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THE JAM LANDSCAPE 15 HIT LYRICS including CEREMONY IT'S A LOVE THING ATTENTION TO ME SPANDAU BALLET and TEARDROP EXPLODES in colour

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BONJOUR ET bienvenu, mes bijoux petits-pois. 'Ow are you, you naughty little

things? Wait une second, there is a murrth in the room. Splat. Voila! The little blighter 'as frapp6 le bucket. Alors, sans further ado, let uss get down to ze bizness In 'and. You will 'ave noticed zat zere iss un burton badge attach^ to ze cuver (sacr6 bleu et Giscard d'Estaing!) But also we 'ave les features magnifiques about ze Classix Nouveaux, ze Landscape et ze Monsieur Foxton of ze Jem. Zat iss ne de mention pas les colour posters of Le Ballet Spandau et le Teardrop goes PouffI Also, tous les mots de chansons. Eh bien, ou est mon accordion?

JUST A FEELING Bad Manners..... 2 EINSTEIN A GO-GO Landscape 8 (WE DON'T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG Heaven 17 8 UP THE HILL BACKWARDS David Bowie 9 JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING Polecats 17 ATTENTION TO ME Hie Nolans 18 SHEFFIELD GRINDER Tony Capstick 19 IT'S A LOVE THING The Whispers 22 on Magnet Records CEREMONY New Order 26 WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED Dave Stewart/Colin Blunstone 26 JUST A TAR Visage 33 GUILTY Classix Nouveaux 34 TWILIGHT ZONE Iron Maiden 36 NIGHT GAMES Graham Bonnet 36 MUSCLE BOUND Spandau Ballet 43

It's been a week now since you went away LANDSCAPE: Feature 4/5/6 I hope that you have gone to stay It's not that I don't like you, you're alright BRUCE FOXTON: Feature 14/15/16 i just like to run my IHe SPANDAU BALLET: Colour Poster 24/25 K's just a feeling CLASSIX NOUVEAUX: Feature 34/35 iMy fiat was nice and tidy, now it's not

TEARDROP EXPLODES: Colour Poster 44 I fust don't seem to care a iot

i feel so good, I really feel at home To sit in a mess all on my own CROSSWORD 10 It's just a feeling BITZ 11/12/13 Chorus INDEPENDENT BITZ 20/21 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling (Just a feeling) DISCO 22 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling (Just a feeling) VIDEO GAME/P.I.L COMPETITION 23 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling STAR TEASER 27 Just a feeling

REVIEWS 28/29 It's always a problem when I talk to you FACT IS SPECIAL 30 You make it so hard to get through You thought that I should get a steady job BIRO BUDDIES 37 You couldn't see I'm Just a yob CARTOON 37 I'm just a skin age yob

BADGE OFFER 39 Repeat chorus to fade LETTERS 39/40 GIGZ Words and music by Bad Manners 42 Reproduced by permission Magnet Music Ltd.

Specisl thanks this iMae to Jo Dalo (dotign).

STEVE TAYLOR PUTS YOU IN THE PICTURE UESTION NUMBER one — synthesiser, of course — but do it as enthusiastically and as for twelve hours about what he'd did you see the video? A "Einstein" didn't have a professionally as possible. But seen. It was, he declares, "an imad scientist and a pied trombone part so his head gets to it's not very easy to think about incredible realisation of the piper, a surreal housewife in a sing. new ideas or new directions for a possibilities of the kind of Cubist living room, a hamster in a Finally there's the pied piper band when you're working that technology we could afford to didn't wheel and a box with a head that himself, John Walters, who has hard. invest in." The lyricon sang "Einstein A Go-Go" ^— moved from saxophone and flute "We went through a great present any great challenge as it Landscape's debut on Top Of The to their electronic cousin — the period of about eighteen months could be carted around and Pops, a visual version of their hit lyricon. He's also become a dab from hardly getting anyone along slipped into the band like any single. hand at composing by computer. to our shows to packing out the new instrument. Question number two — who John began playing in Landscape regular ones. That did us a lot of But the micro-composer in the are these guys? Somewhere in when still at music school and good musically and got our name offered new possibilities the midst of the mayhem says his background is all to do known." way the band put together new depicted on that short film, five with the band. Even at this early stage, songs. Instead of throwing fascination with around basic compositions from oddly di-essed men could be seen , Landscape had a / playing instruments. Well, sort IN SPITE of such bewilderingly the possibilities of distorting and each member at rehearsals, it possible for one person of. diverse backgrounds and musical changing the sound of was now One sang and bashed away at a experiences. Landscape has been conventional instruments with to write a whole piece of music, drumkit which appeared to be the major project of all these electronic devices^ Both the horn drums and all. The composer five years. stage with would store all the lines and then ^ made from human heads — musicians for the last players used to go on that's Richard Burgess who, apart They're all adamant — as they little black boxes strapped to their play them back through a from making a name for himself always have been — that it's a belts and wired up to synthesiser. play the as Spandau Ballet's producer, lifelong commitment. impressive-looking chunks of Yet John likes to down has worked on countless Three years ago Landscape hardware on the floor. effects of his discoveries. with sessions as a freelance drummer. were being called a jazz-rock They also produced one of the "Landscape provided me he says. He also helped to develop the outfit. They were playing pubs best stage sounds I've ever a very strong direction," upheavals electronic drumkit featured in the and clubs on a well-worn circuit heard, partly thanks to a But there were other long time video. in London and, although they powerfully clear PA which they'd going on. They took a deal with RCA, The blond guy With the really didn't fit in anywhere, they won in a competition for to sort out their is handled through their futuristic-looking double bass is looked normal by their current promising new bands. Even if which Andy Pask. He comes from a very standards. There were no vocal you didn't particularly like their own companies. musical family and sang in the numbers, just a huge number of music, the sheer style of the "We don't just want to make a school choir before studying bass high-octane instru mentals that band's presentation — especially couple of records and and cello at the Royal Academy sounded like the product of a — at venues normally dedicated to disappear," John explains. of Music in London. miniaturised — and electrified scratchy rock'n'roll — still "Having a degree of control is The one who really plays jazz orchestra with a funk rhythm knocked you for six. very important." keyboards but appeared on your section. The record company tie-up screens clutching the magnified Unconventional, but a success. BUT BENEATH this smoothly sorted out. Landscape made their neck of a most peculiar Landscape packed out regular organised surface, a new style first album (simply called instrument is Christopher weekly venues like The Stapleton and direction were bubbling "Landscape") which John says Heaton, who has played in North London and got healthy away. they're not completely happy everything from serious sales for their two independent "The particular turning point about. avant-garde music to pop EPs on their own Event Horizon for me," says John Walters, "We were actually doing gigs concerts in Germany. label. "came on a bright summer day in in between sessions on the touring '78 The singing head turns out to Then followed a year of August when I went to an record, so it became a record of be Peter Thorns, who found his colleges, clubs and arts centres instrument trade fair and saw two what we were playing live at the Landscape: (left to right): way to this country via Hong all over the country before they things that I'd been hearing about time. We've since realised that John Walters, Richard Kong and a succession of sigtied with RCA and stopped for months — the lyricon and the this wasn't a good way tp make Burgess, Peter Thorns, live work last March. John "groovy horn sections" in soul < doing micro-composer." an album." Christopher Heaton and Andy Walters explains what happened: Family and friends, John says, Nor were the results liAproved and salsa bands. Usually he plays Pask. trombone — through a "With gigs night after night you tell him that he talked non-stop Incredibly embarrassing pic of Landscape four years ago playing at an open air festival in North London. Just love that futurist presentation!

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from previous page RCA were very worried, John really feel that the grubby household name. With his by the guidance of mainstream recalls, "because they liked our mentality of rock is theories of relativity he'd pop producer Greg Walsh. tunes so much" but they did disappearing." provided some of the basic new the band they were Though say release that very first song, The band's enthusiasm for this knowledge which made the grateful for the technical "European Man" and it became movement also fits in nicely with atomic bomb possible. Then, expertise for a timely — and standard electro-disco fare, their own attitudes towards when he saw the results of the injection of pop suss — they getting regular plays from Blitz trying out new ideas. bombing of Hiroshima during decided that in future Landscape DJ Rusty Egan. "These kids can accept the idea World War Two, Einstein became would produce themselves. Having made such a radical of continual change," says John, a campaigner for peace. change of scenery, how do "and Landscape have done that The song, explains John, is AT THE beginning of last year, . Landscape react to criticisms of — not being frightened by new about "someone who idealises however, things took another their association with that things but facing them Einstein, a loony with a moral sudden turn. movement? enthusiastically. You embrace mission who could easily unlock "When we played purely "The only way you could new things and try to control the power of the atom and instrumental music," John accuse us of bandwaggoning," them to your own advantage." destroy us all." recalls, "we tried to tell stories retorts John, "is to say that we The catchy little melody and through atmosphere, melody and jumped on it before other people. LANDSCAPE HAVE certainly the pied piper which John plays interesting rhythms. We'd always "We used to put on an annual achieved that with their in the video have a grimmer have really evocative titles" Christmas party at the Music distinctive brand of electronic message: ("You Two Timed Me One Time Machine. They wouldn't book us pop. Last year's "great flood of "That's about those calm Too Much" one example) was so we'd hire the place ourselves lyrical material" has already voices that tell you everything is "and people would always and put on other bands, fire yielded one successful single in going to be OK — you can build remember them." eaters, jugglers — a total "Einstein A Go-Go" which has your nuclear shelter or paint the At the same time the band environment, that's an idea paved the way for their new windows white and hide under cottoned on to the beginnings of which is now becoming part of album "From The Tea Rooms Of the table — when it's obviously London's new nightlife. the new club thing." Mars To The Hell Holes Of not going to be OK." "What was happening in John sees this as part of a Uranus". Whether you picked that up society with computers and what changing pattern of tastes within As the title suggests, for all from the lunacy of the video or was happening in the clubs — it rock's young audience. their seriousness Landscape are not, it's not easyto deny "Einstein all link It seemed to us to up. was "Seeing rock isn't just a matter well able to temper their futurism A Go-Go" 's success as a piece of like a blueprint for the future." of listening to a band. You might with humour. "Einstein", though, eccentric yet hummable dance John wrote a tune to express be putting everything into getting has its serious side too. music. The unpredictability is a these ideas but realised that just the audience physically and Musically, John wanted it to be quality which John and his having an idea wasn't enough. emotionally excited, giving them "a catchy tune that would use the colleagues savour: "It demanded words. It was pleasure, but you're being let lyricon — which is really just a "We're about to re-establish Christmas and everyone else had down by the rude barman, the synthesiser that you blow — ourselves. Right from the gone away, so Richard sat grotty club and so on. and show what it could do. I beginning of the band we wanted around and wrote some words. I "It's taken audiences a long wanted to put the lyricon on the to occupy a role in the scene think he thought that everyone time to realise this, but we map as a pop instrument." where people expected us to be would be really put off, but they noticed it two years ago when we The lyric came from reading unusual, to do the unexpected really liked them a lot. Suddenly played gigs at schools. The kids Einstein's biography and thinking and they'd like it." we started producing a great were clean, well dressed; they're about how he'd become one of It looks as if Landscape are flood of lyrical material." all eighteen or nineteen now. I the few scientists who was a about to do just that. IS OKE HOUSC: NEW ALBUM & CASSETTE OUT NOW

