and Leaving. TRUE CONFESSION: Cheated at Nigel Harrison of Blondie, Department S, Yellow Magic Orchestra, FIRST CRUSH: Linda Simmons, Art 'O' Level. I Steve Strange, Rusty Egan and various Belle Stars. James Wharf School. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER the A whale of a time was had by all bar Ron (he's the one with FIRST RECORD BOUGHT: MADE: Cheating at Art 'O' Level. broken rib. Oh football moustache — 1 1 a side), who ended up with a "Needles And Pins" — The COLOUR OF SOCKS: White. well ... at least the other ones were alright. 13i1 ''/mfi vyftwi SPECIAL SEASIDE BREW THE SPECIALS new single is scheduled for release on 2-Tone ROCK on June 5. It comprises the JAM FANS, your prayers are excellent "Ghost Town", "Why" answered. The boys are and "Friday Night, Saturday undertaking an eleven date jaunt Morning", all considered to be around the island, paying "crowd-pleasers" at their London particular attention to a number Benefit on May 1 St. of seaside towns. The dates are fixed for the month of June and go like this; Skegness Festival Pavilion (20), Leicester Granby Hall (22), Portsmouth Guildhall (23), St clones. Austell Cornwall Coliseum (25), IkRAFTWERKSend in the Stafford Bingley Hall (27), Irvine Now you try it. Magnum Leisure Centre, You'll win THE PIONEERS of electronic monitors. Ayrshire (30), Bridlington Spa rock, the German quartet Rumour also has it that this Royal Hall (July 2nd), Carlisle Kraftwerk, released their first scheme is only Plan B; Plan A Market Hall (4), Preston Guildhall album in three years this month. was to have involved linking up the band's Kling (5) and Guildford Civic Hall (7 & SOCCER TERRACE heroes Slade "Computer-World", as the title own Klang 8). suggests, is a series of studio (situated in the middle of join the bill at the Castle Tickets priced at in observations on the effects a Dusseldorf refinery complex!) are £4 the Donington Festival set for August that main are "slightly higher" at micro-chippery is having with a series of satellites around but 22. They'll be in the company of on life. the world so that, with the aid some venues. Contact local halls AC/DC, Blackfoot and Blue modern Titles like of for "Homecomputer", holograms — three-dimensional details. Oyster Cult, with others yet to be "Computer confirmed. Love" and the single transmissions — they could "Pocketcalculator" "perform" simultaneously Postal applications to Wooltare — which is in actually played on Texas and several major cities. Ltd., PO Box 123, Walsall, W55 Casio calculators with As it is, they've settled for 4QQ, including SAE and a cheque "a musical note facility" — indicate drift merely transporting their or postal order made payable to the of their re-designed studio — the whole Wooltare Ltd. for £8.50 (per songs. Kraftwerk's long silence thing — over to the gigs. Part of ticket). Allow 21 days for delivery. on record has been matched by an the new equipment — huge even lengthier absence from the video screens ordered from Sony ALL ENTHUSIASTS in matters stage. Their British shows — in Japan — haven't come up to Mod can now get a second now re-scheduled for late scratch. Problems like that, and a June/early are their first vague rumbling about chance to rummage through its July — '60s roots. Edsel Records are since 76, when they brought "computer malfunctions", have releasing an album by The Action over a spectacular hi-tech set. Far delayed the live dates. — a lesser-known Mod/Soul from flaunting the masses of Kraftwerk first trod this outfit — strongly endorsed by equipment which go into the technological trail back in the Paul Weller in his sleeve notes as making of such sophisticated early '70s, consisting then of a being a vital influence on his electronic music, they used the duo of founder members Ralf writing style. Called "The bare minimum of synthesisers Nutter and Florian Schneider. and electronic percussion — to The line-up changed, expanded Ultimate! Action", most of it was recorded in the late '60s and then great effect. and they scored international best-sellers inexplicably sat around in the From the little that the band with "Autobahn" vaults of Abbey Road Studios for have revealed, their new act and "Trans-Europe Express", over a decade collecting dust. promises to be much more breaking the massive American disco into Dig a little deeper in both time alarming. Their new record label, market the bargain. PRINCE, ONE of the most outragaou* and pocket and you'll encounter EMI, have released photographs Since their last album, "Man ' I and highly acclaimad funk star* to the Polydor re-issue "Phases", a of chlllingly-lifelike Kraftwerk Machine" in '78, they've inspired hava amargad from Amarka in raeant androids which the band have several synthesiser and years, makes his first British visit in nine-album set (including two I been building electro-dance bands from The June when he plays London's Lycaum double albums) of the entire Who over the past few months. It's these Human League through to > on the 2nd of the month. back catalogue. This entails "My automata, and 21 year old Prince, who plays 26 Generation", "A Quick One", not the band, who are supposed Visage, although no-one has instruments (not all at onca), has been to be performing on stage, while really succeeded in giving totally ; "Who Sell Out", "Tommy", "Live to , known take the stage wearing At Leeds", "Who's Next", the "musicians" — so the synthetic music the wit and l>iaek bikini briefs, high heel boots and "Quadrophenia", "Who By rumours go — will be watching dance "feel" that Kraftwerk black thigh-high stockings (all at from the comfort of the made seem so, er, natural(7). onca). Numbers" and "Who Are You" Taylor. and is all yours for a mere £24. dressing-room via video Steve 12A ^f^^^ BETTE DAVIS EYES By Kim Carnes on EMI Records Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips a sweet surprise Her hands are never cold She's got Bette Davis eyes She turn the music on you You won't have to think twice She's pure as New York snow She got Bette Davis eyes And she'll tease you She'll unease you All the better just to please you She's precocious And she knows just what it Takes to make a pro blush She got Greta Garbo's tender sighs She's got Bette Davis eyes She'll let you take her home It whets her appetite She'll lay you on the throne She got Bette Davis eyes She'll take a tumble on you Roll you like you were dice Until you come up blue She's got Bette Davis eyes She'll expose you When she snows you Off your feet with the crumbs She throws you She's ferocious And she know just what it Takes to make a pro blush All the boys think she's a spy She's got Bette Davis eyes And she'll tease you She'll unease you All the better just to please ya She's precocious And she know just what it Takes to make a pro blush All the boys think she's a spy She's got Bette Davis eyes She'll tease you She'll unease you Just to please you She's got Bette Davis eyes She'll expose you When she snows you She knows ya She's got Bette Davis eyes Words and music by D. 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JARNO I 9 Mill Lane, Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire. LET HIM HAVE IT 16A Chorus BEING WITH YOU I don't care what they think about me and I don't care what they say By Smokey Robinson on Motown Records I don't care what they think if you're leaving I'm gonna beg you to stay I don't care if they start to avoid me I don't care what they do I don't care about anything else but ' Being with you, being with you ., Honey don't go > Don't leave the scene Be out of the picture And off of the screen Don't let them say We told you so They tell me you'll love me ') And then let me go I've heard the warning voice From friends and my relations They tell mc all about your heartbreak reputation Repeal chorux People can change They always do Haven't they noticed The changes in you •iat**^ Thai like love I am blind Till it's all in my mind One thing I know for sure It's really, really real Repeal chorus lofade Words ami music tiy Wiliiam "Smokey" Robinson Reproduced by permission Jobele Music Lid. 