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2 SMASH HITS tlllJAM ltl Strange Town By The Jam on Polydor Records Found myself in a strange town Though I've only been here for three weeks now I've got blisters on my feet trying to find a friend in Oxford Street, I've bought an A-Z guide book Trying to find the clubs and YMCAs But when you ask In a strange town They say don't know, don't care and I've got to go mate. Chorus They worry themselves about feeling low They worry themselves about the dreadful snow, They all ignore me 'cos they don't know I'm really a spaceman from those UFOs. You've got to move in a straight line You've got to walk and talk in 4/4 time, You can't be weird in a strange town, You'll be betrayed by your accent and manners. You've got to wear the right clothes Be careful not to pick or scratch your nose, Voll can't be nice in a strange town 'Cos we don't know, don't care and we gotta go man. Rush my money to the record shops I stop off in a backstreet and buy myself a snort, We got our own manifesto And we are kind to queers I'm so glad the revolution's here. I've finished with clubs where the music's loud 'Cos I don't see a face in a single crowd, there's no-one there. I look In a mirror, but I can't be seen Just a thin clean layer of Mr Sheen Looking back at me. __ ta Repeat 1st verse and chorus. You can't be weird in a strange town .. Bruce models the right clothes, careful not to pick his nose .. Strange town, Strange town Break ltup Break it up etc ..... Words and music by Paul Weller. Reproduced by permission And Son Music. /Severa/st towns . range one str~;lact, al/ in DI" - Ger.many) ge count,-., ·, Photospread b J Y oeStevens l'~e finished with clubs where the music's loud ... Paul conserves his energy for that night's gig. 4 SMASH HITS I've bought an A- Z guide book ... 50 autographed copies of 11Strange Town" to be won. Seepage33 "Strange town, Strange town" . 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CJa-...:..~..'-• 6 SMASH HITS Where can you find pleasure Search the world for treasure Learn science technology Where can you begin to Make your dreams all come true On the land or on the sea ~ MIi you learn to fly fleylng lpOfts or skindive OONnog IP Y ~ the blg band 0e . ln-..:.g randstand Wh ou ffeam and others meet C:H.9_(tJS I In the nav - yes you can sail the seven seas In ttie navy - yn you can put your mind at eaH lq1tbe1navy - come on now people and make a stand 1,i,.tfie ·?avy ~ .can't you see we need a hand In ~ ~avy - come on protect the mother land In 1W a~ ~me on and join your fellow man In avy - come on people and make • stand In na , lnl the navy, In the navy tfNty want you, they want you u , ,. f to enter g office fast ltate need to wait Ing up their seamen fast ::"'NIWDeJyo are too young fo up today but n't you worry 'bout a thing For I'm sure there wlll be Alweys ,the good navy Protecting ~ e land and sea tc w you, they want you, they want you u • new recruit ho rrie7fi, ey we,-!( they want you, they want you u a new recruit But ... biit""'°'' .· . • but I'm afraid of water Hey h•~;fiolr man, I get seasick even watching It on.the TV They w,~nt£ ii ••• Oh YJf NI The , you Wh to do In • submarine? Th ___ Wint you .. In the navy fade music by J. Moral/, H. Belo/a, and -,,roduced by permission Zomba Management ers Ltd. SMASH HITS 7 BLONDIE SUNDAY BLONDIE'S next single is likely to be "Sunday Girl", yet ROLLERDISCO has arrived - another track from the with a whimper. The final of the massively-successful "Parallel first Great British Roller Disco Lines" LP. If it happens it will be Competition takes place on the fourth single taken from the March 27 at The Valbonne On album. The River in Maidenhead. It's interesting to remember But I went to the first heat in that when Private Stock London the other night and was Records, their firet label, sold shocked by the low standards. Blondie's contract to Chrysalis, Most of the contestants just it was for what has been stood on one spot and danced described as "a derisory sum". (none too well). The ones who Of course, they'd had no hits at didn't, mostly fell over! that