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You better watch out, you better beware Albert said that E = MC

Einstein a go-go Einstein a go-go Einstein a go-go

Bible says we must pay

I am the judge for the judgement day There'll be no warning, no alarm

I'll be the one who's saved

Einstein a go-go [we DON'T NEED this] Einstein a go-go Einstein a go-go FASCIST GROOVE THANG

I've got the facts, I know the truth By Heaven 17 on Virgin Records ' You're ail corrupt, you're all depraved A few devices around the place Everybody move to prove tb« groove I'll blow you all away Everybody move to prove the groove Everybody move to prove the groove God does not play dice with the world Everybody move to prove the groove But things aren't right in the outside world Everybody move to prove the groove There's filth and vice in the world Everybody move to prove the groove I'll put things right Everybody move to praMibe groove

Einstein a go-go Have you heard it niiw news * Einstein a go-go About this Fescistgi>jp(i theng? Evil men with recii^i«iews You better watch out, you better beware (Einstein a go-go) , Spreading all acrpsidie land Albert said that E = (Einstein a go-go) MC Don't just sit there on your ass Unlock that funky chain dance Repeat to fade Brothers, sisters, shoot your bast Wa don't need this Fascist groove thang Words and music by Walters/Burgess/Landscape Reproduced by permission Sunbury Ltd./ Music Chorus Landscape Music Ltd. Brathan, tietata, we don't need that Facist groove thang Brothan, sisters, we don't need that Facist groove thang

History will repeat Itself Crisis point, we're near the hour Counterforce will do no good

Hot you ass, I feel your power Hitler proves that funky stuff Is not for you and me, girl Europe's an unhappy land They've had their Fascist groove tliang

; Repeat chorus

Democrats are put of power Across that great wide ocaaii Reagan's President elect -^i , Fascist God in motion Generals tall him whatto do Stop your good time dancing Train their guns on me and you Fascist thang advancing

^ Sisters, brothers, land a hand ' Increase your population / Grab that groove thang by the throat

And throw it in the ocean , You're real tonight, you move my soul

Let's cruise out on the dance vyar ' Coma out your house and dance your dance Shake that Fascist groove thang 7 • Shake it Repeat chorus to fade

iVortfs and^nusie • by H^arsh/Ware/Gregory ; M^^glM-i^^ Reproduced by permission Dintoag LtdVSouud Oiagramt. on RCA Records

Vacuum created by the arrival of freedom While we sleep, they go to work And the possibilities it seerris to offer- We're legally crippled, it's the death of love It's got nothing to do with you It's got nothing to do with you If one can grasp it If one can grasp it It's got nothing to do with you It's got nothing to do with you If one csn grasp it if one can grasp it

A series of shocks, sneakers fall apart More idols than realities, ooh-ooh Earth keeps on rolling, witnesses falling I'm okay — you're so-so, ooh-ooh It's got nothing to do with you If one can grasp it Yeah, yeah, yeah, up the hill backwards It's got nothing to do with you It'll be alright, ooh-ooh If one can grasp it Words and music by David Bowie Yeah, yeah, yeah, up the hill backwards Reproduced by permission It'll be alright, ooh-ooh Bewlay Bros. Music/Fleur Music 87 fi%S%% ACROSS DOWN ..-S^owwowwow's labour 1 See 6 ^'6. foot many (Strange 2 Jane, Jane, Ramona and Kate @ a s E9a»5. m /inagram) (4,2,1,3) 3 Stray rockabillies offering ^Deadly from Iron 4 A bat yodels fun (anag) (6,7) Maiden 6 & 1 A single chance to do the »0 Torn Who? Talking (4,2,1,8) 12 Song for two 7 Queen of the Wilde Frontier ! 3 Madness talce one beyond 9 Star with a capital Dee 14 Rod, Ed & Ami? 11 Giving Sue the runaround l6Abba — TheLabei K-l The Beat's message to 19 Price of atrial? Margaret (5,4) 20 & 16 The weeping boom from ^ See 20 Liverpool (8,8) 1 Find the ballet in between a SrliVhereJn Phil Collins spends gasp and a unicorn the night 1 Romeo and Juliet in dire ^K Tlte King's middle name tKkuble 24 Old iron or Trouble 19 See 26 25 Express or Players from i^3 A drummer in a Jam America 2o&1ddown Cross-country bueklebuckers (S4!,5) .,27How many below zero? ANSWERS ON PACE 39

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ALL tS not quite what it should be in the Bowwowwow camp. Despite Malcolm Maclaren's declared cassette-only policy, the band have just released "W.O.R.K." on a 45rpm single and at the time of going to press their first ever national tour was "YOUNG JOBLESS ", the debut In jeopardy. single from Martin Newell on the The problem seems to Liberty label, is an unusual item emanate from Malcolm's in that it was actually financed by squabbles with EMI over the the Government. To be more amount of financial backing the accurate it was paid for by the band need. Because Annabella is Youth Opportunities only 15 and therefore legally a Programme, an official body minor she must be accompanied which exists to help unemployed on tour by an approved tutor and just another Maclaren tantrum young people find careers. Maclaren claims that EMI won't designed to attention to his draw The Y.O.P. wanted a record foot the bill for such an band point that and out which could be used to publicise employee. Bowwowwow remain signed to the work they do and asked EMI, on the other hand, a single will seem the label and new be producer Kris Staines to oblige. wrote the song to order and an to regard this current crisis as released in a month's time. He found Martin Newell, who independent single was the had left home determined to result. This so impressed Liberty make it as a musician but had that they picked it up for wider AS YOU'LL no doubt have heard, Bruce Springsteen's long-awaited ended up washing dishes. He distribution. British tour was postponed at the last moment due to Bruce's severe exhaustion at the end of a five month American tour. Ticket holders are instructed to retain their tickets and use them for the the last Bitz, AC RferU"HFPORTED'^" in rescheduled dates in May and June. These are listed below, the AS ' ti\acA Harrison Burke original date followed by the new one in the brackets. Clem »«<»JJ^Sf' Vng a few Brighton, March 17th (May 26th); Wembley, March 19 (May 29); Wembley, March 20 (May 30); Manchester, March 23 (May 13); only o DesBarres. The Manchester, March 24 (May 14); Birmingham, March 27 (June 7); announced so far are Birmingham, March 28 (June 8); Edinburgh, March 30 (May 16); Newcastle, March 31 (May 11); Wembley, April 2 (June 1); Wembley, rJnKdrL?:^^^" April 3 (June 2); Wembley, April 4 (June 4). 5th).

ALL TIME TOP TEN 1. TALKING MEADS: Remain In Nice Age (A&M). A great pop 8. MARIANNE FAITHFUL: Ballad Light .aim^^^^ (Sire). My favourite album; song! Of Lucy Jordan (Island). The best 1 especially like "The Overload" 5. ROXY MUSIC; Sentimental track on a Great Forgotten Album ^m^^A 1 and all the rhythm tracks. Fool (EG). One of the hardest Of Our Time. ^^H tKlk. 2. DAVID BOWIE: Win (RCA). decisions of my life, but "in Every 9.SI0UXSIEANDTHE With the ^^B wKk 1 "Station To Station" and Dream Home A Heartache" is still BANSHEES: Israel (Poiydor). One ^B mF*-'^» "' 1 "Heroes" albums coming close my favourite title. of their many classic singles. behind. 1 also like "My Death" 6. GIORGIO MORODER: The Great guitar sound. - from a bootleg as well. Chase (Poiydor). Love the drum 10. SPARKS: Tryouts For The 3. BRIAN ENO: RAF (EG). How sound and the sequencer. m Human Race (Virgin). Always had did 1 narrow the Eno tracks down 7. JOEL GREY: Mein Herr (ABC). a soft spot for Sparks and they 1^ ...imDj^^m,*'' mm^^^ to P|PP|. one? Probably because 1 like From the soundtrack of just managed to edge out Peter the sound of it — and Snatch are "Cabaret". Makes a change from Gabriel, Grace Jones, Syd NICK RHODES on it too! the rest of the raucous rabble; Barrett, Lou Reed, Kate Bush, The (DURAN DURAN) 4. YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA: reminds me of the bit in the film. Doors and Kraftwerk.

