THE STRANGLERS the House That Jacques Built and Other Stories from the Betes Noires of Pop FEARGAL SHARKEY from Derry Days to LA Nights
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eTHE YEAR END GALLUP CHARTS FOR 1987! THE STRANGLERS The house that Jacques built and other stories from the betes noires of pop FEARGAL SHARKEY From Derry days to LA nights. A spotty Herbert made good returns DURUTTI COLUMN Morrissey and me by Vini Reilly BROS Are they anything more than three pairs of nicely filled trousers? Plus: WESTWOR MORRIS AND TH THE PO L I V E S £OtO AND THE BUNNYMEN DEPEQfE MODE THE Rf:IYTHM SISTERS LEE 'SCRATCH' PERRY 1 2 SINGLES henry willioms claws his woy through t'pou, the woodentops, ond lots lots more . 14 ALBUMS johnothon richmon, the mekons, the jazz The Cure have built up a worldwide butcher following, and yet they remain shadowy 1 6 BROS when will they be fomous? very soon, it seems figures whose history is virtually unknown. 18 BPM This is about to change with the release, 22 CHARTS on January 22, of 'The Cure' (Zomba 2 8 CHARTFILE Books £8.95), a comprehensive 32 THE STRANGLERS retrospective of the music and life of the no kinks in their armour! first IO years of the band. Extensive 3 4 CHARTFILE SPECIAL interviews with R obert Smith, old the top-selling bands of lost year snapshots of Cure happenings and press 3 6 YEAR-END CHARTS cuuings have been put together by the what sold most in '87 group's designer, Andy Vella, reliving the 3 8 TONY BALONEY the master of the poison pen lets you get o glorious moods and memories associated word in edgeways with the albums, singles and tours of one 39 WESTWORLD of the greatest acts to emerge since the the sonic boom boys (and girl) return to earth halcyon days of punk. 40 FEARGALSHARKEY Ifyou have ever loved, smiled, or cried warbling his way back to the top with the Cure, this book is for you. 42 LIVES biff bang pow, echo and the bunnymen, depeche mode et al . .. 44 LIP naughty nancy culp reveals all .. 4 6 MORRIS MINOR & THE MAJORS we reveal their driving force DURUffl COWMN morrissey ond me . JOHNNY THUNDERS toles from the edge 4 8 THE POGUES cor blarney! Prepare for yet another Kinks song lo hit the charts in a new guise, folks. Yep, after the Strang lers' version of 'All Day And All Of The Night', the marvy Foll have gone and done a great job on 'Vlctoria' which looks destined lo follow their cover of 'There's A Ghost In My House' onto the nation's daytime airwaves. That is if a certain Radio 1 DJ can tell the difference between 'Victoria' and 'Hit The North' - something he failed lo do I'other day while ploying o series of Kinks cover versions. The single is a laster for the new LP out in Feb. Ws gonna be a biggie kids! e EDITOR Betty Page e DEPUTY EDITOR/FEATURES Eleanor Levy e NEWS EDITOR Robin Smith e DESIGN Graham Black e PRODUCTION EDITOR Kevin Murphy e LIVE/ALBUM REVIEWS Nancy Culp e FILM/VIDEO Edwin J Bernard e CONTRIBUTORS Lysette Cohen, Ian Dickson, James Hamilton, Alan Jones, Lesley O'Too le, Roger Morton, Pete Paisley, Paul Sexton, Andy Strickland, Lisa Tilston, Chris Twomey, Jane Wilkes, Henry W illiams e PHOTOGRAPHERS Eugene Adebari, Jayne Houghton, Karen McConnell, Barry Plummer, Patrick Quigly, Joe Shutter , Steve Wright e ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Carole N orvell-Read e SENIOR ADVERTISEMENT REPRESENTATIVE Tracey Rogers e AD PRODUCTION MANAGER Tony Dixon e TELE SALES MANAGER Eddie Fitzgerald e CIRCULATION MANAGER Peter Shaw e MANAGING DIRECTOR Mike Sharman. Published weekly by Spotlight Publications Ltd, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NWI 7QZ. Telephone: 387 6611, ISSN 0 144-5804. Typeset by Phase Communications and printed by Nene River Press ( division of Severn Valley Press Ltd), Peterborough. Colour by CK Litho. e THANKS TO Carole Linfield, Jane Cameron, Mary Hallissey Cover photo: Martyn Strickland 2 RN\ OK chaps and chapesses, lers get the new year off to a suitably hi-tech stort with a fantastic Eurythmics CD competition! Index has done deals, cul through red tape ond spared no expense to attain l O copies of the CD single 'Shame' which includes an extra seven minute live version of 'There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)'. All you lucky people hove to do to win one of these fabulous prizes is answer the three questions below. l. According lo the B-side of 'Shame', Annie has a lover back where POGUES ON THE ROAD a) Bock of beyond, b) Bock in Japan, c) Bock to the future? The Pogues begin a long awaited 2. Dave Stewart recently became a tour next month. They'll be kicking father, but who was the mother o) Annie Lennox, b) Siobhan Fahey, off with a