TLY ...,., man League lbums lncolour be won ROXY MUSIC FLESH+BLOOD Phone 01-200 0200 To find out the nearest shop where you can obtain "Flesh & Blood" at a minimwn of £1.00 off tlte album's R.R.P. ALBUM & CASSETTE 1.,.,~.1EiJ NEW AMSTERDAM June 12-25 1980 Elvis Costello ...........................................4 It's tough atthe top. Jerry TIN SOLDIERS Dammers just popped in to Stiff Little Fingers ....................................4 borrow a picture of himself. Seems he was trying to cash a CHRISTINE cheque at the bank and the Siouxsie & The Banshees ....................... 5 people didn't recognise him . .. Our apologies next to the folks CRYING who were disappointed by the Don Mclean .............................................8 absence of the promised Dexy's colour poster in the lastjssue. CHINATOWN r----...:S~ee, thei:O• haef'already been 4 rattled off to the prlntws before THT:~EL~.1oivi. M·~A~s·~·H ........................ ·1 the actual shot arrived and we decided we needed to~ bett.er. The Mash ............................................... 14 have atlence ,and we1t bring LITTLE JEANNIE one soon. This time around eve definitely got a fantastic Elton John .............................................. 16 vid,c> game for our new IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG d prize, our Irresistible lffer OD page 26 plus a Rod Stewart ........................................... 16 S etro"c:ompetition on page • EVERYBODY'S GOTTO LEARN 28. So'-Juat think yourself lucky - we UNd_"to'"1ive7n a _rolled u SOMETIME -~e'.lnidHle ofthe"' The Korgis .............................................. 19 BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway ........22 THE MAN WHO DIES EVERYDAY ntributon Ultravox .................................................29 qb' K'-atz TO BE OR NOT TO BE R~ttrr Fr,cl Deller B. A. Robertson ......................................34 Mike Stand DA-A-ANCE Kelly Pike Jill Furmanovsky The Lambrettas...................................... 35 Mark Casto FUNKY TOWN Steve Taylor Lipps lnc .................................................39 Advertilement......., TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Sopp (Tel: 01-4398801) Manhattan Transfer............................... 39 Aalstant ROXY MUSIC: Feature ............................ 6/7 Adie Harper SQUEEZE: Colour Photo/Feature ...... 12/13 ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES: Colour Centrespread ....................... 20/21 JERMAINE JACKSON: Mini-Feature ....... 26 MATCHBOX: Feature .......................... 32/33 UE Editorial and A,ctvertl~g 1 B. A. ROBERTSON: Colour Poster ...........40 address: Sm9h Hits, LUiL..,I E House, 52•55 Carnaby Street London W1V 1PF. BITZ 9/10/11 LETTERS This magazine is publi PRIZE CROSSWORD 18 GIGZ by EMAP National Publications DISCO 22 SMASH HITS SUBSCRIPTIONS Ltd, Peterborough, and is INDEPENDENT printed by East Midland Litho Home and OverseH (Surface Printers, Peterborough. LABELS 24 mail): £10 Copyright exists on all songs STAR TEASER 28 (Airmail rates on application). appearing in Smash Hits. They COMPETITION 28 Europe (airmail): £14.40 must not be reproduced Write to: Park House, 117 Park without the consent of the REVIEWS 30/31 Road, Peterborough PE1 20S. copyright holders. a____, on F Beat Records You're "nding m• tulip• mlsteken for lllleS You give rne your lip efter punchlng rne 1Uty You tum my head 'till It roll down th• brain drain If I had any sen•• now I wouldn't want It back again Chorus New Amsterdam, It'• t,ecom• much too much TIii I h•v• th• possession of everything sh• toucheS TUI I step on the brak• to gat out of her clutch.. TIii I speak DoUbl• Dutch to a real Double Ouch... Down on the mainspring Llsten to the tick tock Clock all th• face• Who mov• In on your block Twice shy and dog tired aecause you've been t,ttten E~ing you say now Sounds like It was ghost-written Repeat chorus Back In London they'll take you to heart after a 1lttl• while Though I look rl9ht at hom• I stlll fffl Ilk• an exile Somehow I found myself down at th• dockside Thinking 'bout the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhlth• Th• transparent people who live on th• other aid• Living a llf• that II almost like suicide Repeat chorus Words and music by Elvis Costello Reproduced bV permission Plangent Visions Music Ltd, .. .. .. .. ... ., .. - V V V V V V \J vvv r~~~~~~v~ V V: V , V V V V 'J V V V V V V V V V V V V yeu tllou■ht yeu•t1 newer hawe •• see PLUS ~ - Contains dozens of previously unpublished colour photos Send P.O. or cheque for £2.15 to Blondie Gift Book, PO. Box 63, London W2 3BZ 8 SMASH HITS ., __ ., I I ----- I I r-- I 'I GETTING UP JAHJOE AUNTIE'S THE NEW Joe Jackson single pairs Joe's version of the Jimmy NOSE Cliff reggae standard "The THE SPECIALS have once again Harder They Come" with two managed to offend the BBC. You new songs, "Out Of Style" and may have noticed that Top