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FAITH HEALING H\ THE CURE have announced a tour to support the release of their third album, "Faith", on April 17th. Atall the venues with the exception of Brighton, the FULL NAME: Nashville support "act" will be a film called Thebodiah Slasher "Carnage Visors" which the band BORN: March, The Barrens, have made themselves. Canada Dates are as follows: Aylesbury STAGE NAME: Nash The Slash Friars (April 18th), Poole Arts FIRST RECORD PURCHASED: "High School Confidential" Centre (20), Portsmouth Guildhall by Jerry Lee Lewis (21 ), Brighton Top Rank (22), FIRST LIVE Oxford New Theatre (23), SHOW ATTENDED: Igor Stravinsky Swansea Brangwyn Hall (24), conducting the Orchestra Taunton Odeon (25), Reading Toronto Symphony Hexagon (26), Canterbury Odeon PREVIOUS BANDS: Breathless, FOR THE next question, disco fans, try this one. What's the connection (27), Ipswich Gaumont (28), FM between the following two statements? PREVIOUS JOBS: Hunting Plymouth Polytechnic (May 1 ), down "I feel like a grandmother of the industry, just breaking out with her Eskimo Criminals, Bristol Colston Hall (2), War Shepherd, DRY RUN walking stick trying to shake a leg, trying to stay up before they knock Record Executive Birmingham Odeon (3), Company her down." AFTER A long period of Hammersmith Odeon (4), Derby MARRIED OR SINGLE: Cloned "When it comes to love, I'm the best. Now if your score is not too regrouping, Dexys IVIidnigiit Assembly Rooms (6), Manchester CHILDREN: Drum machines liit in high, don't feel like you're letting me down, 'cos all you can do is try." POINT Runners the road April, Apollo (7), Sheffield University LOWEST OF CAREER unveiling The link, for anyone still blank, is Sharon Redd. The second quote Discovering people take this their new line-up on (8), Leeds University (9), "The Projected Passion comes from the song but she's probably not so keen on everyone business seriously. Revue", a tour of seated knowing about the first one. I think she was exaggerating but it was PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT: venues with a difference. Dexys just her way of saying that, after a few years in the biz, she's well Filling out this form are stipulating that no alcohol is chuffed to be riding the charts with "Can You Handle It?". HERO: Norman Bates sold in any of the theatres on the Really it's her third time round. Sharon's artistic past combines a deal DESERT ISLAND DISC: No music tour apparently feel Joy Division: of music and a deal of theatrics. She was brought up in Norfolk, please! because they (left to rigtit) Steve that it's better for fans to get Virginia, and took part in the popular showbiz apprenticeship of FAVOURITE ITEM OF CLOTHING: their kicks purely from the music, classical voice training and church choirs. She won a talent contest in Bandages rather than any artificial New York and began to make people like Lou Rawls, Patti Labelle and FAVOURITE BREAKFAST FOOD: stimulant. NEW ORDER fans should be Helen Reddy remember her name. Cold pizza that the lyrics to Then she held down the lead in the Australian version of "Hair" for Dates so far announced are: aware Liverpool Royal Court (10), FAVOURITE BOOK: "Something (April "Ceremony" as printed on page two and a half years, followed by a TV show of her own there and — Edinburgh Odeon 4), Leicester De Montfort Hall (11), Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Liverpool 26 are in fact as could wait for it — some session work with Petula Clark. Royal Court Theatre we make Norwich St Andrews Hall (12), Bradbury from the record, since Meanwhile, Bette Midler was busy becoming the Divine Miss M in (5), Hull City Hall (6), Birmingham them out Glasgow TIffanys (14), Aberdeen FAVOURITE FILM: "Holy the declined to provide York. She'd heard about Sharon, who by this time was a seasoned Odeon (9), Doncaster Odeon (10), band any New Capitol (15), Edinburgh Odeon Mountain" by Alexandro the that the lyrics sessioneer, and called her up. What followed was five years as one of Ipswich Gaumont (11), Oxford on grounds (16), Newcastle City Hall (17) and Jadorowski r . . . sorry, but did I Bette's three backing singers. The Harlettes. you say should buckle my swash or vice New Theatre (12), Southampton shouldn't be separated from the Middlesbrough Town Hall (18). FAVOURITE BAND: The Who versa? Don't worry, I'll get it sorted out in no time." Gary Tibbs is Gaumont (13), Chelmsford music and everybody should The Harlettes were offered a deal of their own but what seemed like a FAVOURITE SONG: (at present) issued his Ant uniform. Odeon (16), London Dominion make their own Interpretation. good idea at the time didn't work out. other broadsheets around, what ""Requiem" by Killing Joke (17), Brighton Dome (18), and So, if anyone feels that they can "We were not R&B," Sharon explains. "We were a theatrical group. distinguishes "Tear It Up" is the PET HATE: Swill selection of but when the music was mixed we Leeds Grand (19). improve on our interpretation, The songs was good THE FOURTH long player from quality of the writing and a BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER Only two members, Kevin write your version down on a sounded so removed from the music itself." PiL, "The Flowers Of Romance", TAYR IT UP healthy, self-mocking sense of MADE: Eating swill last Rowland and Jimmy Patterson, postcard and throw it away. Sharon kept on at the session work and year sang the vocal on a is released by Virgin on April humour. (It also writes a good FAVOURITE FANTASY: Telling of one-off disco cut called "Love Insurance". It passed the time, she survive from the original line-up The new member New 10th. Already out is a single of THE PROBLEM with fanzines is grovelling letter.) the moral majority to ""eat swill'" Order, is guitarist thought, and it was worth a bob or two. In fact she hated the record with new members Seb Shelton by the way, the same name. The album, a that all too many seem to have Contained in issue No. 2 are TRUE CONFESSION: I do not (drums), Gillian Gilbert, a friend of the but, under the banner of Front Page, it became top three in the Mickey Bellingham studio recording, shares the been put together with more features on New Order, comic grow old. I just get closer to death (keyboards), Steve Wynne (bass), band. "Ceremony" is also now American discos. name with the short-lived early enthusiasm than imagination actor Buster Keaton, Boots For Sharon was offered a follow-up but by then Prelude Records, home of Paul Speare (sax), Brian Morris out as a 12 inch with a longer punk band which the late Sid and reading them can be a rather Dancing and an excellent of on Bobby Thurston and Gayle Adams, were waving money and contracts (sax) and Billy Adams (gtr) version "In A Lonely Place" Vicious was a member of. All dull way of passing the time. interview with John Peel which bringing the line-up up the reverse. The band plan to at her. Within minutes of releasing "Can You Handle It?" as the first to an instruments are played by A fanfare then for "Tear It Up", actually manages to extract a eight piece. Original guitarist Al close the Joy Division story next single she knew she was on to something. The album is out this month Johnny Rotten, Keith Levene and the second issue of which few new anecdotes from this half but Sharon knows fly-by-night most disco artists are and is deter- Archer, who remained when the month with a double album, how Jeanette Lee with former winged its way from Ayrshire much-interviewed man. You can rest of of which will be live mined to be more than that, so listen out for something different next the band departed, has member Martin Atkins recently and impressed all who obtain "Tear It Up" from 8, now also left, apparently under performances and the other half time. contributing drums to three perused it. Although its style and Birkdale Close, Kilwinning, Paul Sexton amicable circumstances. hard to come by studio material. tracks. lay-out are no different from the Ayrshire, tot a mere 50p (incl. p&p).

the Top Ten in 1966. Broken Records label. It was by the single's B side, "This Is My re-thinking tfie group's style. "Rising Free", a 'zine which "Then about eighteen months released in December without Reward", has a good ear for a "It's still basically 'melodic concentrates mainly on punk and rock' but skinhead outfits, is also to its BREAKING RECORDS ago I listened to it again and on a any advertising or promotional catchy tune. compared to my past on it'll third issue, copies of which are whim I made a demo of it at push and didn't do much until Both sides of the single feature be simpler, more direct and A FEW years ago Dave Stewart, home." late January when Dave mailed it synthesisers and the Intro to more electronic, with some crazy available from Gez Lowry at 36 keyboard wizard and veteran of Dave, who was once voted out to Radio One DJs. "What Becomes" sounds like instrumentals as well." Wilbury Way, Hitchin, Herts SG4 several old wave rock groups, Best New Talent by "I went off to America just Gary Numan at 33rpm but Dave Dave is also still nominally OAP, for 30p plus a 14p stamp. keyboards player Amongst rather disposable wouldn't have known a hit single Contemporary Keyboards after that and while I was away stresses that he's not trying to with Bruford, some if one had knocked him over. But magazine, doesn't sing quite as all the record companies were copy the current wave of another band more noted for its live "reviews" you will^find now Dave's very modern version well as he handles the keys so he going crazy trying to get hold of synthesiser players. musicianship than entertainment useful interviews with Stiff Little of the Jimmy Ruffin classic got his old mate Colin Blunstone mel" "I think they're awful. value, and he also plans to make Fingers and The Angelic "What Becomes Of The Broken to do the vocals and started Rough Trade generously Rhythmically they're so stilted." a solo album this summer, using Upstarts.

Hearted?" is heading rapidly up touting the single round the allowed him to negotiate with As well as putting out REM on some tracks. When I the charts. How come? record companies. Each one bigger companies and on miscellaneous recordings like spoke to him, Dave was also "That's a long story," says turned him away, and one went February 20 the single was this one, Dave is busy writing looking forward to a new WINGS SChccra Dave. "I was in a soul band at so far as to declare that "This is picked up by Stiff. All this sounds and touring with his new band experience — making a Top Of school called The Southsiders not the version to put the song very unlike a former hippie but Rapid Eye Movement. Spurred The Pops video. Times have "ROCK SHOW", the Paul McCartney and Wings feature film, will be and we really liked the song but back in the charts." Dave is far from being a on by his fondness for certainly changed for David opening in London on April 9th, the day after it is premiered in front of we couldn't actually play it." Finally Dave made an long-haired, blue-jeaned bore. synthesisers and by the Stewart. assorted minor royals at the Dominion Theatre. The film is based on a This of course was a long time arrangement with Rough Trade He's a very down to earth and acquisition of an electronic concert that the band played in front of 70,000 fans at the King Dome in ago; Ruffin's version first made to put the song out on his own entertaining guy who, to judge drumkit, Dave is currently Tim de Lisle. Seattle in 1976. "

In the second part of our four part series on the individual members of The Jam, Mark Ellen talks to Bruce Foxton about creativity and criticism, job satisfaction and being normal. BRUCE

('71/'72) i i I I EROES? I don't know the action-packed capital of the but hardly took the town leapt at the chance to audition I what the word means. Southern Counties. by storm. with the newly-spawned trio of I I It's something I still Schooldays — spent at Dr. Feelgood, Bruce Buckler, Weller and one Steve find hard to comprehend. When Shearwater, along with Rick and remembers, were a worthier Brooks (guitar). Events were we do gigs. It's not so much the Paul (though he only met them cause than most at the time. being held, as it happens, in people who want to chat to you later) — were spiced with trips, "They were just so basic and, Paul's bedroom.

