^^^ i 30p June 26- July 9 1980 JFC mm m tit 4 - top si; is ! %m including The Bed's Too I reakingThel aterfafs '''"BIP ! TONE '-'' J ROCK'N'ROLL JiliLXm LPs" to \ 4tih * the imams THE LAMBRETTAS newalbum Beat boys in the jet age The Lambrettas debut album 'Beat Boys in the Jet Age' is going places. It includes their new single 'DA-A-A-ANCE' which is already a hit, as well as their previous hit single 'POISON ivy: WATCH THIS ALBUM GO! n LP TRAIN 10 W) MC SHUNT 10 2 SMASH HITS June 26-July 9 1980 Vol 2 No 13 WHO WANTS THE WORLD? The Stranglers 4 Hey, are we on the news stands? WEDNESDAY WEEK We are? Oh good. What with half The Undertones 4 the staff away or on holiday and THE BED'S TOO BIG the rest of us dashing around trying to be six people at once, it The Police 5 was a close tiling for a minute SUBSTITUTE there. Still here we are, all bright tailed and bushy eyed and ready Liquid Gold 8 to go. In addition to all your usual MY WAY OF THINKING features, news and songwords, 13 we've got a couple of special UB40 items lined up. There's our IN THE NIGHT fantastic new video crossword Barbara Dickson 15 prize of course, but also a couple of wacky competitions — The ME MYSELF I Barracudas' Surfboard Special on Editor Joan Armatrading 15 page 24 and a chance to visit a lanCranna recording studio with The Slits! BEHIND THE GROOVE (That's on page 28.) So it's Features Editor Teena Marie 19 welcome to a slightly crazier David Hepworth BREAKING THE LAW than usual issue — you have been warned! Design Editor Judas Priest 22 Steve Bush ELECTRICITY In Dark 23 Editorial Assistants Orchestral Manoeuvres The Bev Hillier HOT LOVE Linda Duff David Essex 26 Contributors WATERFALLS Robin Katz Paul McCartney 27 Red Starr Fred Dellar SANCTUARY Mike Stand Iron Maiden 29 Kelly Pike SIMON TEMPLER Jill Furmanovsky Mark Casto Splodgenessa bounds 39 Steve Taylor TWO PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF Advertisement Manager CRISPS PLEASE Rod Sopp Slodgenessabounds 39 (Tel: 01-439 8801) Assistant Adie Harper THE UNDERTONES: Feature 6/7 UB40: Feature/Colour Photo 12/13/14 Managing Editor Nick Logan THE GREAT ROCK N' ROLL SWINDLE: Colour Centrespread 20/21 Publisher PETER GABRIEL: Feature 32/33 Peter Strong JONA LEWIE: Colour Poster 40 NEXT ISSUE Editorial and Advertising address: Smash Hits, Lisa ON SALE 36/37 House, 52-55 Carnaby Street, BITZ 9/10/11 LETTERS London WW 1PF. 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FRONT COVER PIC: LAURIE EVANS SMASH HITS 3 «bm5tesz THE POLICE >i zl Wednesday Zl Week on Sire Records !"*K" Here she comes to say goodnight I'll get no sleep tonight With a classroom vision she still can't see She was the girl for me Wednesday week she loved me Wednesday week never happened at all The Bed's There she goes, I won't see her again She's gone to school with her best friend She only does the things she likes to do Too Big Now she wants something new ^ Wednesday week she loved me Without You 4how(fcw Wednesday week never happened at all Wednesday week she loved me on A&M Records Wednesday week never happened at all The bed's too big without you Here she comes to say goodnight The cold wind blows right through that I'll no sleep tonight get open door Who Wants The I can't sleep with your memory week she loved me Wednesday Dreaming dreams of what used to be Wednesday week she loved me When she left I was cold inside Wednesday week never happened at all World? That look on my face was just pride, yeah No regrets, no love, no tears Words and music by J O'Neill on United Artists Records Living on my own was Reproduced by permission Warner Bros Music The least of my fears Came down on a Monday Somewhere in the Midlands Chorus Tasted man, tasted flea The bed's too big without you Couldn't tell the difference The bed's too big without you Asked around on Tuesday The bed's too big Got nothing from a tree Without you The guide had said what talks is red Without you That's all there is to see Without you Without you Wi Chorus Who wants the world? Repeat chorus Who wants the world? Who wants the world? Since that day when you've gone Not me, not me, not me, not me I just had to carry on, yeah I get through the day Looked around on Wednesday But late at night Took in all the sights Made love to my pillow but didn't seem The promised land they'd left to man right Been ruined over night Everyday just the same old rules For the same old game Peering through the port holes All I gain was heartache Tear drops in their eyes All I made was one mistake The ship they took 1HiPr Oh yeah For one last look At Thursday's setting sunrise Repeat chorus Repeat chorus Words and music by Sting Reproduced by permission Virgin Music Publishing Ltd. Who wants the world?°na JfoPW to fad [S&roZeetf music "by ^ 7tTT^^^tran ^Ljl*>y Permission 9'ers cJ0p^htCon ^^_^ tr0/ 4 SMASH HITS SMASH HITS 5 been on the front page of a paper and we've had a record and this, that and the other, right? And A CONTRADICTION IN TONES they come with a more cynical view of the whole thing and OR, WHY THE DERRY LADS AREN'T KIDS ANY MORE you've still got to impress them. IAN CRANNA. It's finding a balance between WORDS BY PICTURES BY LAURIE EVANS the two that's the crucial point." An adult, aware summing up IT'S THE kind of gig that nothing else to present of short "We picked him because we addressed from the upstairs of their situation, right? But it gladdens the heart really. actually having to think, and it's thought it would be interesting window of a house by the then seems to be part of this popular Outside the "Sold Out" notices one they've consistently refused to see what he said," Damian Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan. misconception about The are up, while inside the support to let go of despite such evidence explains, adding with heavy "I was about there," he says Undertones that in their little boy group. The Moondogs (also from as Feargal's and John O'Neill's irony, "And of course the cover casually, pointing just off picture. innocence, simple songs come Derry) have the audience up and engagements. was Feargal in the house with his In fact it's the quality of their naturally to them and the group bopping to their tight, tuneful "At the time when we first Ma." songwriting that concerns The coast by on a wave of some sort and energy-packed set. The came over to England it " was 'Undertones Of Innocence' — Undertones most in not singing of natural charm and that's all Moondogs certainly are gifted quite true," Feargal admits with it's ach, so corny/'he shakes his about the troubles. They feel there is to it. enough to be big and judging by that frank openness that "It makes head. really is. It's not really they couldn't do it well. Not so. The Undertones work the response they get (two The Undertones so disarming. true." "If we get up and sing about hard at their craft — because a encores for the support band?) "That's the way were. we We Another part of this false politics," Feargal offers, "And craft is what it is. they're off to a flying start. were naive and everything else, impression created by the media there's a number of people who "We really envy people like The Undertones, however, but that was a year and a half is that The Undertones are buy our records and listen to it, Elvis Costello and Paul Weller only have to set foot on stage ago and a lot of water has gone home-loving boys who don't like then maybe we have a chance of and all who say they panic if they and there's a huge cheer and a under the proverbial bridge since to be away from their native getting a message across to don't write a song in two days or mad rush to the front. Within then. Derry to tour. In considerably them full stop. whatever," Feargal says. "We go seconds the whole place is alive "I think it's blatantly obvious aggrieved fashion, Damian "But millions of people live in in spells — like for the last LP in with dancing bodies of all ages to anyone that wants to look complains that he and Feargal England — it'd have to be done one week we wrote seven songs, and sizes.