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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).

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" 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. slowly having to face - a balance The band wind up with a clutch has to be maintained between of encores, the entire house up Making Music and Making It. on its feet, bathed in the white "Zenyatta", despite its obvious light of the huge spotlights that highlights, suggested that The Andy is wont to describe as " the Police are paying the price for punter-blinders". Chalk up spending so long on the road. another one for rock and roll. The Whereas previously they have recolonisation of America moves been their own sternest critics, on. the quality control was not as After the show, queues of kids stringent as it might have been. attempt to talk their way Andy is aware of the danger backstage. As I'm hustled zone: through the door, a girl grabs my 'With us, the last two years arm. "Tell them I'm your have been like ten years girlfriend. Pleasel'' I apologise compressed into two, in terms of and keep moving. what most bands achieve. We've Sting is stuffing his clothes into spent very little time recording, a bag preparatory to driving back most of the time on the road to New York. Triinking about the trying to live up to everybody's paying customers outside who expectations. In the next year are pleading for admittance, I we'd like to redress the balance wonder if the contact with fans is considerably and come off the something he misses. road for six months or nine This is evidently a matter he's months and spend a lot more considered before. time writing and recording." "I'm twenty eight years old. Sting may laugh when I Our fans are probably on average enquire whether it's ~etting about eighteen. The initial harder to come up with new contact was actually never that material and reply, "I keep close. The contact I relish is writing the old ones again. It's a actually the physical contact with real drag," but I'm sure he is an audience. You can actually >- uneasy about the situation. touch 'em, or you can hear them ~ Andy, the most experienced of shouting at you. ~ the three, tends to have the best "As far as being part of their i perspective: generation, I'm not. I was a a: " Record company and schoolteacher. I was something it audience alike want us to keep else. So it's not as if I'm suddenly ~ coming up with number ones estranged from people I had because we're having our fifteen close personal contact with. ~ minutes and everybody likes it. "We spend all our time on But it isn't easy to keep coming aeroplanes, in hotels and on up with stuff. It's painful. We stage, and you don't actually have to produce music that's up meet people. And we're making to the standards of the group­ something original and something that sounds like The "I'd like to be doing Police. something else when I'm "You could say that anything we do is commercial, purely irrelevant. I don't think because we do it. But we want I'm irrelevant at the stuff that can stand on its own whether we do it or not." moment, but I could be." It's very tempting to make records that sound like the kind of music for people, music to be e popular than cream cheese. David Hepworth thing likely to sell. Sting stresses played on the factory floor, in orward to their hols. the pitfalls of pure calculation. offices, in schools, and we're "What we once thought of as never there. So there is a danger commercial may not turn out to of becoming so isolated that you be commercial. It's a very fickle don't know what's going to go "I'm being stuck on more and send off for the chest expander world. And I'm the first person to down. I find that very more American walls every day," after all. admit that we've been bloody disconcerting." he grins later. "It's bloody "It's taken us three years to lucky." He trusts that all this success painful, I'll tell you." break this country," he says, and attention hasn't turned his while shaving at the same time. AMERICAN AUDIENCES are a head to the extent that he won't ONE OF those wielding the " It's no good coming here on breed apart. Not only do they know when it's time to quit. drawing pins is ooubtless the girl your first tour expecting to take dress like people about to embark "It's not as if we're going to who cornered me back at the this country over. One name on a walking tour of The Lake need the money or the ego boost. hotel and, in hysterical tones, band which I won't name got District-windcheaters are de I'd like to be doing something accused me of lying when I very upset when they didn't rigeur - they've also become so else when I'm irrelevant. I don't assured her that the band were happen straightaway and they've conditioned to expect think I'm irrelevant at the not staying here. never come back. That sort of "showmanship", that they sit moment but I could be. It could No doubt she'd also come over attitude is a little silly, because tight through the first few happen in five years, two years, a little unnecessary if she could the country is so immense. numbers, obviously wondering ten years, one. As long as it feels see Sting now, conducting an "There's a lot of inertia here, what's happened to the dry ice natural and right and dignified, interview dressed in nothing there's a lot of conservatism. If and lasers. then we'll carry on doing it. If not, more than a white towel. Eyeing you really want to crack it-and It's not long, however, before let's knock it on the head. his torso from the other side of we do - you have to spend a there's a mass of dancing bodies "Because of our position, we the tape machine, I decide to long time here, you have to put down at the front. By the time have a 1,seful viewpoint of the Sting has embarked on his first world. We see it and can bring

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5 from previous p1ge back a view of it that most people leather coat with the fur collar. girl's voice pleads. "Sting! I love and wondering why he only don't have. So to that extent it's Larry escorts him out of the stage you I" owns two pairs of shoes. useful. But when we start getting door, up the alley, past the "Hey, I thought I was supposed into mysticism and private drugs security fence and Into the bus. STEWART IS still in the dressing to be worth millions. Why do I and all that, then forget us. Don't As he climbs aboard, looking room, saying goodbye to a few never have the time to buy buy the records any more." forward no doubt to the associates, looking at the shoes?" He slings on the expensive anonymity of its dark interior, a disgraceful state of his sneakers, Next year, lads. Next year. 7 LIES BY STATUS QUO ON VERTIGO RECORDS I had another drink after another drink And then I tried to crawl to the door I had another smoke after another joke And then I couldn't take any more It didn't change a thing, not any single thing When someone tried to tell me for sure I heard another voice that said I wasn't in a dream I read a word or two about everything I never knew the way that it ought to have been They never told me a thing about it I never did know a thing about it

Repeat chorus And the lies in the eyes of a thousand eyes They won't go away And the times that I've tried Are the times that I find they don't show today But you make me feel so good

I woke up after four still lying on the floor Waiting to be carried away I woke up once again a little after ten Will things be any better today? It doesn't change you see, it only changes me Will someone try to tell me I'm sure I'm gonna hear a voice and know It Isn't in a dream I'm gonna read the lines again and look between I never knew the way that it ought to have been They never told me a thing about it I never did know a thing about it

Repeat chorus

I'm going back to school, I'm gonna check the rules And see if I get carried away I'm going back again, I'm gonna try again Don't listen what the people might say It doesn't change a thing, not any single thing Will someone try to tell me I'm sure I'm gonna hear a voice and know it isn't in a dream I'm gonna read the lines again and look between I never knew the way that it ought to have been They never told me a thing about it I never did know a thing about it

Repeat chorus

I'm gonna hear a voice and know it isn't in a dream I'm gonna read the lines again and look between I never knew the way that it ought to have been They never told me a thing about it I never did know a thing about it

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Blue Moon By Showaddywaddy on Arista Records Blue moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own

Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me Someone my heart could never hope to hold I heard somebody whisper " Please adore me" And when I looked the moon had turned to gold

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own

Words and music by Rogers/Hart Reproduced by permission Big 3 M usic IF ANYONE should be equipped to tell the story of ELO, it's drummer Bev Bevan. The origin.al percussionist with The Move, he has been playing on hit records since 1967, helping to form ELO along with Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne in 1971. Unfortunately, his biography of the band, " The Electric Light Orchestra.Story" (Mushroom OUR FLY on the studio wall is £3.95), isn't much more than a spreading a rumour that Bob superficial account of the trials Geld of got himself into trouble and tribulations of making it and down at " Top Of The Pops" the the rewards of success, which other week. Seems the lad was repeatedly harps on about the being subjected to one of the ridiculous amounts of money Beeb's thirty second in depth that world wide success can interviews, the first question of bring in. which was "Well, Bobby, what ELO fans might be spellbound have you been up to the last few to hear, for instance, that Kelly months?"; to which the suave Groucun is " full offun, always crooner replied, "listening to the cracking jokes" but the rest of us radio and hearing nothing but might hanker after a bit more *"** Police records!" insight. Hardly anywhere in the Well, you can imagine what b?ok does Bevan seriously consternation that caused. Plugs discuss the music, for instance. were pulled, heated exchanges were exchanged and Geldof's AS HAS been rumoured for a interview was deleted from the while now, Gary Numan is running order. Obviously Michael planning a farewell concert for Parkinson didn't hear about it the Spring. No details are because he promptly issued an available at present but it seems invitation to The Lanky One to likely that the venue for this appear on his show. concert - which has always But, seriously, the tension figured in Gary's plans- will be between The Police and The Rats London's Empire Pool at seems to be a good deal more Wembley. More details as we get intense than mere professional them. competition. We can't be sure, Other Numan news is that Gary but it' s likely that The Rats are the has invested in a soundstage at combo that Sting refers to as a Shepperton Studios {alongside "certain name band" in the The Who's base there) and that interview this issue. Children, he recently won his pilot's license. please!

