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 1st May - 14th May 1980

Smash Hits - Issue 37 - 1st May - 14th M
Credits - Smash Hits - Issue 37 - 1st Ma

Credits

1st May - 14th May 1980

 

Volume 2 - Number 09 - Issue 37

Cover Photo - Fin Costello

Price - 30p    Pages - 36

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Interviewers

Vincent McHardy - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Ryan Kelly - The Bodysnatchers

Steve Clarke - Pete Townsend

 

Photographers

Paul Cox / LFI / BBC - Sad Café (Page 2)

Mike Putland / LFI - Pete Townsend (Page 3)

Paul Canty / LFI - The Ruts (Page 4)

Paul Slattery - The Beat (Page 5)

Stevenson - Siouxsie And The Banshees (Page 6)

George Chin - Suggs (Page 9)

Paul Cox / BBC / LFI - Fern Kinney (Page 9)

David Fowler - Sonja Kristina (Page 10)

Paul Slattery - Joe Jackson (Page 11)

Paul Cox / LFI - The Specials (Centre Spread)

Brian Aris - Pete Townsend (Page 22)

Fraser Gray - David Bowie (Page 27)

Mark Castro - Illustration (Page 28)

Jill Furmanovsky - The Ramones (Page 30)

Robert Legon - Joey Ramones (Page 30)

Justin Thomas - Martha (Page 34)

Fraser gray - The Chords (Back Cove)

Issue Information

Lyrics

Front Cover:

 Siouxsie Sioux

Sad Café - My Oh My

Saxon - Wheels Of Steel

The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys

The Chords - Something's Missing

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

Paul McCartney - Coming Up

Phil Lynott - Dear Miss Lonely Hearts

The Nolans - Don't Make Waves

Narada Michael Walden - I Shoulda Loved Ya

The High Numbers - I'm The Face

Billy Joel - All For Leyna

David Bowie - Life On Mars

The Ramones - Rock 'N' Roll Radio

The Motors - Live And Loneliness

The Cure - A Forest

Centre Spread:

The Specials

Back Cover:

The Chords

Interviews

Posters

The Bodysnatchers

General

Siouxsie and the Banshees

The Bodysnatchers

Pete Townshend

Bitz

Gary Numan

The Photos

Suggs (Madness)

Ian Dury

The Face

Fern Kinney

AC / DC

The Vapors

Marvin Gaye

The Sex Pistols Film

Sonja Kristina

Rocky Burnette

Bob Marley And The Wailers

The 101ers

The Undertones

The Cockney Rejects

Joe Jackson

Toyah Wilcox - All Time Top Ten

OMD

Kinks

Joy Division 

The Human League

Disco

Reviews

Singles:

Lori And The Chameleons - The Lonely Spy

The Revillos - Scuba, Scuba

The Human League - Holiday '80

The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutique 

Protex - A Place In Your Heart

Lew Lewis - 1-30 2-30 3-35

Lightning Raiders - Psychedelic Muzik

Bob And Earl - Harlem Shuffle

Vic Godard And Subway Sect - Split Up The Money

Jah Wobble - Betrayal

Clive Langer And The Boxes - Splash (A Tear Comes Rolling Down)

Dave Edmunds Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking

Cockney Rejects - The Greatest Cockney Rip-Off

Martha And The Muffins - Saigon

Gang Of Four - Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time

Ian Gomm - Slow Dancing

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

Guns For Hire - I'm Gonna rough My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Up Tonight

Echo And The Bunnymen - Rescue

Albums:

Red Starr

David Hepworth

Bev Hillier

Ian Cranna

Bev's Disco Page

Top 40

Rob Jones Disco Pick: Mystic Merlin - Just Can't

Give You Up

Independent Bitz

Bobby Thurston - You Got What It Takes

Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me

John Cooper Clark - Snap, Crackle And Bop

The Members - 1980 The Choice Is Yours 

Bad Manners - Bad Manners

Bram Tchaikovsky - The Russians Are Coming

Boz Scaggs - Middle Man

Pete Townsend - Empty Glass

New Musik - From A To B

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

Independent Top 30 Singles

Independent Top 10 Albums

 

Singles Review:

Spitfire - Wind-up Girls

Discharge - EP

The Meanies - Waiting For You / It's True

Seventeen - Don't Let Go

Seventeen - Bank Holiday Weekend

Jerry The Ferret - EP

Edith Nylon - Femmes Sous Cellophane

The Impossible Dreamers - EP

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Album Review:

Desperate Bicycles - Remorse Code

Adverts

Squeeze - Pulling Mussels From A Shell Single

Sparks - Young Girls Single

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