Cover:  Cozy Powell​​

 

Articles and interviews:

• Rainbow, Cozy Powell (2pg)
• Simple Minds
• Drums (6-page feature)
• ​The Distractions
• ​Security Risk
• After the Fire
• ​Sugar Minott
• ​Toyah Wilcox

 

News:
Thin Lizzy, Grateful Dead, Pop Group, The Pretenders, UK Subs, The Tubes, Def Leppard, Little Feat, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Angelic Upstarts, Yachts, Joe Jackson, Little Bo Bitch, Mekons, Neil Diamond, Def Leppard, Root Boy Slim, The Stranglers, Little Bob Story, Splodgenessabounds, The Specials

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Albums:

The Cars, Hawkwind, Status Quo, Peter Frampton, Stella Parton, Sky, Alan Hull, Miles Davis, Judie Tzuke, Grover Washington Jr., Can, Telex, Mantus, The Tourists, Frank Zappa, Shaun Cassidy, New England 

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Singles reviewed by Chris Briggs and Howard Thompson

Protex, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Robert Fleischman, Simple Minds, Shapes, Tycoon, The Sinceros, Fashion, Wayne County, Television, Judie Tzuke, Violinski, Fans, Venigmas, Phil Cordell, Ohio Players, The Smirks, Accelerators, Edna Everage, Antonia Rodríguez, Adrian Mumsey, Jones Girls

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Reggae single review by Eric Fuller

Ken Boothe, Bim Sherman, Junior Delgado, I Kong, I Jarzif, Janet K, Joy White, Culture, Dillinger

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Live:

Dire Straits, Metro, The Damned, The Heptones, Vermilion and the Aces, Brian James & the Brains, Steve Hackett, Rickie Lee Jones, The Merton Parkas, Wild Horses, John Cooper Clarke, Brainiac 5, Brain Festival, The Headboys

 

Full page ads:
Wings, The Who (2p), Donna Summer, Van Halen (tour), Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, The Cars, Peter Frampton, Thin Lizzy, Sylvester, Devo

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Half page ads:
Nils Lofgren, Rickie Lee Jones, Status Quo, Television, The Revelons, Idols, The Members (tour), Hawkwind, The Real Thing (tour), Protex, Adam & the Ants, The Ruts​

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