BLOCKHEADS: " Blockheads" one about .. • ALL TIME (Stiff) The Best British Band. 14. JERRY LEWIS: I'm A Little 7. THE RUTS: Babylon's Busybody (?I The song with the TOP TWENTY Burning (Virgin). Love it. What most words ever. Try saying it does "Babylon" mean, chaps? when you're pissed DHt 8. THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH 15. MOBSTER: Mobster Shuffle A ' " ,. 1 Tre_., BAND: The Intro And The Outro (7). A group that deserves a lot (Sunset). Listen to this song in more recognition. your cupboard. 16. SORE THROAT: Zombie Rock 9 . THE STRAY CATS: Runaway (Hurricane). (Great video). The liw~l--- Boys (Arista). The best thing from only skinhead punk group to play R&B. , . HEADLINE: Don't Knock The America for some time. 17. SLADE: Gudby To Jane Baldheeds (Virgin). The most 10. LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANI 5: Nobody Wants You (Polydor). This song makes me underrated single of 1980. feel a little bit taller. 2. THE SNACKS: Baby Elephant When You're Down And Out (M CA). My hero. This song 1s 18. PRINCE BUSTER: Big Five Walk {Demo). Undiscovered (M elodisc) The rudest song ever talent, wonderful entertainment. dedicated to me. 11 , GARY GLITTER: I'm The to slip through Mary 3. THE SPECIALS: Do Nothing Whitehouse's knickers. (2-Tone). Best song they've every Leader Of The Gang (GTO). One of the truly great performers of 19. ANGELIC UPSTARTS; I'm An done (bandwagon job) Upstart (Warner Bros). One of the 4. MADNESS: The Prince (Stiff). ourt1me. 12, U ROY: River John M ountain few songs to have a word that This one caused an earthquake. sounds like lizard In it. 5. DOCTOR FEELGOOD : Baby (Treasure Isle). / remember 20. ROLAND ALPHONSO: Songs Jane (United Artists). They've got cutting my foot to this song. 13. T .REX: Deborah (Regal For My Father (7). He probably w hat's called zip and zap. didn't get paid for It. 6. IAN OURY AND THE Zonophone). Have you heard the ROBIN SIMONS, the former Ultravox guitarist, who has been playing with Magazine for the last year, departed recently under something of a cloud. The rest of the band apparently felt that he wasn't giving a hundred per cent and so they decided to dispense with his services and audition for a replacement. Simons, for his part, claimed that the band never tried to properly involve him and failed to give him due credit for his musical contributions.

IS IT a bird, a 'plane or, in fact. a those cartoon creatures you one-time Capital Radio deejay know and love are to be found on that lurks beneath the bulging the LP, which is written, blue jumpsuit we know as produced and intoned by Ken Captain Kremmen? Whatever it himself. He even bought himself is, its stunning feats of heroism a Moog synthesiser with which to and inter-galactic goonery have produce the endless stream of just been committed to a bleeps and squiggles normally long-playing record-" The known as "sound effects". Adventures Of Captain In fact the only noises in the Kremmen" - released this very entire project not his own are the week. voice of Alan Freeman, "which I " I've given up trying to be thought would add depth to an bulky," reveals the bearded otherwise tripey load of rubbish", wonder. "Kremmen is my last and the magical strains of two attempt to grasp onto the Symphony Orchestras. remaining shreds of "The value is absolutely Fantasy-Land. incredible," he points out. "Take "Underneath this coat," he away all those voices and you'd explains, "there's a sort of be left with a really good album." matchstick thing called ·t,ody' - As if this wasn't enough, the I laughingly referred to as 'bod' - man's superhuman workload has and I've always been a also included eight new episodes teeny-weeny personette, so I of "The Video Show" as well, the think it's really my Other Self first of which appeared at New that's trying to adopt this Year. Indeed the worldwide muscular frame, rush out and do market for "The Video Show" is these brave deeds." now so vast that the Thames Kenny Everett claims the Studios simply can't supply mighty Kremmen - once no enough episodes. more than a five-minute filler on Letters keep flooding in from his enormously successful "Video such outbacks as Zimbabwe, Show" - was originally inspired "where they probably watch TV by Dan Oare, the Eagle comic and up trees", and Australia, where The Goon Show. they're having to make do with "Flash Gordon is what Kremmen /astyear's New Year's Eve show .Behold Squeeze's new would have been if Dino 0. to welcome in 1981 . keybo,rds player, one Paul Car­ to recording. He was formerly in Horrendous had met me at an " Imagine it," says Ken, "they'll­ rtck ~ name. Paul, according to London pub band Ace and wrote earlier stage". · all be watching this bloke going Chris Diffol'd, WU the eighty­ their Number One hit "How Such has been the demand for 'Yes, any second now, folks, it'll thlnl person, no INS, to be long1" of a few years back. More Kremmen. and the "Video Show" be 19801' I mean, people think I'm audition,d u a replacement for recently, he's been on a solo deal itself, that Everett has been insane and yet people like that Jools Holland and qme via a with Phonogram from wh~ forced to lock himself away from exist." recommendation from drummer period this photo dates, although the outside world for a gruelling You'll have to wait 'til the Pete Thomu of The Attractlons. we hear the facial fuzz is now a five weeks in the phone Spring for the remaining seven Paul is ~Y no newcomer thing of the past! booth-sized room in his house episodes of the new series but. called "The Studio". meantime, "The Adventures" " I'm in love with technology," album should be flooding the is how he explains his passion for record racks. YOUR GUIDE TO THE BOWIE CENTRESPREAD : walls of switches and dials. "I "You know the story," grins Large photo Aladdin Sane ( 19731 (P/C JOE STEVENS.1 Smaller was built for this century. Show Everett modest as ever, " If you phot os clockwise from top left Ziggy Stardust (1972) !PIC JOE me a knob and I'll tweak it!" go into W. H. Smiths today you'll STEVEI\JSI, Recording Ziggy for TV (1972) 1P/C. JOE STEVENS! Kremmen, the cuddly Carla, have to fight your way through Diamond Dogs tour (1974) /P/C JOE STEVENS!. Scary Monst ers Professor Gittinger, the millions of them to get to the And Supercreeps (1980); Stage tour (1978) /P/C LF/1 . Stage tour gruesome Gort- every one of record that you ,ea//ywantl" (1978) 1P/C LFI!. and (centre) Station To Station (1976) 1P/C LFII 11

