I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter Up The I put away a tenner Each week to make her better And when tlle tiMt Wat ready Junction We had to sell the telly By Squeeze on A&M Records Make evenings by the fire Her little kicks inside her I never thought It would happen This morning at 4.50 With me and a girl from Clapham I took her rather nifty Out on a windy common Down to an Incubator That night Iain 't forgotten Where thirty minutes later When she dealt out the rations She gave birth to a daughter With some or other passions Within a year a walker I said you are a lady She looked just II ke her mother Perhaps, she said, I may be If there could be another We moved Into a basement And now she's two years older With thoughts of our engagement Her mother's with a soldier We stayed In by the tally She left me when my drinking Although the room was smelly Became a proper stinging We spent our time just kissing The devil came and took me The Railway Arms we're missing From bar to street to bookie But love had got us hooked up No more nights by the telly And all our time it took up No more nights n apples smelling I got• Job with Stanley Alone here In the kitchen He said rd come in handy lfeel there's something ml551ng And started me on Monday I beg for some forglven8" So I had a bath on Sunday But bagging's not my business I worked eleven hours And she won't write a letter And bought the girl some flowers Words and music by Chris Difford/Glenn Although I always tall her She said she'd seen a doctor Ti/brook, Reproduced by permission And so it's my assumption And nothing now could stop her Rondo, Music. I'm really up the junction 2 SMASH HITS SMASH HITS 3 Portray Guernica is Masquer1.de Metal turni'!g By The Skids ~n ,.Yirgin Records Heavy armour fails ., The battleground affairs Incitements all around , Deleat shows through but no· c,,ne cares Masq Arrange new attacks ,.,., De111;1nd a new decree Heavy armour fa Listen to their plays The battleground Destroy them as they Ree Incitements all aroun Defeat shows through Chor!!$ • ~ Holy to the high squerade Fanfares In the masquerade, Arrange new attacks Demllnd a oew decree Nurture battle scars Listen to their j)Joys ,. Pardon none wh1> dared Destroy them· as they Kindle and inspire"!! r Victory shows you ~ared Repeat chon1s ro fsd~ ' Words and mu.sic by Richq_rd ':Jobson and Stuan Adamson. Reproduced by permission Virgin Music, .. ·'< ~ .,;.;;:. 4 SMASH HITS I i I I I I SMASH HITS 5 G/RLSlAl\l By Dave Edmunds on Swan Song Records There are some things you can't cover up With lipstick and powder Thought I heard you mention my name Can't tall< any louder Don't come any closer Don't come any nearer My vision of you Can't come any clearer Oh I just wanna hear girls talk Got a loaded imagination Being fired by girls talk It's a more or less situation inspired by girls talk But I can't say the words you wanna hear I suppose you're gonna have to Play it by ear Right here and now Girls talk and they wanna know how Girls talk and they say it's not allowed Girls talk if they say that it's so Don't they think that I know by now That the word upon everyone's lipstidc That you're dedicated You may not be an old fashioned girl But you're gonna get dated Was It really murder Were you just pretending Lately I have heard you are the living end Girls talk and they wanna know how Girls talk and they say it's not allow&! Girls talk and they think they know how Girls talk if they say that it's so Don't they think that I know by now, But I can't say the words you wanna hear I suppose you're gonna have to Play it by ear Right here There are some things you can't cover up With lipsti,k and powder Thought I heard you mention my name Can't you talk any louder Don't come any closer Oon1 t come any nearer My vision of you Can't come any clearer Girls talk and they wanna know how Girls talk and they say it's not allowed Girls talk and they think they know how • Girls talk girls talk girls talk etc to fade Words and music by Elvis Costello. Reproduced by permission Plangent Visions Music Ltd. 8 SMASH HITS FILM FEVER 1: DA RAMONES THE RAMONES' first film, "Rock 'n'Roll High School", has been released in America, where it is being described as a cross be­ tween "A Hard Day's Night" and "Animal House". The film has been produced by Roger Corman, the man respon• sible for all those great American International horror movies, which also bodes well. Unfortun­ ately, the movie and its soundtrack - which features Nick Lowe, Eno, Devo, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Alice Cooper, Todd Rundgren and Chuck Berry as well as The Ramones - won't be released here until late summer. In da meantime, Ramones fans can console themselves with " It's Alive", a 28-track double album recorded at the group's New Year's Eve 1977 gig at the London Rainbow. At £4.99, it's a bargain! The Ramones pose w ith the 'female Interest' of " Rack'n'Ro/1 High above is that the finished article School". Le~ to right: Dee Dee, Joey, Johnny1md M arcy, 2: LENE will be very weird indeed I Lene and Les are also expected to 4 : THAT Ramones, The Undertones, Eddie LOVICH contribute a couple of songs to & The Hot Rods, Nick Lowe and the soundtrack. Richard Hell plus .a title track LENE Lovich and her bald boy­ While they were shooting the SUMMER specially written by Willie friend Les Chappell have been actual robbery sequence Lene, STILL ON the film front, one film Gardner of hot new Scottish band passing the time recently by who had hidden her long braids soundtrack definitely worth The Zones. taking i;>Qrt In a D11lc'1 rock' n'roll under ij Debbie Harry-style chasing is "That Summer!", Those of you who can't afford movie to be called "Cha Cha". blonde wig, went unrecognised which is now available on Arista to rush out to buy this truly The film stars Herman Brood (a by all concerned for almost an Records. Apart from the superb collection might like to sort of Dutch David IBowie) and houri (Well, would you rob a hard-to-get " Sex & Drugs & Rock know that it will be one of our Nina Hagen (a Germ an version of bank without a disguise?) & Roll" by Ian Oury & The crossword prizes in a future Siouxsie) who, with Lene and Lene and Les are now Blockheads, this 16-track issue. Les, make up a gang of bank expecting to put a band together compilation includes hot The film itself is, described as robbers w ho also play music. over the next month or so before f:avourites from last summer by being loosely based on the All that's definitely known recording a new album and then Mink de Ville, Elvis Costello, The holiday romance them e but with about the movie apart from the setting off for America. Boomtown Rats, The Only Ones, a definite '80s feel. General Wreckless Eric, Patti Smith, The release date is July 1. THE TWO Who films, meanwhile, 3: THE WHO have been delayed yet again. This is getting so boring they'd better be sensational to revive our flagging interest. "The Kids Are Alright", featuring Sting, the singer from The Police, is due out hopefully "sometime in June". The soundtrack album, • however, is available now. It's specially packaged with a 20-page colour booklet and contains mostly new versions of old Who songs (" Substitute", "My Generation" etc) including three tracks that aren't actually in the film. A double album, it retails at (gulp!) £8.49. As for "Quadrophenia" , that's now due in October. x: .:• ~:,}:. JIMMY en they w ould, wouldn't they? However, all the signs are that PISTOL? Jimmy and Sham 69 bassist FOLLOWING our piece in Bitz Kermit are much more than "just (May 17 issue) speculating on good friends" with Steve and candidates for t he singing SPot Paul. We'll keep you µosted on with Steve Jones and Paul Cook's what develops. new band, It now looks pretty Meanwhile, there's a new Sex certain that Sham 69-er Jimmy Pistols single released on June Pursey has pipped Jeremy 22, comprising three more tracks Thorpe and Barry White for the from the " Rock'n'Roll Sw indle" Job. LP. The three are "C'mon Polydor- Sham's record label Everybody" (vocals by Sid), " God - are denying everything. But Save The Queen Symphony", and "Whatcha Gonna Do About ALL It'' (vocals by Johnny Rotten). TIME RATS TOP BARRED TEN FOR REASONS best known to GARYNUMAN themselves, The Stranglers of security crew barred the ,...... ._ Boomtown Rats from the front of 1. ULTRAVOX: Slow Motion (from stage enclosure during their set the album "Systems Of Romance", at the Loch Lomond Festival.