Friday, April 26, 2024

April 26 - May 9, 1984

Smash Hits, April 26, 1984

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Cover: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Centrespread: Duran Duran
Back cover: Nik Kershaw
Interviews: Frankie Goes To Hollywood; Pete Burns; Psychedelic Furs; Alexei Sayle; Helen Terry; Nick Heyward
Lyrics: Thieves Like Us - New Order; Just A Dream - Nena; Against All Odds - Phil Collins; Hand In Glove - Sandie Shaw; Just Be Good To Me - S.O.S. Band; That's The Way I Like It - Dead Or Alive; I'm Falling - Bluebells; Locomotion - OMD; Heaven - Psychedelic Furs; Peace In Our Time - The Imposter; Love Lies Lost - Helen Terry; Give Me Tonight - Shannon; One Love / People Get Ready - Bob Marley & The Wailers; Silver - Echo & The Bunnymen; Turn Your Back On Me - Kajagoogoo
Start: Dave Gahan; Mike Read, "Tell Me I'm Wrong"; Tiny Tim, "Sugar Sugar"; Everything But The Girl", Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt, "Each And Every One"; personal file - Green 
Bitz: Duran Duran; Captain Sensible, "The Russians Are Coming"; Sandie Shaw; "UB40 - A Musical Profile"; "Michael Jackson - Body And Soul", Geoff Brown; Andy McCluskey: My Five Obsessions; Stuart Croxford Neale marries Katherine Anne Scott, Hockcliffe Baptist Church, Leighton Buzzard; Chaka Khan; Echo & The Bunnymen, "Crystal Day", May 12; "Hi-Energy 2", Street Sounds; David J, The Jazz Butcher, "V For Vendetta"; Elvis Costello, "Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers", The Imposter, "Peace In Our Time", Scully; "Up Rock", Rock Steady Crew, "Beat Street"; "Let The Children Play": Madness, Peter Gabriel, Flying Pickets, Mari Wilson, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall; Human League, "The Lebanon"; The Questions; David Bowie, "The Serious Moonlight Tour", "Love You Till Tuesday", Ready Steady Go!, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye
Single reviews (Dave Gahan): Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins; Silver - Echo & The Bunnymen; Thieves Like Us - New Order; The Lebanon - Human League; One Man's Meat - Fad Gadget; Beat Of Two - Palais Schaumburg; Hand In Glove - Sandie Shaw; Love & Pride - King; Turn Your Back On Me - Kajagoogoo; Stay - Blue Nile; Influenza (Relapse) - Gene Loves Jezebel; One Love - Bob Marley & The Wailers; The Photo Song - Holger Czukay; It's All Over - Matt Fretton; Just A Dream - Nena; Standing In The Shadow - Whitesnake; You Don't Love Me - Marilyn; Sneaking Out The Back Door - Matt Bianco; Mack The Knife - King Kurt; Just My Imagination - Modern Romance; Don't Let Go - Wang Chung; It Makes Me Wonder - Bruce Foxton; When You're Young And In Love - Flying Pickets; Love Lies Lost - Helen Terry; Dreaming - Fashion; Love Me Tender - Roland Rat; I Feel Like Buddy Holly - Alvin Stardust
Album reviews (Johnny Black / Kimberley Leston / Dave Rimmer / Lola Borg / Mark Ellen / Ian Cranna): Junk Culture - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Toni Basil - Toni Basil; Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen; Sophisticated Boom Boom - Dead Or Alive; One Eyed Jacks - Spear Of Destiny; The Top - The Cure; Fraggle Rock - The Fraggles; Pop - Tones On Tail
Nights Out: Bad Karma In The UK; Grandmaster & The Furious Five
Other: Eurovision Song Contest; groups' names; "Footloose" review

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