Smash Hits Volume 25
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FORTNIGHTLY November 15-28 1979 30p CHIC Words to the TOP SINGLES including A Message To You Rudy Diamond Smiles Ladies Night The Selecter Public Image Ltd. in colour . The Fever Burns On... ^ Here in one beautiful double album package are the songs that portray the excitement, the style and genius of this group. The hits that made you dance and fall in love — the Bee Gees offer you their greatest. The album contains — Night Fever, Tragedy, How Deep Is Your Love, Too Much Heaven, Spirits Having Flown, Jive Talkin', Stayin' -t^^fWt- Alive, You Should Be Dancing, Children Of The World and many more including tracks never Album/Cassette before released on any Bee Gees album Classic style with a touch of genius. The Bee Gees offer you their greatest '// !l."=i^ '^^'^ .-r*-^-?^m^{{Mr//t^mmMi // ^^H- ~'KZ'. "S- mEmm^^mm mmi^$m3mm^ =//Mw^ T-t^^.^ VI. -/ ^ ux''\i 4il: I ^\\^^^ //; 'y/r>//: ^^ f =7,^//'. "1 'I- .\l/^-^^'^nI' y^^- Hi gang — welcome back! Now before we let you loose on our latest Issue, a \> -^^^"ir/'V- .'' \- word to those Queen fans (sorry. Your Majesty, but we mean the rock group kind) who'll be scouring the list below in vain for their idols. Sorry, but it's no ^>Nov 15-Nov 28 1979 go. Not because we don't like Queen (we hate 'em actually) — no, sorry, ^'oN^o*afip2& really it's because Queen won't let anybody use their lyrics without their express permission, and they're in America, thank you very much. But never II mind, we've got out usual range of goodies for you — like the new Jam y , Editorial address Smash Hits, Lisa -- Carnaby Street, London album for our Crossword winners (along with that superb radio cassette H<$4««^>55 lUWiY YPF. This magazine is published recorder star prize, of course), plus some great extras: on page 35 there's the // by EMAP National Publications Ltd, - . ' all important third token towards your free set of Smash Hits button badges, ~ Peterborough, and is printed by East 'y\^? ^"^ and — get a load of this — on page 32 is your chance to get that creation you Midland Litho Printers, Peterborough. "^ ' call your face into Copyright exists on all songs ^^ Smash Hits! Be seeing you . "^1 appearing in Smash Hits They must ^^ ^ not be reproduced without the ^ A MESSAGE TO YOU RUDY The Specials 4 consent of the copyright holders ~ NITEKLUB The Specials 4 DIAMOND SMILES Boomtown Rats 5 Managing Editor , ^Nick Logan COMPLEX Gary Numan 7 SPOOKY Atlanta Rhythm Section 8 .1^, -lEdfMfr '/i- TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE Sparks 17 STILL The Commodores 18 LADIES' NIGHT Kool & The Gang 19 Ingametis uJJ'l Andy 'W~<i KNOCKED IT OFF B A Robertson 24 /Editorial Assistants .1(5 >'-^- l!^s!'^>f Hillier, Diane Church HOT SHOT Cliff Richard 25 ^if. Contributors Cliff White NEVER 'AD NOTHIN' The Angelic Upstarts 26 Angie Erngo DENIS Blondie Robin Katz 29 Conny Jude //. Red Starr ^ GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW /y Viola Wills 37 TUSK Fleetwood Mac 39 'ir//y^~ Advertisement Executive -> - Rod Sopp — M ,\ ,1 ^ -^ Tel 01 439 8801 WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE . Dr Hook 39 :.li' '.iii-' Ik ^-Editorial Manager GARY NUMAN: Feature ytr/>i^|ipaul Flint THE UNDERTONES: Feature/Colour Photos PUBLIC IMAGE: Colour Centrespread -^ CHIC: Feature ri^*//ii\v\-- DEBBIE HARRY: Colour Photo THESELECTER: Colour Poster BITZ CROSSWORD I — DISCO PUZZLES REVIEWS COMPETITION LETTERS GIGZ ''ii:^:^Mi SMASH HITS 3 Specials On 2-Tone Records FEATURING RICO NITE KLUB Is this the in place to be? ^ What am I doing here? A MESSAGE Watching the gjrls go by Spending money — on | TO YOU RUDY '; Sleep all day It's the only way stop your messing around ah, ah, ah I'm a parasite Better think of your future ah, ah, ah I creep about at night Time you straightened right out ah, ah, ah. Nite Klub 'j Create problems in town ah, ah, ah Is this the in place to be? (Nite Klub) What am I doing here? Rudy, a message to you, Rudy (Nite Klub) Watching the girls go by A message to you Spending money — on 5 Stop your footing around ah, ah, ah Hey hey I don't work Time you straightened right out ah, ah, ah 'Cos I don't have to Better thinl< of your future ah, ah, ah I don't have to work Else you'll wind up in jail ah, ah, ah There's no, no work to