30p May 15-28 1980 Words to the TOP SINGLES including In The City This World Of Water Hold On To Mylove KATE BUSH PHIL lYNOft ROCK ON TV UNDERTONES TOYAH in colour Albums to be w6n * Their very existence menaced by a strange civilization. ^s * - ;>^ 'f MISSION- jTIGfi "% V $. J * I v • I Slmiij 'MISSION GALACTICA: The Cyian Attack' A 6LEN A LARSON PROQUCTIGN RICHARD HATCH DIRK RENEDICLLM GREENE Urn SfttiilGiislSlii Liimlci Cm Sl """!ieLEN A.IARSON.JIM CARLSON &TERRENCE McDONNELL '"IJKEN PEJLUSJLEN A.LARSON...MIGHAEL SLOAN %S GLEN A.LARSON Midi ,l """ """ ' '" " *1 iiiinb[[unnnuoiiiiinnioiinnICE (RWARDSh-CHRISIIAN i.nioiI. NYBY IIii i!hi..S1U PHILLIPS I"" READ THE BAHLESTAR GALACTICA SERIES FROM FUTURA BOOKS. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE. Wi DISTRIBUTED BY CINEMA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION. % ©1979 Universal City Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved NOW Separate MAY 22 progs daily 1.003.306.008.30 FULHAM ROAD Late show Fri. & ANDATABCAND Sat. 11.15p.m. ABC For details of all BAYSWATER programme times phone OTHER LEADING CINEMAS In the super «. :mioi anna-ki win Teledata 01-200 0200 (24 hours) EDGWARE ROAD reality of _g| ACROSSTHE COUNTRY !»'' IN THE CITY May 15-28 1980 Vol. 2 No. 10 The Jam 4 TERRIBLE. INNIT? I mean, how could ALL AROUND THE WORLD they do it? How could they cause so much suffering among the innocent? The Jam 4 TV's till . No more was September . MODERN WORLD But we must be brave and carry on. Actually, you can read what Tony The Jam 4 Parsons (he of the Sex Pistols article BREATHING fame) thinks of Tiswas and other music programmes in this issue's Kate Bush 6 special feature on rock on TV on pages 12-14. Other goodies in this THIS WORLD OF WATER issue are a Request Spot Special with New Musik 8 the first three Jam singles now back in the lower reaches of the chart OVER YOU (Thanks to Paul Weller for lending us Roxy Music 15 his vintage photos), an extra song, another chance to win a mini-TV on THE GREATEST COCKNEY RIP-OFF page 18, a competition with a difference on page 28, plus the last of Cockney Rejects 17 our badge tokens and our binder offer POLICE AND THIEVES On page 35. We can but hope these Managing Editor offerings will filling Junior Murvin 19 go some way to Nick Logan the gap left in our lives by the absence of Spit The Dog, Compost Corner, HOLD ON TO MY LOVE Editor David Bellamy . Jimmy Ruffin 22 Ian Cranna TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY Features Editor Smokie 26 David Hepworth NO DOUBT ABOUT IT Design Editor Hot Chocolate 27 Steve Bush CALL ME Design Assistant Blondie 29 Andy Ingamells ROCK'N'ROLL Editorial Assistant The Human League 32 jta/ Hillier LIFE jjJJ SHE'S OUT OF MY Michael Jackson 36 Contributors IB Cliff White FOOL FOR YOUR LOVING Robin Katz Whitesnake 39 Red Starr Fred Dollar LEAVING HERE Mike Stand Motorhead 39 Kelly Pike Jill Furmanovsky KATE BUSH: Feature 6/7 Advertisement Manager ROCK ON TV: Feature 12/13/14 Rod Sopp Tel: 01-439 8801 THE UNDERTONES: Colour Centrespread 20/21 Publisher Peter Strong PHIL LYNOTT: Feature 24/25 DEBBIE HARRY: Colour Picture 29 NEXT ISSUE Editorial and Advertising TOYAH: Colour Poster 40 ON SALE address: Smash Hits, Lisa House, 52-55 Carnaby Street, BITZ 9/10/11 GIGZ 38 London W1V 1PF. 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CITY'l I ^ecords '"the city there's »,k„.„. a say to you a fool 9 But Voutumthe S m^ fears — setter listen now y° u 've said your A"d bit '< 'don't kno- kn ow where it's at '"the city ther A "^ntd „.tworkat USandth/n9S —-.J ; '~ toyou "«>ue«ed by: ^"^ Steve Fh Somerset- ' M KkL.tL Manchester-h i ._ J "'nsh, M^garet & ^,^^P»°n/Pa p°; Taunton °rby ^ n act; B Arr °bby ' Northants Morris f' • gm . >anda batons, ; Jam/e P er; T Ramsoat ^ ™omDs 0n m L £ °n< Ken,; John M d !