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13 ODY GRANT is a self-made concern - Frank, an engineer, man, independent and and Stanley Blackborn - a local Etotally immersed in his councillor who handles Eddy's music - which is his business, accounts and the only white man his leisure, his life. He has his in the business. own record label, Ice Records, It didn't seem such a good idea writes all his own material, sings to me to have almost solely and plays all the instruments on family working with-him. They his records, records, engineers A might be less critical of his work, and arranges in his own 24-track with a complacent atmosphere coachhouse studios in Stamford AT THE CONTROLS therefore perhaps developing. Hill, North London. But Eddy is so sure, so confident Until recently he even pressed of himself and his music, that he the records himself until he had Deanne Pearson visits Ice Records and talks to dismisses this as irrelevant. to sell the pressing plant because The Boss (Eddy Grant), The Leading Artist (Eddy "Nobody ... well, I mean it was losing too much money. anybody, can criticise my work, "Other people were using it," Grant), The Band (Eddy Grant), The Chief but they must keep their he explains, "mostly friends, criticisms to themselves. I've small local bands who just didn't Engineer (Eddy Grant) .. spent all my life making music have the money to pay for it." and I don't need someone telling Also when he bought it some me how to do it. And that's in no 18 months ago there were a lot of way being egotistical, it's just small independent labels who being factual about how I feel." made use of the plant, but these This is exactly why he writes, are now gradually being bought sings, plays and records up by major companies with their everything himself, starting own facilities, or else folding initially because he was sick of altogether. people, outsiders, letting him "It's very difficult being down or not doing things independent in a country like properly. England with these corporations "I was at a recording session who wantto hog all the once, and I was expecting a guy industry," Eddy says resignedly, to turn up to play, and when I "and if you don't go along with phoned after a few hours waiting them you become an outsider, at £36 per hour he just said 'oh, I and being an outsider in this can't make it tonight man - just world is tough, you know?" do what you gotta do', - you know, that sort of thing. IT ALL started in the sixties, when "And I thought, well that's the Eddy was at school and formed a end of it, I'm not going to be band called The Equals who went sitting waiting on people any on to have considerable chart more. I'm like that- I don't like success. to be hung up by people, or "That was my first lucky depend on them to the degree break," Eddy says. "Everyone where it upsets me." needs that initial lucky break, Eddy's own musical education especially in the music began by playing the trumpet business." first, followed by classical music He had come to England from at school, then guitar, doing Guyana, in South America, with Chuck Berry and Rolling Stones his parents and five brothers in numbers, progressing on to other 1960, and it was in 1967 that the instruments, from there through Equals had their initial success on curiosity, an interest in learning, the continent. In 1968 they had and a desire for self-sufficiency. their first British hit, "Baby Come The only thing he cannot do, Back", but after a further obviously, is play everything successful four years Eddy himself live, for which he uses a decided he wanted to work on his regular 9-piece band. I wondered own and left the band, although if they didn't sometimes wish to he went back and completed a be involved in the recording as couple of albums with them a few >- well - but I should have guessed years later. ~ the answer from a man so sure With the money he made from ~ about himself, his strengths and the Equals Eddy bought property ~ his weaknesses. and set up Ice Records with !§ "They may," he says, "but that offices in London, Canada and .., side of it really has got nothing to the Caribbean, and until recently ~ do with them. I like to make my Nigeria. (A disagreement with his music how I want it - I don't partner there, involving heavy ~ want somebody else's point of financial loss. curtailed that view, anybody's else's however.) He built his studio, know he worked hard for this in Islington, bar Alpine and statements watering down with his brothers' help, in because of the way he is so proud Rudolph, who have just moved whatever it is I'm saying and London. and careful of his property and out to live above the studio.) thinking about." "It was hard work," Eddy belongings. The few people he "It was necessary to use family If, however, he wanted to impresses upon me. "You don't allows to use his studio are at first," Eddy outlines, "for incorporate a particularly get nothing without hard work - friends he can trust not to economical reasons, keep intricate piano piece, for that's more important than damage or steal things. overheads down, etcetera, and example, in a song, he would money. You know we shifted 28 This is also one of the reasons everyone w as prepared to put in probably get a more practised skiploads of dirt and rubble out of he keeps his business a family long hours. What's more pianist than himself to play it, he this part of the studio alone." concern, with the whole family of important now though is that I adds. He indicates with a wave of his eight on his payroll. Two can trust the people I work with, hand the small but compact and brothers, Alpine and Rudolph, wholly, because they're my TO DATE Eddy Grant has made immaculately clean recording are more directly involved family, I've known them all my four albums ("Message Man", and mixing area. A notice, "No working in the studio, with the life." "Love In Exile", "Walking On Eating Or Drinking In The Studio others handling business matters Sunshine" and a new one due for At Any Time', hanging imposingly from the office and home. (They THERE ARE in fact only two release in the New Year, as yet just inside the door. You just all live together in Eddy's house outsiders involved in the whole untitled) in the seven years since

14 obviusly, is play everything he left The Equals. He's also had dedication have paid off, Of course it also has to do with A film of the gig was made too two hit singles, " Living On The however, as proven by the lack of airplay, which is so - Alpine's idea and staged by Frontline" and "Do You Feel My worldwide record sales. He has important in any country. In the him with the help of the Carnival Love". had two gold records in Nigeria, Caribbean, Eddy says, his records Committee. It's 40 minutes of live "It's not much," Eddy says countless chart records in the are played all the time, on an footage and general carnival honestly. " Most people would Caribbean and Jamaica, equal par with everyone else. activity and atmosphere, and was have done about 14 albums in hundreds of thousands of sales in He has had his records financed by an outside company that time. But I like it this way, America, and is now becoming distributed through a number of and will be on general release as you don't get over-exposed." big in places as far-flung as companies now, including Pye, a B film, also in the New Year. He likes to take his time over Japan, Yugoslavia, France, Spain Virgin and Phonogram, and it's Eddy financed the album and songwriting - he has never and Italy. the latter, who (through Ensign) therefore retains the rights to made an album in less than a "My records sell everywhere - distributed "Frontline" and " Do that. year for a start-"but it's the apart from England," he says, You Feel My Love" , with whom His next move? Well, it could way in which I work that takes the grinning ruefully. " And that's Eddy is most satisfied. be to the Caribbean, because time, because I play most of the mostly due to the fact that I have although Eddy has lived in instruments myself. It's the never had an effective record AT THE moment he's busy England for 20 years, is settled, at physical act of putting instrument selling operation working for me completing his next studio home, and has lots of roots here after instrument on, instead of in England. It's as simple as that. album, and also a live album now-as well as actually liking five people playing together. And In other countries they have a recorded at the last Notting Hill the place - he just can't stand there's so many other things to good, solid distribution set-up, carnival where he played. Both the cold. do too." w ho are geared to sell my albums are due for New Year And in the Caribbean the sun His time, trouble and music." release. always shines.

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Rabbit By Chas & RUNAROUND SUE BY RACEY ON RAK RECORDS

Here's my story, it's sad but true It's about a girl that I once knew She took my love then ran around With every single guy in town

I should have known it from the very start This girl would leave me with a broken heart Listen people, what I'm telling you Keep away from Runaround Sue

I miss her lips and the smile on her face The touch of her hand and this girl's warm embrace So if you don't wanna cry like I do Keep away from Runaround Sue

She likes to travel around, yeah She'll love ya and she'll put you down Now people, let me put you wise Sue goes out with other guys

Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows I fell in love and my love still grows Ask any fool that she ever knew They'll say keep away from Runaround Sue

Said I gotta Ask any fool that she ever knew Gotta keep away from this girl They'll say keep away from Runaround Sue I don't know what she'll do Keep away from Sue Said, I gotta Yeah, keep away from this girl She likes to travel around, yeah I don't know what she'll do She'll love ya and she'll put you down Keep away from Sue Now people, let me put you wise Sue goes out with other guys Repeat and ad lib to fade

Here's the moral and the story from the guy who knows Words and music by Dimucci/E. Maresca I fell in love and my love still grows Reproduced by permission Dominion Music Ltd.

Gangsters Of The Groove NEW SINGLE FROM G70 'Gangsters Of The Groove· is the new single from 'Gangsters Of The Groove· Heatwave. It's out now, so shoot out and get it GT285 before these gangsters get a contract out on you. HEdTWdllE Taken from the forthcoming album. ·candles· 18 disco top 40 TWO nus WEEKS lABEL BPM I AGO TlfiE/ARTISl WEEK MtrtU!} 98 1 3 DON'T STOP TNE MUSIC Yarbrou11h & Peoeles 124 z 1 DO YOU F££L IIY LOVE Ed!!X Gront Ensi11n M■ rCU!l 117 3 5 IUIIN IIUIIEII ON IIE Goe Bond Dt-lM 1Z2 J 4 2 CBHMTION Kool & The Gong Eltktrl 118 5 1 NEVER IICIIIINA 81VE YOU UP Pttrico Rushen Ansll 125 I 6 WHAT A RIOl IEUMI Artlht Franklin 66 IOOII IIOOIII Bleck Sltte En11gn EJ

