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 lmagination .............................................. 14 NOBODY WINS Elton John ......................................... 18 ALL THOSE YEARS AGO George Harrison ................ 19 GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS Odyssey ....................... 21 11 O'CLOCK TICK TOCK U2 .......................................... 23 ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE Michael Jackson ............... 31 MORE THAN IN LOVE Kate Robbins .......................... 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 (deslgnl The charts appearing in Smash Hits are compiled by Record Business Research from information supplied by panels of specialist shcps. This magazine 1s published by EMAP National Publ,catrons Ltd, Peterborough, and ,s printed by East M 1dland L,tho Printers, Peterborough Copyright exists on all songs appearing 1n Smash Hits They must not be reproduced without the consent of the copyright holders 2 THE SUN KINGS Mark Ellen flies to France (wot, again?) and ~In the first part of an Antspeclal. Even the pies are his. WELCOME TO Ah< En Provence. Congo. Outer Mongolia ... articulated truckload of gear, his cost, "is an idea halved." It's the kind of "leafy, tree-strewn anywhere but HERE!" wardrobe units, merchandise and At this point he'd enlisted the township" that travel brochures Our musical friends seem to make-up team and a "minder" unmistakeable song-writing always describe as " positively mistake this for encouragement fresh from service with Led talents of Marco "The Big Man" dripping with History". and come shuffling over, cap in Zeppelin. There's even a trio of Pirroni and, later, the twin drum Occasional cars hum past hand. Disquise, quickI "This calls silky black limos hired to glide support of Terry Lee Miall and weed-encrusted fountains. The for only one thing, Men," the them to the evening's venue - Chris " Merrick" Hughes with, at afternoon sunlight shines on cafe Captain decides, " and that's the Krypton Ultra-Disco - and that time, Kevin Mooney on bass. tables laden with the evidence of HatsI" He rises slowly to give the then whisk them back to the hotel " It's all so simple," explains his expensive meals. The murmur of command, his three orfour at a carefully regulated "on-stage replacement, Gary Tibbs, late of contented voices is broken only braids bound in red and gold temperature". Roxy Music. " Kevin sacked the by the soft chink of emptying ribbon catching the gentle It's what Adam's worked five four of them then they all joined wine glasses. France is putting its breeze. " Haaaatsl !", and his hazardous years to achieve, what mybandl" feet up. three compadres promptly he now most definitely needs, Marco, incidentally, describes Suddenly a hideous distorted acquire table napkins and begin and what - in my book - he also his living habits as "nocturnal". wail erupts from the direction of to fashion them into richly deserves. So nocturnal, in fact, that the rare the pavement. Rows of heads loosely-constructed turbans. As he's the first to admit, when moments he appears before dark swivel to discover that a pair of "First afternoon off they've had we're staked out In the sun on the are greeted by riotous applause. deadbeat hippies with electric in ages," explains their 'security hotel patio awaiting the midnight If he isn't eating, he's asleep in guitars have chosen this scenic man' gleefully. Time off for him gig, only last February he was his hotel room escaping the spot for a painful rendition of too. " It's great here," he says, being numbered by all and "dreaded daylight". " France isn't "Black Sabbath's Greatest " they never get recognised." sundry as "the all-time toter" . bad," he scowls at the baking Soundchecks". I glance at the boys in question. Working with no record company sunshine, "it's just the weather The crowd aren't exactly Jeans, T-shirts, no make-up, support, virtually no money and that's so awfull" thrilled. Least of all the table at napkins on their heads. against a daunting watt of public Adam and Marco's the back. Adam And The Ants? Know mistrust along had come compositional flair was first "Oy, Do you do requests?" 'em anywhere! Malcolm McLaren, sifted through brought to life by Merrick's enquires a muscular pate-faced his ideas, and then nicked the production. (You can tell he's a Englishman with a tattoo on his WITH THEIR fifth Top Ten single, very band from under him to sound-man; he spends a happy arm. They do. 'Well, hop it "Stand And Deliver", still basking construct the 1u1piclou1ly afternoon listening to a tape of an then I" he grins. They're playing at Number One back on home similar-sounding BowWowWow. industrial steam-hammer and in the wrong key, someone turf, the Ants are moving through "If I learnt anything from him," recording Adam's digital watch observes. "Wrong key? Wrong uncharted territory. With them Adam admits, succinct as ever, which plays, on demand, " The town, more likel Where's the tour move the kind of trappings that "it's that if you've got an idea, Yellow Rose of Texas"). The new manager? Get him to fix up an indicate a freshly-won Platinum you've got to keep it to yourself. Ants' Sound and Vision appeared itinerary. South America. The status. A massive road crew, an An idea shared," as he found to last summer with "Kings Of The P1le1kin1 in the pink: (left to right) Adam Ant, Gary Tibbs, Terry LN Miall, Merrick. 4 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, l'm_guil~y 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 an audience, who'd bought "Dirk", and sold really, not to cater for one. And to out the Ants Invasion Tour prior enjoy life," he adds, simply. " I to the CBS signing, who went enjoy it more now than I did straight out and bought the 15 "Kings" single. The combined my records sel I. And who buys A feeling that it's got too big too admit it-and use it! Utilise it force of 50,000 sales secured a the records? The kids. So they fast. Really, it depends on how instead of hiding it. Also," he TOTP slot an<:l, once played, demand more respect and fast those fans are maturing. You gives another in a series of 250,000 more clapped eyes on consideration than anybody. see, somebody could have got pioneer salutes, " I think Sex is something irresistibly Brand New "I think the music business is into the Ants when they were 15 the last great adventure left I and decided they'd better get learning that because they went and they'd be 19 nowl And I can't "The thing is that if you're too themselves a copy, too. through a period in the '70s of honestly look people in the face aware of it - and you try to be And the rest, in the words of pushing people to the limits, of and say: 'I expect people to sexy-it usually ends up not the prophet, is History . .. saying: 'You're going to pay five adhere to everything I do and say being sexy. Sex is something that pounds for a piece of plasti.c for five years'. I mean, I got into manifests itself in more than just ASKED TO explain himself later, that's worth 50p with no cover to Roxy Music on their first album physical love-making.