s^ 35p October 16-29 1980 ^Ife^' RISTS jtDROP Explodes LYRICS including MINI-PINBALL MACHINES + SONY STOWAWAYS October 16-29 1980 Vol. 2 No. 21 1-2-3 The Professionals 2 TROUBLE Gillan 10 WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING Status Quo 11 GOHA PULL MYSELF TOGETHER The Nolans 17 A WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 17 CASANOVA Coffee 20 HISTORY OF THE WORLD PARTI The Damned 26 DOG EAT DOG Adam & The Ants 26 WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT LOVE Matchbox 33 WHY DO LOVERS BREAK EACH OTHERS HEARTS? Showaddywaddy 33 I DON'T WANT TO GO TO CHELSEA Elvis Costello &The Attractions 35 YOU'RE LYING Linx 38 WHEN I DREAM The Teardrop Explodes 38 GOODBYE CIVILIAN The Skids 47 MILES AWAY John Foxx 47 THE POLICE: Feature 4/5/6 THE TOURISTS: Feature 18/19 MADNESS & THE MO-DEHES: Colour Photospread 23/24/25 THE TEARDROP EXPLODES: Feature 36/37/38 KATE BUSH: Colour Poster 48 QUIZ 9 CARTOON 9 BITZ 12/13/14 DISCO 20 SONY STOWAWAY COMPETITION 21 CROSSWORD 27 REVIEWS 28/29 COMPETITION 30 FACT IS 31 STAR TEASER 32 INDEPENDENT BITZ 40 PENPALS 41 BADGE OFFER 41 LETTERS 43/44 GIGZ 46 Editor Editorial Assists; Contributors Ian Cranna Bev Hiiiier Robin Katz Linda Duff Red Starr Fred Oellar Features Editor Advertiserrier5t Manager Mike Stand David Hepworth Rod Sopp Kelly Pike 1161:01-439 8801) Jill Furmanovsky Design Editor Mark Casto Steve Bush Assistant Steve Taylor Adia Hegarty Production Editor Editoriai Corisuitant Publisher LKasper de Graaf Nicl< Logan Peter Strong Editorial and Advertising address: Smash Hits, 52-55 Carnaby Street, London WW 1PF. This magazine is published by EIVIAP National Publications Ltd, Peterborough, and is printed by East Midland Litho Printers, Peterborough. Copyright exists on all songs appearing in Smash Hits. They must not be reproduced without the consent of the copyright holders. FRONT COVER PIC: SIMON FOWIER/IFI PIC: SHEILA ROCK In today's programme, lesson one: Income = Input + Inspiration Stewart Copeland supplies the formula. David Hepworth studies it very carefully. BRITISH system of were allowed with "Zenyatta" crossed, the second an attempt to eventually used eleven." THEcollecting income tax being which was completed with record consolidate. This time there was what It is, an unreasonable companies and managers a big reputation to live up to and IT WILL be obvious to anyone creature at best, the only member breathing heavily down the less opportunities to stand back who's studied the writing credits of The Police who can afford to band's neck. A couple of early and take a cold look at the music. on the finished album that Sting remain in this country Is the only reviews have expressed the Before their four month world comes out on top. I put it to foreigner, Stewart Copeland. opinion that it shows. tour there was a feeling around Stewart that it must put a little Sting and Andy Summers have "We were still finishing the the band that nobody was finding strain on the ego when one been forced to spend the majority record and wondering about the it easy to come up with material member's songs are given the of their time across the Irish sea, running order when somebody and it was getting more difficult elbow in favour of another's. That ducking in and out of London to said 'Hang on a minute, let's to judge the strength of new can't be easy to swallow. take care of business, leaving the check the sleeve'. That was ready songs. "Well, we all know Sting's drummer to put his affable nature before we'd even finished mixing "Well, the nervousness going to have more. See, I know to good use by singlehandedly the thing. persisted right up to the morning three chords, maybe four, and promoting the release of the "We finished recording it in we finished it and we listened to I've used them in every possible band's third album, "Zenyatta Holland at four In the morning it and said 'Now wait a minute, permutation. Right now I'm Mondatta". Not that It exactly and that same afternoon we that's not bad!' worried, but then I'm always needs pushing In the usual sense. started our festival tour of "You can only get so far with worried, as to where the next The only changes that Belgium. That's how fine we cut your writing at home. The magic one's coming from. I've squeezed increasing affluence have it." happens when the other two get every last drop of my musical brought to Stewart's lifestyle, But the pressures weren't all