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Send cheques, postal orders or cash to +H,pp&p 1*- Money back guarantee ik 9151 TWO MILE HIU ROAD, (Offer applies to MAIM I IMF fHt UK» Ireland oalyl niHin Line \ni kingswood, Bristol bskibs c.iier. welcome rn. g. sat. ISA •••- Album number two is "En Trance" by Atmosphear (MCA), a North London outfit who started Their life rehearsing in a garage. sound these days is so smooth and polished it's hard to believe that their origins were ever so humble. Their combination of jazz, funk and spacy electronics sounds like a good idea but unfortunately they're lacking in ,the melody department. By now you're bound to be familiar with Star Sound and their "Stars On 45" single. Well here comes an album, consisting of sixty one crummy cover versions all segued together with bass drums and handclaps in order to give it that supposedly "funky" feel. By the end of the album the party atmosphere is beginning to fray at the edges. BY WAY of a change, we'll give Worth buying only for the the singles a miss this time and pleasure to be had by breaking it. concentrate on the albums but certainly not least is scene. Last Rick James with "Street Songs" First up is "Ready For Teddy If this man walked by Edward Pendergrass Esq. (Motown). street dressed the way (Philadelphia International). This down my cover — in knee album's release follows his he is on the length red boots and spandex highly successful concerts in he'd never live to London, where a near riot trousers — another album. Which occurred when Teddy and make be a shame considering Stephanie Mills were joined on would good this LP is. Eight great stage by Stevie Wonder for a how numbers that show that he's rendering of "Take IVIe In Your Motown's main man, Arms Tonight". currently and I'm notforgetting Stevie and The first side "Ready For Superb, modernised Teddy" has plenty of the kind of Jermaine. which is a treat for dance music that made his name; funk young and old. smoochy ballads with rich and fiends raunchy vocals. But side two, Funx-a-lot, being a bit more up-tempo, is a Bev. better bet to my mind. How 'Bout Us By Champaign on CBS Records Ooh short and sweet No sense m dragging on past our needs Let's dont keep it hanging on If the fire's out we should both be gone Chorus Some people are made for each other Some people can love one another tor life How 'bout us Some people can hold it together Man, through all kind of weather Ooh can't we baby) Now don't you get me wrong (what you saying to me start somethmg new) 'Cause I'm not trying now to give it all (let's see) It's just that I can see (what can you (we won't lose it) Too many lovers' hearts lose their dream Repeat chorus How 'bout us, how 'bout us baby How 'bout is, how 'bout us baby How "bout us, how 'bout us baby Are we gonna make it girl together Or are we gonna drift and drift and drift Repeal chorus and ad lib to fade Words and musk by D. Watden Reproduced by permission ^fd^^^^^^""^'"'- ^S^^'P"* BJckJanie*'^ 19A , R O N N O C O L Z A H C B A F T F B E S E L A G N T H G I N C A Y I L X A F S D D T T I R P S E C A R U P L R O D R E E T E R E S T C O E N A M E U I A H G E P U H I E I teaser O O S A L M S K E D D A E T O D T R I S B V E A A R X H A O H N K A S S O U T D Y C I U T Y G E A U R The names listed are hidden in the diagram. They run horizontally, T I C K J P KWC A R A 4 D D P L N vertically or diagonally — many of them are printed backwards. But N V I D A O E C B E H B O H A A C I remember that the names are always in an uninterrupted straight A I A R R N C O C T 4 Y I Z L F A line, letters in the right order, whichever way they run. Some I D T C E E F I L B Z R H o D S T letters will need to be used more than once — others you won't need G Y E D M C O I U C S A C E E S R to use at all. Put a line through the names as you find them. E O S O R A S I R J z K A N S u E Solution on page 20B. L J D A T X s E S A E D I D F D C A CERTAIN RATIO EYELESS IN GAZA SCIENTIST ANTI PASTI FACTION TEA SET B L I E E A D C G O O G I A O U A ASSOCIATES FAD GADGET THEATRE OF HATE AU PAIRS FALL TOYAH R U S T R 4 C N I R N H N M A L D AZTEC CAMERA FIRE ENGINES UB40 BAUHAUS HAZEL O'CONNOR UK DECAY A D C C S M I M A E C G E A S D E BIRTHDAY PARTY HYBRID KIDS WALL BLUE ORCHIDS JOY DIVISION YOUNG MARBLE M U H Y B A E L E R N H I S R P T BLURT LUOUS GIANTS CLOCK DVA MENACE G F A L L S R O N C T E R R O I CRASS MODERN ENGLISH DEAD OR ALIVE NEW ORDER N Z R L E H E E H A L I G L I O DEPECHE MODE NIGHTINGALES DISCHARGE ORANGE JUICE U A G L T E T P U E C E S I S L DOME PERE UBU .EXPLOITED POISON GIRLS O A E A E X E N Y B I E R T N P Y Y I W H B B E A I U O H I G X E H S I L G N R E D o M P T F E THE PHENOMENAL RISE OF RICHARD STRANGE I9v , ! .- The >ear 15 . ( 1 n choos-tCTn asunder and dvided Left is fighting Right, Block against White. Rich against Poor Fat men sit aound and scratch their t>loated heods and stomochs n a futile ottenpt at solving unreconcitabte problems L>itil timid voice m the corner ppes up 'CdJ for Richard Strange" Now reod on A POLITICAL FANTASY if THE RECORD IS OUT NOW 20A : BEAT ^^^^^r TREATMENT ^fM LAST WEEK, envoys from Go-Feet Records and the world's most charitable music magazine met behind closed doors. After much feverish negotiation, the outcome of this historic summit meeting can now be unveiled. We'll be brief. Free Beat Albums! You heard right! Fifty of them at that. And all you have to ^m, do to earn yourself one of these desirable items is to prove your wit and wisdom on the five super-taxing brain-bogglers below. The first 50 correct answers to touch down at the following address (Smash Hits Beat Competition, 14 Holkham Road, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 OUF) before June 14th will be one copy of ^^HH i^MA K _ wffil^iffiSIt "Wha'ppen" the richer. O.K., eyes down and no conferring . . . 1 . One of the following bands is not signed to The Beat's Go-Feet label. Which one? a) The Congos; b) The Mood Elevators; c) The Teardrop Explodes. 2. Ranking Roger's real name is single, "The Tears Of A Clown"? band were named after an Iggy 5. The Beat's first LP was called a) Roger Moore; b) Roger Smith; a) Jerry Dammers; b) Ouincy Pop number. Was it: a) Raw a) "Catch This Beat "; b) "Just c) Roger Charlery; d) Roger The Jones; c) Stevie Wonder; d) Power; b) The Mongrel Dogs; c) Can't Stop it"; c) "The Beat's Dodger. Smokey Robinson. The Dum Dum Boys; d) Custard Greatest Hits"; d) "Can't Stop 3 Who wrote The Beat's debut 4. Ranking Roger's original punk At Tea Time. The Beat". FIRST SINGLE ^ OUT NONA/ BUY117 STIFF HIAW 21A BIM NEW SINGLE ROMANCE OUT NOW SKID 002 LJk^ SWBM RKORDS Distributed by UJBa Records Ltd, O A Warner Communications Co. % A MICHAEL»«iTONY KLINGER PRODUCTION Biniiiii^Hijgil *••*•*** Mucing EDDIE KIDD with IRENE HANDL, MURRAY SAlfM, artistes . by the following MARELLA OPPENHEIM, BILL MITCHELL, CHIC 4t PftWER-K ^EMERSON LAKE 8. ZOOT MONEY GIMMIX JOEJftCKSON Produced by MICHAEL and TONY KLINGER EDDIE KIDD JERRY LEE LEWIS . LENELOVICH Directed by ROSS CRAMER MADNESS NRG Screenplay by ROSS CRAMER GARY NUMAN POLICE THE PRETENDERS Original Story Created by DEREK roRD RE-FLEX CLIFF RICHARD Distribution by THE SHADOWS ^ ENTERPIUSt PIOURES UMITHX SKY -T- SQUEEZE M —. TUNES X X^'-^^ Z ZOOT MONEY ^ Hear Eddie Kidd sing 'Heavy Metal'on EMI Records Original Soundtrack Album also available on Records and tapes ALL OVER LONDON from MAY 31st ^rpR>Nc,PALOOEOHfM%'^^'N? theatres FROM MAY 28. ODEONS WESTBOURNE GROVE & SOUTHEND. ALSO FROM MAY 31. ODEOIMS BRADFORD • LEEDS • YORK & GAUMONT DONCASTER. 22A singles By Steve Bush TONI BASIL: Mickey 2-track flexi disc and a full colour best lyrics, only bettered by the as daunting or unapproachable (Radialchoice). Mr Chinn and Mr gatefold sleeve. And all to B-side's wonderful Latin as their name and song titles Chapman, who wrote about disguise a heap of completely American camp. suggest. A tight and lively reggae-influenced 6,000,000 hits for bands like Mud naff material. I mean, fancy doing bopperthat and Suzi Quatro in the early '70s, the "Bonanza" theme — that scores 9 out of 1 on the foot have hand-crafted this cheeky really is flogging a dead Hoss. tapometer. little tune for a lady who has "established a senous reputation SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES; HOT CHOCOLATE; You'll Never in the U.S. as a choreographer Spell-bound (Polydor). Their Be So Wrong (Rak). Marty and with David Bowie" (it sez ere). songs can be attractive and Ricky Wilde (Kim's father and Actually, it's almost a complete melodic, but they still lack the brother respectively, and rip-off of "My Sharona" with a bit commercial edge that produces co-writers of "Chequered Love") of "The Clapping Song" chucked hits. I wonder how long they'll find themselves with Hot in for good measure. keep on trying? j Chocolate on their hands. If I was them I'd wipe it off quick. ""lORGE HARRISON: All Those lars Ago (Dark Horse). Ex-Beatle George's musically nostalgic and obviously sentimental tribute to John Lennon. It was a long time ago. THE RHYTHM SLAVES; Electricity (CBS). "Electricity . , THE BUREAU: Let Him Have It you turn me on" sing those (WEA). The lads, and especially wacky Rhythm Slaves Archie Brown's throaty vocals (so accompanied by their synthetic