J5pUSA$l75 June 11 -24 1981 -^W# Vol. 3 No. 12 SPRINGSTEEN'S PLAYING Wembley/Hepworth's gorn all trembly/ la la la/la la la la!!" "Orlrlght, guv? Don't mind me. I'm sick as a moon, mate. Over the parrot. I'm just trying' to wrap me eyeballs round this 'ere new issue Knoworrlmean?" "Orlright, I'll just talk you through the important parts. I gets th ball, right, I heads it into the Squeeze feature (making a hell of a deni in me new perm), chips it across The Human League colour shot, tap it out to an Ant on the wing and then whacks it straight between couple of Whitesnake mike stands and smack into the top corner o\ the Linx centrespread. One — nil. Won meself a motorbike and ." Specials songbook too . ." "Oh, and I'm opening a . boutique, Brian . GHOST TOWN The Specials 2 WOULD I LIE TO YOU Whitesnake 8 YOU'LL NEVER BE SO WRONG Hot Chocolate 8 ALL STOOD STILL Ultravox 9 SPELLBOUND Siouxsie&The Banshees 9 THROW AWAY THE KEY Linx 14 BODY TALK Imagination 14 NOBODY WINS Elton John 18 ALL THOSE YEARS AGO George Harrison 19 GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS Odyssey 21 1 1 O'CLOCK TICK TOOK U2 23 ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE Michael Jackson 31 MORE THAN IN LOVE Kate Bobbins 31 WILL YOU Hazel O'Connor 36 LET'S JUMP THE BROOMSTICK Coast To Coast 43 ADAM AND THE ANTS: Feature 4/5/6 WHITESNAKE: Feature 16/17 LINX: Colour Poster 24/25 SQUEEZE: Feature 34/35 HUMAN LEAGUE: Colour Poster 44 BITZ 11/12/13 TOYAH/MADNESS POSTER COUPON 12 SPECIALS SONGBOOK COMPETITION 20 DISCO 21 YAMAHA BIKE/ BOOMTOWN RATS COMPETITION 27 CROSSWORD 30 INDEPENDENT BITZ 33 LETTERS 39/40 COMPETITION WINNERS 41 GIGZ 42 Special thanks this issue to Tel Seago (design) The charts appearing in Smash Hits are compiled by Record Business Research from information supplied by panels of specialist shcps. 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' 3 ' "" • 4 . t. e a ghost JliliffK;" *> ik C * M Jerry Damttt^iw'u Ission PtangiAl^/^^fts Music Ltd. THE SUN KINGS Mark Ellen flies to France (wot, again?) and files the first part of an Antspecial. Even the pics are his. WELCOME TO Aix En Provence. Congo. Outer . Mongolia . articulated truckload of gear, It's the kind of "leafy, tree-strewn his cost, "is an idea halved." anywhere but HERE!" wardrobe units, merchandise and township" that travel brochures At this point he'd enlisted the Our musical friends seem to make-up team and a "minder" always describe as "positively unmistakeable song-writing mistake this for encouragement fresh from service with Led dripping with History". talents of Marco "The Big Man" and come shuffling over, cap in Zeppelin. There's even a trio of Pirroni Occasional cars hum past hand. and, later, the twin drum Disquise, quick! "This calls silky black limos hired to glide weed-encrusted fountains. The support of Terry Lee Miall and for only one thing. Men," the them to the evening's venue — afternoon sunlight Chris "Merrick" Hughes with, at shines on cafe Captain decides, "and that's the Krypton Ultra-Disco — and that time, Kevin tables laden with the evidence of Hats!" Mooney on bass. He rises slowly to give the then whisk them back to the hotel expensive meals. The murmur of "It's all so simple," explains his command, his three or four at a carefully regulated "on-stage contented voices is broken replacement, Gary Tibbs, late of only braids bound in red and gold temperature". by the soft chink Roxy Music. "Kevin sacked the of emptying ribbon catching the gentle It's what Adam's worked five four of them wine glasses. France is putting its then they all joined breeze. "Haaaats!!", and his hazardous years to feet up. achieve, what my band!" three compadres promptly he now Suddenly most definitely needs, Marco, incidentally, a hideous distorted acquire table napkins describes and begin and what — in my book — he also his wail erupts from the direction of living habits as "nocturnal". to fashion them into richly deserves. the pavement. So nocturnal, in fact, that the rare Rows of heads