Of "TIit", neither of which are The Pops were in the habit of available on any other record. fading the last verse of "Too Much Too Young", just in case anyone under the age of thirty should QUEEN RELEASE " The Game", happen to find out about their first studio album since disgusting things like 1978, on June 20th. Included in contraceptives. the set will be both their recent Well, now the producers of this hit singles, " Crazy Little Thing go ahead series have decided Called love" and " Save Me". that the sight of Jerry Dammers dressed up as a schoolmistress is a good enough excuse to ban the GLEN MATLOCK'S new band, band's excellent video for "Rat The Spectres, have their first Race". Why not write to them and single, "This Strange Effect", ask why they don't ban Dave Lee issued in a limited edition of Travis for being offensive to 5,000 on the Direct Hits label people with brains? during June. The band are Mr Dammers, meanwhile, has expected to sign with a major been consoling himself by ,.,,. ,,,Clllfl • record company in the near producing the new single from .........,.,,eo,,.,.., .,.,.. future. the Bodysnatchers, "Easy life". WA'i S,.TUR.OAV NlCtHT --=- ... _&_ .. e F . - - . - A. - -- . - 5 SMASH HITS 9 --1 ------- ' f"\ I' \ I \ I \ ' \ ' \ ' \ ' ' ' \\ ' .,., _., J ,_..,' .,., ._I ,,.,,_, , JAM TAKE DEXV'S MIDSUMMER THE HIGH RUN ROAD DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS THE JAM are set to headline The set out on a major national tour Loch Lomond Festival this year during June and July, supported on June 21st. They w ill be by The Black Arabs, one of the supported by The Tourists Stiff bands featured in "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle". Little Fingers (still to be ' Hall (4), Bradford St. Georges (5), proceeds from the gig will go to confirmed) and The Regents. On Dates are as follows: Guildford Civic (7), Swansea Top donating musical equipment to the following day Ian Gillan is the Canterbury Odeon (June 11), Rank (8), Derby Assembly Hastings Pier Pavilion (12) various youth charities. Support main attraction of a bill that also Rooms (9), Cleethorpes Winter Brighton Top Rank (13), bands will be announced in due features Saxon, Krokus, Gardens (10), Wigan Casino (11 ), course. Lindisfarne and The Only Ones. Dunstable Oueensway Hall (14) SheffieldTopRank(15), , Manchester Apollo (12), Cardiff Meanwhile Stewart Copeland Tickets, priced at £6.50 per day, Top Rank (13), Birmingham has a new album issued on A&M are available by post from Loch D_oncaster Rotters (16), Coventry Cedar Club (16, 17, 18) and by his, er, protege, Klark Kent. T1ffanys (17), Norwich University Lomond Bear Park, Loch Oxford New Theatre ( 19). You may remember Klark, who Of East Anglia (18), Penzance Lomond, Scotland. Postal orders The gig at the Birmingham looks not unlike Stewart himself, only will be accepted and must Demelzas (20), Exeter University Cedar Club on July 18th will be a from 1978 when he had a minor (21 Bristol Locarno (22), be made payable to "Music !, special under-eighteens night. hit with "I Don't Care" on A&M. Swindon Brunel Rooms (23), Festival Scotland Ltd"; please Music is apparently only one of enclose S.A.E. Reading University (24), the mysterious Mr Kent's fields of Loughborough University (25), study; Stewart knows only that Ne~~astle Mayfair (26), Ayr COPPING HAVING SOLD out their shows Pavilion (27), Glasgow Tiffanys he dabbles in politics, religion and anthropology and runs a on June 21st and 22nd at (29), Edinburgh Tiffanys (30). Hammersmith Odeon, Styx are OUT huge multinational company In July they hit Blackburn King called The Kent Foundation, an add;ng another on the 20th. George's Hall (3), Stoke Kings THE POLICE are set to headline organisation whose sinister the first major outdoor event at influence he believes is behind Milton Keynes in Bedfordshire on many world events. July 26th under the title, It's unlikely, however, that Kent "Rockatta De Bowl". Tickets for will tour to promote his ten inch the show, which will run from the album debut. According to early afternoon through to 10.30 Stewart, Klark makes music at p.m., are available by post from such a level of intensity that a NJF/MK 1, P.P. Box4SQ, vaguely unpleasant odour comes LONDON W1 A 4SO for £6.00 off him, making it difficult for each. Cheques and postal orders other musicians to tolerate his (absolutely no cash) should be company for long periods. made payable to NJF/Marquee. Stewart would like to Because of income tax emphasise that there is complications the band can no absolutely no truth in the longer afford to be paid for rumours that Klark Kent is playing live in Britain (the tax actually just himself in disguise. they would owe would effectively Absolutely no truth at all. Just mean losing money) and so oll because they sound the same! ME, MYSELF, I THE NEW Siouxsie And The Banshees single, "Christine"/"Eve White/Eve ,.