15 HIT LYRICS Including: MAKINGYOURMINDUP SKATEAWAY PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PAULWELLER URANDURANand POLECATS in colour Vol. 3 No. 8 BEVERLY HILLIER'S 21st had been quite a party. The new editor had to 1 remember not to drink lil(e that. David Hepworth, for it was he, rose gingerly into an upright position and, pausing only to retrieve the Paul Weller feature from the comatose figure of the newly recruited Mark Ellen, eased his throbbing head in the general direction of the bathroom. With half a bottle of aspirm inside his protesting body, he braced himself to look at the colour posters of Duran Duran and The Polecats and, having searched in vain for a brightness control, then proceeded to give Hazel O'Connor a brisk rub-down with a damp cloth. The feature, that Is — it having had a close encounter with a DROWNING stray trifle. What a mess. Red Starr had been face down in the same bowl of punch for twelve hours now and somebody had had to throw a bucket of water on Go-Feet Records over Bev and Geoffrey Deane but at least the Public Image feature wes safe amid the best china where he had thoughtfully hidden it. Ooops — there went a Compromise around the corner dinner platel Mum would be cross but never mind. Must remember The Cure Can you hear accountants call? competition, he muttered, stumbling towards the front door and the light of day. Could you refuse Outside, The Cockney another dollar? Rejects were waiting . Could you stop yourself from falling? DROWNING The Beat M So in between the sleepless nights SLOW MOTION Ultravox 8 You dream that you are winning fights But then it happens, PRIMARY The Cure 9 dreadful thing A wave appears too big to swim rhU, IS VIC THERE? Department S 9 You're drowning, you're drowning SKATEAWAY Dire Straits 19 Buy a beach before next summer GOOD THING GOING Sugar Minott 19 How do you feel in the mornings? MAKE THAT MOVE Shaiamar 23 If the light's an awful bother I could always close the curtains FLOWERS OF ROMANCE PiL 26 Just JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers 26 close your eyes and count to t See if you still remember when ONLY CRYING Keith Marshall 32 Your life seemed easy, you had frien MAKING YOUR MIND UP Bucks Fizz 33 But that was different, that was then CHANGELING Simple Minds 35 You're drowning, you're drowning STRAY CAT STRUT Stray Cats 38 Round and round and round (drowning) In a frenzy now (drowning) WATCHING THE WHEELS John Lennon & Yoke One 38 You want fe go in a de ocean, ah so me say I saw you drowning THE MAGNIFICENT The in slow motion, and now mt learn SEVEN Clash 47 Far too late to make a commotion Too late fe you to show easy motion That's why you go down to the bottom HAZEL O'CONNOR: Feature 4/5/6 Say you can't reach the top PAUL WELLER: Feature 14/15/16 Get stuck down the bottom. Say you can't reach the DURAN DURAN: Colour Poster 24/25 top Ah two days later, say they find you pon the rocks PiL: Feature 36/37 Say ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, bad luck eh so THE POLECATS: Colour Poster 48 Tell yourself until you're certain When you hear accountants call You'll buy a beach before next summer ,'•! I BITZ 11/12/13 Swim away and leave it all r, COMPETITION WINNERS 12 & 39 So underwater deaf and INDEPENDENT BITZ 21 blind Under such pressures you might find DISCO 23 A secret right before the end CROSSWORD 27 That makes you want to breathe again REVIEWS 28/29 You're drowning, drowning STAR TEASER 30 Round and round and round you're drowning In a frenzy now (drowning) BIRO BUDDIES 31 Drowning Round round THE CURE COMPETITION 40 and and round (drowning) i Drowning CARTOON 41 Round and round and round you're drowninj BADGE OFFER 43 LETTERS Words and music by The Beat 43/44 Reproduced by permission Zomba Music/Beat Bros. Ltd. GIGZ 46 The charts appearing in Smash Hits are compiled by Record Business Research from information supplied by panels of specialist shops. the consent of the copyright holders. 