Smash Hits Volume 35
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April 3-16 1980 30p ! Words to the [OP SINGLES includinfr Talk Of The Town Night Boat To Cairo Turn It On Again puByciiW dlajidiiJI«yI3 JLA ti^Ri^flii^ !'. :' t.' Sex Pistols LPs to be WO! T 1 i I 1 1 J/|LJ \ ) 1 L lOcc. NewAlbum. 'LOOK HEAR'. This is going to worry you all day. Album: 9102 505 ni;irk(;tori by phonogram Cassette: 7231 303 2 SMASH HITS .-""^ \L April 3-16 1980 Vol 2 No.7 LET'S DO ROCK STEADY Greetings, oh ye of impeccable The Bodysnatchers 4 taste and faultless judgement MISSING WORDS who have selected Smash Hits to be your guide and companion for TheSelecter 4 the next fortnight! (Can we get off NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO our knees now? Ta.) Regular readers will know that we've got Madness 5 all the usual news, features and NO ONE DRIVING chart songwords, but we'd also Foxx 8 just like to point out that this John issue we've also secured TALK OF THE TOWN exclusive chats with Gary Numan 15 and Public Image, while Stewart The Pretenders Copeiand brings to an end our MY PERFECT COUSIN features on the individual Police The Undertones 15 members. There's also another chance to have a crack at winning STOMP a mini-TV with our crossword, The Brothers Johnson 19 plus a one-off opportunity to grab Managing Editor yourself a Jam double single and Nick Logan MY WORLD autographed photo! {That's on Secret Affair 24 page 28.) We expect you've Editor noticed by now that there's a free Ian Cranna KING badge on the front cover. (Good, UB40 25 innit'^The badge, you fool !) If you Features Editor fancy collecting the entire set of David Hepworth READY STEADY GO six (also free of charge) then Generation X 29 there's a chance to do that too on Design Editor page 35. Everybody happy? Steve Bush JANUARY FEBRUARY Good. Then see you in two Barbara Dickson 32 weeks . Design Assistant Andy Ingamells DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 33 Editorial Assistant Bev Hillier THAT'S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES IVI 36 Contributors SPIRIT OF RADIO Cliff White Robin Katz Rush 39 Red Starr TURN IT AGAIN Fred Deltar ON Mike Stand Genesis ...39 Kelly Pike Feature 6/7 Jill Furmanovsky GARY NUMAN: STEWART COPELAND Advertisement Manager 12-14 Rod Sopp Feature & Colour Photo Tel; 01-439 8801 STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Colour Centrespread 20/21 Publisher Peter Strong PUBLIC IMAGE LTD: Feature 22/23 NEXT ISSUE GENERATION X: Colour Photo 29 Editorial and Advertising THE BEAT: Colour Poster 40 ON SALE address: Smash Hits, Lisa House, 52-55 Carnaby Street, BITZ 9/10/11 LETTERS 34/35 London W1V 1PF. A-Z FACT FILE 16 GIGZ 38 This magazine is published by EIWAP National Publications PRIZE CROSSWORD 18 SMASH HITS SUBSCRIPTIONS Ltd, Peterborough, and is DISCO 19 Home and Overseas (Surface printed by East IVlidland Litho INDEPENDENT mail); £10 Printers, Peterborough. LABELS 26 (Airmail rates on application). Copyright exists on all songs Europe (airmail): £14.40 appearing in Smash Hits. They STAR TEASER 28 Write to: Park House, 117 Park must not be reproduced COMPETITION 28 Road, Peterborough PE1 2DS. without the consent of the REVIEWS 30/31 copyright holders. J COVER PIC: SHEILA ROCK SMASH HITS 3 Let's Do Rock Steady By The Bodysnatchers on 2 Tone Records 1,2,3,4 People get ready, gotta do rock steady, aha aha People get ready, gotta do rock steady, aha aha Do rock steady Do rock steady, aha aha When you're feeling blue, all you gotta do, aha aha When you re feeling blue, all you gotta do, aha aha Do rock steady Do rock steady, aha aha On lead guitar, S,S,S,S,S,S,S.J., Miss S.J On sax, little Miranda When you're feeling blue, all you gotta do, aha aha When you're feeling blue, all you gotta do, aha aha Do rock steady Do rock steady, aha aha People get ready, gotta do rock steady, aha aha People get ready, gotta do rock steady, aha aha Do rock steady Do rock steady, aha aha Repeat last verse Last chance to dance, to rock steady With the rock steady beat, yeah Rock, rock, rock, rock . rock steady, rock steady Words and music by R. Thompson, arr. Bodysnatchers. Reproduced by permission Sparta/Florida Music Group. IMightBoat To Cairo By Madness on Stiff Records Night boat to Cairo Missing half past monsoon Words It's just gone noon, banks of the river Nile By The Selector On the •*! on 2 Tone Records Here comes the boat Last night Only half afloat when I told you all that stuff Missing words, missing words, it's just Oarsman grins a toothless smile Missing words, missing \d Ynn HiHn^*™^)! ^^''^^K^'^ ^ words, it's ust You didn t understand a word Missing words this desolate shore But you said you did Only just one more to Last boat along the river Nile o **'®,!