much better than Kevin synths. Reviewing this kind of Rowland's strangled whining), dross calls for a refresher course prove that a band can be gritty, inAntmusic. tuneful and fun. SPLIT ENZ: History Never me.mw Repeats (A&M). I don't care if it is a laser etched disc, this .N; I (Virgin). From schmultzy Beatles/Squeeze Want More band that's been around for crossover still oozes out of the about 50 years comes a speakers and crawls across the refreshing 'instrumental' (but carpet. with chorusing background They've got a silly name too. vocals). Tinges of the Oriental organ DOLL BY DOLL; Main Roads and some great hammy PIGBAG: Papa's Got A Brand bits, just like the ones in all those Pigbag (Y Records). Travelled (Magnet). Sounds just New A awful quiz shows, but it does go like "The Twelfth Of Never". ^ wonderfully named Bristol band on long. (This issue's award Bring back Donny Osmond. too creating instrumental theme for the best sleeve.) music for a wildlife safari with EXPRESSOS: Kiss You all Over thumping tribal drums and et 5 Jump (WEA). Another band teetering frantic horns. You can almost see 'dor). More on the brink of fame and fortune, herds of tapirs . . . I but with a bland, girlie-appeal a Brenda Lee oldie) in the half song that won't help things tradition of Darts but minus the much. style and imagination. They ought to do a cover version of COATI MUNDI; Me No Pop I (Ze "Let's Jump Into A Bucket Of Records). A rapping, disco-funk Ferrets". stomp (whatever that means) from Coati Mundi — not a small THE JAM; Funeral Pyre (Polydor). and furry marsupial but a loony Dicing with death department: member of Kid Creole And The after a fairly long absence from Coconuts. Some of this yeai the singles chart (excepting "That's Entertainment" which A they didn't want releasing anyway), I thought The Jam would come up with something a arisma). I remember bit more adventurous than this, this track from their debut SPLODGENESSAB ^'^^ ' even thought their sharpness and appearance on The Old Grey (Deram) Gimmicks a-go-go: a __power are still there. Great Whistle Test some weeks back. A " 4-track double 'A' sided single — lis, and a hit of course. pleasant mix of reggae influences including a dire cover version of (via The Police) and Undertones' the already nauseating "Have ,HER-Z: 'Cutter's Lullaby poppyness. A band with a great You Got A Light Boy"; a free (Liberty). This band's not nearly name — and a future. Landscape """^mi^mw^mmmmmmm. Special Double 'A' sidft' Edition I5HITLYRICS including Roclfabilly Guy j Being With You ^ Bette Davis Eyt BEATand UNDERTONES albums to tie won STRAVCATS KIM WILDE A ) fijES*^ Vol 3 No. 11 THE JAM FUNERAL PYRE gJ^g^Fllgl^ on Polydor Records Down in amongst the streets lonighl Books will burn, people laugh and cry In their turmoil H THERE! Glad (turmoil turns rejoiceful) I you decided to join us over on this side of the mag, the superior side in every respect. They can call themselves the 'A' side, Shed your fears and lose your guilt they can boast all they like their about Stray Cats feature, their Beat Tonight we burn responsibility in the fire competition, their Disco page, their colour snap of The Rich Kids. How Watch the flames grow higher can all that possibly compare with three pages of Kim Wilde? Our But if you get too burnt Undertones competition (albums and T shirts up for grabs) puts theirs You can't come back home in the shade. Our lyrics are better, our Independent Bitz is a pearl, Ah, and as I was standing by the edge even our reviews are more informative and funnier. And who's got the I could see the faces of those who lead Letters then? Answer me thati Pissing theirselves laughing (and the flames grew higher) Their mad eyes bulged their flushed faces said THIS SIDE: The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger We feast flesh drink FUNERAL PYRE on and on blood The Jam 2B Live on fear and despise love HOUSES IN MOTION Talking Heads 8B In a crisis (what with today's high prices) THE ART OF PARTIES Japan 9B Bring some paper and bring some wood BAD REPUTATION Thin Lizzy 9B Bring what's left of all your love THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY) For the fire (watch the flames grow higher) But if you get too burnt Bob Marley You can't come back home 11B , ANGEL OF THE MORNING Juice Newton 14B | Ah, and as I was standing by the edge KIM WILDE: Feature 4B/5B/6B * I could see the faces of those who lead Pissing theirselves laughing (and the flames grew higher BITZ(B) 12B/13B UNDERTONES COMPETITION 15B Their mad eyes bulged their flushed faces said The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger LETTERS 16B/17B INDEPENDENT BITZ 19B In the funeral pyre Watch the GI6Z flames grow higher 20B/21B But if you get too burnt ALBUM REVIEWS 23B You can't come back home Repeat last verse 4 limes LANDSCAPE: Colour Poster The Middle When I feel so old, when I feel so young I just can't grow up to meet the demands Repeat to fade THAT SIDE md Words and music by Paul Weller/Thr Jam " Reproduced permission STAND AND DELIVER Adam And The Ants by Chappell Music Ltd NORMAN BATES Landscape 8A DON'T LET IT PASS YOU BY UB 40 9A ROCKABILLY GUY Polecats 9A GHOSTS OF PRINCES IN TOWERS Rich Kids 11A IS THAT LOVE Squeeze 14A BEHE DAVIS EYES Kim Carnes 14A BEING WITH YOU Smokey Robinson 17A HOW 'BOUT US Champaign 19A STRAY CATS: Feature 4A/5A/6A BITZ (A) 12A/13A CARTOON 17A DISCO 19A STAR TEASER 20A THE BEAT COMPETITION 21 SINGLES REVIEWS 23A Tile charts appearing in Smash Hits are connpiled by Record Business Research from information supplied by panels of specialist shops. This magazine is published by EMAP Natiofial Publications Ltd, Peterborough, and is printed by East Midland Litho Printers, Peterborough. Copyright exists on all songs appearing in Smash Hits. Thev must not be reproduced ithout the consent of the copyright holders. 2B FRONT COVER PIC: AUAN BALLARD/SCOPE FEATURES PoMi i/\)(il^ei^ French film ^^^^^""^^mecooking.punk rocR, ""> MsMc MmKim Wilde"" on y ^. a, fishkeeping. Frankhn picks Mr Stuart i„aependentwindependeglyofher^^of ^ existing Wilde shot to WHEN MARTY ^""'^^SSesTansacked from ^"''"SJ'the^^uestions singers =SEro?-ests '"'hLdS ever asked PO? height. th«'r ::e\e aboutTheir ?ivour.telc.ndofg.rlandthe asking Ws more than lust Snned'on to her being '^rn^dn't colour of the daught"e?.KirWilde the another menjber all-dancing wi. all-singing, xS-.nthe '"^-^^1^irwas°re'I^'"^ wa* « anyway. ^hair usually ""^hSgoldmineoffamilytalent Jn^Ve ignored though^Ma.|ty 'R^e^'^o^ds'starmakerw^o colour brotherBicKy Xeandy'elled. "What young ^^^ rratSr/ndJoduoerof of a r »nr Kim V s ons blue." t oo inm, "I just couldn illusions about KIM HAS very few old days '""^^led^'eopiinthe pUno is with the ''Tdontthink anybody redCg^tSS" but^^^^ rnd'sUVir ^.earts out^ mindless ana rurTth^^^ginV-S^ to be SDO t, but how more spontaneous often do vou |«« P«|";%7ucky let ro^geVHrnireTu-f them, rarr.%vTnotherGreen Eno a lot. World' by Brian aways of sense will grain *-*^'^«7oo"epeople wvtry^Snd*"™ ^ admire." business ^.^h, «"ti:cJrac£a»orfa ^°'".^*'''"„CleyTEvVntually Uke *° P'?.f°r,HseTm nothing n Y"" realise • Sometimes ^ou. I they'll ^ink I have a l«' '" ^ -rne^edrdr-* something good as my retletar^^tW--"^-'* SaoVirpeluhaveno to b« «* ''" |?rrw^e'wasjways^^^^ want 'f'.'Vhe e"**- favourite a^f has got proved Jth it it ntd'aCuthfmHe's quite P'^a^^^Crier of fear and I realise.twas^ard rrioret? '% he meant movement..