— 'cos that's g reat — but the fa ns discos, clubs, occasional football well, I wouldn't want to use a "I wasn'ttoo sure about it,"

who just want to touch you, who matches and raids on his word like 'relate to' but they just Bruce recalls. "I mean , one

really Idolise you just for being in brother's Motown collection. He seemed like normal people and minute I was playing heavy metal

a band and don'ttake that any also kicked around with various there was none of that 'star bit'. and the next — pop songs. So I

further. I still can't really believe bands of the "heavy metal type" And they looked really went away with this other band

that people can get so obsessed which rarely got past the drawing committed to what they were who never got any gigs and I got

with someone. board stage, with the exception doing." so cheesed off that I decided to

"It's nice in that it shows you're of the never-legendary Rita who Rita clearly weren't about to give it a go. popular but there's never been rehearsed for two solid years save the world so Bruce fairly "And as it happens," he adds, anyone that I've felt that way ever the master of the about. That's definitely not a case understatement, "it's turned out of modesty — I've just never felt really good!" that way inclined about anybody. BRUCE HAS never been one to That, in a way, sums up the two underestimate the importance of most endearing facets of Bruce pop music or the fact that he's in Foxton — his unshakeable a responsible position. single-mlndedness and an It's also pretty clear that Bruce almost overwhelming tendency hasn't got that many interests to be self-effacing. outside of the rock 'n' roll world. Twenty-five years old (six of He likes films — "loved" The them devoted to The Jam) and Elephant Man but "hated" Flash both the Foxton ideals and way of Gordon ("I know it's a joke, but life have remained virtually it's not a very good onel") He unchanged. In fact, his also adores English food but his conversation is so liberally only recent real diversion outside peppered with phrases like The Jam has been his brief "nothing drastic" and "nothing management involvement with spectacular" that you almost The Vapors. forget how much Bruce's Bruce and his partner John formidable talents as a bassist, Weller (Paul's dad and The Jam's writer and arranger have helped manager) decided to give the

to forge The Jam's distinctive band a break "just because I soundtrack. know that we'd have loved to "There's nothing really exciting have been given that kind of about me," Bruce will plead opportunity a few years ago." defensively, as if this was a "They're a great band," is criminal offence. "I don't think Bruce's simple explanation.

I'm boring but I don't imagine the "They've got some great

sort of lifestyle I lead would numbers — and they're young. interest that many people. I'm Well, apart from Dave (Fenton) just pretty normal. My life could who's knocking on a bit. In fact, be the same as, y'know, Joe who he's even older than mel

knocks off at five at the "I don't think I could get away ." ironworks . . from the music though," he announces suddenly. "There's BRUCE'S PRE-JAM teenage nothing else I'd like to do. In fact, years he describes as being within The Jam itself, I'd like to

"pretty sheltered". Not that they contribute more than I do. I don't were uneventful — just that he mean I'm just going along agrees with Rick Buckler that his earning a wage and getting a free home town of Woking is hardly Continues over the page 15

From previous page ride, so to speak. It's not that at Then, if there's a mistake, it's a all. It's a more personal thing. I'd mistake made by all of us. just Mice to contribute more Nobody's perfect." songs. "But then again," he laughs, OUTSIDE OF the band, the three "I've said that time and time members of The Jam all have again, and I'm st/// saying it and very different opinions. The notdo/ngit!" problem is, Bruce says, that after Has there been a time when living in each others' pockets on Bruce has felt like packing it all tour for a while they need a break in? from each other, but that "Well, yeah, you can get down being pigeon-holed and then doing it to satisfy some fantasy or sometimes endangers the feeling all the time if you let yourself. expected to conform to it in other." of closeness that The Jam You can get to the point where public. So what does Bruce find depend on as a creative force. you think, say, we're not doing "In the early days," Bruce satisfying about The Jam? "You do tend to drift apart, but anything in America so we might points out, "you got this "Money comes into it for a that's something we're trying to that as well give up. But I just think impression — because we never start, but I suppose mainly it's rectify. It's bad to lose that as long as you've convinced smiled in photographs — that we doing something that you're personal thing between you." yourself that you're getting never enjoyed ourselves. We do actually creating in the first place; Then it becomes less like a somewhere and there are still enjoy ourselves! Just 'cos we the fact that you're not just part of band and more like a business places that want to hear you, then don't smile for every photograph something like a production line. arrangement? it's worth going on doing it." it doesn't mean we're a bunch of You're actually creating "That's right. It's weird. You Does it still matter as much that miserable bastards! something and making a success don't want it to but it does, and

The Jam haven't cracked "I mean, I never put myself out out of it." then you need a break. You can America? like Geldof who puts himself up Bruce wears the look of lose that one-of-the-lads feel, "It did at one point. But there's on a pedestal and then has an someone who's been up this that kind of all-going-down-the- only so much you can do. We've image that he's got to live up to. road before. pub-together thing. It's really been over there fourtimes now And then has to put on another "I know — it sounds a bit like awkward to explain."

— I mean, we've given them a show for the papers or 'How To Become A Rock'n'Roll I put to Bruce that the older you chancel — and we haven't whatever." Star' or something. But that's get in the music business, the changed our policy at all. Maybe Geldof wants honestly the most enjoyable part. fewer jobs seem to be available.

Obviously we've been something different from the That's why I do it. You get a lot of What would be the alternatives to approached to do that but it Just music business than Bruce does? worrying sometimes, like with being in The Jam for him?

isn't worth it. So you get a bit "Yeah, right. I'm knocking him I any job. Like coming up with an "Well, there's always disillusioned. suppose but I hope he really does album, or a single, or just producing. I mean, the only other "But then again, we went to want all that and he's not just basically songs full stop." occupation I've ever had was as a Japan and it was really good, Did you ever really take any printer and there's no way I'd although that's a bit harder to criticism to heart? want to go back to that. I did a

gauge. They went crazy over us "Yeah. It did us a lot of good to five year apprenticeship. I left

but we weren't sure why. You're be criticised around the 'Modern school when I was fifteen not

not sure if they'd do the same to World' time. Looking back on it, I really knowing what I wanted to Thin Lizzy the next week and think maybe it was a bit too harsh do. Jethro Tull the week after." but it made us take more time "Actually, that seemed a good Is there anywhere that you over what we were thinking job at the time but unfortunately haven't played yet that you'd like about and what we were putting everybody who was telling me to? out." about it was referring to Fleet

"We've instigated trying to get Did it ever matter to Bruce that Street which is slightly different, I

wage-wise. I had into Russia but I can't really see it he wasn't the focal point of The should imagine, coming off. People have gone to Jam? to deal with all these scientific the Embassies to try to sort "No, it didn't matter at all. It's formulas and equations. It was skill in things out but I haven't heard the never worried me. There's never really boring. There's no results yet. been that sort of animosity printing anymore. It's the same "Mind you," he grins, "once between us. Y'know, like who old story — technology takes they start delving into our lyrics should be in the limelight. If there over. So boring. etc. maybe they'll definitely say was, then Paul would be the first "So you can imagine," he says, to say 'you can do this interview' allowing himself an ear-to-ear or whatever. smile, "that The Jam getting a THE JAM have never been a band "But you'll find invariably that break was most convenient!" you could call "enigmatic", but whether Paul or Rick or myself But if The Jam did end? there was certainly a time when does an interview, we say more Bruce shrugs his shoulders. the band had to dodge a shower or less the same things about the "I mean, our schedule's of conflicting labels. To their group because we have more or planned up until May, June, with eternal credit, none of them less the same feelings. We sort it tours and recording. Further than seemed concerned about his all out before we do something. that, who can tell?" 16 Well, Anne is pretty neat She always eats her meat Joey's awful strong Bet your life he's putting us on

Chorus Oh lawdy, oh lawdy

You know I need some loving Move me Touch me John, I'm only dancing She turns me on But I'm only dancing She turns me on Don't get me wrong But I'm only dancing

Ah, back street love is quick and clean Life's a well thumbed machine

I saw you watching from the stairs You're everyone that ever cared

Repeat chorus

John, I'm only dancing She turns me on But I'm only dancing She turns me on Don't get me wrong But I'm only dancing

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I need your love

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Words and music by Findon/Myers/Puzey Reproduced by permission Black Sheep Music Ltd.

