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CLUBLAND El'iis Costello & The Attractions ............ 3 LIES Status Ouo ............................................................... 8 BLUE MOON Showaddywaddy .................................... 9 SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW Matchbox ........ 9 FADE TO GREY Visage .................................................. 12 RABB IT Chas & Dave ................................................... 17 I AM THE BEAT The look ............................................ 17 RUNAROUND SUE Racey ............................................ 18 HEARTBREAK HOTEL The Jacksons ......................... 19 WHO'S GONNA ROCK YO UThe Nolans .................... 22 LOVE ME TO SLEEP Hot Chocolate ............................ 22 DO NOTHING The Specials......................................... 31 SHE'S SO MODERN The Boomtown Rats ................. 32 MY GIRLRod Stewart................................................... 39 LOVE ON THE ROCKS Neil Diamond ......................... 39 THE POLICE: Feature ............................................... 4/5/6 EDDY GRANT: Feature ............................................ 14/15 DAVID BOWIE: Colour Poster................................ 20/21 THE SPECIALS: Feature .................................... 29/30/31 GEN X: Colour Poster ................................................... 40 BITZ ............................................................................10/11 BOWIE COMPETITION ...." ........................................... 16 DISCO ............................................................................................................ 19 CROSSWORD ................................................................. 23 REVIEWS ...................................................................24 /25 STAR TEASER ................................................................ 26 FACT IS .................................................................. ,.................................................. 27 INDEPENDENT BITZ ..................................................... 28 BIRO BUDDIES .............................................................. 33 CARTOON ........................................................, ............................................ : ...... 33 LETTERS ..................................................................................................35 /36 CALENDAR OFFER ......................................................... 36 GIGZ .......................................... ......................................... 38 Special thanks this issue to Michelle Morti11er (dHign) and Mark Ellen (editorial). This magazone os published by EMAP National Publ1catoons ltd, Peterborough, and 11 pronted by East M idland l1tho Pronle<S. Peterborough Copyright ex1s1s on all songs appearing m Smash H11s They musl not be reproduced w ithout the consont of the copyroght holders 2 " T HE POLICE? The rock takings and handshakes all band? Sure. I heard o' round. " Hey, nice to see you those guys I" guys. You just got here from the As if he wasn't fully enough airport? You shoulda told me. I occupied negotiating his mobile would have sent limos." (Please junkheap of a yellow cab through note the plural. In the American New York's rush hour traffic, our big league it is considered driver finds time to show off his perfectly normal for a band to be comprehensive knowledge of driven around individually.) The Police catalogue by bawling a hastily improvised "Roxanne" PHILADELPHIA IS flat, sprawling out of the window, with rhythm and heavily industrial. It's a improvised by beating the hundred miles south of New dashboard with his free hand. York. Just up the road in "ROCKS -ANNEI You don't American terms. gotta put on the red light ... We're trying to keep warm in ROCKS-ANNE I You don't have the Tower Theatre, a musty old to put ... say, whaddya call that vaudeville venue on the sleazy stuff? ... you call it reggay, ain't side of town, waiting for the band that right?" to arrive from Canada. In order to Um. Well, maybe we do. make the most of their time off A little further down Park they've stayed over to do a little Avenue, where the traffic seizes skiing, hiring a private jet to up altogether, Radio Station whisk them down to Philadelphia WNEW interrupts an otherwise at the last minute. endless stream of Foreigner and Minutes after the road crew ELO to play "De Do Do Do, De Da have completed their exhaustive Da Da", the first American 45 checks of the equipment, the three of them scurry in from the ''I'm being stuck on more foyer, well bundled up against the biting wind, travel bags with and more American walls small but significant "Concorde" every day ... It's bloody luggage labels attached slung over shoulders, followed closely painful, I'll tell you ..." by the watchful and massive figure of Larry, an American from "Zenyatta Mondatta", and employed to "mind" them, Sting also top ten and rising. in particular. Larry is a quiet, The DJ, owner of a toilet tissue friendly character who looks as if yoice (soft but oh so strong), can he could win an argument with a Just about be heard above the din tank. of warring car horns; "Alright After a brief hello, Sting, people, that's The Police. I don't Stewart and Andy are straight on know what you'd call that kind of stage, pumping out the intro to music. Maybe you'd call it "Walking On The Moon" before reggay. Whatever, it's they've even shed their outdoor Supertramp time on WNEW ..." clothing. Ten minutes later Click they're back in the dressing Interestingly enough, "De Do room, soundcheck completed. Do Do" is the first Police 45 to You realise you're looking at rock taste American chart success and roll's most efficient users of since our cab driver's favourite time. two years ago. Back then they Over a pre-gig dinnP.r.i,, ;he arrived at Kennedy Airport on the restaurant across tho ::!~c:et, Andy 1 cheapest flight available with a prods a s'ali:!C:-,md emp :a:.;ses road crew comprising Kim the difference between this tour Turner, no real record deal to and their first forays. speak of and not the foggiest idea "It was a big blast for us to how The Land Of The Free would come from London, where we react to them. couldn't get any gigs, and then be These days they're all smiles in this big novelty group, playing the A&M offices high above around the East Coast of Madison Avenue. Anything the America. But of course now we' re boys want the boys get. It's not, big and heavy and we're selling however, advisable to bring up lots of records. But it's fun in a the subject of "Message In A different way now. It wasn't all People seem to really expect that love to say hello." Bottle," The Police single that misery the first time. of you." The restaurant has been topped charts all over the world These pressures seem to have specially filled with Important but failed to get off the ground in "As long as it feels left their most significant mark on People, powerful radio the States. That one still rankles Sting. Maybe he hasn't actually programmers and TV producers. more than a bit. natural and right and changed, but there are signs that The man from A&M approaches But these days everyone's dignified, then we'll carry he's growing a second skin in Kim Turner with the suggestion talking platinum and making order to fend off the constant that "the boys" should circulate a plans for a January concert at the on." attention He seems to regard little, say "hi", shake a few 20,000 seater Madison Square every approach as a challenge, influential hands. Garden. Big business. "But the pressures are different adopting a rather aggressive Kim gently broaches the The gent who's promoting and more insidious now; to keep attitude until he's satisfied that subject with Sting The response tonight's concert in Philadelphia coming up with the goods, to be there is no real threat. is emphatic. ''Nol" As soon as his greets Sting and Andy with a always great, to be wonderful in Everybody wants a piece of his meal is finished ho departs, smile as big as his box office interviews, to always be original time. "Could you sign this, Sting? running the gauntlet of the girls and interesting at every moment. Picture, Sting? Interview? There's at the stage door to get back to 4 somebody over here who'd really the dressing room and a little privacy up with a lot of crap, but swoop down to the front, eventually you win through, just performing that strange through grit." loose-limbed jogging dance of The problem is - and it's the his, they're ready to shed a little problem that The Police are sweat.