- ^ny t 1976- taken as the norm since From previous page in the f?rt that Hve on The difference lies years to go the intuition to in seventeen Ricky Wilde has Pops. She opened the edges Top Of The apply polish to the sharp experimental'live offerings, recent in Kim's energetic live to baclcmg hign edition, singing without losing them in the modern pop. trscks gloss finish of most needed a Icick up "That show it ain't. it out Punk Putting i the arse, didn't it? "Punk kind of passed me by. Hvemadearealdifference^Best then, and had a steady boyfriend happened to it in than any thing that he meant more to me prefer the European relationship years. I movement. A steady they seem better shows, where that can shield YO" «'om can do little like and you I understood organised reality sometimes. routines. bits of comedy happening, but I play live why it was I used to rebel. I m "Mum and feel the need to did the didn't Dad. We I have found gigs with not aggressive, and backing vocals, sh-^-^^P and a bit ., it a bit frightening shoo-waddies, until Mum fell had a lot of pregnant again. We shock waves, she claims, stage ''^Punk I got some her ali-girl fun and never really reached Dad learned a lot around wrth experience. school. Kim hung mistakes he made, and who had the from the make three sixth-formers sure I don t he wants to be scatty juvenile lot just "same ones. I learn a interests the same mentality", and whose how he deals with Dance set watching in Art, Drama and learn to compromise, people. I them apart from the rest. too big headed. and not get "The school was full of their straight-laced types having inside tlie the TUCKED AWAY mothers' meetings about aggressive kid who their streetwise, of wool, discussing layers of price struts on TOTP are and doing their knitting. There s a fianc6s them, other characters. do things to outrage mind tickmg We'd sensible business the naughty schoolgirl There s a loner acting up away constantly. stereotype just to see their who adores the '30s film Idol weren't even into a reactions. We Garbo. There's also creating havoc in Greta boys at all, just and a great cook. future mum cosy little environment. round to their found "1 had the band was the first time I «ookinfl. I That week. I love a great dinner last some real friends. I had invite eight people mean, if you dinner and you want college i round to time I went to evening, *''^By the them to have a >ov«W an outsider. The trie was a bit of stimulatng planning just to it's very attitude at college was it, cooking it. I ma into the food, buying pack as much craziness wreck by the end, but it because after nervous year as they could the band sweet. artstudents A ot of keeps all, we are domestic. How sensible. realise How kids didn't consciously .normal. I saw it How . . were doing that, but round in quite Vhey to swim round and "I suppose I am to end. i used seems them I knew it had gesture like that to make do you and futile so I decided conventional, but what prophetic Poetry for a circles, write of lot of futile gesture in a pond - you mean that Clever sensible. A them a little world call normal? If coming to an end. futile is the concrete have about It futile society. Maybe neck carrying kids don't want to Anybody with given up broke my — most little thing. 1 was. word. 1 haven't friends dinner parties, wrong slabs around with my people round for knows it is just a but when. abnormal. half a brain hope for this country, very proud of It that makes me are so but I was then I think people go out and sometimes 1 used to to realise was finished. is aware enough They're so greedy. They round. at home but ^*Kim blind. them swimming "'"fS very happy an affair of heroes worst place in watch that life isn't if this is the little world. increasingly hectic, She act as "'In a way. it's my life is getting black and white. the and villains, but look at thinks I m much to be done in Thatcher the world, mv escape. Everyone with so doesn't even let Maggie We should have a them. My perfect haven't seriously alternatives. mid watching London. I down. attitude, we could flowing moving out get her more positive world would have a nver about it would be live thought "If it wasn't her I couldn't trees, lots of of hits be starving. it. beautiful Having a couple lust in the so through though. somebody else. She's but in England. I m ponds and what happens in my bad anywhere greenery, fish has changed seat at a particularly British, very changed me yet. hot proud to be _ everyone wearing white, life but it hasn't about this guy why. time. I heard ... God knows on ice. But to follow now, and dressed oatriotic drinking champagne 1 have a road his head rescue vvho's shaved Those last three words day. bring its own middle iust for one , „ a career can peasant from the of creeping If you doing up as a Kim from the verges like normal life. but at least I'm walking to London admits she "I really problems, ages and he's nationalism, and she with what you do, to do. to can be happy what I want the north of England hold any profound idyllicway Most's belief from really doesn't then that'sVhe most Despite Mickle Maggie Thatcher that the whole, in protest to political views. On lies partly be alive." , that Kim's appeal better now than to to things are no she prefers goldfish sensible. How normal. polished, slightly Romans, i How the "less they were under the sound of her what he bowl Seriously! do-it-yourself understand exactly to keep them in a shine like ''""'ll'used records, they got depressed watching tiles compared a until I brthroom-mirror get so depressed that jobs we ve "Yoii to the kitchen sink HOUSESINMOTION on Sire Records For a long time I felt without style or grace I'm walking a line Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather Just barely enough to be living I knew my heart was in the right place I knew I'd be able to do these things Get outta the way, no time to begin This isn't the time, so nothing was done his grave As we watch him digging own Not talking about, not many at all It was important to know that was where he's at I'm turning around, trouble no at all '#'* i^'C He can't afford to stop that is what he believe I'm keeping my fingers behind me, behind me 'i J.^S*"' He'll keep on digging for a thousand years I'm walking a line, divide and dissolve ;*. | I'm walking a line I'm walking a line ''1 ' ' '^' I'm thinking about empty motion I'm visiting houses in motion f / walking line I'm a I'm walking a line } >;, i- living Just barely enough to be Just barely enough to be living ' % f Get outta the way, no time to begin Get outta the way, no time to begin This isn't the time, so nothing was done This isn't the time, so nothing was done Not talking about, not many at all Not talking about, not many at all I'm turning around, no trouble at all I'm turning around, no trouble at all You notice there's nothing around you, around you Two different houses surround you around you I'm walking a line, divide and dissolve I'm walking a line, divide and dissolve Never get to say much, never get to talk Turn myself around, I'm sinking backwards and forwards little Tell us a bit, but not too much I'm moving twice as much as I was before Right about then, is where she give up I will be digging to the center of the earth She has closed her eyes, she has give up hope I'll be down in there, moving in the room line 1 I'm walking a ^ords and music by D. Byrne/B. Eno/Talking Heads I hate to be dreaming in motion Reproduced by permission Warner Bros Music Ltd. /E.G. Music Ltd. 8B on Virgin Records Once I was young Once I was smart Now I'm living on the edge of my nerves The things we said weren't quite so tough When we were young Well I'm burning, I'm burning buildings I'm building This time Chorus For the art of parties Under heavy weather For the art of parties I'm burning burning I'm livinp T'ln living my life FO! I'n- (The wind blew through niv hair) Once I was young (I shelter from the sun) Once 1 was snian (We lived on the strength of our nerves) When we were young Wcin'm building I'm burning buildings I'ln burning Repeat chorus tn fade Words and musk by D. Sylvian Reproilmyd hy permission Chadwick Nontis Ltd. /Virgin Music Ltd. The Ibardrcq) Explodes KIUMANJARQ THE ALBUM Side One Ha Ha I'm Drowning Sleeping Gas • Treason Second Head • Reward • Poppies in tlie Field Side Two Went Crazy • Brave M( )\ s Keep Their Promises Bouncing Babies • Books. ^felof Baghdad When I Dream THE TOUR Out of the Culture Bunker. 1981, June 5 Bradford University, 6 Edinburgh Odeon 7 Glasgow Tiffany's, 9 Leeds Tiffany's, 10 Liverpool Empire 11 Manchester Apollo, 12 Nottingham Rock City 13 University E. Anglia 14 Ipswich Gaumont, 15 St. Albans City, 16 Brighton Dome 17 Reading Top Rank, 18 Guildford Civic, 19 Hammersmith Odeon, 20 Bristol Colston Hall 21 Southampton Gaumont, 22 Birmingham Odeon 24 Sheffield City Hall, 2 5 Newcastle Mayfair, 26 Coventry New Theatre 27 Aylesbury Friars, 29 Preston Guild Hall. Also playing: the Delmontes. LP 6359 035 MC 71 50 035 10B BOB MARLEY 1945-1981 THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY) By Bob Marley & The Wallers on Island Records '" Them bellv 'ull but we hungry - ~ - — A hungry mob is a angry mob A rain a fall but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food no 'nough You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance Forget your troubles and dance Forget your sorrow and dance Forget your sickness and dance Forget your weakness and dance Cost of livin' gets so high Rich and poor they start to cry Now the weak must get strong They say oh, what a tribulation Them belly full but we hungry A hungry mob is a angry mob A rain a fall but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but you no 'nough We're gonna chuck to Jah music, chuckin' We're chuckin' to Jah music, we're chuckin' Chuckin', chuckin', chuckin', chuckin' ^ A belly full but them hungry iHt A hungry mob is a angry mob A rain a