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Reproduced by permission Bewlay Bros./Fleur/E. G. Music Ltd. 6 SMASH HITS new outlet for his songs as Klark Kent. Hiding behind that alias he had a hit last year with "Don't Care". Andy Summers makes use of his formal musical training — he studied in Los Angeles for several years — when he works with Eberhard Schoener, a classical musician with a laserium in Munich. Sting, meanwhile, has acting talents which have landed him work in TV commercials, in The Who's forthcoming "Quadrophenia" movie (he plays Ace the king mod), and in The The Police (I to r): Stewart Copeland, Sting, andAndy appeared, it too was banned — Sex Pistols' "Rock'n'Roll Summers. "Roxanne"has talien a full year to make the charts. because the lyric threatens a Swindle" flick, where he strikes The lyrics are on page 10. suicide! up an, er, intimate relationship The individual members of the with Paul Cook! Police start THE BELATED ARRIVAL of Padovani left and the current band all have individual projects Together, The a British tour 30. See Gigz. "Roxanne" in the charts seems threesome started to record as well. on May and out. to indicate that Britain is finally Sting's songs. ("Fall Out" had Stewart Copeland has found a Over waking up to The Police. Other been one of Copeland's.) The countries, America in particular, Billy Idol style hair and the realised quite a while ago that leather jackets have perpetuated BLONDS The Police are one of the the early punk image but The strongest outfits to emerge from Police now play tough, these islands in a fair while. reggae-influenced pop that HAVE The band were formed by makes for great singles. drummer and American exile "Roxanne" was in fact first Stewart Copeland in 1977, at the issued over a full year ago and MORE FUN height of the punk boom. He'd was followed by the even better left Curved Air, a moderately "Can't Stand Losing You", but No. 2: Mike successful progressive band, to both sank without trace. Having play his own kind of music — considerable faith in themselves, Oldfield loud rock'n'roll. however, the band decided to BACK IN January we told you He brought Sting, The Police's make a stab at the States and how millionaire whizz kid and singer, down from Newcastle undertook a low-budget tour of former shy guy Mike Oldfield where he'd been playing bass America's East Coast to promote was acting kinda strange and with a jazz rock combo, and with their "Outlandos D'Amour" LP. unusually extrovert. We can now guitarist Henry Padovani they The idea has since paid off explain why! made a single called "Fall Out" handsomely. Both "Roxanne" Turns out the boy has been on for the independent Illegal and the album are heading for a course of treatment called Records, very much in the their respective top tens at a high Excegis, a system of personality standard punk mould. rate of knots, and the band have a development which is supposed They then briefly became a strong following all over the U.S. to free you of your previous four-piece with the addition of "Roxanne" has since been inhibitions and make you an guitarist Andy Summers, a very reissued in this country and all all-round happier person. talented music veteran who's the radio stations who'd With Oldfield, it's certainly worked with all kinds of people. previously refused to play it produced a good deal of loony The best known are probably because of their objections to behaviour all over Europe on his those two English eccentrics, lyrical content now decided to current tour. After his nude Kevin Coyne and Kevin Ayers. give it a go. Result: a hit! posing and his switch to disco, After the next recording Interestingly enough, when his latest move has been to dye session, however, Henry "Can't Stand Losing You" first his hair blond! Watch out, Billy Idol! PIC: JILL FURMANOVSKY SMASH HITS 7 ! ' WE JUSTwrsh we'd done it when we were 12 years old — form a band, that is! The abject of our admiration is Greg Maguire, 12-year-old singer, guitarist and writer of Edinburgh MEET "Earcom" combines a comic, a band The Prats. poster and a 12 inch single into After only a couple of one package. Apart from The rehearsals, the other Greg and Prats, other northern bands Prats — Paul McLauglin (guitar), included are Blank Students from Tom Robinson (bass — no Preston, Graph from Sheffield, ^f" Monks. Sp, relation!) and older brother Dave THE and The Flowers from Edinburgh. otthBfoikie START Maguire (drums) — decided they There's also a very strange were ready to play in public. The version of The Rezillos' song Prats have since played a couple "Good Sculptures"! of local Rock Against Racism gigs toon to great applause. Now they're You can write to The Prats and Nice all set to appear on vinyl as well. PRATS Fast Product at: PO Box 122, The Prats have two tracks Head Post Office, Edinburgh EH3 shame about 9B0. one recorded at home on a the lyrics! "NICE Legs, Shame About The Face" by The Monks, a toon that you're unlikely to hear down at the local Women's Lib disco, is in fact the work of two former members of folk rock band The Strawbs. They are Richard Hudson and John Ford, the two gents who wrote The Strawbs' biggest hit, "Part Of The Union", and later had a hit as Hudson-Ford with "Burn Baby Burn". They are currently polishing their Cockney vowel sounds and setting up as a working band with 1*kVie* Terry Cassidy and Steve Barnacle. Could you take an album full of numbers like that i2sU one? The Upstarts started to make waves outside of their home base and were signed by Sham 69 singer Jimmy Pursey to his personal JP label. Jimmy SHORTS produced "I'm An Upstart" and the track was all set to come out via Polydor IVIensi Records when OY OY! Ian Dury has finally tired Mensford) (Tommy got into a of counting the royalties from punch-up with one of the "New Boots And Panties" and is company's security men outside putting out his first album for THEY LOOK lilce the sort of heavy their activities in the North East the office building after the latter nearly two years on May 1 8. The Geordies wlio open doors witli have often attracted the attention had asked him to stop throwing Return of title is "Do It Yourself" and a their foreheads and eat rusty of the local constabulary. snowballs. IN THE Steve Jones interview White, Jeremy Thorpe, Stan STIFF Little Fingers, Belfast summertour is currently being nails for brealcfast. They are: Some say this was because of Mensi and Pursey claim that printed elsewhere in this issue, Bowles or, in the last resort, John punks, embark on a 20 date UK set up to promote it. Look out for IVIensi (vocal and rabblerousing), the rather aggressive following their third they tried to stop the argument lets it slip that he and Lydon. Don't call us. tour in May to promote the boy the lyrics in Smash Hits and full IVIond (guitar), Keith Warrington that they attract, whereas The security the Wizzard already lined up a single.