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23rd August  - 5th September 1979

Smash Hits - Issue 19 - 23rd August - 5t
Credits - 23rd August - 5th September 19

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Credits

23rd August - 5th September 1979

 

Volume 1 - Number 19

Cover Photo - Jill Furmanovsky

Price - 25p    Pages - 32

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Interviewers

David Hepworth – Joe Jackson

Ian Cranna – The Police

Photographers

Jill Furmanovsky – The Police (Front Cover)

Jill Furmanovsky – Gary Numan (Centre Spread)

Jill Furmanovsky – Gary Numan (Background Picture) (Page 2)

Chris Horler – Gary Numan (Page 2)

Sheila Rock – Jo Jackson (Page 6)

Paul Canty – Chic (Page 7)

Michael Putland – The Police (Background Picture)

(Page 10)

Jill Furmanovsky – The Police (Other Pictures) (Page 10)

Chris Horler – Roxy Music (Page 12)

Peter Vernon – Spyro Gyra (Page 14)

Hilary Morrison – Human League (Page 19)

Chalkie Davis – Elvis Costello (Page 26)

Jill Furmanovsky – Chris Difford (Squeeze) (Page 26)

Denis O’Regan – Sister Sledge (Page 31)

Fraser Gray – Undertones (Back Cover)

Issue Information

The Merton Parkas – You Need Wheels

The Flying Lizards – Money

The Jam – When You’re Young

Roxy Music – Angel Eyes

Kandidate – Girls Girls Girls

Frantique – Strut Your Funky Stuff

Johnny Mathis – Gone Gone Gone

Angelic Upstarts – Teenage Warning

The Members – Solitary Confinement

Randy Vanwarmer – Just When I Needed You Most

Hot Chocolate – Going Through The Motions

The Olympic Runners – The Bitch

The Jolly Brothers – Conscious Man

Sister Sledge – Lost In Music

Front Cover:

The Police

Centre Spread:

Gary Numan

Back Cover:

The Undertones

Interviews

Joe Jackson

The Police

General

Reviews

Bitz

The Specials

Buzzcocks

The Undertones

Chic

Sister Sledge

Me And You

Lightning Records

Eddie and the Hot Rods

Shake Comic

Sham 69

X Ray Spex

The Skids

Toyah Wilcox

Science Fiction Music Festival

Quadrophenia

Darts

Joe Jackson – Top Ten

The Gibson Brothers

The Jam

Secret Affair

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Features:

Sheffield – By Martyn Ware (Human League) with

The Human League

Cabaret Voltaire

Graph

2.3

They Must Be Russians

Def Leppard

The Negatives

The Parts

Artery

Xero

Vice-Versa

Clockdva

Deaf Aids

Mindgames

Disco

Singles: Steve Bush

Buzzcocks – Spiral Scratch

Donna Summer – Dim All The Lights

Toyah – Sheep Farming In Barnet

Stranglers – Duchess

The Jam – When You’re Young

Racey – Boy Oh Boy

Chas and Dave – The Sideboard Song

Johnny Storm – Let’s Go, Let’s Go

Suzy and the Red Strips – Seaside Woman

X S Energy – Use You

Morgan-Fisher – Geneve

The Last Words – Animal World

Silicon Teens – Memphis Tennessee

Cut-Outs – DIY

Disco Dick – Disco Dick

Max Bygraves – Ma (He’s Making Eyes At Me)

Bev's (Hiller) 25 Disco Picks

Adverts

Rocky Sharpe and the Replays – Rama Lama Album

Buzzcocks – Spiral Scratch Album

Chas and Dave – Don’t Give A Monkeys Album

Links

Happy Reading

Albums: Red Starr

The Commodores – Midnight Magic

Parlet – Invasion Of The booty Snatchers

Starjets – Starjets

Sinceros – The Sound Of Sunbathing

Chas and Dave – Don’t Give A Monkeys

Tarney-Spencer Band – Run For Your Life

Mike Oldfield – Exposed

AC/DC – Highway To Hell

Gibson Brothers – Cuba

XTC – Drums and Wires

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