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ADAM AND THE ANTS: Young LINCOLN THOMPSON AND THE MUSIC FOR PLEASURE: The for a straight instrumental. Parisians (Decca). Remember the RASSES: Spaceship (UA). Human Factor (Rage). A brisk mix Sounds exactly like Hank Marvin story? Decca snapped up the Connections between Rastafari of OM D's embroidery and Devo's playing an early James Bond ailing Ants in '78 as a kind of and the Star Trekfantasy setting vocals and leaning towards idiot theme backed by a reggaefied token "art/punk" act. "Young tend to get a mite strained here dance rhythm twists. All with a rhythm section and at least six Parisians" was their war-cry, a but- so what?- it's a great heart of silicon. Sounds ice-rink organs. Delirious I decadent, sexually ambiguous song. Prince Lincoln Thompson uneventful to me but then it's the Jackson Browne sounds like a hunk of Cafe Society sleaze that proves yet again that he can first time I've heard the Pleasure. mid-'70s slightly precious skydived into the great vinyl sea marry flawless devotional dub balladeer trying desperately to and sank like a ton of bricks. Two music with techniques, melodies NEON: Miking Wavff (3D). update. Exactly what he is, in fact. years later and - hopla I - the and ideas outside of the usual Imagine "Revolver"-period Mentholated disco fare, shared nouveau Buccaneer/Apache Jamaican reggae spectrum. He's Lennon interpreted by electronic by some breathless female, that mode is launched causing the also blessed with one of the keyboards and a human drum can't keep a great voice down. now notorious Adam to be hailed finest voices to be undeservedly machine. You'll be getting a lot Perfect stuff for one of the (rightly) as a Big Cheese in the ignored. World's worst cover, but warmer than they are. Martini-type patio parties. A pity fashion/pop interface. If you don't let that put you off. it's January really. didn't buy it then, don't bother now. It's just the memory of a ON THE AIR: Another Planet METAL MICKEY: Metal Mickey band once fading out and a (WEA). No keeping this lot either. Magic (Mlckeypops); MARINA record company still cashing in. Simon Townshend and friends DEL REY: I Love A Shark Avoid like the plague. speed spacewards, griping about (Hannibal); MAX SPLODGE: nuclear wars and factories, with Bicycle Seat (Deram). OK, brace the intent of populating a more yerselves. Three kitsch classics hospitable globe. Just them and for those with money to burn. the enormous stack of Jam Metal Mickey is unspeakable albums from which every note of tripe. Computer-banked chirping this song has been so backed by what sounds horribly transparently filched. Good, but like St. Winifred's School Choir too familiar for comfort. with tonsilitis. " I Love A Shark" is a loose disco romp in which THE GAP BAND: Bum Rubber On Marina develops an unhealthy fascination for this ocean-going Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Mel THE CARPETTES: The Last Lone (Mercury). With more funky Ranger (Beggars Banquet). Rule bone-crusher 'til fins get a bit out chin-wagging along the lines of One: never write a pop song with of hand. Every note a steal from "Oops Upside Your Head", The a chorus the same as the verse Frank Zappa's "Overnite Gap Band fail dismally to render unless you are (al stunningly Sensation". Splodge checks in life more tolerable. They should original, (b) deeply meaningful, with what is, without doubt, the or (cl already internationally most gruesome record in the BUZZCOCKS: Running Free (UA). have either kept this sparse and simple or else chucked in every famous. The down-trodden entire history of civilisation. Buucocks just get better all the About the best producer too, sound effect known to electronics; Carpettes are none of the above, time. Shame they don't sell many though articulate and economical Matumbi's Dennis Bovell. In fact, records. After failing consistently then at least it might have turned out "unusual". As it is, " Burn in a Jam/Police mould and all the ideal ingredients to be a to notch up The Big One, nobody produced to sparkling · hit. 1981 can only improve. expects them to be commercial Rubber ..." wiggles its hips aimlessly between the two. All dimensions. One of Beggars' anymore. Apart from a better investments with the UFO: Lonely Heart (Chrysalis). I computerised chorus, Steve synthesised bass lines and steam-engine cymbals. Keep Numan cash. may be wrong, but beneath that Oiggle's 'A' side is pretty typical taking those tablets, boys. knot of unkempt locks and stuff-slightly sentimental, KEITH EMERSON: Taxi Ride muscle-bound macho ranting flattened vocals spread over a (Rome) (Atlantic): RICK that Mankind knows as Phil backing that can't decide if it's TELEX: Soul Waves (Sire); PHIL WAKEMAN: Spider (WEA). Old Mogg, I suspect there lurks a going to be fluid or lumbering COLLINS: In The Air (Virgin). Oh, keyboard players make good? sensitive soul. You know, the and somehow manages to sound the endless inroads into the Not really. Keith Emerson (once type that loves animals and like both at once. Pete Shelley's synthesised world I Moogs for the of him, Lake and Palmer) comes doesn't actually get vicious when flip, "What Do You Know?", is young and old. Telex are Belgian back with his old trademark. An it hears a Billy Joel album. more effervescent sheets of noise and sarcastic. "Soul Waves" is a exercise in technicaily "Lonely Heart" reveals all - punched with a brass section and far cry from their amusingly accomplished but completely soupy sentimentality, fragile topped off with a sensuous black phrased "Looking For St. Tropez" vacuous pomp that sounds like piano breaks and a clever sense vocal. It's excellent. . debut, a '79 send up of the it's playing at 78 rpm. Not good. of structuring. He Just fell in with Kraftwerk man-machine. This Rick Wakeman, now his own the wrong crowd when he was STEVIE WONDER: I Ain't Gonna sounds like they've gone all Yes-man, knocks apologetically young, that's all. Stand For It (Motown). More serious and it's as dire as their on the door with his tastefully assembled disco funk effort for The Eurovision Song preposterous multi-layered funk PEARL HARBOUR: Fujiyama from the man who made it Contest. number intoned, in part, by an Mama (WEA); JANE KENNAWAY fashionable to wear your barnet Phil Collins sticks to the other electronic insect. Worse. & STRANGE BEHAVIOUR: IOU like a pantry curtain. The chorus tack, conventional songs (Grow). Two tough mainstream is just an inferior version of the produced I• la Bowie or Gabriell GODLEY & CREME: Submarine releases. Pearl Harbour - late of "Masterblaster" formula. The to sound freeze-dried or tinfoil (Polydor); JACKSON BROWNE: The Explosions - serves up this verse is truly abysmal - Stevie thin. You get the works here - Disco Apocalypse (Asylum). Old (appropriately) volcanic cocktail growling inaudibly in the vocal everything from the swirling keyboard players make good? of diehard rockabilly and basement to the usual smattering cloud of overdubbed vocals to the Well ... yes, actually. Former banshee hiccough&. She bawls of strings, tinkled ivories and Pink Floyd-patented "prehistoric 10cc persons, Godley & Creme, about booze 'n' "baccy" and dozing steel guitars. Cheap but scream" guitar sound. Quite mercifully dump their fearful line claims "I'm just about to blow my chart-bound. palatable, I'm ashamed to say. in "intelligent cynicism" and go top" and doesn't appear to be 24 joking. If Janis Joplin had ever met The Cramps, this would have been the upshot. Strange Behaviour deliver tastefully restrained guitar grit as if their world revolved around Keith Richard. " IOU'"s riddled with appalling puns about Jane's scant bank balance but deserves to make her a bob or two.

JOE JACKSON BAND: Beat Crazy (A&M). It's wise to ignore Joe's caustic jibes about the slaves of fashion and just succumb to the forceful reggae-boned attack. It's hard to tell if he's serious anyway. It's worth shelling outforth9 flip-side alone, a drastic re-working of " ls She Really Going Out With Him?" recorded live and featuring the soothing tones of the rhythm section doing their best to impersonate The Nolana. A classic of its kind.

