February 2 - 15 ,1984

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Cover: Marilyn and Miranda Jardine
Centrespread: Stuart Adamson
Back cover: China Crisis
Interviews: Cyndi Lauper; Shakin' Stevens, Bonnie Tyler; Thomas Dolby; The Icicle Works; Fiction Factory;
Lyrics: (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory; Michael Caine - Madness; Hyper-Active! - Thomas Dolby; Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper; Nobody Told Me - John Lennon; Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan; What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths; No Stone Unturned - The Truth; Run Runaway - Slade; Radio Ga Ga - Queen; Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder; I Am What I Am - Gloria Gaynor; Holiday - Madonna
Start: personal file - David Coverdale; almost famous faces; The Bank Robbers, "Jenny", Scotland Yard, Mark Walmsley; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Stewart, Linda McCartney, "So Bad" 
Bitz: Simple Minds; The Raincoats split up, "Moving"; Carole Kenyon, "Warrior Woman", Dee C. Lee, "Felina Wow Wow"; It's Immaterial, "A Gigantic Raft (In The Philippines)"; The Trainspotters, Mike Read, "High Rise"; Kajagoogoo, "Lion's Mouth"; George Kranz, Dismal Witting, "Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz)"; Style Council, "Cafe Bleu", "My Ever Changing Moods"; J.B.'s All-Stars, John Bradbury, "Backfield In Motion"; Billy Joel; The Clash: Paul Simenon, Pete Howard, Joe Strummer, Vince White, Nick Sheppard; BowWowWow, The Chiefs Of Relief; The Bluebells split up; Altered Images split up again; Orange Juice, "Bridge"; Gene October, Glen Matlock, "Don't Quit"; Daryl Hall and John Oates; Rolling Stones, "She Was Hot", Julien Temple; Spear Of Destiny, "Prisoner Of Love"; Debbie Harry, "Rush Rush", Giorgio Moroder, "Scarface"; Human League, Adrian Wright; Gloria Gaynor; Pale Fountains, "Unless"; Stewart Copeland, "Rumble Fish"; Frankie Goes To Hollywood, "Relax", Michael Hurll: "BBC TV believes that the lyrics of this song are sexually explicit and not suitable for viewing in family viewing time"; Dave Stewart: my five video ideas that never got used
Single reviews (Neil Tennant): Another Man - Barbara Mason; Breaking Point - Bourgie Bourgie; What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths; Talking In Your Sleep - Romantics; Cry And Be Free - Marilyn; Strangers In The Night - Baumann; Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw; Don't Touch Me - Hazel O'Connor; Love Sensation - Loleatta Holloway; Unless - Pale Fountains; Soul Train - Swan's Way; 99 Red Balloons - Nena; Touch - Earth Wind & Fire; No Stone Unturned - The Truth; Dream Of The West - Yip Yip Coyote; Michael Caine - Madness; Coup - 23 Skidoo; One Small Day - Ultravox
Album reviews (Johnny Black / Peter Martin / Lola Borg / Dave Rimmer / Lisa Anthony ): Sparkle In The Rain - Simple Minds; World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope; Moving - The Raincoats; Midnight Shift - Dislocation Dance; 1984 - Van Halen; Heaven Is Waiting - Danse Society; 4000 Weeks Holiday - Ian Dury and the Music Students; Milk And Honey - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Other: A Fine Romance: Valentine's Day; Jim'll Fix It: Marilyn, Miranda Jardine