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Cover: Nick Heyward
Centrespread: Paul Young
Back cover: Kim Wilde
Interviews: Nick Heyward interviews Feargal Sharkey; Lenny Henry; Chaka Khan; Duran Duran; Billy Bragg; Dali's Car; Midge Ure
Lyrics: Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top; Never Turn Away - OMD; Aces High - Iron Maiden; Berserker - Gary Numan; The Riddle - Nik Kershaw; If This Is It - Huey Lewis & The News; You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive; Hypnotize - Scritti Politti; All Through The Night - Cyndi Lauper; You Might Think - The Cars; Respect Yourself - Kane Gang; I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters; The Chant Has Just Begun - Level 42; The Never-Ending Story - Limahl
Personal File: Gary Numan
Bitz: Adam Ant, Paul Rutherford, Mikey Craig; Sean Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, "Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him"; Billy Idol, "Catch My Fall"; Bananarama, "And That's Not All (Hanging Round His Neck Was A Big Black Bell)"; SPK, "Machine Age Voodoo"; The Cure, Andy Anderson, Vince Ely; Danielle Dax, "Jesus Egg That Wept"; Alvin Stardust, "I Feel Like…Alvin Stardust"; Helen Terry, "Bash Street Kids", Escape fanzine; Eric Watson; Paul Hardcastle, "Eat Your Heart Out"; Wrathchild, "Alrite With The Boyz", Krokus, "Ballroom Blitz"; Tev Aviv, Geoff, Paul, Andy; ABC, Martin Fry, Mark White, Eden, David Yarritu, Alan Best; "Making Trax - The Great Instrumentals", "All Night Long", "The Crown", "Super Freak"; Status Quo, "Again And Again", John Shearlaw, Bob Young; "David Bowie's Serious Moonlight", Denis O'Regan, Chet Flippo; Julian Cope, "Fried"; Sam Peckinpah, Julian Lennon, "Too Late For Goodbyes", "Valotte"; Duran Duran, "The Wild Boys"; Eurythmics, "1984 (For The Live Of Big Brother)"; Meat Loaf, "Modern Girls", "Bad Attitude", Paul McCartney, Arthur Baker, "No More Lonely Nights"; Ray Parker Jr., "(I Still Can't Get Over) Loving You"; Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Wham!, Thompson Twins, Big Country, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grab Grab The Haddock; Alphaville, "Forever Young"; Nik Kershaw, "The Riddle", "Save The Whale"
Single reviews (Neil Tennant): Rock The Box - Sylvester; The Medal Song - Culture Club; Somebody / Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode; You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive; Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade; How To Be A Millionaire - ABC; Close (To The Edit) - The Art Of Noise; Send My Heart - The Adventures; The Riddle - Nik Kershaw; The Boys From The County Hell - Pogues; Cool It Now - New Edition / Lets Go To The Moon - Musical Youth; Stay - Blue Nile; Never Turn Away - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Sexcrime (nineteen eighty-four) - Eurythmics; Half A Minute - Matt Bianco; Watching You - Shakatak; Berserker - Gary Numan; Welcome (Mutiny) - David Essex; I, Bloodbrother Be - Shockheaded Peters; Black Leather - Miquel Brown
Album reviews (Mark Ellen / Ian Cranna / Vici MacDonald / Tom Hibbert / Linda Duff): Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood; Bad Attitude - Meat Loaf; Make It Big - Wham!; Waking Up With The House On Fire - Culture Club; Treasure - Cocteau Twins; Give My Regards To Broad Street - Paul McCartney
Nights Out: Bad Taste