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Capstick Comes Home By Tony Capstick & The Carlton Main/Frickiay Colliery Band

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Words and music by Capstick/Dvorak, arr. Drake Rimmer WHSMITH Reproduced by permission Tyke Music Ltd. ^ ^™ Subjecttoavailability while stocks last, where you see this sign. Ej Pricescorrectattimeofgoingtopress. ^^^ 19 ^.s^^^ wonderfully originally named Night his first single since "Ego Tripping bigger things with their new one, Out, starting April 2. Let's hope Out" in 1979. The track has been "Love Games" (Polydor). (Can you can get in. remixed and edited and is almost anybody spot the likeness in the

Still on the subject of live gigs, I totally from the version on the "In three songs?) Although it didn't hit was lucky enough to catch Freeez at Our Lifetime" album. The flip side me immediately, the track is a ^ifcC®^ (also the has London's The Venue a couple of "Funk Me" on album) definite grower and easily the best weeks back. Despite their only been toned down for release as thing they've done so far. The band having one hit single, the place was Marvin apparently did not wish to gig constantly, and if every fan packed to capacity and it was more offend anybody. bought a copy Level 42 could find like an all nighter than a rock venue. Level 42 have already had a themselves at the Top 20 level! The band showed themselves to be couple of minor hits with "Love Good luck to them. very mature — most of the material Meeting Love" and "'Wings Of was a little too laid back for my Love". This time they're hoping for Beverly liking — but there was a 'i tremendous reception for the single ^t and a continuous chant of "Woah! Woah! Woah!" all night long. A great night out. The Venue's interest in funk has been well and truly stimulated by the reception to Freeez, and on APRIL is certainly not a month for Easter Monday (April 20) they will slouches. The seasonal surge in be holding an all dayer from 2pm to record releases also provides the 12am. Guest appearances by top prospect of some all too rare live soul stars are promised, and tickets appearances and the chance for us are priced at £3.50. Brit-funk is hard done by funk fanatics to see definitely here to stay, and I'm sure the real thing for a change. it will grow and develop as more and Speaking of The Real Thing more young British bands are (what a link up), they just happen to inspired to have a go. be one of the acts appearing this Seeing as how my slave-driving month. Starting at London editor has demanded my column Lewisham Concert Hall on April 4, early this time (due to our they then proceed on a short tour of promotional schedules), there the country (see Gigz for details). If aren't so many records to review. you're a Brummie and an Odyssey -ITS LOVE The best of those around is "Praise" A THING fan then you'll be pleased to hear by Marvin Gaye (Motown) which is that they're doing three nights at the ON SOLAR RECORDS K's a love thing It's a love thing It's a love thing (thing)

top 40 The look in your eyes is more than enough disco To make my poor heart burst into flame Yoil thought the moment we met that there was no doubt « 1AB1L__?!M- TITLE/ARTIST That my life would never be the same Whispers Lit* could never have this feeling that comes over me' 3 ITS A 10VETHIN6 Whan you're near me I thought that's how it's supposed to be 6 INTUmOW Linx My heart is telling me 4 GET TOUGH Kleeer SOUTHERN fBEEEZ freeez 1 It's a love thing, yeah BSIDERrefly 11 lOVEISBnHWABEONYOU Got me talking in my sleep 'Bout the love you made 16 LATELY Stevie Wonder It's a love thing (it's a love thingi 7 CAWYOUfEEI'TTheJacksons 7 Love thing (thing) K00I81 The Gam « 8 JONES VS JONES HAWDIE IT? Sharon Redd 5 CAN YOU Such a feeling i get whenever we touch Jian 19 HIT W BUM tOVEH Carol You're like no other I've felt before Of The World It's just so new and yet I need you so much 11 NEW TIME lii|ht And to make you mine forever more (SOMEBODYIHEIP ME OUT Beggar & Co 12 2 You're the kind of woman that can turn my world around PARADISE Change 13 12 'Cot you show me what unselfish love is all about M 30 JITTEHBUSB'W Hi. 6 Super Minott 15 NEW GOno THING G0W It's a love thing, yeah Quincv Jones I fMl that pounding in my heart when you call my name 1g NEW Al NO CORRIDA It's a love thing (it's a love thing) Love thing (thing) It's a love thing Every time that you're near, it becomes so clear It's a love thing (it's a love thing) Love thing (thing), yeah It's a love thing

I feel that pounding in my heart when you call my name It's a love thing (it's a love thing) It's a love thing

Life could never have that feeling that comas over me

Whan you're near me I thought that's how it't supposed to be My heart is telling me

It's a love thing, yeah Got me talking in my sleep About the love you made It's a love thing (it's a love thing) It's a love thing It's a love thing (love thing) You've been deep in my heart, looking right from the start It's a love thihg (it's a love thing) Love thing (thing) Love thing K's a love thing

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12 inch 4 track single Eye of the Lens, Another World, Gone and At Sea also 7 inch 2 track single Eye of the Lens and At Sea Produced by Peter Wilson and the Comsat Angels

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Running over an hour and with two of "Sluggin' Per Jesus" where the complete Simple Minds, putting tapes with booklet, it features broadcast, which seems to be independent together in their early days. These days contributions from Bill Nelson, Lewis & and anti-church and anti-right wing Gilbert, he has his own Hellfire Club studio in Thomas Dolby, Factory artists establishments, starts out clearly Glasgow and the first two resulting and Durutti Column, Martin Hannett, Kevin releases gradually succumbs to waves of electronics. Hewick, are now out. The Names and A Certain Ratio, Der A good, arresting release. The Dreamboys provide us with "B6la Plan, Radio Romance, Eno cronies Michael Among the other recent releases Lugosi's Birthday" (St. Vitus Records), via this Nyman, Harold Budd and Gavin Bryars coupled fine label have been Bill Nelson's "Rooms interviews with "Out6r Limits" and "Sh^lle with Eno and Jeanne Morea'u a With Brittle Views", an upfront piece of poem from We Dance". The band haven't really got Richard Jobson and a electro-pop with.mixed imagery John jingle from beyond recycling their influences yet and Foxx. Excellent value. Skids-type chanting chorus, coupled with (All the (mainly the dark insistence of Joy above should be available through Division) "Dada Guitara", an instrumental with 'ugh Trade and are occasionally affected - SAE to Promo Info. 137 Nelson's melodic, stylish (e.g. guitar winding , Blenheim spellings) but there are a couple of Cabaret Voltaire: (left to right) Chris in Crescent. London W11. For more and out of a rhythm box and synthesiser information tieat trades here with some good guitar Watson, Stephen Mallender and Richard Kirk. write to Les Disques du effects. It also has at least two different Crepuscule at work and this is certainly worth having. 32 Avenue des Phal6nes 13)' picture sleeves. (B (Contact: SAE to c/o Murray, 30 Kersland 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.) Street (t/r), Hillhead, Glasgow). The Poems' "Achieving Unity" (Pollta Still in Glasgow but in a different league Records) is more of a struggle, being in the altogether are Positive Noise. A 7 inch independent singles top determinedly experimental 30 vein. An showing off their two main influences, insistent, tribal beat with an impressionist "Ghosts" (Joy Division) and "Give albums instrumental Ma building around it with a Passion" (Magazine) is already high in the sprinkling of intrusive noises and rattles for charts NOT TO be but now comes a 1 2 inch (also on confused with Joseph K, good measure, but let Schleimer down by obscure Statik) with an extra track, "End Of A K (Omega Records) are a four imagery and dull, unconvincing piece vocals. I Dream". This displays their third — and formed by ex-Psychedelic Furs can't by help wishing they'd relax and let far synthesiser go a the best — side, the raw, tribal style like player Dominic Brethes with bit more. Interesting packaging though Adam bass, saxophone on overdrive. Great stuff. (Contact: and vocals. Mind you. If (Contact: SAB to 39/101 Glen this IS Affric Drive, SAE to c/o Fast Product, 3/4 East Norton the sort of thing he was turning out Darnley, Glasgow.) before, Place, Edinburgh 7.) my sympathies lie entirely with the Psychedelic Furs. Wafer thin ideas, large slabs of TWO NEW singles have seen the light entirely forgettable synthesised of day The second Postcard release is "Just Like from Glasgow's wanderings, plain awful lyrics excellent Postcard Records. Gold" from East Kilbride's Aztec Camera. An made worse First up is Orange by a pretentious vocalist — this Juice's "Poor Old Soul" amazingly mature debut from a sixteen year sounds at times like a very and really good it is too. Powered along by old writer, this urgent, bad PiL take-off. Add a personal message has flimsy an energetic rhythm, it's a very paper sleeve and a bad pressing cleverly an attractive folksy, almost American feel to and constructed song you don't get an overwhelmingly with a great melody well it thanks to the addition of shimmering attractive handled by package. A single would Edwyn Collins' distinctive acoustic guitars. Only a rather have been quite untogether sufficient. quavery vocals. It also (Contact: SAE to Merlin boasts a well judged arrangement stands between this strong Music 83 arrangement which George Street, London W1.) shows up the best of the song and sheer excellence, and the same song while sensibly shunting Things aren't much better over the band's fault reduces the 'B' side "We Could Send at Rough amateurish Trade where Television side well to the rear. The 'B' side Letters" to a one Personalities have dimensional canter. A extended offers another version of the same song. worthy purchase, however. their dubious talents as far as an Miles LP. While their naive ahead of their last two releases and (Contact for Postcard: SAEto185 West charm works OK on an well occasional single, worth anybody's money. Princes Street, a whole album of grown Glasgow 4.) lads pretending to be ickle innocent "hello sky, hello POOR OLD clouds" type 1 2 year olds and SOUL singing By horribly cutesy ditties to the Orange Juice on Postcard Records accompaniment of tweeting birds is so Back with a vengeance teeth-gratingly much in vogue Repeat forced that the urge to My friend the chorus destroy harlequin, the rogue is almost overpowering. Look, you Befriending Poor guys the meek old soul — there's the basis for some quite His tongue Poor tucked firmly in his cheek old soul independent albums top reasonable songs here, so ACT YOUR AGE 10 willya? Chorus Repeat chorus Full marks, however, to Rough Trade for You better come clean securing Come Glean and re-releasing Pere Ubu's classic How could _:__HCWHO anybody be so mean? DAMS WIMS Thealre Of HalB Modern Dance" LP I will not be a party ' which is worth the price Tou better come clean to your scheme 1 OmKWtAllSWHrrE SOX Adams The CRASS Cras. that was misinformed — this was a genuine innovator and should To whit, I'm lost UWKMOWM PIEASURES Joy Di»ision and all forlorn be heard at all costs. Words and music by Edwyn SIGMIHG OFF UB40 I'm tattered and torn Collins (Contact for Reproduced ire: (left to right Rough Trade: SAE to Promo Too tired to by permission Postcard Pub- i 8 l-"»"ICAnYOURirviHOII0OMHr8Enii«i«s see how sick you've grown ivens, writer Info, 137 Blenheim Crescent, lishing Ro » - WTHEFLATFIElOBau haiis London W11.) Oavid Mulholland. 10 ffltSH FRUff FOR ROTTMB VEGETABLES DaaJ Kanradvs 21 SMASH HITS Spandau Ballet

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This is why it gets unnerving They find it all a different story No concern for wheels are turning Turn again and turn towards this time All she asks is strength to hold me Then again the same old story Word will travel oh so quickly Travel first and lean towards this time

Oh break them all, no mercy shown Heaven knows it's got to be this time Watching her, these things said The times she cried, too frail to wake this time

Oh break them down, no mercy shown Heaven knows it's got to be this time Avenues all lined with trees Picture me and then you stop watching Watching forever Forever, watching love grow Forever, letting me know Forever

Words and music by Joy Division Reproduced by permission Fractured Music \. ^i WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED?