*•* jWifflf^ A dk;rs^ D-on n C^d \N0HVB THE MODERN WORLD ] By The Jam on Polydor Records Jaroo This is a modern world This is the modern world What kind of fool do you think I am? You think I know nothing of the modern world life same J»er«Jf*Jg can C*-*"* All my has been the I've learned to live by hate and pain It's my inspiration drive NNnat^SVeforeve. '•Rasa I've learned more than you'll ever know Even in school I felt quite sure That one day I would be on top And I'd look down upon the map The teachers who said I'd be a failure °Se Te BeC8 ^s>Nnatha^^^° Chorus This is the modern world, that I've learnt about eS one Buttne< This is the modern world, we don't need no To tell us what's right or wrong This is the modern world Say what you like, 'cause I don't care I know where I am and going to It's somewhere I won't preview Don't have to explain myself to you I don't give a damn about your review Repeat chorus This modern world this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is Hey, we don't need no one to tell us what's right or fac wrong eat to nrVeller icLtd. Rep hi/Pa0 MuS wo.'ld --^sion ^ Son This is a modern world, this is the modern Words and music by Paul Welter *epr0 Words and ^•wast*Ss^ Reproduced by permission And Son Music Ltd. Requested by: J. Freese, Tooting, London: Sharon O'Leary, Hayes, Middx. hard, or I clean up, wash-up and hoover. I find that very therapeutic. When I've got a lot THE ME INSIDE on my mind I like to get away to something totally non-taxing. "I see friends whenever Kate Bush lets Deanne Pearson in on her secrets. possible too, and watch television, because that's something you can just switch off when you've had enough." IS THAT really Kate Bush walking The studios are like a second you realise how important it is fighting, militant bands such as She laughs at having to relate across the cafeteria of EMI's home to Kate at the moment. that they should actually be the Clash and the Stranglers. such run of the mill things to Abbey Road Studios? I have to She's been working virtually saying something." Kate is so slight and demure, prove she's "normal". look twice to make sure. non-stop here for the last few The lyrics her previous on two an extremely artistic person "I'm not a star," she says She's much smaller than I months — apart from some albums are mainly concerned whose aims seem more adamantly. "My name is, but not imagined and dressed casually in session work with Peter Gabriel with love, sex, and relationships. concerned with entertaining me. I'm still just me." jeans, colourful blouse and and Roy Harper (for his album Simple and common subject people by taking them away little cardigan. Wearing make-up, "The Unknown Soldier"). matter, I suggest, safe and from the outside world and its KATE HAS been criticised for she looks about 14 years old but Kate is working on her third uncontroversial. problems, even if only for an being too pretentious onstage - moves with all the grace and album which is now scheduled Kate rightly points out, hour or two. for not being herself. Patiently confidence of a trained dancer for end of June release. When however, that her lyrics do go Hers seems a comfortable, she explains what she thinks the and experienced performer — asked about it, however, she is into the psychology of the almost fairytale success story. critics have missed. which of course she is. understandably hesitant. relationships, and analyse what Discovered by EMI Records at the "When I am onstage, I'm Smiling warmly, she sits down "It's difficult to talk the lies under about that superficial banner age of 16, she was sponsored for performing, yes, and I'm with an orange juice and album without you actually of 'love', which — no matter how a couple of years writing, during projecting. And to do these lemonade. She rarely drinks hearing it," she explains, in a common a theme — is still very which time she continued things well, I have to be big" (she alcohol she tells me, and thinks voice so quiet I worry the tape important to a lot of people. learning to dance, perform and stretches her small, slender, most people who do just lack recorder won't pick it up. "I Her is new album, however, project herself. frame upright to demonstrate) confidence. I put down my lager suppose it's more like the first exploring different avenues. Then she was launched into "and bold, and full of confidence.