fall but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food no nough A hungry man is a angry man A rain a fall but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food no 'nough A rain a fall but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food no nough A hungry mob is a angry mob Words and music by Bob Marley Reproduced by permission Rondor Music Ltd. ANGEL OF HE MORNING By Juice Newton on Capital Records There'll be no strings to bind your hands Not if my love can't bind your heart There's no need to take a stand For it was I who chose to start I see no need to take me home I'm old enough to face the dawn Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Then slowly turn away from me Maybe the sun's light will be dim And it won't matter anyhow If morning's echo says we've sinned Well if we're victims of the night I won't be blinded by the light Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Then slowly turn away I won't beg you to stay with me Through the tears, of the day, of the years Baby Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me baby Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me darling Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me darling Words and music by Chip Taylor Reproduced by permission April Music Ltd. 14B I . . WW COPPOLLA TAPE ME o>'' DA THIS I'M YOURS SPANDAU BALLET have taken LOOK OUT for the first official New York — if not actually by release on Rough Tapes, a new storm — certainly by a gentle cassette label offshoot of Rough breeze. Everyone and his brother Trade. Called "C-81", and ; laid out the "Welcome" mat boasting eighty-one minutes of ">iBr ' (Mick Ronson, a Talking Head music, it's to retail at the and Billy Idol, to name but a few) generous mark-up of £3.75. The i when the Islington Five braved 24 tracks will include Ian Dury, IF THERE'S been a ban on the use one of those rather grubby titles, it [ NY The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, The of predictable album clubs. i Beat, Robert Wyatt, Pere Ubu, evidently hasn't reached the ears More remarkable was the John Cooper-Clarke, Orange THE of Duran Duran. Their debut long ' appearance of Francis Ford Juice, Wahl Heat, Buzzcocks ad player, entitled — you've Coppolla, renowned director of Mothers. guessed — "Duran Duran" is "Apocolypse Now", apparently JLTRAVOX, have just CURRENT scheduled for release on June 8. , WHO returned from recording their next album so taken with the band's In Germany, will Still, Peter Gabriel's had three i be headlining an open air concert at London's Crystal "Musclebound" video he had to ^^^^^^^^ Palace Bowl on June 13th. Ticicets, album's out called "Peter I at £7.50, are already available. witness in BUN . . them the flesh (well, in Although recording Gabriel" there's for Sketch (Linx) hat been completed the new album has no title so hope us the scarf anyway). as yet and Is not expected to hit the shops until the autumn. The latest all. GOOD, EH? Fancy a set? A full Fodder, Maiden Hong-Kong, THE ALMOST legendary Echo The Spans' new single UKravox single, therefore. Is 'All Stood Still ", yet another track from dozen different colour Tenpole Sean Hislegsov, that king of thing And The Bunnymen have just cassette, by the name of "Act I", "Vienna" with a new song, "Alles Klar", on the flip. Tudor badges, each a collector's (but funnier) — and the twenty returned from a warmly received combines a 12" version of item lovingly wrought by that really bring tears to our eyes American tour. They release a "Glow" and album versions of KEEPING IT in the family, craftsmen? will earn their sender one successor to the "To Cut A Long Story Short" and excellent PIRATE WAVES ex-Selecter members Charlie Well, they could be all yours. complete set of badges. "Crocodiles" this week, rejoicing "The Freeze" all for the bargain Anderson and Desmond Brown Stiff Records — where every day in the title of "Heaven Up Here". sum of £1 .99. "LAST YEAR, at the Knebworth have formed all-day soul festival, we asked The People, and is Christmas — have kindly Direct your title to "Tenpole Providing the bulk of their set on release a single over the mike: who listens to on Brad Special's despatched 20 such sets and Hall Of Fame Competition", the current European tour, it label. Race Records. if THE FOLLOWING ten lucky )N: It's Different Radiolnvicta? All 11,000 there And as here's how to obtain one. Simply Smash Hits, 2nd Floor, 52/55 consists of eleven new songs, that's not enough, it's persons will find their lives • For Girls (A&M). Simplicity cheered their heads off." Invicta titled dream up a typically Tudor Carnaby Street, LONDON W1V including studio versions of "Musical Man", a tribute to enriched by an autographed incarnate. A great song from a mouth-piece, Tony Johns, tells personality with an uproariously 1 PG to arrive not later than June "Zimbo" and "Over The Wall" great his Specials occasional trombonist funny name — you know, Bjorn 14th. And don't forget to include from their recent live EP. Give it 12-inch Steve Strange disc. He it band. tale with pride. and reggae r was who owned the peepers 2. FREE: My Brother Jaice Operating under the banner legend, Rico. Toby Brave, Sir Loinsteak, Canon your address! an ear. featured in the "Eyes Right" (island). Reminds me of a 'Soul Over London', Invicta has comp. in issue March 19. particularly traumatic period in established itself as a minor PURELY BY coincidence, it would the first Take a bow, Matthew Doherty, my life. Whatever happened to institution of the capital city after unexpectedly on day, seem, there are YOU KNOW us at Smash Hits Ellesmere Andy Fraser? He's amazing. eleven years of beaming out the two records out cutting short our flow." _ Port, South Wirral; always willing to at the moment based on the large help out! Now Colin Wong, Kirkdale, Liverpool; 3.&4. COLIN BLUNSTONE: I best of new and old black soul The location was a we know that all of same theme. Both Landscape's in Sussex, the you out there Ben Green, Uckfield, E. Sussex; Don't Believe In Miracles (Epic); music. "When we started out," mansion where who have aided the rapid ascent OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN CLIFF says Johns, "no-one "Norman Bates" and The cover of Toyah's "Blue Meaning" Denise Bright, Enfield, & was playing of Hitmen's "Bates Motel" are built Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Middlesex; Sandra Chalmers, RICHARD: Suddenly (EMI). Both soul on the radio, so we filled in was also shot, and was directed around Alfred Hitchcoclc's Eyes" are just dying to see the Bingley, Yorks; Lee Lawrence, amazing love songs; I'm a the gap." As a pirate radio by Brian Grant, author of the infamous horror flick "Psycho" object of its inspiration. Settle, Yorks; Michelle Franklin, romantic wretch at heart. station, Invicta is technically recent Kim Wilde and Visage (of 1960) in which Anthony So here they are, and behind Norwich, Norfolk; M. Bailey, 5. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: So illegal, but that's never seemed to videos. Perkins played Norman Bates, them the '40s American screen Middlesbrough, Cleveland; Long Franic Lloyd-Wright (CBS). hold them back. In the early days, "The exciting thing about this the homicidal maniac who runs a dream herself. Take a long, low, Neville Goodwin, Weybridge, Another beautiful song, it was just the occasional video," enthuses front man remote motel visited by a girl lingering look and then see why Surrey; P. Anderson, Forest Hall, beautifully sung. It always makes broadcast — although they did Richard Burgess, "is that it is (Janet Leigh) on the run. She is no-one's ever moved to write Newcastle-U pon-Tyne. me think of what I'd say to the notch up the amazing something completely different horriflcally murdered, but songs like "Doug Trendle's best friend I never had. achievement of going to the normal TOTP video. It's stereo Teeth", whether by Bates or his infirm ordinary 6. ARRIVAL: I Will Survive before Radio One — but now it's much more like an (Decca). of mother remains a mystery until promo film, like a short feature a One those on four hours each Sunday all is revealed in a macabre twist ^^ inspirational songs that makes between midday and four. You film in itself." IN CASE you're after taking FAN CLUBS at the very end of both the you think "so will I" can join its estimated 20,000 movie Landscape are also making a advantage of our splendid to encloM a S.A.E.) and Landscape's lyrics. Stephenson nemb»r 7. THE TUBES: Prime Time listeners in the London area at longer version — approximately Toyah/Madness colour poster The band's video to promote TSl.pec/ust.raro«»dth.irco.