As I walk this land of broken dreams I have visions of many things But happiness is just an illusion Filled with sadness and confusion

What becomes of the broken hearted Who had love that's now departed? I know I've got to find Some kind of peace of mind, baby

Tlie roots of love grow all around But for me they come a tumbling down Everyday heartaches grow a little stronger I can't stand this pain much longer I walk in shadows searching for light Cold and alone, no comfort in sight Hoping and praying for someone who cares Always moving and going nowhere

What becomes of the broken hearted Who had love that's now departed? I know I've got to find Some kind of peace of mind, help me please

Now what becomes of the broken hearted Who had love that's now departed? Mm:§[ I know I've got to find Some kind of peace of mind I've been searching everywhere Just to find someone who'll care |if-^p>§|i| I've been looking everyday I know I'm gonna find a way Nothing's gonna stop me now I will find a way somehow I've been searching everyday I know I'm gonna find a way I've been looking everywhere Just to find someone who'll care

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27 c albums -' I"^ S"AKIN' PYRAMIDS: Skin and electronics can be as League) plus thr^...!....~ »i .. guest musicians ...„...,. wrisp . making a fine acoustfc rockabilly debut with this all from a trio of i young Scots singles who are quite ( side is really great — melodic. by David Hepworth into It, but as for futurism aiming to be anything th—,''' more -: L_;;_. „,',", substantial than "Downtown" side, by a tasteful those who don't have LEVEL 42: Love Games (Polydor). TENPOLE TUDOR: The Swrords DIRE STRAITS: Skateaway but we can also make better ck n roll basics and There would seem to be little Of A Thousand Men (Stiff). With (Vertigo). Whispering, late night stinkersthanany of the that these British are every other combo ransacking vocal, stinging guitar, breathy continental competition. This is cheek, doubt boys Relying on m but it occupies the the local some vague good time becoming the masters of amateur operatic for song all about a girl on roller actually our entry for the Sfeve Taylor very nicely while time feeling in this case winding back to period costumes and skates. Eurovision Alitteration results ii delicate, itchy funk. One only Another Dire Straits Contest, a a hear side one again. record that's listenable but A limited wishes they wouldn't just spray despatching their manager down record in fact. record so deeply moronic that thii edition on both playing of 10,000 (why?) so don't to the library in search of snappy time and on the song as if it were an they must already be throwing in get caught out— buy originality. (5 out of 10). ows now! (9 out afterthought. song titles, TOTP is becoming the towel from Monaco to about a quick pig's ear of 10). David down almost interchangeable with the SLADE: Wheels Ain't Coming Miinchen. Follow that, Hepworth the old battle cruiser then? There's nothing Sunday afternoon classic serial. Down (Cheapskate). Although I Luxembourg. like a good RSCHER-Z: Cockney Marliese (Liberty). Tenpole's togs are very "Children can't pretend to be entirely happy '.«af*' knees-up album and f**^' that's Just when I'd consigned them to Of The New Forest", all cavalier about Slade's transformation just what this is BAD MANNERS: Just A Feeling - nothing my personal list of no-hopers, hats and rapiers. The actual like a good Cockney from rowdies to scrap metal (Magnet). Yet another Loonee knees-up Fischer-Z spring out of nowhere noises on the record suggest that album. Although merchants, this is a harmless Tune. What can you say? Bad their two with a singles minor belter of a 45, a he's picked the losing side in enough blast of hard rock. The "Rabbit" and ' Manners' frolics don't exactly suit FAD GADGET: Make Room "Poor Old small epic that takes much of the more ways than one. plot concerns an ancient airplane Mr Woogie" (included critical dissection. You're either (Mute). Spare, rhythmic and very here) have competition to the cleaners. Were held together surely by chewing a certain charm, a whole drawn to their particular brand of clever, If Fad is crazy, he's crazy album it the work of The Jam or some and faith, of songs —another gum whose easy breezy jump music or you're like a fox and this deserves radio nine to be band of similar precise standing, this THE COMSAT ANGELS : Eye Of undercarriage proves a mite — about beerguts and not. I am and this is a hit record. play at the very least. high tension item would be top The Lens (Polydor). With one contrary. Not the most obvious crumpets does try the patience five even as we speak. brilliant single, "Total War", and subject matter but Holder's more than somewhat. JOOLS HOLLAND File under a fairly substantial album under remains one of the most THE SEARCHERS: Another Night AND HIS Bound To End Up In The £1.99 MILLIONAIRES: Bumble Rack. their belts, it's about time The distinctive voices on record. (Sire). Graced by some Boogie (4 out of 10). THE CURE: Primary (Fiction). My (A&M). Jools returns with Comsat Angels blossomed a beautifully luminous guitar and an Bev Hillier admiration for Robert Smith appealing little. Sad to say, they seem distinguished by their usual example of aside, I do wonder how long The straightforward boogie piano SLADE: We'll unable to break free of the usual impeccable singing, but still Bring The House Cure can continue to prop their this dull that may not find much RICO: That Man Is Down rock straitjacket and more likely to find its way into the Forward (Cheapskate). Slade were songs against the same chord commercial favour (2-Tone). In the always DIANA track wouldn't even have made it bargain bins than the charts. The but does at early 50s, young a great energetic live ROSS: To Lov6 Again progression, with its clambering least prove that his digits are Jamaican band but it "^otow")- on to their long player as a filler. song itself explores a few well musicians copied the was their sense of Lady Di's last Motown bass and deadpan drums. At the exceedingly agile. Bet he plays horn sound of melody album? Well, worn ideas in an attractive American R&B that put their hit singles maybe not. But this moment their fast song (this one) bands, release with his hands crossed . . . added head and definitely enough manner but somehow their own oddball shoulders above has the smell of sounds just like their slow one shuffle beat and everybody else. goodbye about it, JOHN LENNON AND YOKO doesn't quite go for it like it invented Blue Their present containing only speeded up. Beat, the music success three new ONO: Watching The Wheels should. STYX: that eventually unfortunately owes more tracks alongside such Too Much Time On My became ska, to oldies as proof, if Rico, The the dreaded Heavy "Touch Me In (Gaffen). Final any were Specials I The Hands (A&M). Oh yeah? You Meta the record industry trombonist, grew up in that revival than anything Morning", all ofthem needed, that THE ASSOCIATES: Tell Me didn't have era else, and from the to make a record and here he their pen of can make politics look like an Easter's On Friday (Situation). works with some of natural pop sensibility gets writer/producer Michael though, did you? What's wrong Jamaica's Masser, . finest to drowned amid Everthing's honest way of earning a living. The singer still gets a bit too close with recreate the a sea of wailing OK vocally basket-weaving or meals on qriginal guitar but Does anybody actually need to Bowie's slightly crazed falsetto instrumental sounds solos. They sound as raw someone really should put .wheels? At least we now know mixing and the another single from this album? Associates the oldies in with his live as ever and Noddy damper on her yen to for comfort but The that Styx have heard the last own be original compositions. Holder still has Streisand, She's really Have people been clamouring for have at least abandoned that couple of A kind of a unique set of much Robert Palmer records. non-boring vocal better more? Hasn't his memory history lesson you cords but play this when dancing cheek to BURUNDI BLACK: Burundi Black harsh military backbeat in favour And this is one of the most next to can skank to. their Chic. out already been wrung for the last of a hazier, more spacious Join the class as "Greatest Hits" and there (6 of 10). (Barclay). When these African popular bands in the world! Gulp. soon dollar of revenue? Evidently not. as you're able. (8 out really is no competition. Fred tribesmen first committed this approach. Maybe their next of 10), They can , Dellar do better My guess is somebody will be will like their Fred Dellar than this. (6 out of great beast of a rhythm to tape, I album sound own 10). "stumbling upon" previously don't suppose they ever guessed work. Good record. Bev Hillier unreleased tracks for quite CHANGE: Miracles (WEA) a that It would in due course be Miracles? Where? THE WHO: Face while yet. either adapted or borrowed by Change's last Dances album "Glovy Of (Polydor), Backs pop musicians as diverse as Joni Love" yielded bent with the tvvo fine singles in weight of all that Mitchell and Adam Ant. They're "Lovers' accumulated Holiday" and experience, The THE RAYBEATS: Searching probably not aware that Rusty "Searchin'" but Who stagger this is little better forward SCARS: Aii About You (Pre). than once again to tell us The (Don't Fail Off The Mountain). I Egan has grafted his own serviceable stuff. A medium about their troubles. The name seems inappropriate when fail to see what is so irresistibly "additional drums" on to this pace devices rhythm section turns over are all only too familiar you hear this. Instead of modern and amusing about a particular version either. Still, while — the the boy /girl vocals fire-breathing vocals, lacerating avant garde you get that's living attempt to the epic bunch of ham fisted so-called the trouble with in inject light but powerful pop, clipped some soul into arrangements, the uneasy musicians attempting to ape the Africa. The music papers arrive mixture along by fine drumming and unremarkable lyrics, with the of solemn cornball instrumental technique so late. final result sounding like philosophising and agony sturdy, ringing guitars. An of early sixties pop. Please an Hl-judged attempt to column advice, Entwistle's outsider but not a rank one. explain, somebody. imitate Chic. pair of If only Enjoyable SIAM: Deja Vu (A&M). enough while playing embarrassments aside, this is someone would tell these people — especially the opener Townshend's baby and he does that there is more to making a "Paradise" — but try. But the band seem BILL NELSON: Banal (iVIercury). If Pit: Fiowers Of Romance MARVIN GAYE. Praise otherwise so intent (Motown), totally on this pop record than whisking forgettable. Another pumping his songs full of STATUS is the record that's supposed (Virgin). You could never accuse it's sometimes useful to strip hot QUO: Never Too Late together a few bright-eyed and reason to look to the air that both his wisdom (Vertigo), to mark Nelson's return to active these jokers of squandering their B. A. ROBERTSON: Saint Saans away the tune and the rise of and his Another album, bushy-tailed ingredients and then Brit-funk. (5 out of 10). whimsy float away over the another record making, then why was it scarce resources. This is certainly (Asylum). One of the great arrangement and the production boogie ride. As usual scrubbing up the surface until it rooftops, don't recorded two years incurable smart-arses of Red Starr I doubt that they there's plenty of ago and why economic. If nothing else. Out our time and simply examine what is fun to be had shines. Beneath all this frantically still care and all that — lots does it sound more like Bebop Oe goes the dentists' drill guitar and continues to lampoon himself being it's just of choruses to sing said on the I along to record. So did. the awful perky activity there's a great deal LANDSCAPE From way they show it, and lashings Luxe than anything else? Still, he in comes a new emphasis on the and his lifestyle, slinging in a If Marvin Gaye The Tea (4 out of riffs you can used this of of the of not much. Rooms Of Mars To The Hell 10). stamp your feet remains one few people bare bones of the rhythm section. hundred and one references to conversational tack in an Holes to. This year's Of Uranus (RCA), From David Quo-ta capable of making guitar-heavy Rotten has pared down his vocal various notable aspects of the interview, I'd be checking the the Hepworth includes the hit single, brilliant to the plain silly; 'Something rock without abandoning subtlety style to just two notes, both flat. If BUCKS FIZZ: Making Your Mind high life. I like it but then I'm a exits. 'Bout You Why does love always have BRITISH ELECTRIC Baby I | Landscape throw their Like", and and colour. He also comes from this is the sou nd of the futu re let's Up (RCA). Gee, it's great to be social climber too. Next time he to come "shining through"? Why FOUNDATION: a dandruff-loosening formidable Music For version Wakefield not people it British. should provide foot notes on the technical and of Chuck and many hope that can somehow be Not only do we make can't it use the door like Stowaways (Virgin, Berry's "Carol- technological cassette As with . expertise Red do. . averted. better records than anyone else sleeve for the less well-informed. everybody else? into two only). The Starr's socks, there's sides of musical enjoyable side of exploration electronics. Their unique BEF are Martin Ware 28 blend of brass, fij complain? (7 out of 10) '^ '^i'ij*f?ft|*fte of the Human Fred Dellar ; WHAT'S WHAT