DAVID ESSEX: Heart On My SIHve (Mercury). Another deluge of soap-suds. David'• latest asaault on the heart-strings and tear ducts is at least convincingly constructed even if it does harvest corn by the baleful. Talk about getting your metaphors in a twist. "/ wore my heart on my sleeve and my jacket got torn I And I Just don't think I can wear it any more, "he warbles. But to whom? His tallor, his doctor, tha bloke at tha dry-cleaners •..7

DONNA SUMMER: Cold Love (Geffen); HEATWAVE: Gang1t ers Of The Groove (OTP). Two ways to kick-start your limbs when surrounded by a galaxy of neon strip-lights. "Cold Love" is lnflnltely the better. Brainless lyrics lashed onto one of those lavish, pulsating disco core■ plus the compulsory bl1cuit-tin drum sound. Heatw1ve invent a ridiculously funny Mafia Mean-streets-type myth In order to ladle yet more mediocre funky fire from the bottomless disco cauldron. It's not exactly the stuff of which charts are made but In a week like this, who knows? NROHELSDIMARYPYERG ODANNISETONEIDDERF TGREBOBMARLEYPSEJM LSETILATAKSPETYYDE YYDAWSAONTLTEHRALL HHJETHNUSJUWORNERO ASAI IRDAUEOUADIDOS LHARMLENIPNHYNAOWN The names listed are hidden In the diagram They run horlzontally, ISDMLMOKPDSONVPTDI vertically or diagonally - many of them are printed backwards. But EOEOOMYAKROETHENRL remember that the nemes are HTRASHZCTERLTPOHIL always in an uninterrupted straight line, letters in the right order, SRNENRTOLCDIETELHO whichever way they run Some letters will need to be UHd more EEDNONNYI IADGMEHTC than once - others you won't need to use at all Put a line through the RTRBW Y ORKFFNNAJRPL n1mn H you find them Solution on page38 EENATOCDECIFIOEYSI ALTHIA AND DONNA GREYHOUND PLUTO SHERVINGTON TPIUS L RCDVICSNMTSS ASWAD HARRY J PRINCE BUSTER BOB ANO MARCIA HEPTONES PYRAMIDS SNFEE S ABRNRNDUESRN BOB MARLEY HORACE FAITH RASSES BORIS GARDNER INNER CIRCLE SHEILA HYLTON UFFKH R EESAARPEEEEA BRUCE RUFFIN JIM MY CUFF SKATALITES DANDY JOHN HOLT STEEL PULSE BMUK OT HSMIAALTLS I D DAVE AND ANSIL COLLINS KEN BOOTHE THIRD WORLD DENNIS BROWN MAYTALS TONY TUFF EARH SS ODPGNPI IKYLN DERRICK MORGAN MELOD1ANS UPSETTI:RS DESM OND DEKKER MILLIE WAILERS CYER ON NOSSUNAHNELA ERROLL DUNKLEY NICKY THOMAS ZAP POW ETHIOPIANS PETER TOSH NTCT NA I IBLEWEOTTIE FREDDIE NOTES PIONEERS IAUI BH RNSNIHTDTLMV RLRO TO IESREENOIPAA PSBE BN AGROMKCIRRED

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26 JUST ABOUT everybody, at 3. If you're buyi ng from a shop some time in their lives, has been far from your home base (which landed w ith a faulty record. Mary is ill-advised at the best of times), lngoldby of Epping Forest is no ask to check the disc first for exception. What can you do warps, obvious scratches, correct about it, she enquires, and have placing of spindle hole etc. you any official rights? 4. If the assistant tries to fob Like any other situation you off, don't scream abuse. Ask involving the exchange of politely and firmly to see the money, you are protected by the manager and persist till you get law. The legal jargon covering satisfaction. the shop's position is that they If you still don't get anywhere must sell goods of with the shop, then seek advice at "merchantable quality and fit for your local Consumer Protection the purpose". In plain English office. this means they're obliged to market only records that are in flawless and playable condition - i.e. no scratches, warps etc. If you receive a flawed copy then you're legally entitled to get all your money refunded. If you accept a replacement instead, then you're entitled to your money back if this replacement proves faulty (or, indeed, another replacement). This can go on until you actually get a copy which you're satisfied meets the proper requirements. Where things tend to get confused is when - instead of offering you cash in return - the 44 1, f!f( CLAS.H shop offers you a credit note. NOT SURPRISINGLY, we've had Z,Y ll: S1ft.S ), llONMAIOUf Credit notes can only be a few enquiries about the lesser 4, .NJDAS,.1UT 5, MOJOIUltAO exchanged for merchandise and known works of The Beatles, • · Of:,= 1.El'PMO 7 , U UilOW only at the shop {or chain of prompted by the tragic death of I , sot *•1..tv 9, AC/1>C IOilll-SCOTT shops) at w'hich they're issued. John Lennon. Nick Sayers of 10, SAXOfrl 11, S«NIIPiOfltS Once you've accepted a credit Coventry says he's got all the 12. Tiil.JAM JS, H UIND(:U original albums but has since 14, SfOUXSlt note, as opposed to money, then J S, IMOIIUS heard of a couple of compilations U.. STI,-, LllfU F'IIIIC(lt$ the shop in question isn't legally 17, \la40 11. TOtlltlJTS obliged to r,efund your cash. tf in and wonders if they're worthy of II. QUlElil J(I,. ICM'll doubt, always ask for cash his hard-earned cash. 21 , ni•c U . SlATl!SQi,Q instead of a credit note. The first came out almost a U , IV•MOtlts 14 WHUU.... IC( If, however, you buy a record year ago and is called "Rarities" , U . H it 1'1STOLS 2e. uou.. u. 11 and decide that you don't like 1t though it consists of material 27. TIii'. M.MJriU 2'1. stCllttfA'F" ll after all, some shops may that's already been made U, CtNUt.S lO. ,1.1tllC 1,..C:l LTO actually agree to exchange it for available to the public; the selling )1, 1Hf: WK0 >2, Tlo!C Nit.JC:( another new one (or a credit point is that some tracks haven't n . GAO •t,1111,l,.ti )4. 11:USH been easy to find. Items of H. II.ACK II.MATH note). The situation here is ]6,, STJIAM:ilCltS )1. ADAM ' TH[ AltU different as they're nor obliged to interest on this one include some )I. MAl(.01.~ OW[ # lltVf$) )'9. PtH:fLOW replace your record because of their earliest (and best) 40, .ANi..tLIC U#UAIUS 4 J • I CM'lt V.$KE:S TO ASlflSJ there isn't actually anything Mersaybeat- "This Boy", " Yes 4Z, SPAIIO,IIU l,lLL[T U. ACJl)C LOCO wrong with it (apart from the fact It Is", a classic example of 4~. TO.,.Alt 45. Pl>StMfJCS you don't like it). Lennon's experimental use of the A6, HA.ll\. O'CONNO. In that situation it's best to 'B' side - "You Know My Name" accept a credit note because, in - and a brace of truly hilarious playing the album you bought in German versions of "She Loves the first place, you've obviously You" and "I Wanna Hold Your decreased its value. Hand". There's also the original Now some shops may refuse to acoustic version of"Across The refund the full price because Universe" (from a Nature "you've been playing it". This Is Conservation LPt including absolute rubbish. You had to play sound effects of birds splashing it to discover its faults. Don't be around in ponds. thrown off by tactics of this kind. The other album (also on EMI) Insist on your legal rights. is called "Ballads" which is a David Hepworth (who used to collection of The Beatles' soapier work in a record shop) offers moments {mostly McCartney's). some further useful advice: Again great stuff but nothing 1. Treat records with care new. (particularly new ones). Don't return a disc to a shop covered in fingerprints and doghairs and expect them to sympathise with your problem. 2. Keep anything which proves that you purchased it at the shop in question: receipts, carrier bags, price stickers etc. Always ask for a receipt when buying. Actually I hear tell by those that know about these things that Australia is going to be this year's Scotland. This presumably means the music press seizing on the talented new bands and making life next to, impossible for them by giving them far too much to live up to far too soon - though there may be other connections concerning drink and violence, come to think of it. (You're fired- Scottish Ed.) Where was I? Oh yes -fear, trembling and Australians. As it turns out,"1Need Two Heads" by The Go-Betweens (Postcard) is really very good indeed. With a brief nod to American psych -er, er, weirdo sixties rock, this is a plaintive, stripped down, tuneful song employing the spartan, rhythmic energy of The Cure and the warm, melodic instinct of sh;gles Teardrop Explodes. The 'B' side, "Stop Before Over in the electronics department, we find You Say It" is more of the same, empha~i~ing their use of strange imagery. Very promising Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft who and recommended. (Coqtact: SAE to Postcard have a new offering - "Der Rauber Und Der Records, 185 West Princes Street, Glasgow.) Prinz"/"Tanz Mit Mir" ("The Robber And The Prince" /"Dance With Me") (Mute). "Der Moving down the Clyde, we come to Rauber" is simple, light and catchy (good Greenock where The Cuban Heels are long contrast with the lyrics) while "Tanz" shows overdue some success. "Walk On Water" OAF at their more aggressive and threatening, (Cuba Libre) might just provide it. This is with conventional band instruments adding modern, clean rock-funk- rather too close to Talking Heads and Simple Minds at times for extra scope and power to the electronics. A comfort, but also boisterous and energetic three language lyrical translation is included. Good package. with a hook that bites slowly but surely. The 'B' side, "Take A Look" shows more of their Still with Mute, Robert Rental has his first R'n'B roots. Worth acquiring. (No contact single out in quite a while. Mr. Rental was among the very first with both independent address; try Rough Trade Mail Order-SAE to singles and synthesisers and thus clearly has 137 Blenheim Crescent, London W11.) a lot to answer for. "Double Heart", however, Edinburgh's Fire Engines are loud, noisy, attractively energetic but not too good at is excellent stuff. Simple and danceable, it writing songs. The result is quite acceptable if builds nicely and also uses other non-electronic instruments, notably Thomas you just want a raw, noisy beat to dance to or Leer with a catchy piano hook and what whatever but otherwise will probably grate on you delicate sensibilities. "Get Up And Use sounds like a banjo. The whole thing sounds rather mournful but is in fact attractively Me" certainly did on mine, though positive and has a haunting, addictive melody. " Everything's Roses" (Codex Communications) is certainly invigorating Much more mournful is "On Location" which stuff and pretty damn good all round, in fact. has a lot less tune but a lot more early Roxy Music. Good Record. More to come on Pop:Aural. (Contact: SAE to (Contact for Mute: SAE to 16 Decoy Avenue, 124/SAlnwickhill Road, Edingburgh.J Finally, Another Pretty Face are hardly new London NW11.) arrivals but "Heaven Gets Closer Every Day"/"Only Heroes Live Forever" is the !irst EXCITING RECORDS on their own Chicken Jazz label and easily their best effort to day. Both sides are very American influenced, with " Heaven" (a neatly FROM TRENDY PLACES double-edged song about impending war in I was severely taken to task last week by The West) sailing dangerously close to Postcard Records of Glasgow for hinting that Springsteen and "Heroes" soundi~g lik_e a . Orange Juice's "Breakfast Time" was l_ess pacier version of early Lou Reed mirroring his than brilliant (they think it's the best thing OJ "street" characters. Not very original but very have done - sorry but I still don't see it) so I listenable. Try it -the band deserve a break. VIRGIN ON approached their latest release with some . (Contact: SAE to 1st Flat, 16 Cadzow Place, caution, not least because it's by an Australian Abbeyhi/1, Edinburgh.) band. Red Starr THE RIDICULOUS IF THE radio stations would only play real records by people who cared instead of the appalling slop they dish up at present, then Chris Sievey would already be a star. He's the man behind Manchester band The Freshies who make some of the most refreshing tuneful pop you ought to be able to hear. In what seems something of a breakthrough, their eighth and latest single, "I'm In Love With the Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" (Razz), has actually been played on the radio - though only after "Virgin" had been changed t<;> "a certain". (What a triumph for the guardians of our airwaves.) If you haven't already heard the disc in question, this is typically neat, innocently cheerful and well turned out pop, and even encloses its own lyric sheet. As usual the 'B' side is also worth catching- a wittily presented backing track so you can use your lyric sheet! This man is a genius - buy his records. (Contact: SAE to Razz Records, 3 Moors/de House, Oakleigh Court, Timperley, Cheshire.) Chris Sievey in love with the girl on the Manchester etc. etc. GaWhlg and Joa Swift look back on recent