*...,»'.m.». (A&M). / don 't know much about 92.4 on the FM/VHF waveband. BVi minutes, the length of the offer and you've been searching JAPAN the single includes a further single — these guys, but this song If you're a soul fan, it's the album version of the this issue high and low for the Concecsions Ltd interpretation of Hitchcock's pre-empted a lot of today's radio station of your dreams. hopefully for general release if second of our three tokens, do 513 Futham M material in its story; that all the events have they can negotiate a deal with a electronic feel. They play the latest imports not despair. Here it is. Quick London SW6 1HH been the girl's imagination. major film distributor. Why didn't you buy it? months before Radio One's even before it disappears! Suffering these delusions, and 8. STARBUCK: Moonlight Feels heard of them. If you're note soul "And in that," John explains, THE BEAT much else besides, is "Not The Right (RCA). Excellent production fan, it still makes a wonderful "we'll obviously have much P.O. Box 320 Nine O'clock News" comedienne of an amazing pop song. If background to idle Sunday more scope as regards filming. Birmingham and Marilyn Monroe lookalike, anyone has got a copy they don't afternoons. It moves with the We've got a camera pack that Pamela Stephenson, ably want, send it to me at Chrysalis. same loose-limbed strut and jive straps firmly onto the BALLET supported by various SPANDAU 9. WEATHER REPORT: Night as the black music they spin. The members cameraman, holding it Vicici Silvastar of Landscape as the manic Bates. c/o Passage (CBS). It's got verve, dee-jays are young, absolutely steady, so he can run :MadnessToyah^ 2MariboroughCt Filmed in black and balls and swing. It's got super-knowledgeable soul white with up and down stairs in front and London W1 everything stark, dramatic lighting and as race except a guitar. So. . enthusiasts, touched with the behind people they about unexpected camera angles, the i 10. JIMI HENDRIX: Any Of The fever of "keeping the faith". The the house." I POSTER FALL video was completed in THE Experience Albums (Polydor). My dedications are delightful two days Hopefully the video will serve or rather nights. FOUNDATION only musical hero except for messages to the likes of the as an incentive for other bands to New Road "The only problem," as 429b Bury Dave (and he pays me for saying Southall Funketeers and the sax make more exciting videos, and SaHord? and flute man John Walters so). Paddington Funk Set. It's the — who knows — this time next Lancaahire explains, "was that got P.S. Thanks to everyone who fastest, brightest, coolest four we so year we could be running a video into it that we forgot the time bought "Intuition" from Davq hours on British radio. chart in Smash Hits. and the sun came up and Sketch. Pete Sllverton Deanne Pearson i ITOKEN s 12B ^:x;l1'^^S""'""'^"^- '^ it iii< B »tf»»ri|» wii > iiiiii ii»ia ,,,i i i^^Mjjii;aiaw>*^it i ^ ai^ UNDERTONES FANS, form an complicated. The twenty five orderly queue over there, and no gags that made the band laugh talking ! To celebrate the release the most will each win an album. of the lads' third splendiferous el The twenty five that they reckon pea (containing their hit 45, "It's are the worst, the corniest, the ' Going To Happen"), we've come most infantile and generally plain, lit^iiwJth aiiiffergnt kind of daft will each qualify for a teey'* cirr«|)itit|on with a choice! I) of shirt. .?*1 prizes. So, if it's an album you're after, As well as twenty-five copies of limber up your chuckle muscles "Positive Touch", we're offering and give us your best shot. If twenty-five matching tee shirts you've already got the record aflll (as modelled above by Damian you fancy a shirt, start racking and Billy). your brains for the corniest crack All we want in return for this you can muster. (N.8. Please ; booty are your jokes, preferably specify your shirt size — smaillfS; *" shortish ones and definitely clean medium or large.) * jijeriough to print. :'j| Send your entry to: '" ;';f Scribble your favourite 'Pundertones. Smash Hits, 52-55 NEW ALBUM RELEASE rib-tickler down and send it our Carnaby Street, London W1 , to way. Once here your efforts will reach here no later than June be judged by Los Undertones 14th. ON DEP INTERNATIONAL ;':tthemselves. P.S. Irish jokes are not LPDEP1 ALSO AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE cadepi Now here it begins to get recommended. ^fclS--W?^ 15B ) I'VE GOT a fibula to pick with your otherwise more colour pictures of Julian wonderful rag. In surely not suggesting that Music is music and pleasure is ¥mm everyone involved with their fan I WRITE to tell you of my dislike You're you!!! I mwA was so overwhelmed, Cope. a lot of your competitions for for "I follow every fashion" a pop star might possibly fib a Leisure. amazed, club. Gary excited, happy, jubilant, As he Is so beautiful and if by albums by various artists they are make up for the delay of my Tibbs who is trying (and failing) little about his age? The very Someone Fed Up With The Word overcome, Surely, if you think a record To joyous, freaked out at chance he reads this (if you lot won by answering questions "Ant". fan club kit I was offered a free to be a so-called Antperson. thought! pages 4, 5, deserves to be a hit, you should 6 and the cover of publish It I I) then he should about the relevant group or ticket on their British tour during He was bad in The Vibrators, Chris Hughes produces records Hits keep pluggin away at it until Smash (April 30) that I just know that there Is nothing wrong singer. Surely, if someone can people May and June at a venue of my absolutely awful in "Breaking under his full name but bonks had to come over to our answer difficult come to their senses. The with his body. questions on a I choice. Glass" and Roxy Music, but now and thumps under the name of LOOK, THIS Is getting serious; fact that "Treason" made it into wonderful capital and thank all I think he is just perfect person or band then It's likely and, the biscuit. Merrick. Don't ask us why. got past the stage of eagerly the Top Forty proves Julian's I chose Brighton Top Rank and he really takes you lovely people personally for with his wonderful voice, what that they are fans and therefore awaiting TOTP about seven years point. sent away for my ticket. On May Mel Lyes. having such great taste. But will already have Look at the number of more could he want? How about the album? ago. I haven't bought a record for great 13 I received a personal reply where records of the last couple of I THIN K that everyone who buys were you??? also printing a picture of I will now return my head to its his wife from a Paul Bertie stating that at least two years. My knees no years that only it WHILE I was doing Kevin I made the spent hours trundling up and as I've heard a rumour that she bucket of water and wait for this your thingy should cut out a longer go weak and shivers don't second obtaining tickets for the Brighton down Carnaby Street searching letter not to time around ("Roxanne", Mooney's washing the other small bit and post it to me. By the looks like Adam Ant, I be published. and gig would cause some go up and down my spine at the "Sultans Of Swing", "Is She week I noticed his pale lilac shirt I for the Smash Hits office, only to wouldn't wish that on anyone. The Orange Police Fan, laws of averages would sight of hero on difficulties. He went on to say that some would-be be trampled Really Going Out With Him?", with multi-coloured shapes on it get a whole magazine upon by herds of Sexy Lexy, Kirlcintilloch. Dagenham. eventually the telly. I t-shirt etc). However, because could buy a "Sgt Rock" missing. In issues marauding Froggy tourists and to P.S. This letter has nothing to do the was Then two for free! Unless everybody cut with the £4 credit note which had But last week I bought two be Smash Hits branch of The running I saw it on GaryTlbbs! bit around the edge of rewarded with a pair of very I with the fact that I've never out a from COULDN'T help but notice In 't won L.P.'s and now I search frantically been enclosed. He also said, and I sore feet. Teardrop Fan Club agrees that Was kicking Kev out of the band which they invariably last Issue of Smash Hits (May 14) any of your com ps. the page, through my young sister's it's time Julian friends quote," . . . next time the band So next time you do another a claim P.P.S. What is a concept L.P? and got not enough? Did they have to would. Well, not to worry. by those cuddly fringe Portchester, Smash Hits to see what I've their fingers out and gave are appearing near take the shirt off his back too, or brilliant article on Julian and Co., tops The Human League that us