IN PART two of the Smash Hits guide to holding your own in conversations musical we bravely go where wise men fear to tread by defining a few of the terms used to describe various schools of music. This enterprise is obviously doomed to failure, not only because different people will have differing interpretations, but also because these many and varied strains of popular music have interacted so frequently that It's impossible to say accurately where one area ends and

another begins. But here we go . . .

THE BLUES was the traditional folk music of the American negro. Initially acoustic (guitar, harmonica and vocal) it developed into rhythm and blues as the people migrated to the industrial cities and amplification became available. Its basic conventions — a line up of guitar, bass and drums playing a simple, repetitive twelve bar progression — supplied the framework upon which rock was built.

COUNTRY (or country and western) was and still is the traditional folk music of the white people of rural America. Having plugged into electricity at the same time as its black counterpart It remains a thriving music to this day, distinguished often by bittersweet vocals, steel guitars and sentimental lyrics.

ROCKABILLY is generally considered to be the music Elvis Presley and chums invented when they combined the instrumentation of country music with the slippery sensual vocals of the blues. As such it is the basis of most white rock and roll to this day and has influenced and shaped the styles of everybody from obvious revivalists like The Stray Cats to SOUL grew out of R&B and became the black and drama contemporary above all things. pop singers like Elvis Costello. pop music of the 60s. More emphasis was placed on the intensity of the vocal and horns PUNK ROCK is another tag whose meaning and strings were used freely to accentuate the has altered. Punk bands were originally epic qualities of the songs. Its classic artists uncultured garage bands who shot to were people like Aretha Franklin, Smokey overnight fame in the 60s via one inspired 45 Robinson and Bobby Bland. and then faded straight back into obscurity leaving just the whiff of legend behind them. FUNK came to the fore as artists like Sly Stone The term however was resuscitated in the mid and James Brown stripped the soul sound 70s to describe the antics of The Sex Pistols down to its components and placed the and any other bands who played it simple, rhythm section at the forefront of the sound in brash and very irreverent. order to create compulsive dance music. However, funk Is a quality that any music can POMP ROCK is Styx or Kansas or any other have. It generally implies a kind of gutsiness band who spend a fortune on spangly and grit in the performance. jumpsuits and dry ice and specialise in recycling old Genesis Ideas for the PSYCHEDELIA. The word derives from the consumption of retards. effects of hallucinatory drugs and was used to describe the mazy, mainly instrumental work REGGAE Is the prevailing pop music of of the early hippy bands like the Grateful Jamaica, based mainly on an odd backwards Dead. kind of rhythm which is hypnotic, simple and nearly Impossible for a non-Jamaican to play. PROGRESSIVE. horrible, A pretentious term The brand of reggae wh ich holds sway at the that described a lot of horrible, pretentious moment (as in Bob Marley and Burning Spear) music and excused the excesses of British grew out of ska and rock-steady, earlier styles art-rock Ibands of the late 60s and early 70s of West Indian pop which were tinnier, more like Yes, Pink Floyd and Genesis. Influenced by American R&B and less dependent on heavy bass. Of late dub music HEAVY METAL was a phrase originally coined has become increasingly popular. This Is to sum up the savage, metallic sound of early created by the remixing of ordinary recordings punk outfits like The Stooges and Alice Cooper to accentuate the various Instruments and but is nowadays employed when talking about voices and thereby achieve odd and exciting guitar based hard rock bands who prize noise effects. Bob Mariey PRINTS POSTERS PHOTOS

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Don't say a word, I know what you're thinking It's plain to see I see my opportunities shrinking In front of me I know you've made up your mind But don't say Although I know of no crime It's the same

Chorus Guilty, guilty you've found me Guilty, guilty you've found me Guilty, guilty you've found me Guilty, guilty you've found me

I wonder why you haven't the time for The reasons why To hear the truth might alter your mind or Open your eyes I know you've made up your mind But don't say

Although I know of no crime It's the same

Rapeat chorus

I know you've made up your mind But don't say

Although I know of no crime It's the same

Rapaat chorus to fade

Words and music by Sal Solo Reproduced by permission Sal Solo '

Sal found that EARNING THE odd gold or silver person unusually It's pointless to argue who was first Mik met Sal about three years ago. disc must be very nice. Although early on in life. At 12 he sent his first but there are certainly links through He'd been wading around the if you're as long established a composition to a record company and looks, white disco rhythms, a strong post-punk quicksand in the latest line company as EMI the ritual celebrations was disappointed not to be signed up awareness of Europe and an interest in up of a once-touted band called Neo. must be tempered by the question of on the spot. At school he refused to sci-fi. (Classix' first two singles were Then one night at the Marquee he saw where you're to stick going them all. take the exam system seriously. 'The Robots Dance" and "Nasty Little Sal strutting his distinctive stuff in a full Hence the "video roonn" where I "Why should I? I knew I was going Green Men".) length cape with a ruff of red monkey interviewed Classix Mouveaux is to make it and that was that." But Classix have a far more fur; a true original. Mik was not so wallpapered with thenn — and the idea He then moved to London and lived traditional view of a band's function impressed with Sal's band. The News, rather took Sal Solo's fancy. on factory and office jobs until music than some of their new found but nevertheless manoeuvred his way "Fascinating," says the baldhead. could provide him with a living. contemporaries. No merging into the into the bassman's shoes.

It would more fascinating if "Mm. be Mik has probably done less background for them — they demand But The News were just another they were all ours," adds his colleague theorising and more active rebelling. that their audience focus their attention band in the process of burning out. The Mik Sweeney from under his quiff. Soon after taking up guitar he became entirely on the band for the duration of only thing Sal had got out of it was Slightly premature maybe for a band convinced he could "set the world on their set. They hit them with big sound, enough money from the record with "Guilty" still only in the lower fire". Before long he'd moved on to big lights, costumes, smoke and company to buy a lot of equipment, reaches of the chart but Classix have making his own equipment, a craft he strobes — the whole shooting match including synthesisers. few doubts about the success they still pursues. current (His bass and that was scorned by punk. And no Following the demise of The News consider they deserve. Sal's striking mirror guitar are both apologies for that. Sal briefly flirted with an offer of work That same morning The Sun, the examples of his work). The 'B' side of the current single, with a French producer in Italy but most popular paper in the country after Born in Cork, Mik's family moved to "Night People" (also the title of their decided to stay and form his own band all, had given Sal a half share in a Wimbledon in Surrey when he was just first album which is due out in late April instead. centre-spread and he'd caught a a baby so that his father, a plasterer, or early May), is, according Sal, to He called Mik, then B. P. Hording fleeting glimpse of the coming of Sal could find better work. "about the Romantics New or (drums) and Jak Airport (guitar) from Solo, Star: "It was the boiled bacon and whatever as ordinary people. When the disbanding X-Ray Spex. Within a "I couldn't say I liked the piece cabbage syndrome," says Mik and the gig's happening they're few months Jak had been replaced by because it's so over the top about us. Gary Steadman who had earlier been It's i/erKflattering though." rejected at an audition for The News, He even forgave them for the picture an honour he shares with Richard caption which referred to him as pop's Burgess, the Landscape leader. "Kojak". The new band made their live debut Every new face coming into the • • at London's Music Machine, drawing public eye feels the same effect: 300 people. Over the following year "When I walk into EMI I'm not the they went back every six weeks and by person I have known for 20 years or so. the time the venue was closed down I'm Sal Solo, the act they are trying to JSlouveaux they pulling a thousand despite were market." the fact that they had no record out and And a marketably odd couple they were attracting little publicity. make. Sal, 26, is in a chic black boiler Sal wrote "Guilty" during that phase, suit, his shaven scalp concealad by an referring specifically to the record Arab headdress, his face chalk-white company A&R men who treated him with just the merest hint of eye liner. with such contempt that he sometimes Mik, 19, wears a relatively nondescript felt making music must be a crime. neat jacket and trousers. Beneath thi- "You have an appointment for two quiff his face has the undernourished o'clock and you arrive very keen at look of one of the Dead End Kids from . 1.50, and maybe they get around to '30s gangster movie. seeing you at 3.30 and you know by The contrast isn't planned and the their attitude that they're not pair are perfectly natural people. I'd interested." thoughtthat people who obviously put such thought and hard work into their Classix were reassured by their daily appearance might care rather slow, steady progress though and say more about The Pose than The Word. they never considered the possibility of not making it. In the same way they As it turned out, they natter in easy and friendly fashion. now regard their modest chart position as a step on an inevitable climb. A fan AFTER 18 months of being largely following has developed around them, ignored by the media, who had them fuelling their faith. filed away as being "somettiing to do 'They'd find out where we were [Qassix Nouveaux l-r: Mick Sweeney, Sal meeting to go off to a gig and come with some former members of X-Ray Solo. B.P., G,m Steadmaf.^ Spex", and then finding themselves with us in the van," Mik says