time, and Private Stock If you fancy rollerdisco - probably thought they had got a which looks like great fun when good deal Bet they're kicking it's done well - don't be themselves now conned into buying the Incidentally, you'll probably expensive disco skates before have noticed already that we you've first learned to got round our problems over rollerskate well. Otherwise stick printing the lyrics to " Heart Of to conventional discos where Glass". They're on page 12 in you can't make such an ass of case you don't know already. yourself, and don't get as bruised. Cool greasin' The £1 single PETER BLAKE is the cool greaser from the Lip Smackin' THREE MAJOR record companies Pepsi Cola ads who, you may have hoisted their prices to a new recall, had some success with a high of 99p for a single, and some single from the jingle last year. 12 ins. singles are up to £1.99- Now he has a new 45 called that's half the price of some DENNIS BROWN has been a big star in his native Jamaica since his "Boogie Breakout" that sounds albums! mid-teens, and he is no stranger to reggae fans here. In 1977 he was a lot like Paul Nicholas (maybe I know 12 inchers sound better, voted Top Male Singer by Black Echoes readers, and his album because they share the same but are they worth it when you can "Visions Of Dennis Brown" was number one reggae import to the U.K. producer). get 1O or 12 tracks on an LP? longer than any other LP. Now Dennis' distinctive voice is gaining And he's on television in ITV's I think record companies are wider attention with his chart single "Money In My Pocket". It's a new Sunday comedy series going to drive singles buyers off in top-notch reggae number and Dennis - whose evident influences are "Agony" - written by Anna droves if this carries on. How much far-ranging and include such greats as Nat King Cole and Sam Cooke Raeburn - playing a disc are you prepared to pay for just - looks like just the fella to convert a lot of new fans to reggae. jockey who thinks he's God's two songs? gift to women. Don't they all? RICH KIDS KAPUT? RUMOURS abound that The Rich Pop's backing band. Midge Ure, Kids - the group formed by meanwhile, Is collaborating wftf, former Se1< Pistol Glen Matlock Phil Lynott on some songs which and former Slik-person Midge Ure Thin Lizzy may end up recording. - have split up. The Rich Kids No official confirmation of a split were formed amid a great deal of has been forthcoming. but the Rich press attention, and their record Kids' record company admits there label spent a large sum on have been " differences" between publicity. Unfortunately, despite members. their interesting backgrounds and instant teen appeal, the band never managed to click. When Phil Lynott and Midge Ure The story seems to be that Glen met at a recent party, Gaye Advert Matlock has had enough, and has (of The Adverts} was on hand to gone off to the States to Join Iggy remind us which one is Midge. 8 SMASH HITS + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + '· + + + TOURS: KATE BUSH, BUZZCOCKS, TRB SHORTS THE FASCINATING Kate Bush is BUZZCOCKS are doing a quick, THE Tom Robinson Band have touring in April with a seven-date mini-tour to just started t heir spring tour t o seven-man band, including her preview new material. They coincide with the release of t he brother Paddy. The t our starts won't do a full tour until next "TRB Two" album. They'll be at Members at the Liverpool Empire April 3 autumn, so now's your chance: Plymouth, Belfast end (see Gigz page 35) and will hit again, check out Gigz for Blackbum, among other places, Birmingham, Oxford, details. Imminently, so check Gigz. take it to Southampton, Bristol, By the bye, Pete Shelley hes Londoners have a choice of gigs Manchester, Sunderland, just produced some tracks for at Lewisham or llford. Edinburgh, and London's the zany Alberto Y Los Trios After the tour, the TRB will Palladium for five nights. Paranoias, who ere another play the U.S. and Canada for the bank Manchester act. seven weeks. THE MEMBERS' follow-up to Kate "Sound Of The Suburbs" is Bush : "Offshore Banking Business", spring released March 30.