Captain Mugsy The Devious. they that you don't have to travel so missed. At the age of 24 I've been some new vinyl, you're the lucky so did Gary Tibbs nick It from his please erect a 12 foot high taught me to play keyboards! One thing at a time. Your point saved. The knees have gone winner of The First Fortnightly far, write to me personally and I case when he wasn't looking? neon-lit sign outside the building Well, just to set the record about album prizes is a good one £5 Here's a staple. I I shivers started will make sure you get a again, the have to direct me in the right If RECORD TOKEN For Best Letter. Kevin's Friend, Blue Meaning. direction straight, this was a big fib on the and you'd enclosed your real and this is just listening to his Spend it wisely. backstage pass." should I decide to venture into part of David Prowse-lookalike name and address you might This unexpected gesture of MUSIC IS for enjoyment, not for voice. I'm a wreck after he's been your part of the universe ever Adrian Wright. In fact I have been a candidate for a free doubt that If arguing over who's liked a band on telly. My friends have sent for I'VE SEEN my Environmental overwhelming generosity has COULD YOU tell me I'm right again. the "League" could teach anyone £S record token! However, we coats. speechlessi It's made about Merrick, the fab drummer the longest. When Stuart the men in the white Mo, Kilimanjaro. Studies Lecturer with no clothes made me I generally reason that the to play a kazoo. mean, my pal prizes But I don't give a damn. Pass me respect XTC even more and it from Adam And The Ants. Well, Goddard and Andy Warren on. . .YukMI Fay Fife Phil should go to those who want says doesn't even the Sides, I don't think me my walking stick, get out of Bod, Chelmsford. is nice to know that bands like is he their producer as his real formed B How could you miss us? Our pluck his eyebrows properly. them most, in most cases the rocking chair turn that So them are still grateful to their name Is Chris Merrick Hughes? they realised what they'd started. my and luxury suite of offices is located there. faithful fans who can't afford the There bloody record player up. ought to be a law. fans. A Nervous Wreck, Liverpool. I would like to dedicate "Dead below the hot plate of the third Jo Callis (ex-Rezillos, ex-Shalce, purchase price. You'll be chuffed Tricia, O.A.P., (Old Ant Berenice Saunders, Portchester, P.S.: If MarcoPirroni's21 then Popstars" by Altered Images to hot dog stand on the right. Knock ex-Boots For Dancing, to learn that neither the ex-Human I'M SURE that everyone who saw Hants. I'm going out with Adam. Adam. Pensioner). twice and ask for double onions. League?), Undertones nor the Edinburgh. Tenpole the pin up of Gary Numan (April You'll know next time. Tudor P.S. Please could you print a competitions in this issue 30) was surprised at the waste of photo of me as I think I'm fab. require any specialist paper. I mean we don't pay 35p to AT LAST your magazine has knowledge. All you need is a look at pictures of bare walls. something worth buying It — ready for Jo, is that really you? Jo? Knock wit. As far as your P.S. Surely this picture would have the Teardrop Explodes question feature once for yes, knock twice for no. goes, concept L.P.'s are been more suited to the back (April Let's 30). have something like being asleep, only not as page of the magazine. like this more often and some I'D LIKE to point out a fault in interesting. Numanoid, Papworth. Our Small But Perfectly Formed YES, IT'S coincidence time I After Designer argued that it should go reading that GREAT Hepworth-- in the centre because that way it Ellen Production on the fantastic, would be more artistic. (He talks brilliant Julian Cope, I found out a lot about "balance" and "the Smash that: creative use of space"; he pays next i«i«« ^ 1 I have exactly the same Initials his coffee money on time so we as Julian Cope. generally give him his own way.) 2) My mum teaches like his mum. Anyway, Gary's manager 3) My mum teaches the same suggested that we should give things as his — mum English . . and him a plug . History. Mind-boggling facts, eh? I WAS amazed and delighted at II J.C, the girl who's considering the pin-up (April JvNS 30) of two emigrating to Kilimanjaro and hunky, macho plug holes. Are adores The Teardrop Explodes. they from Light Of The World by any chance? Lucy The Light Switch. JULIAN COPE and The Teardrop Explodes have really kicked their Yea, they've got a new single out fans in the teeth with the next week. It's called "Socket To re-release of "Treason". Having, Me". like so many old Teardrop Explodes fans, bought both AFTER WATCHING the TV Times Album and Single when they Top Ten Awards I came to the were first issued. Surely they ADTo6gAPHgt>, conclusion that all TV Times g^vv^^TAiA/M BATS have some good new material PLUSf>, us IJAK*KAEfi .'/) Readers are a bunch of mindless CCA/JA«»A which they could release Instead ^-^^-jr^Ta twits. Who would vote for Barry of It? Manilow as the most exciting They should take an example singer? from the far better 03 Echo And The One OfAdam Ant's Buckles. Bunnymen who refused to let iti.iikfMi'Hhy Warner Bros put out "Vllllers TV Times readers, mostly. AVAILABLE IN MER72H phonogram Terrace" from the album. Instead MJLHOtJi 03 they put out "The Puppet". 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They took Sixties style ^/dnT „e and meet I ^ *^ °''*>^" Injected a new attack, whipping up an scored high points with their debut single, Virni Lindt aently smoulders. irresistible dance stance. "Tous Les Soirs" They also Inspired a bevy of bands to They might have a soft spot for '60s else. (Contact: SAE to Rough Trade, as above.) Investigate the era and some of the results can garage-band psychedelia but they have gone But the '60s Swing doesn't hold complete be heard on the latest batch of Independents. far beyond their home listening to create a sway. Also in evidence are the 'modernists', At the top of the queue must be The special brew of their own. On "Don't Cry Your who take their cue from bands like Joy Delmontes, the Edinburgh five-piece who Tears" (Rational Records) Julie Hepburn's Division, wear smudge green raincoats and yearning delivery Is offset by instruments that have furrowed brows. all bounce off one another In a fiery fashion. Lincoln band The Sinking Ships take their But the gem Is "So It's Not To Be" with its homage to Joy Division too far. The sleeve is clanging guitars and frantic vocal work. suitably bleached and bleak and, while its (Contact: SAE to 19, Henderson Row, message might be meaningful, "Dream" Edinburgh 3). (Recession Records) Is as starched as those 39 Lyon Street turns out to be Billy wing-tipped collars that the Blitz Kids used to MacKenzle and Alan Rankine from the wear. Still, there is obvious room for Associates, joined by singer Christine improvement. (Contact: SAE to Co-ordination Beveridge. The trio have unearthed "Kites" Express, 292/3 High Street, Lincoln.) (RSO), a hit from 1967 by Simon Dupree and The same goes for Visitors, yet another the Big Sound. It was a smart choice as the Edinburgh band on Rational Records. song fits neatly Into today's mood for swirling, "Compatibility" is all galloping drama but romantic pop. A thunderous Intro leads into a behind the moody Intensity lies a poor tune. crisp and always Interesting arrangement with (Contact: the Delmontes, address above.) a vocal that floats quietly on the surface. The Equally eerie is "Dream Soldiers" by The B-slde has "A Girl Named Property," a Fallout Club (Happy Birthday), who sound as if previously unreleased Associates' track that they have been watching too many of those doesn't do the group justice. recent TV serials about life before, during and Close Rivals come up with two reasonable after World War One. Trevor Herion's voice efforts on Hyped Records. "You've Got To recalls Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley, and Make Mistakes" sounds like a Hollies B-slde although Thomas Dolby's production is from the mld-'60s and "Short Sharp Kick In clever, the material simply Isn't strong The Teeth" takes a look at the depressing enough. (Contact: SAE to 49-53 Kensington effects of being unemployed. (Contact: SAE to Gardens Square, London W2.) Rough Trade, 137 Blenheim Crescent, London Bill Nelson has reactivated his Cocteau W11. Records venture and has produced its first two You might think a band who called 45s — "A Certain Bridge" by Yorkshire group. themselves The Human Cabbages had to have Last Man In Europe, and "(It's Not Me) a sense of humour but you'd be wrong. This Talking" by Liverpool band, A Flock Of po-faced Coventry collective wander every Seagulls. Their names might be weirdly which way on Boys and Girls Records. Their enticing but their music barely conceals weak three-tracker Is a cauldron of half-digested songs under the fashionable Icing of influences that used to be called "progressive electronic trickery and that sound of distant rock" In the '60s. 