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Today I'll walk along this lonely street Trying to find, find a future New pair of shoes are on my feet 'Cos fashion is my only culture

Chorus Nothing ever change Ohno Nothing ever change

People say to me just be yourself It makes no sense to follow fashion How can I be anybody else'I' I don't try, I've got no reason 'cos

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I'm just living in e life without meaning I walk and walk, do nothing I'm just living in a life without meaning I talk and talk, say nothing

Repeat chorus

Walk along the same old lonely street Still trying to find, find a reason Policeman come and smack me In the teeth I don't complain, it's not my function

Repeat chorus

They're just living in a life without meaning I walk and walk, do nothing They're just playing in a life without thinking They talk and talk, say nothing

I'm just living in a life without meaning I walk and walk, I'm dreaming I'm just living in a life without meaning I talk and talk, say nothing

Words and music b y Golding/Dammers Reproduced by permission Plangent Visions Music Ltd. SHE'S SO MODERN

Gaga gaga She's always trying her impressions She wants to be a photograph La la la la . .. I gotta say it now Chorus She's so 20th Century Repeat chorus She's so 1970's She knows the right things to say La, la, la, la, la ... She's gotthe right clothes to wear 'Cos she's a modern girl, oh yeah And Jean confided to me A modern girl, yeah She's Mona Lisa's biggest fan ARTIST: THE BOOMTOWN RATS Gaga gaga She drew a moustache on her face A modern girl now, oh yeah She's always seen her as a man TITLE: SHE'S SO MODERN (She's so modern) And Charlie ain't no Nazi She likes to wear her leather boots YEAR: 1978 LABEL: ENSIGN And Suzie is a jewel 'Cos it's exciting for the veterans REQUESTED BY: She flashes when she smiles And it's the tonic for the troops DEBRA MAYHEW, OA0BY, She's cunning and she's clever LEICESTER She's got the low-down in her files Repeat chorus to fade Magenta's the best You know she really makes me laugh Words and music by Geldof/Fingers Reproduced by permission Sew er Fire Hits/Zomba M usic Publishers Ltd......