gig at Leicester De Mont cl Belinda Carlisle? fort Hall on February 23, followed 3. The E~rythmics' video was titled a) 'Hard Days Nighr, b) 'Eurythmics In by Birmingham Forum 24, Newcastle Flame', c) 'Eurythmics Live'? City Hall 26, Aberdeen Capitol 27, Send your answers on a postcard to rm Eurythmics Competition, Greater Edinburgh Playhouse 28, Leeds London House, Hampstead Road, London NWl 7QZ to arrive no later University March I, Hanley Victoria than Monday February l . Hall 2, Manchester Apollo 3, Liver pool Royal Court 4, Bristol Studio 6, Swansea Mayfair 7, Nottingham Royal Centre 8, Sheffield City Hall 9, Cambridge Corn Exchange I I, Brighton Centre 12, Southampton Mayflower 13, London Town And Country Club 14, I 5, 16. $quare jawed hemes, Ll'Villg Ia A lox, release their single 'Love Is The Art' this week. Guaranteed to make thousands of young ladies go all wobbly at the knees again, the song is taken from the Boxy Boys' current album. Living In A Box are c:urrently writ ing and recording fresh material for their forthcoming album and dreaming . about Betty Page. THE SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS, who look set to grab o healthy slice of chart action with their single 'I Wanna. Be A Flintstone' will be touring in HOUSEMARTINS SPLIT February. They'll be playing The Housemartins have confirmed they will be spliting up - a week after hinting Bristol Bierkeller February 3, they were at the end of their career in an rm interview. "I think we've definitely come to the end of an era as the Housemartins," said Coventry Polytechnic 4, Man bass player Norman Cook. "It's like we've done everything we could as the old chester International 6, Leicester Housemartins, to the point of doing it twice to prove that it can be done again." University 7, Leeds Warehouse 8, However, the Housemartins won't finally be calling it a day until June this year; Sheffield University 9, Nottingham and between now and then we can expect a new single or another album. However, their recent company remains tight lipped about the Housemartins' Rock City 10 , London Town And future plans. Country Club 12. Are you ready "There are a lot of future projects, but we can't confirm what these are going to to rock 'n' rubble? be," said a Go! Discs spokesperson. R IV\ 3 EARBENDERS Jonathan Setzer 'You Cage' Throwing Muses (4AD LP track) 'fish' Throwing Muses (4AD LP track) 'Exhuming McCarthy' REM (IRS LP track) Andy Strkkland 'If I Should Fall From Grace With God' the Pogues (Pogue Mahone LP) A band that's more famous for taking off its clothes than for its music? A blatant 'Brighter Now' f\azorcuts (Creation LP track) attempt to procure a coveted Index slot? Surely, it could never work - oh well, 'Victoria' the Fall (Beggars we're only human! These four naturalists are the Red Bot Chili Peppers, an Banquet 45) American West Coast punk/funk outfit who've set their hearts on crushing our Ian Didcson gentle island race under a barrage of white hot rhythms and who display a pen 'Sign Your Name' Terence Trent D'Arby (CBS 45) chant for striptease. Fleet Street will surely catch on soon, but in the meantime 'Gale Force Wind' Microdisney you can catch up with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new single, 'Fight Like A Brave', (forthcoming Virgin 45) or see the boys on tour. Be· warned though, the picture on the right captures the 'Heatseeker' AC/DC (Atlantic 45) One young lody you probably won't have band in typical encore stage dress so you may wish to get that last bus home come across yet is Taylor Dane. Her after all. debut single, 'Tell It To My Heart', is cur rently top 10 in the US Billboard charts INDEX couldn't believe it when we read Chartfile last week and discovered and looks set to do as well over here. that listeners to London's Capital Radio had voted Led Zeppelin's album track Displaying much of the vocol talent she 'Stairway To Heaven' as their favourite piece of music. Also in Capital Radio's lent to Hunter Hayes' club smash of a few Hall Of Fame Top 500 Record Chart were Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker ,Street' and years bock, 'This Time', her first solo outing 'I'm Not In Love' by 10cc. What happened to the once hip city that gave the world the Sex Pistols! We is a galloping electro-donce number, more at Index are deeply disturbed at having to share breathing space with such than o little reminiscent of Shannon's 'Let boring people. See If you can teach these dunderheads a thing or two by The Music Ploy', and that can't be bad. sending us a list of your IO favourite records of all time and we'll run a All this from a girl who used to listen ta selection of 'em.