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 23rd July - 5th August 1981

Smash Hits - Issue 69 - 23rd July - 5th
Credits - Smash Hits - Issue 69 - 23rd J

Credits

23rd July - 5th August 1981

 

Volume 3 - Number 15 - Issue 69

Cover Photo - Robyn Beeche

Price - 35p    Pages - 48

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Interviewers

Mark Ellen - Steve Strange

Ian Birch - Kate Bush

Barney Hoskyns - Third World

Pete Silverton - Bad Manners

Mike Stand - Rusty Egan

Photographers

Fin Costello - Dexy's Midnight Runners (Page 3)

Robyn Beeche - Steve Strange & Perry Lister (Page 5)

Susan Phillips / Rock Shots - Julian (Page 9)

John Bush - Kate Bush (Page 11)

Virginia Turbett - Mark Bedford and His Mum (Page 13)

Adrian Boot - Bob Marley (Page 14)

Barry Plummer - Toyah (Page 14)

Darlene Hammond / LFI - Humphrey Bogart (Book Of Pop Lists) (Page 15)

LFI - Kim Wilde (Centre Spread)

Virginia Turbett - The Damned (Book Of Pop Lists) (Page 18)

Paul Cox / LFI - Duran Duran (Page 31)

Paul Cox / LI - Bad Manners (Page 36)

Virginia Turbett - Rusty Egan (Page 38)

Debbie Ridgers - Bottom Picture (Page 38)

Simon Fowler - Hazel O'Connor (Page 47)

Antoine Giacomoni - Peter Murphy (Back Cover)

Lyrics

Issue Information

Squeeze - Tempted

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Show Me

UB40 - One In Ten

Star Sound - Stars On 45

Undertones - Julie Ocean

Abba - Lay Your Love On Me

Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive - Jumpin' Jive

David Bowie - Young Americans

Motorhead - Motorhead

Jacksons - Walk Right Now

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Echo And The Bunnymen - A Promise

Saxon - Never Surrender

Girlschool - C'mon Let's Go

Hazel O'Connor - We're All Grown Up

Front Cover:

Steve Strange (Visage)

Centre Spread:

Kim Wilde

Back Cover:

Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)

Posters:

Kate Bush

General

Bitz

Gary Numan and Paul Gardiner

Siouxsie And The Banshees

Tenpole Tudor

Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles

Debbie Harry

Police

Eddie Kidd

Phil Oakey - All Time Top Ten

Mark Bedford and His Mum

Joe Jackson

Clare Grogan "Gregory's Girl"

Kelly Johnson - Personal File

Music Books:

Marc Bolan

The Beatles

Bob Marley

Richard Jobson

Disco

Top 40

Rusty Egan

Fact Is:

Augustus Pablo

Teardrop Explodes

The Professionals

Chris Foreman (Madness)

Independent Bitz

Interviews

Steve Strange

Kate Bush

Third World

Bad Manners

Reviews

Singles: Johnny Black

The Undertones - Julie Ocean

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - A Woman In Love

Del-Byzanteens - Girl's Imagination

Matchbox - Love's Made A Fool Of You

Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand

Barry Andrews - Rossmore Road

Squeeze - Tempted

Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday

Rose Tattoo - Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw

Echo And The Bunnymen - A Promise

Gregory Isaacs - Front Door

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Show Me

Kimberley Rew - My Baby Does Her Hairdo Long

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Sprout Head Uprising - Throw Some Water In

Smokey Robinson - You Are Forever

Down To Earth - Interference

Paul Gardiner - Stormtrooper In Drag

Metro - America In My Head

Black Slate - Live A Life

Monochrome Set - Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners

Albums;

Fred Dellar

Beverly Hillier

Mark Ellen

Pete Silverton

David hepworth

Independent Top 30 Singles

Independent Top 10 Albums

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Singles: Red Starr

Durutti Column - Lips That Would Kiss

Durutti Column - Madeleine

Section 25 - Je Veux Ton Amour

Section 25 - Oyo Achel Ada

Crispy Ambulance - Live On A Hot August Night: The Presence / Concorde Square

Eric Random - 23 Skidoo

Eric Random - Subliminal

Eric Random - Dow Chemical Company

Eric Random - Skin Deep

A Flux O Pink Indians - Neu Swell

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Albums: Red Starr

Various Artists - Solo Album

Art Objects - Bagpipe Music

Boyd Rice - Boyd Rice

 

Tapes: Red Starr

Raincoats - Odyshape

Wire - Document And Eye Witness

Red Crayola - Kangaroo?

Jon & Vangelis - The Friends Of Mr. Cairo

The Equators - Hot

Odyssey - I Got The Melody

Angelic Upstarts - 2,000,000 Voices

The Brothers Johnson - Winners

Was (Not Was) - Was (Not Was)

Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde

Merchandise

This issue came with the Third (And Final) Set of 8 Pages for the Book Of Pop Lists booklet

 

To see more of this click the link Below.

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Book Of Pop Lists

Adverts

Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde Album

Hazel O'Connor - (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up Single and Tour

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Arabian Nights Single and Tour

Various Artists - Classic Hit Singles Of The 60's Album

Time Bandits Film

Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar Single

Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry Album and Tour

Roger Taylor - My Country Single

U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Single

U2 - Fire Single

UB40 - One In Ten Single

Jane Kennaway - Year 2000 Single

The Book With No Name (New Romantics) Book

Delta 5 - See The Whirl Album

Links

Happy Reading

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