Saturday, April 12, 2014

April 12 - 25, 1984

Smash Hits, April 12, 1984

(click on the image to see the full issue)

Cover: Thompson Twins
Centrespread: Siouxsie Sioux
Back cover: Sade
Interviews: Duran Duran; Special AKA, Rhoda Dakar; Rockwell; Ali Campbell; Bananarama; Thompson Twins
Lyrics: Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield; (When You Say You Love Somebody) In The Heart - Kool & The Gang; The Longest Time - Billy Joel; Nelson Mandela - Special AKA; (Obscene) Phone Caller - Rockwell; The Reflex - Duran Duran; Don't Tell Me - Blancmange; Dancing Girls - Nik Kershaw; I Want To Break Free - Queen; Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan; Glad It's All Over - Captain Sensible
Start: Razzmatazz, Captain Sensible, Nick Heyward, Tina Turner, Marilyn; Rick Parfitt, Michael Young; Nick Beggs, Mulligan, Ravel's "Bolero"; Queen, I Want To Break Free, Roger Taylor (Suzie Burchill), Brian May (Hilda Ogden), John Deacon (Ena Sharples), Freddie Mercury (Bet Lynch);
personal file - Peter Powell
Bitz: Captain Sensible, "Glad It's All Over", Dolly Mixture, "Remember This", Weetabix; Wham!; "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go", Innervision Records, Barbados; "Electro 3": Divine Sounds, Dave DMX; "Now That's What I Call Music 2"; Ultravox; Malcolm X, "No Sell Out", Grandmaster Melle Mel, "Jesse"; Martin Gore: My Five Favourite Video Games; Iain McKell; Adele Bertei, "Build Me A Bridge", Thomas Dolby, Culture Club; Dead Or Alive; Culture Club, "A Kiss Across The Ocean"; Big Country; Rick Springfield; Van Halen; Elvis Costello; The Lotus Eaters; Rock Goddess: "I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock And Roll): Jody Turner, Julie Turner, Dee O'Malley; Human League; Status Quo 
Single reviews (Tom Hibbert): The Caterpillar - The Cure; Honey At The Core - Friends Again; Don't Tell Me - Blancmange; Liberator - Spear Of Destiny; Only He Has The Power To Move Me - Stephanie Lawrence; City For Lovers - Way Of The West; Runaway - Modists; The Reflex - Duran Duran; Remember This - Dolly Mixture; Locomotion - Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark; Shock Treatment - Pallas; Such A Shame - Talk Talk; The Longest Time - Billy Joel; I Want To Break Free - Queen; No Sell Out - Malcolm X; Eighties - Killing Joke; Romeo And Juliet Love Theme - Juan Martin; Set Me Apart - Lotus Eaters; Some Heads Are Gonna Roll - Judas Priest; Who's Fooling Who - Jakko; Take Me Home - Zac Zola & Electric Banana
Album reviews (Lisa Anthony / Ian Cranna / Josephine Hocking / Kimberley Leston / Claire Sheaff / Peter Martin / Dave Rimmer): Far From The Hurting Kind - Tracie; Islands - Kajagoogoo; Hold On - Sense; Body And Soul - Joe Jackson; The Flame - Annabel Lamb; Night Full Of Tension - Robert Gorl; Parting Should Be Painless - Roger Daltrey; Bananarama - Bananarama
Nights Out: Starlight Express; Howard Jones; Nik Kershaw

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