do (Nite Klub) I'm a member of the Nite Klub (Nite [ Rudy, a message to you, Rudy (Nite Klub) A fully paid up member of the Nite Klub A message to you I won't dance Stop your messing around ah, ah, ah In a club like this Better think of your future ah, ah, ah All the girls are slags Time you straightened right out ah, ah, ah And the beer tastes just like piss Create problems in town ah, ah, ah I'm a (Nite Klub) parasite I creep (Nite Klub) about at night Rudy, a message to you Yes I'm a member of the Nite Klub (Nite Klub) Rudy, a message to you A fully paid up member of the Nite Klub (Nite Klub) Rudy, oh it's a message to you Rudy, yeah it's a message to you (Nite Klub) Is this the in place to be? Rudy, yeah it's a message to you (Nite Klub) What am I doing here? Repeat to fade (Nite Klub) Watching the girls go by spending money on beer Words and music by R. Thompson. Words and music by J Dammers/Specials. Reproduced by permission R and B Music. Reproduced by permission Plangent Visions Music'Llmited:-;i. 4 SMASH HITS l^< t sy^ kP 1 1 Dianiiond 1. Smiles By The Boomtown Rats 1 on Ensign Records S^". c»<'. jJ Y-$_:, ... , » ^•*'»1^ 1\^' -J i ..«\ A^\ iVxe _^^ ^>*^AP fV / •1 5^ 1 i i 1 ..^H«<^;o<^ pep' .caod. bV ^- «»; 1^ 11/ SMASH HITS 5 . what we're on about, and use often tended to write 'friends' in this as a visual expansion of our "Obviously a lot of them are inverted commas in a songs. lot of the impoIKe because of songs." that, and a lot "To be I of them try to give PLAYING TO THE ALIENS honest used to hate all the that stuff (cabaret), but fairly impression that they're not IF HE was lonely before, being recently I've a bothered a Ut about meeting John Savage finds out got to really like star doesn't always help. K's a lot you, IBing Crosby and I and put on this big air of success now like Frank of pressure, what means even more so indifference. Sinatra. I never did before, but That upsets me a bK, to Gary Numan. because Gary tries to manage as I the way he just breezes among because K's unnecessary, as wail." much of his own career as his crowd as if they're in a circle Does he fee/ under pressure? I possible, from writing the songs IN THE space of a few months, and not on stage, and he's so "Not consciously, but all of a I to performing and producing Gary Numan has emerged from relaxed." sudden things get on top of me I them, working out complete obscurity to having his finances for no reason whatsoever, and and designing the stage set. two number one records, "Are AS YOU may have gathered, really K can come on within Many of his songs are about minutes. I Friends Electric?" and "Cars", Gary Numan is very honest. If feel as though i have this loneliness, this distance to do two no. 1 albums, "Replicas" and you ask him a question, provided something, but I don't between people put just a little know what Is, "The Pleasure Principle", and, at it's put clearly, he'll answer it as K and nothing you into the future: was this how he one stage, three LPs in the Top clearly and as directly as do seems to be it. he can. lived? 20 at once. Clearly, Gary Numan It's a quality very rare in most "I'd imagine K's like getting "I used to live it out quite a lot is a phenomenon. pop stars, who, when asked a stuck in a lift, K's the same sort of before, really, because I didn't go The background to his rise to difficult question, will for some helplessness. K's very out much, I've never gone to fame is by now quite well reason evade the point or get frightening, sometimes." parties. If i go out, I known. What's most interesting angry. Perhaps normally go they're afraid. PIC: out on my own, in the car, IF THE pressures of touring are (now) is his reactions to his From being unknown, Gary ANDRE CSILIM? ." driving . now over fame; whether, now that he's has suddenly become very ,.,^^_^ for a while, others Incredibly Is he treated as an object? begin. The next day, got it it's what he wanted; and famous. He's prepared to talk ran pic ofGarv Numan and Numan "Completely. As a product, the band what he feels about performing. with as much honesty about smiling. are going into the yes." studio to begin what it means to him, demoing the new and what — I wouldn't venture any more Would this encourage him to album, 'Telekon", which is ON OCTOBER 8, Gary Numan it's doing to him.