involved. We all arrive at the know-how. apart from the fact that he can up coming from the record company studios with our songs. This time "Whereas Sting is what you'd and go more or less anywhere in and the business in general. The Sting had ten, I had five and Andy call prolific. In the hotel elevator the world without worrying first Police album was the work of had about the same. We on the way down the lobby, he unduly about the expense, are debutants with their fingers hums a tune and you look at him evident in the twenty four track out of the corner of your eye and studio recently installed in the you think 'If that was on record, basement plus the number of people all over the world would sophisticated audio and video be humming it'. devices strewn around the living "By the time we've arranged room of his modest West London them, then all three of us identify terraced house. with the tunes. I'm as proud of There's a small editing room 'Roxanne' as Sting is. It's not his; and a flash motorbike parked at it's mine too." the kerb outside but nothing that The fact that Sting writes all the you'd call showy. hits, sings lead and does things Movie making is Stewart's to the composure of the opposite current favourite pastime. The sex means that he tends to be band's massive world tour earlier singled out for special attention, this year was captured on means his words and bones are celluloid for no less than three plastered all over every available different movies; one for BBC, corner of the media. another for ITV and another for Andy has been a sideman most cinema showing later in the of his career and Stewart, as a winter. As they're all drummer, is used to sitting at the documentaries of one kind or back but that doesn't mean that they're prepared to be written off another, I enquired whether he'd ever hankered after making a as Sting's backing band. They'd proper feature film? be quite correct to point out how "Well, Sting is doing his own long and fruitlessly Sting had in obscurity films but I don't really see myself been labouring the three of them joined as a front of camera personality. I before up. Does Stewart ever get play drums pretty good and I like writing tunes and making jealous? "I wouldn't be human if there movies, but I don't yearn to be up there on the silver screen. I'm weren't times. But I suppose into shooting the stuff rather than Sting's face is our face. It's only being shot." relative. I'm really famous. I can't The next Police album, Stewart walk down the street without reckons, will be made up of getting harassed. It's only specially recorded incidental compared to Sting that I'm not music from the movie. It's to be famous, and I think I've had as hoped that they'll have more time jnuch fame as I really need." to make that album than they continues over page ^'^^m. ^ Stewart good humouredly i£i^^ recalls certain instances where fhh-1 the press have behaved as if the band was called Sting And His Policemen. But instead of getting all indignant and refusing to talk to those writers ever again, Stewart prefers to get his own back by stealth and charm, making them like and respect him ^-^ and causing them to feel guilty about dismissing him so thoughtlessly. You'll go a long way in the ''i^ music business before finding anyone who hasn't got at least one nice thing to say for The Police and much of that is down to their policy of charming the socks off their critics where most bands would resort to threats and sulks. LAST TIME I had words with Sting, he made much of the IS importance of what he referred to I as "input", keeping a hold of "observe" human misery on a reality and not allowing scale unknown in Europe and increasing fame and wealth to America. It must have been someone has seen it close up and distract you from writing songs sobering for them, jetting into decided there's nothing he can didn't really build an ivory tower; about the kind of life that plain Bombay like the carefree, affluent do about it doesn't make him any it's just kind of grown up around _fo!ks recognise. Does Stewart pop stars they are and coming wronger than the rest of us. me." reckon "Zenyatta" succeeds on into a culture where the average He thinks for a moment. those terms? family's weekly income would ROCK STARS are often conveyed "Still, I bought this house, so I "We've been forced into a kind barely cover the cost of a new around the world in air suppose I built it.