loosely-constructed turbans. As he's the first to admit, when moments he appears swivel to discover that a pair of "First before dark afternoon off they've had we're staked out in the sun on the deadbeat hippies with electric are greeted by riotous applause. in ages," explains their 'security hotel patio awaiting the midnight guitars have chosen this scenic If he isn't eating, he's asleep in man' gleefully. Time off for him gig, only last February he spot for a painful was his hotel room escaping the rendition of too. "It's great here," he says, being numbered by all and "Black Sabbath's Greatest "dreaded daylight". "France isn't "they never get recognised." sundry as "the Soundchecks". all-time loser". bad," he scowls at the baking I glance at the boys in question. Working with no record The company sunshine, "it's just the weather crowd aren't exactly Jeans, T-shirts, no make-up, support, virtually no money and that's so awful!" thrilled. Least of all the table at napkins on their heads. against a daunting wall the back. of public Adam and Marco's Adam And The Ants? Know mistrust, along had come "Oy, Do you do requests?" 'em compositional flair was first anywhere! Malcolm McLaren, sifted through enquires a muscular pale-faced brought to life by Merrick's his ideas, and then nicked the Englishman production. (You can tell he's a with a tattoo on his WITH THEIR fifth Top Ten single, very band from under him to sound-man; arm. They do. "Well, hop it he spends a happy "Stand And Deliver", still basking construct the suspiciously then!" he grins. They're playing afternoon listening to a tape of an at Number One back on home similar-sounding in the BowWowWow. industrial steam-hammer wrong key, someone turf, the Ants are and moving through "If I learnt anything from him," recording Adam's digital observes. "Wrong key? Wrong uncharted territory. watch With them Adam admits, succinct as ever, town, more like! which plays, on demand, "The Where's the tour move the kind of trappings that "it's that if you've got an idea, Yellow Rose of Texas"). manager? Get him to fix up an indicate a freshly-won The new Platinum you've got to keep it to itinerary. South America. The yourself. Ants' Sound and Vision appeared status. A massive road crew, an An idea shared," as he found to last summer with "Kings Of The Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No . it's an Ant in a dressing-gown. The Perron! peepers are still firmly closed. Next page — The Proof! Wild Frontier" as its calling-card. before." As Adam recalls, it marked an People needed official crossing of the threshold "entertainment", he'd decided at between "rock'n'roll" and the time, and not yet another "showbiz". band reflecting the gloominess of "It took me a long time to the period via a witless stage act discover that they were two very and negative outlook. They different things and that one was needed something, he computed, more appealing to me than the that wasn't just willing to give up other. I felt rock 'n' roll had lost all and drop dead. its colour, all its flair. "And if it wasn't negative," Showbusiness has got more life Adam recalls, "it was esoteric to it. You have to be of a much and far too 'arty' for anyone's higher calibre to survive. good. But then, I'm guilty of that "I realised that the most as a writer, too. I think the 'Dirk important thing was not to Wears White Sox' album was compete with any other groups. 'arty', though a good album Not to feel jealous of anybody compared with what was coming else. Just to get on with your own out at the time. The topics on it career. Also to be very colourful were a little — shall we say — — and to push that to an extreme beyond the grasp of a lot of and — be very 'total' about what people that were listening to the you do. group." "Another really important As he points out, it was that thing, next to The Sound and The same grass-roots following Look, was to create Paleskinslnthepink: an audience, who'd bought "Dirk", and sold really, not to cater for one.