affectionately, it taking second place to names like blames his parents' Irish Catholic somewhere else, they've escaped. But "then stop the night in if we couldn't sneak them into our Spandau Ballet and Steve Strange, values for their lack of sympathy with when it's over they can't afford to float hotel. Classix Nouveaux are at last starting to his enthusiasm for music. Apparently home in a taxi; they're not an elite." You know, the great thing about get their share of attention. they used to jeer when Mik's idols, the last couple of years with Classix is that have friends They haven't yet developed an Bolan and Ferry, popped up on TOTP. SAL AND Mik happily agree that the we made more than accomplished interview technique and Sal assures him that this is also qualities of tunefulness, tightness and in the rest of our lives put together!" there are no rehearsed answers so exactly what he had to put up with in strong sound could have been found in Eventually they put out a Capital disagreements sometimes surface. his standard non-religious upbringing any good chart record of the last fifteen Radio "Nfcky Home Show" tape of This openness is far more stimulating in Stevenage new town. But Mik insists years. Although Sal's first ever rock "The Robots Dance" as a single on than any "cool". that, although he still lives with his concert was Led Zeppelin at the Albert their own ESP label. It stayed in the As Mik says: "People are always parents, he hasn't spoken to them in Hall in '68, his real teen favourites were Independent Charts for three months surprised that Sal isn't the two years. Sal doubts this and points pop adventurers like The Move and and the band were then signed to arms-crossed-hands-on-the-shoulders out that the Sweeneys are actually nice The Four Seasons — no doubt listening Liberty/United Artists, who were and staring-into-space type. He's quite people and proud of their son. The to Frankie Valli is what encouraged him promptly absorbed into EMI. Now that a softy after all, isn't he?" facts start to blur but it is clear that Mik to develop his own amazing falsetto. stumbling giant of a record company is Well, not exactly that. Although he needs his personal generation gap. Mik's influences are equally off-beat. licking its lips over their prospects and pronounces himself "humbled" by his At least you can see that they have For the past year his favourite album anticipating a bonanza. experience so far, Sal takes pains to firm ideas about why they are has been "Simon And Garfunkel's And the band of course are ready emphasise the uncompromising "different", although nobody seems to Greatest Hits", and the names of Neil and willing. Attention, praise, money; independence which is the backbone have noticed them until they were "the Sedaka and even Rodgers And they will not offend by refusing. They of his work. same". In Classix' opinion, a lot of the Hammerstein come up in the don't spell their art with a capital A. But

"I am a self-made man. I don't have bands currently wearing the conversation. Sling in a little Alice if they can match up to one critic's much respect for people who get their Futurist/New Romantic tag are only Cooper and Arthur Brown on the description of them as "Electronic knowledge out of books. I like to do just catching up with what they've spectacle front and you'll appreciate Tamla Motown" Classix Nouveaux will away with as many outside influences been doing since their first gig in that such a mixture has produced no be more than pleased and more than '79. as I can and be the person I want to be." August single overwhelming influence. prosperous. NIGHT GAMES on Vertigo Records "-*#

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She lays in bed at night and that is when i make my call But when she stares at me she can't see nothing at all

Because you see I can't take no shape or form K's been three long years since I've been gone

I can't get used to purgatory, you know it really makes me cry I'll never know the reason why I had to go I'm crying Oh oh oh deep inside me Oh oh oh can't you see me? Ah ah ah can't you see me?

I'm looking forward to her spirit coming over to me I feel so tempted to bring her on over to see Just what it's like to be hanging on the other side

I feel so lonely, it's been a long time since I died

I try to show her that she's never gonna be alone Because my spirit is imprisoned in the twilight zone I'm crying Oh oh oh deep inside me Oh oh oh can't you hear me? Ah ah ah can't you see me?

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I was ankle over eardrums, as the re-release of "Slow Motion"; mm^WE WOULD like to know why just found out that they are not, should my fellow Numanoids this was the work of Island, their Madness were not in your Gigz and (like last year) the nearest have been, to see Gary up at the former record company, and has spot as we know they were at they are coming is London and

top. I then glanced my eyes left the lads distinctly displeased. Cambridge Corn Exchange on there is no way I could go there to towards the Most Unwanted Blame it on the old record Thursday, February 19th (it was see them.

Person Of The Year Award. I have company who are using the great). Angry Vapors Fan, Canterbury.

only this to say; If I find out who success of "Vienna" to try and You seem to have had voted Gary Numan up to fifth recoup some of the money they everybody else in there except We checked this out with The place, I will hang them with my laid out during the band's lean Madness. What did they do Vapors and they did play sister's knicker elastic. years. wrong? All we want is an answer Canterbury on their last tour. Very Angry Numanoid, Salisbury. to this small question. Although there is no Canterbury

FACT IS . . . you're wrong. A M & L, Cambridge. date this time around, they are AFTER CLOSE scrutiny of the young lady requested a list of all visiting Brighton which isn't all pin-up on the back of the March Generation X records. Because we have to go to press a that far away.

5th Issue, I realised with distaste "This should be the definitive long time before publication, the that the offering in fact list," was not you said. Then you missed Gigz page cannot always be as I HAVE written to you twice an advertisement for a brothel, out their best single, "Wild comprehensive as we would like. before on the same subject — but Honey Bane. Youth". The Madness gig you're referring more on the independent charts. It is clear that as she has no Gen X fan. to was one of a handful which We only get a poxy page as it is talent in other directions she has the band played to make up for and most people up my way buy to get to the top by baring her Well, we did say that it should earlier dates that they'd been things like Sounds, NME and breasts to the general public in have been the definitive list. Fact unable to do. Consequently Melody Maker just because they

order to increase her popularity. is . . . you're right. these were only publicised in the pay more attention to the

Seeing heron TOTP I observed immediate area to give local fans independent groups. I know this that she was obviously more a good chance of obtaining letter will not get published concerned with projecting her SHREWDER MEMBERS of your tickets. because you only put the good appearance and fondling her hair readership will have noticed that things In. than with the load of crud she one Steve Taylor is invariably IN YOUR last effort you had in Spanner, Chatham, Kent. was "singing". called upon to conduct any Gigz that Elvis Costello and The

Here I sit with my electric interview involving persons Pale Attractions were playing There are a million and one areas guitar, writing songs all on my and Interesting. Wembley Arena the same night we'd like to cover in more depth, own, wondering if in order to Is Taylor Pale and Interesting? that The Who were playing if only we had the space!

make it I should invest in a couple The Passing Stranger and The (11/3/81). of bags of silicone and expose Girl Who Dies Everyday, Vienna. At the time Elvis and gang were HELLO SMASH Hits STOP An the results to all through a black actually making us happy singing order for my copy has finally fish net. at our own little City Hall. been placed with my reluctant

Sharkey, the flat-chested I have trust in your mag newsagent just in time to miss Blockhead. because it's the only readable your Adam Ant pic STOP He one in its field and the NME is undoubtedly has a very beautiful IT REALLY makes me mad that now just a bore. chest STOP But never mind STOP the present Ultravox (with posing Get Happy. I have been saved from instant Midge Ure) has the nerve to Miss Allaneous, Newcastle. death caused by uncontrollable release "Slow Motion" again. lust reaching body temp of 2000 Trying to carry on their success I've got the sackcloth. Anyone C. causing instant human after "Vienna" (now that they seen the ashes? combustion STOP Loved Julian seem an established band) by Cope's fantasy STOP I'd

using a song written by John I AM writing to complain about recommend Cream Of Tomato Foxx (genius) and composed by The Vapors' British (7) tour. STOP Can I come and watch? the 1978 Ultravox seems pretty Last year they played quite a STOP This is not a real telegram unfair to me. few dates but nowhere in Kent. I STOP Lindzie. Here he is, people. Unfortunately was extremely upset but I waited Ena, Beckenham, Kent. this picture doesn't exactly for their next tour feeling Now hold on there. The present convey just how pale and confident that they would come Cease, desist, halt, give it a rest, Ultravox nothing had to do with interesting he is. to Kent. But to my horror I have STOP.

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Work till you're muscle bound all night long Work till you're muscle bound all night long (Gotta) work till you're muscle bound all night long SPANDAU (Gotta) work till you're muscle bound all night long

We're huUding fires that will bum until morning I The smell of books and hot stone surrounds us Tough is the leather that's strapped to my skin I Strong are the bonds that we make Jwwvi lEFORMATION/CHRYSALIS RECORDS To feel a pulsing from chanter to mountain Down through the vein and into the grain Strong is the shoulder that moves to the time Here is the land, it can break

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