3 WHAT KATY DID NEXT HAZEL the I WAS on phone when "I get letters saying, 'Did you change your name to Hazel Hazel who is aware just how much arrived. "I'll only be a minute," O'Connor for stage work? Is your name really Kate?' They her own identity has become she says. "Park yourself in the blurred with the character of Kate. won't even let you keep your name in peace." sitting room." She didn't mind the producers I spent the next quarter of an Hazel leaves Breaking Glass behind. of the film modelling Kate on her hour exarrilning the comfortably Pete Silverton reports. Pictures by Virginia Turbett. own personality and appearance shabby flat, the stuffed Pierrot on but it did lead to problems in the the window ledge, the tiny record "You've put on some weight, brisk. She strides with purpose, end. "By the time it finished collection, the Hazel O'Connor chuck — you're getting all fat despite her elfin black bootees. they'd used what I was so much promotional clock, the hard back around the face." The one thing I On the way she tells me about that people didn't believe that that copy of "A Better Sex Life". As an don't expect girl singers in West herself, her friends, the stage was what I was anymore. I even apartment it wouldn't win any Hampstead flats to call me is door Johnnies and old film fans get letters saying 'Did you change design awards but it has the "chuck". But Miss O'Connor is so that the success of "Breaking your name to Hazel O'Connor for lived-in look. doggedly down to earth that it Class" has brought her into stage work? Is your name really rolled into She eventually the sometimes borders on the contact with. Kate?' They won't even let you room. "Sorry about that; that was ludicrous. "Little men in raincoats, all keep your name in peace. an interview with an Irish Her spare time passion is going scrunched up, asking for my "It wai very much like the film magazine and it was only meant to for walks on Hampstead Heath so autograph. When I lived with started to take over in everybody's take ten minutes but you know we take advantage of the fine Kenny (then the Banshees watching of me. It was like they how those Irish can go on." I weather and head for the wide drummer), I used to think that it wanted me to trip over or see me hesitated to mention that, from open spaces, Hazel in her fifteen was really horrible when Siouxsie cry . because numan beings are what I'd heard of the year old Volkswagen, your used to refuse to give autographs basically very cruel it well. conversation, the interviewer reporter's car attempting to stay but now I'm beginning to "Coa, it was horrible didn't seem to have got more than on her tail as she executes a understand. But that's not as bad sometimes. I mean, Cannes was five words in. number of unannounced lefts and as the people who want to touch the worst. That was the pinnacle She looked at me carefully. rights. you ... or, like the other night of it all." The walk across the Heath is when I came home and there In an effort to put Kate firm^ were these three skinheads behind her she ha* wulMd i walking away from where I lived the peroxide, hoping the Imag and I wondered if they were Hazel will go the way of the dye. It's only O'Connor fans or if they just starting to work. Although her were ..." first solo single proper, "Time", She rarely finishes off her failed to chart, the album it was sentences. She tails off as soon as taken from, "Soni And Lovers", the meaning is flitting has chalked up a respectable grasped, on , ,, to another subject. But she's not 50,000 sales and the runaway ^i& as self obsessed as most non-stop success of "D-Daya", Hanri w* talkers. She asks questions and comment on the decadence she listens to your replies. She'll say sees around her, It bound to give whatever comes into her head but it a further booat. manages to avoid supposedly "How I came to write that song profound statements. Perhaps she was I got invited down lo Teenage just enjoys chatting for its own Legend 1960 latl year at the club. sake or maybe she's just nervous. Legends. It wasn't the tort of thing I'd normally be Invited to. It was THERE ARE two halves to the Hazel only because of the film. And on O'Connor Story. Pre "Breaking came these young boys dancing in Glass" she was just one of a host satin shorts and ever^mie was of girl singers hustling on the looking at them. It wat very fringes of the music business; strange, it wat like thli second since "Breaking Glass" she's hand sex, watching other people become A Star (of sorts) with her do it for you in a veiy voyeurittic name in the gossip columns and way.