^°"«** •'oe I might seem It just don't make sense the way you did care In.T'!can't riT"* Doesn't seem to take your lies The things you did It's No more wind in his hair late, I'm tired, your words just You might have thought that I was dumb Crackle along the As he reaches his last half mile wire But I'm all wised up Game's up, move on .'fiyjttnn^j The oar snaps in his hand problem) Before he reaches dry land I wonder if you ever do really care dampen his smile It's all over now (It's over now) But the sound doesn't the wet sand You thought you had It made Just pokes 4*f>l#:M tiaiiiir Jiiil It's over. It's over, it's over It's all over now (It's over liow) Floats off down the river Nile You thought you had It made Chorus ; Floats off down the river Nile It's over, it's over, it's over Missing words, missing words, it's just Missing words, missing — night boat to Cairo I, words. It's just Repeat chorus toJade All aboard Words and music by N. Davis Night boat to Cairo Reproduced by permission Selecter Copyright/Rak Publishing Ltd. Words and music by G. McPherson/M. Barson. Reproduced by permission Warner Bros Music Ltd. .m to think that I enough they are and got thrown out. I was told if that's how he got where he is spoken to him and met the man. going to write letters to me by the director that Bowie didn't today, by doing that sort of thing I've idolised that bloke for seven saying they're going to love me want me there, which fair to was other people, then he's a years and the first chance I get to for ever, say next year, because I enough, I suppose." shitbag!" meet him, he decides to do that." know damn well that they Just you personally or But doesn't Gary expect too probably won't. everyone else as well? honesty much from other GARY NUMAN: still as "So all that you've mentioned "Well, me to start with and people? outspoken, still as honest, still as isn't really any consolation at all then apparently he was upset by "No, I don't expect them to be interesting. Now he's speaking because it's all sheer fantasy it then everyone on and had to go. taken off shows just because out more, against the press, the their part and this makes feel Later on me he stormed off and he's worried about opposition, corruption in the bizz. A possibly lonelier than I would've wouldn't do a sketch with Kenny especially as I'm considered by character that is easily felt if I had never got it in the first Everett. The next thing we heard the press and most Bowie fans underestimated by those who place." was, we were not being used at alike to be just a cheap Bowie think they are so important! We pointed out that, all. rip-off anyway. If I am a cheap As for Gary, he's doing okay nevertheless, many people feel "Then were told that we what Bowie rip-off, why is he scared of and he's doing K the right way warm towards him for a number we did and what did Bowie was having me on the same and doesn't that Just get up his of reasons. Does Gary see and not working well together. That programme? critics' noses? Don't it just! feel that warmth at all? was rubbish because I saw what "Obviously I'm not a cheap "I can see it and I can feel it Bowie did, I but because was there, Bowie rip-off and I must be the Among the very first of Gary what I'm saying is, it's only real and they are nothing like each biggest competition he has had Numan's fans, Peter Gilbert and for today. It's not like loving other at all. There is no way that in about the last seven or eight Francis Drake run a fanzine called loving somebody and that they could not have gone years, and what's more, he's "In The City". Issue 14 is now somebody for the next 50 years; together. worried ahout it!" available containing more on it isn't that real.