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24th July - 6th August 1980

Smash Hits - Issue 43 - 24th July - 6th
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Credits

24th July - 6th August 1980

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Volume 2 - Number 15 - Issue 43

Cover Photo - Simon Fowler / LFI

Price - 30p    Pages - 36

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Interviewers

Steve Taylor - The Mo-Dettes

Deanne Pearson - Splodgenessabounds

Fred Dellar - The Korgis

Photographers

Gerard McNamara - The Mo-Dettes (Page 3)

Laurie Evans - The Korgis (Page 3 and 22)

Pandora Charrington - Dexy's Midnight Runners (Page 4)

Michael Goodall - Bodysnatchers (Page 5)

Duffy March - Leo Sayer (Page 6)

Kevin Cummins - Joy Division (Page 10)

Tom Sheen - The 2x4's (Page 11)

Simon Fowler / LFI - Splodgenessabounds (Page 15)

Simon Fowler / LFI - Black Sabbath (Page 30)

Mike Laye - Athletico Spizz '80 (Page 34)

Fraser Gray - The Lambrettas (Back Cover)

Issue Information

Front Cover:

Splodgenessabounds

Dexy's Midnight Runners - There There My Dear

Bodysnatchers - Easy Life

Vapors - News At Ten

Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say

Kate Bush - Babooshka

Mo-Dettes - Paint It Black

Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour?

Diana Ross - Upside Down

Change - Lovers Holiday

Hot Chocolate -  Are You Getting Enough?

Gibson Brothers - Marianne

Angelic Upstarts - Murder Of Liddle Towers

Black Sabbath - Neon Knights

Whitesnake - Ready An’ Willing

New Muzik - Sanctuary

Centre Spread:

Peter Gabriel

Back Cover:

Lambrettas

General

Interviews

The Mo-Dettes

Splodgenessabounds

The Korgis

Bitz

Reviews

Malcolm Maclaren

Lambrettas

Joy Division

Jah Wobble

Mari Wilson

Blondie

Malcolm Owen (The Ruts)

Gary Numan

The 4x2s

Change

Steve Eagles - All Time Top Ten

David Bowie

Musicians Union Strike

The Professionals

Wilko Johnson

Clive Langer And The Boxers

Magazine

Singles: David Hepworth

Grace Jones - Private Life

The Searchers - Love's Melody

Martha And The Muffins - About Insomnia

The Spectres - This Strange Effect

Cheap Trick - Everything Works If You Let It

Jona Lewie - Big Shot – Momentarily

The Piranhas - Tom Hark

Any Trouble - 2nd Choice

Talking Heads - Cities

Wilko Johnson - Oh Lonesome Me

Chic - Rebels Are We

Stiff Little fingers - Back To Front

Stiff Little Fingers - Mr. Fire Coal Man

Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls - Dream Sequences

The Blades - Hot For You

The Books - Take Us To Your Leader

Andy Fairweather Low - Let Ya Beedle Lam Bam

Science - Look Don't Touch

Telex - We Are All Getting Old

Roy Hill - From The Bottom Of My Heart

Magazine - Sweetheart Contract

Disco

Bev's Disco Page

Top 40

Albums:

Red Starr

David Hepworth

Bev Hillier

Ian Cranna

Independent Bitz

Detroit Spinners - Love Trippin’

Athletic Spizz '80 - Do A Runner

Clive Langer And The Boxers - Splash

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Off The Coast Of Me

Carlene Carter - Musical Shapes

Joy division - Closer

Any Trouble - Where Are All The Nice Girls?

Chic - Real People

Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Independent Top 30 Singles

Independent Top 10 Albums

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Singles: Red Starr

Bok Bok - Come Back To Me / Misfit

The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man

The Perfects - Going Through The Motions

The Perects - Things In General

Liliput - Split / Die Matrosen

Pere Ubu - Final Solution

The Cigarettes - Can’t Sleep At Nights

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Albums:

Deutsch Amerikan Freundschaft - Die Kleinen

Und Die Bosen

Silicon Teens - Music For Parties

Cartoon

Adverts

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Album

Tour De Force - Night Beat Single

Angelic Upstarts - Last Night Another Soldier Single

Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90 Go Single

The Undertones - Hypnotised Album

Can't Stop The Music - Film

Ska'd For Life - Simmer Down Single

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Strange Tales From A Music Paper (Marc Castro)

Links

Happy Reading

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