'The Witch" isn't so much drums. (Contact: SAE to PO Box 134A, bubble as toll and trouble. "Air Raid Shelter Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT20TY.) (Pill Box)" mixes the B-52's with an organ But let's end on a positive note. One record sound that Atomic Rooster still use. "One that dodges all categories Is "Go For Gold" by More Fool" dips Into weak-kneed reggae and the excellent Girls At Our Best (Happy some RIco-styled trombone. (Contact: SAE to Birthday). Imagine the Ramones bumping into Steve, 10, Asthill Grove, Coventry.) the Gang Of Four and GIrlschool while at a The oddest contender Is "Attention late-night screening of old Clint Eastwood Stockholm" by Virna Lindt (The Compact spaghetti westerns, and you will see how Organisation). Virna cheekily tries to recapture special they are. They combine invention with the cool mystery of '60s TV thrillers like energy, atmosphere and the kind of daft "Danger Man" and "The Prisoner". It's a humour that rhymes cars with Mars, pop stars world of intrigue In which glamorous spies In and guitars. That can't be bad In anyone's belted mackintoshes plot behind the Iron books. (Contact: same as the Fallout Club's Curtain. 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If only they credit, of the tracks are goat but displaying remarkably to like but this time the sound positively their most were content see gems fairly "Living little variation) do little to relieve "Tips For 'Upstairs" bursts from the vinyl, strong, strong and In The Teens" and and "Steppin' " are the overall mediocrity of this one. out as singles (and every vibrant and full of ringing guitar UK" now (6 out of 10). chords. The content has also excellent. (7 out of 10). and then making an E.P.) I'd be a Hillier Deanne Pearson lot happier. Here taken a turn from the almost eev they are with this marvellously individual flippant pop of the past to much more serious, generally slower GRACE JONES: Nightclubbing TOM PETTY AND THE sound; daffy, roistering vocals, (Island). This album has one HEARTBREAKERS: Hard scuddering electro-keyboards numbers which still swing, but weak link — Grace Jones' voice. It Promises (MCA). Fact. Nobody stiffened by a decidedly rock and with a little too much has neither range nor power. makes better sounding records roll backbeat. Here they are deliberation. It's as if they're However, the arrangements and than Petty. There's not a overstepping the mark, allowing trying a little too hard, a little too Tom production almost make for in quite their songwriting to degenerate desperately, to be different. (7 up band the world who have out of 10). this. With reggae session men mastered that balance between from wacky wisdom to grating Deanne Pearson such as Sly Dunbar and Robbie muscle and elegance, between repetition. What's wrong lads? Shakespeare creating clear the lean and the lush, between Just because you're alright in RICHARD STRANGE: The pulsating rhythms and gentle traditional rock structures and small, concentrated doses Phenomenal Rise Of Richard reggae backbeats and the likes of 80's technology as skilfully as this doesn't mean you're not alright. Strange (Virgin). The cover Sting, Marianne Faithful, Bill lot have (with the help of (6 out of 10). depicts the trilby-crowned Withers and David Bowie producer Jimmy lovine). One can David Hepwortli futurist king casting a long providing the songs (alongside a only wonder then how good few Jones originals) she can't go they'd be if Tom could stop shadow on a screen. But, judging POSITIVE NOISE: Heart Of too far wrong. And she doesn't. writing the same couple of songs by the contents of this album. Darkness (Statik). Welded (8 out of 10). over and over again and actually Strange himself lives, like so together through the forceful Deanne Pearson. reach down into his soul for the many others, in the shadow of personality of Ross Middleton, music. Still, if "The Waiting" Bowie, his musical personality this five piece make music for charts, as it so richly deserves to amounting to little more than blast furnaces — fiery, strident do, being a very superior class of Ziggy Stardust in a lounge suit. and unrelenting. At times it pop song, I shall be there and I Nevertheless, lyrically and comes close to that early '70s shall be cheering very noisily ideas-wise, he's intriguing brand of 'progressive' heavy ndeed.(7outof 10). enough, even though the albu metal is saved late David Hepworth but by the '70s shows signs of having been window-dressing. There's punk made on a shoe string. A -^<«^.# venom in the vocals, fire and -^ WILD HORSES: Stand Your tantalising near miss. (6Viout brimstone in the words and 10). Ground (EMI). There's plenty of modern experimentation around Fred Dr jedigree here in the shape of the furious backbeat. If the films ormer Rainbow man Jimmy "Aocalypse Now" and "The Jain and Thin Lizzy axeman Brian JOE WALSH: There Goes The Empire Strikes Back" were fused, Robertson but what does it add Neighbourhood (Asylum). this might be the perfect ip to? Wild Horses managed to Indulged Eagle Joe Walsh peers soundtrack. (5 out of 10). out of his Los Angeles Mansion sound like both bands, without once again. Sadly he fails to improving on either of them. J: Quit Dreaiiiiiiy " recapture the brittle wit of "Life's These boys are neither first And Get On The Beam (Mercury). Been Good". Instead, there's generation heavy rockers nor That rare thing; an album almost TOYAH: Anthem (Safari). What flimsy folk, reggae, funk and a headbanging revivalists and as good as its title. Bill Nelson Toyah lacks in subtlety and in collection of extremely there's nothing to distinguish this has always been well equipped to vocal and song-writing flexibility half-baked lyrics. Is this album set from so many other hold his own with the more (a lot), she repays in sheer just for Joe's equally jaded L.A. straightforward rock albums self-consciously "modern" kind presence and dubious dress friends? Or maybe it's just a huge vintage 1974. Still, they're young of artist if only because he's sense. But is this the stuff of goof? Joe says a special thank and pretty and if they hang in generally been able to come up lasting LPs? I fear not. You get 1 you to his limousine service and there long enough they could yet with the kind of naggingly tracks set firmly on "repeat" — Remy Martin. Maybe it's an be Britain's REG Speedwagon of memorable tune which lingers stilted, over-theatrical structures, album that goes better with 1990. (4 out of 10). long after you've ceased to be dreamy synthesisers and the smog. (5 out of 10). Robin Katz impressed the sheer same marching backbeat while OnhinXatZ by sophistication of the sound. THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: Talk, Although this album was Talk, Talk (CBS). Another helping recorded two years ago it's not of The Furs' Wall Of Sound remotely dated; the man's approach, as Duncan Kilburn's mating of guitar-based sax merges with the band's powerglide rock and unfussy guitars to make up a kind of disco-tinged rhythm has rarely musical juggernaut, while Rep been heard to better effect. Butler's deliberately blando voice 'Although a couple of the tracks forces its way past Vince Ealy's pbably meant more to him than echo-valley drums to take its tey do to the listener and the place alongside the front line free bonus album is basically instruments. The result is one of doodling of limited interest, our the most exciting sounds in ai's star continues to burn contemporary rock and though J fight. (8 out of 10). nothing here is as mind-tugging — David Hep worth as "Sister Europe" from their debut album and Rep's lyrics are, „ ,. ^- ...>, jrit-r-unKtnang CLASSIX NOUVEAUX: Night once more, a mixture of the gets bigger and better each week People (EMI). Well at least it bone-dry for lyrics;,, ingenious and the inept, "Talk, "Drivin' Hard" shows that doesn't have "futurist" stamped hasn't the talent re^un,, _ Talk, Talk" remains out of the Shakatak are up there amongst all over it, but this doesn't mean such a grandiose vision. For usual rut. Well worth a place the front runners. Classy funk that this debut is made up of "haunting" read pompous. (3 out on your turntable. (8 out of 10). music highlighted by some innovative synthesised music of 10). beautiful piano and interesting either. The music is as bland and Fred Dellar Marl< Ellen