Males (2 mods, 1 heavy freak) wish to get In touch with Wanted: Male, 19/20 (Colchester or lpowich areal Into Good looking girl wants a good looking male penlrlend, good looking females of same musical interests (dislike Kraftwerk, Adam and the Ants, Hum,n league, O.M.D., to •!led 16+. Likes most kinds of music espaclally Police, punks). Also, we don't like Emmordale Farm, Hilda Ogden. converse with blitzy type glrl. (Pie pleaH). Romance Is a discos, parties, football (esp. Liverpool F.C.). Write to: Likes: parties and gigs. Aged 14-16. Sand plceto: Adrian must. Write to: Shaz, 36 Dove Crescent, Dovercourt, Essex, Carole-Ann Underwood, 46 Symonds Avenue, Manor Farm !Ade), Andrew (Doyley) and Andrew (Whfte-m ■ n) , 6 CO1240Y. Estate, Rowmarsh. Rotherham, S. Yorks. Duncan Avenue, Raven1head, Nott.s. My name is Larry Watts (18) and I am a soldier. I would like Thirteen-year-old girl would like to write letters and receive Keen mod fan after male or femalepenpal (13-15), must be to write to any female (my age) with the same Interest, 11 letters from handsome skinheads, aged 1•+. Interests are interested In all sports !hockey eepeclally). Fava gro•ps: myself; I like all sports, especially skiing, and my musical Ice-skating. discos, fashion, Madness, Selecter and Bad Manners, Specials, Madness. lntere1ted in writing tastes cover everything from funk to classical, but not Specials. Especially The Police. Please send a photo if letters and wearing bright colours. A.l.A. Apply to: Denise punk. Send pie to: Gnr l Watts, 0 Bty, 2nd field Regt RA, possible to: Mandy, 75 L..stchmere lane, Kingston-upon­ Gresty, 17 Tarporley Walk, Colshaw Farm, Wilmslow. L..srkhill Bko, Wilto. Thames, Surrey. ChHhire. We are three boyo who want female penpals, and our rm 18, like most music, football, writing and sport. Female 4good looking fellas (16-19) w1nted. Reward: 4 good interests are football, having a laugh and mucking about. penptls wanted. and I will reply to all letters. Aged 15+. looking girls aged 16. lntertete Include football, 111 types of We all like The Police. Undertones and so on. Aged 14·16. and please Include photo if possible. Cheers: Keith Barrow, music (apart from Osmond■) . Photo• appreciated. Write to: Hope we get offers. Please Hnd photos to: Plckles, Elvia 245 J1rvi1 Walk. Beswick, ,11nchester. DI, Jan, U11 and Karen. 28 Mynttrnt Court, Victoria Drive. and Keegan, 137 Gorwgdd Ro1d, Gowerton, Swansea, Wimbledon SW19 6BW Wast Glam.• Wales. I like Madness, Specials 111d The Beat, but I hate heavy metal, rock 'n' roll and Numan. My hobbies are flthlng. Nicola Francis (151requires malt tad, must be Into Elvis and Sixteen-year-old, pretty ugly, and totally unintereoting lootbtll and playing the tro·mbone. Please write to: Eddie Cochran. Dislikes J,m. Spaclals and skins. Must have female do•• not require good looking male, 16-19; does like Stept-..n Wallace 112). 11 Ashcroft Road, Stopsley, Luton, good collection of record• and badge, for 1w1pping. Aged art, Beatles. Genesis. Police, football. but not disco. heavy. Beds. 14-16. Please send photo to 155 Wellington Place. punk, mod, bright colours, people. Don't write to Julia Hullavlngton, Chippenhem, WIits. Kelbrlck, 41 Sldegate Avenue, Ipswich, Suffolk, on whom I'm called Angela but like to be called Angie. I'm looking for "Wuthering Heightt" (0 level) has had an adverse effect. a 13-15-year•old male or ftmale penpal. If you like listening HI. rm Dawn Woods, aged 14, and would like girl or boy to loud music, like Hazel O'Connor. The Jam and The CIHh, penp■I aged 14-17. I like punks, 1ldnhHd1 and ThePollca. My name Is Sue, ind rm almost 16. 1like all types of music and Ilk• discos, write to: Angle Bytheway, 8 Wassell Drlva, Please send photo to: The Woodman Inn. Clent, Hagley. except Beethoven. Strauss, etc. My favourite group is The Wribbenhall, Bewdley, Wares. Bromsgrove Road, W Midland■ Police. I'm looking for good looking guys who are into tight jeans, motorbikes and M ■ rs hart. My moln hobby is 1 am looking for a few nice boys to write to. I'm really mad Sensitive, lntelllgont (tnd model!) femole wishes to enjoying myself. Send pie to: 9 Millfield Road, Newport, Isle about skinheads. My best hobbies ere discos and writing to converse in long aatlrlcal lttttra with humorous malt (15). of Wight. P030 5RH. boys. I like listening to reggae and lunk. Write to: Susan Preferred likes; Pollet, Floyd, Genesis end most types of Fawcett (151. 37 Llnthouse lane, Wednesfield, music. Also ..,u,t be Into teddybNra. furry voriaty. tight Two 14-year•old mods require two pretty 14-15-yeer-old Wolverhampton, W. Midlands. jeans and late nights Write to· Alison Sade, c/o Two Tone modette/trendy girls. Musical Interest is wide but mostly Teddy, 57 o,~hlll Road, Horeh,m, W. Sussex. into The Jam, Who, O.M.O., Secret Affair and more Jam. Girl (18) Into skins. wants to write/meet skinhHd 18+. Also discos, swearing at teachers, irking posers, and girls. Interests Include drlnklng. going to gigs when I can afford Anarchist punk wants punkette, nice looking, colourful, to All letters 1nswered. Please send pies to: Russell and Paul, it, but mostly having a good time and a laugh. Write to : write interesting lettera ,bout 1hamselve1. Send pie lo: 69 Hudson Rood, Southseo, Hampshire. Clair• Ward, 39 Weardale Road, Sherwood, Nottingham Ivan the Terrible, c/o Go Deof With The Pl1sm1tlcs Club, NG51DD. 114 Reservoir Road, Glouc11ter, GL4 9RY. Electronic weirdo (14) into Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire. Skids. Killing Joke, Public Image ltd. . and Human League Sixieen-year-old girl requires boys and girls Into Numan, A blurred girl wishes to exchange computer readouts with wants penpal with similar interests and/or is in a band or O.M.O. and Ultravox. Must have good sense of humour. I machm1n 16+ leerth y11rt). Write to: Paula O'Hare, 31 would like to form one. To swap Ideas (pie if possible), dislike hHvy mataf, rock 'n' roll and spam (food). Ages 16+. Gentwood Road. Huyton, M•rsey■kl• l.3120H. Please send writ41 to: N•il CAmpb'!tll. !&4 Miller's PJ!lrk. Wellingborough, Write to: Heather Gtocock, 15 Collinson Avenue, photograph. Northants. Please sand S.A.E. for reply! Scunthorpe, S. Humbertide.

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I WAS shattered, nay, DEAR SMASH HITS, saying that she was jealous wearing make-up. But then again, heartbroken to hear that a small You said that we get our because of not gettin' chosen for they're all cowards down here. group of pseudo-headshrinkers money's worth with Smash Hits the part in " Breaking Glass". Personally, I'm sick of the sight have claimed possession of Mr. after saying that the Japanese Well, let me tell you, Toyah was of blokes who look as though David Bowle and placed him in words in "This Wreckage" mean not jealous 'cos she didn't get the they could sandpaper a wall with the dreaded "Krackpot Home For " I'm leaving now". Well, on part. It's just she could of dun a their chins, or "r,ugged" Roger Aged Rock Stars". What an awful Swap Shop, Gary said they mean much betta job of it. There's Moore types reeking of fate for one of the most " I leave you" and I'm sure Gary nothing wrong alrin' your views aftershave. And I'm sick of silly influential men in the world of knows what he's talking about about someone who can't act or females teetering along on pop/rock. I am of course referring Numanoid By The Park, London. sing. So stick that in your Hazel high-heels and stinking of cheap to Ms. Pauli Gill's rather pathetic O'Connor momentums and scent. None of these boring epistle in issue November 27. Well, we did our checking with smoke it. stereotypes are attractive. Thank To clear up the remark about the Japaneae Emba11y and we're Sally, A Toyah, OMD, Bowie and goodness for people like David Mr. Bowie dressing up as a pretty sure they know what Spandau Ballet Fan, sitting on a Bowie, David Sylvian and Dave clown: he is quoted as saying, they're talking about I Call it• Canvey Island gas terminal. Vanian of The Damned. " I'm the last person to pretend draw7 And yes, J.E., girls are jealous. that I'm a radio. I'd rather go out Boys do look better in make-up and be a colour television set." THERE ARE two questions in particular I would like to ask. Firstly, is than they do. Boys in make-up After all, he has been (and still is) Teardrop Explodes' Julian Cope married? Secondly, who is the seem to have a tough, a mime artist, a student at an arts gorgeous looking guy in the middle of the picture of The Cure hard-edged glamour which looks lab, an actor, an artist-the list I■ (Issue December 11 )7 Also a poster of Echo & The Sunnymen enticingly, excitingly, sleazily, endless. would be really appreciated. sinfully erotic. If you don't believe So before you criticise Mr. A Bunnymen Fan From Bolton. me, just get an eyeful of that Bowie's colourful world, Ms. Gill, singer and lead guitarist in that take a look at your own black and The bad newt for would-be Cope catchers is that Julian is already underpublicised group Bauhaus. white boring existence. marrlecJ, to a ladyby the Mme of kllth. The other gentleman undet Vampire "G/am" Fan. Graham Newton, Dunblane, actutiny anawen to the name of Simon Gallup and ha'a The Cura's Scotland. new bus peayer. The Cure'• first b■Mist, MlchHI Dempsey, cafl Agreed, everyone? (Take■ cover, now~ found hi The ANodatn who recently relNHd thamuch expecting barrage of abusive DEAR PAULI Gill and The Spiders replies I) From Mars, acclaimed "Affectionate Punch" LP. This gives us an excuse to I totally agree with you on the print• picture of The Aaocilltes . .. subject of Mr. Bowie's sanity, but IN ISSUE December 11, someone you must agree that he makes wanted a penfriend "who very good music. I'm sure if we supports Liverpool" . .. "dislikes locked the idiot up in a straight sport" and "must have a sense of jacket, and threw him into a humour" . Well, it all follows, concrete cell with a tape recorder, doesn't it? he'd still continue to turn out Annelise, who supports such good music. And there'd be two people as The Jam, Springsteen advantages: the public wouldn't and Parker. have to see his teeth, and he could dress up how he liked and carry on pretending to be an DEAR GIANNA Cinalli (issue elephant. Hold on, that's three December 11 ), advantages. The answers are (1) Definitely A stupid yellow bird who does not on Sundays; (2) Famous corny TV ads and pretends that Russian spy who uses all three telephones don't cost much. names but is really Richard Jobson. I WOULD like to have a word with Another Electrik Apricot. Pauli Gill and her maggots from ~ Jupiter. 8 Firstly, Bowie is not senile. _,_ti· Mich••' o,,mps•r (bani, John P.S. If I win, could you send the Secondly, he has his own teeth. ~ The Anoc;iatts ll•ft to:.:!".. ,' ('"•lt•tJ and IJIIIY McKenzie (vocals}. prize to the Home For Mentally Thirdly, he did not die a ~ Murphy (drums}, Alan ...n .. ,.. •- Unstable Reviewers. burger-stuffed person like Elvis. .______, Sorry, Elvis fans, but I'm just ~ making the point that Bowie has A COUPLE of months ago, a survived fifteen years of the rock IF MAVIS The Microchip is WELL DONE, Toyah Willcox! fellow Australian wrote in "Breaking Glass" was a load of business. Sorry if I'm seeming to worried about the state of the complaining about how Britons country (issue November 27), I take it all too seriously, but while I old cobblers. slag off the Yanks. What can this don't mind honest criticism, that suggest she starts attacking Someone Who Wishes Hazel idiot expect when a Yank shoots was just mindless slagging of a Thatcher and not kids who write O'Connor Would Drop Dead. John Lennon for no reason? I'm great man. on walls to show their feelings. not saying that all Yanks are Fred, Oxford. P.S. Is it true that Hazel is Des Now /will say something that O'Connor's mum? berks, only most of them. I don't will cause much argument in all think that all Pommies and music circles. I think David TO THE two Hazel O'Connor fans DEAR NUMANOID J.E. (issue Aussies are good, but the Yanks Hepworth is absolutely somewhere deep in Devon. December 11 ), seem to be a very violent nation. gorgeoual He can't review Browsin' throo me Smash I couldn't agree morel I don't Yours disgustedly, records for peanuts but he sure Hits (issue December 11 ), I know about boys all over the UK, Punky Rude Girl, Ewell, Surrey. looks good. Yours evilly, noticed a nasty comment you but certainly on the grotty Isle of Sheila The Mad Irish Punk. wrote about Toyah Willcox, Wight I've never seen any boys Continues over 311 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

From previous page IF CHAPMAN gets away using the corner of your front page you garden andshoot it wit h my 1. 77 nerve to putthem down. You excuse that he was mentally have printed "USA $1.75"! rifle. must remember that they w ere disturbed and he didn't know Don't tell me that you're A Very Very Annoyed Blondie originally PUNKS I Only t hree w hat he w as doing when he shot making us pay extra for the Fan From Sheffield. years ago they were producing John Lennon, then America are a benefit of the Yanks! If they get classic cuts like " Remote bigger bunch of idiots than I involved, we'll be invaded by Your wish is granted ... Control" and " Tommy Gun", and thought. Kiss, Leif Garrett and Ronald now they churn out t his - aptly Sam Slade, Birmingham. Reagan (and his Grecian 20001) named - "Egyptian Reggae". So P.S. Chapman should be turned Spare a thought for us poor please, less Clash and more over to Lennon fans for British mortals! Ronnie Gurr! execution. It's the least America The Only NUFC Fan Left In Jim R, A Villa Supporter And could do. Northumberland. Damned Fan, Solihull.

WE HAVE tragically lost a great Relax - the price increase was JUST WHO does Ronnie Gurr man by a senseless, gruesome simply to cover inflation I The t hink he is? I suppose every Clash murder. Peace be with you dollar price tag is totally separate record has to be another version forever, John Lennon. You were and is just there to help any of " White Riot" for you to like it. special. May you always be American new sagents w ho may Comparing Joe Strummer to remembered for the fun and stock Smash Hits! Don't you use Barry Manilow is like comparing happiness you brought us exclam ation marks a lot ! Chrissie Hynde to Cilia Black. If I through your music. was Joe, I'd smack Gurr in the Valerie Collins, an American WHO IS this creep Mark Ellen teeth. {though not very proud of it at the who calls that great song As for "failure creeps", Gurr moment) Beatles fan, Miami, " Banana Republic" by The doesn't know what he's talking Florida. Boomtown Rats, "a drab tedious about. The Clash have alw ays calypso shuffle"? It has reached stuck by what they said. In future the Top 10 already, so who do w hy not stick to reviewing The M OD - What Was It For? Mark Ellen sporting his most you think is right - Mark Ellen or shootable critic's smirk. Nolans? It's just about your the hundreds of thousands of league. We rose like lions One Angry Clash Fan. To the sound of Secret Affair people who have already bought EVERY W EEK I ask myself the Yet we died like sheep it? same question: why do you A Very Irritated Rats Fan, South To the next fashion employ morons like David These have been two excerpts Heroes we were Wales. Hepw orth7 His review of The from our controversial new Jam's "Sound Effects" was In our two tone tonik suits Mark Ellen, of course. serial, "Ronnie Gurr - Birdbrain Corner of the street we waited enough to make any Or Punters' Pal?" To be With our hair nice'n'neat blue-blooded human puke. He continued ... WHO IS this smurf Mark Ellen? Is was meant to be reviewing the Along they came. our little he another disco kid in disguise? modettes His review of The Stranglers was album, not t rying to analyse t he THOUGH I am a Boomtown Rats group or tell the great Paul Weller Proud'n'all they were total rubbish I Please would you fan (maybe that should be he "tries too hard". Come back Yet us "MODS" the big heroes ask him why he says "Dave "was"}, I can't help having a Gave it all up Greenfield needs servicing - and Red Starr- all is forgiven. sneaking suspicion that "Banana ·so please somebody tell me soon" because the single Chairperson, The " We Hate David Republic" is all a big joke on the Hepworth" Society, Croydon. MOD - what was it for? " Tomorrow Was The Hereafter" part of Bob Geldof. was recorded even before their Be fair - you can hardly review It will never cease to amaze me Disillusioned Ex-Mod. first single " Grip"I an album w ithout analysing the how "Banana Republic" actually James & His Bunnymen, group to some extent, now can manage to get into the Top 40, in Brighton. you? spite of the fact that it is the work AHA! I DO declare I know the of a very popular and (normally) reason behind your recent price IS IT possible to print a AT LAST somebody has the right very talented group. increase! My peepers have photograph of Mark Ellen? Then I idea concerning The Clash. I A Very Disillusioned And noticed that in the left-hand would be able to take it up the didn't think anybody had the Dissatisfied Person. SMASH HITS CALENDAR OFFER ENCLOSE THREE TOKENS PLUS CHEQUE OR P.O. FOR 35p. OK, PEOPLE, here's t hat extra token we promised last time for r------, our highly tasty, new improved POSTTO: I calendar offer. This splendid SMASH I Smash Hits Calendar Offer, PO Box 162, Hendon, London NW4. work of art is a post er m easuring I I 29ins x 19ins featuring f ull colour photos of The Jam, Kate Bush, HITS I Name ______I I I Madness and David Bowie plus many others in glorious black CALENDAR Address ______and whit e. I I To claim your calendar, simply OFFER I I fill in the address coupon on the 1 ______· 1 left and send it t ogether with (1 I a cheque or postal order for 35p I , I payable to " Smash Hits" (no 1 coins please), and (2) your three cut out t okens, t o the address I'L --______------______- JI' shown. We'll take care of the TOKEN rest. Happy New Year! 36 CLASH GEAR /1(. POSTERS 1-.--) ~

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Gave you my heart, gave you my soul You left me alone here with nothing to hold Yesterday's gone, now all I want is a smile ru• Hey.how1fliiFlrstther91=- ....,...... ,,. Woll.,...... Andwhen-llnowttw, ...... ""-tllerNlilr ..... you NollllntJN-door-, You'wtolto....._Jud.. .,., w.1111now-..-. You need what you need You can say what you want Not much you c.an do When the feeling is gone May be blue skies above But it's cold when your love's on the rocks love on the rocks, ain't no big surprise Just pour me a drink and I'll tell you no lies Yesterday's gone, now all I want is a smile

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