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1985 Poll Winners

Smash Hits published the Seventh Annual Readers Award Voting Form' in the 23rd October -

5th November 1985 issue of Smash Hits.

 

The Voting Form was to be used to ask the readers what their favourites were from for the year 1985.  

 

The Poll had  categories such as Best Group, though to the Most Fanciable Human Being.

 

The results were then published in the 18th December - 31st December 1985 issue of the magazine.

 

Below is a list of the Winners and Runners Up from that year.

 

Voting Form

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The Categories for 1985 were as follows

 

1 - Best Group Of The Year

2 - Worst Group Of The Year

3 - Best Male Singer Of The Year

4 - Worst Male Singer Of The Year

5 - Best Female Singer Of The Year

6 - Worst Female Singer Of The Year

7 - Best Single Of The Year

8 - Worst Single Of The Year

9 - Best Album Of The Year

10 - Worst Album Of The Year

11 - Best Video Of The Year

12 - Worst Video Of The Year

13 - Best Music TV Programme Of The Year

14 - Worst TV Programme Of The Year

15 - Best Non-Music TV Of The Year

16 - Worst Non-Music TV Of The Year

17 - Worst DJ Of The Year

18 - Best DJ Of The Year

19 - Best Film Of The Year

20 - Worst Film Of The Year

21 - Best TV Ad Of The Year

22 - Worst TV Ad Of The Year

23 - Event Of The Year

24 - Non-Event Of The Year

25 - Best Dressed Person Of The Year

26 - Worst Dressed Person Of The Year

27 - Most Brilliant Haircut Of The Year

28 - Most Useless Haircut Of The Year

29 - Most Promising New Act For 1986

30 - Least Promising New Act For 1985

31 - Most Fanciable Person Of The Year

32 - Most Very Horrible Thing Of The Year

33 - Most Wonderful Human Being Of The Year

34 - Biggest Prat Of The Year

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The Results for the 1985 Smash Hits Readers Poll were published in the

18th December 1985 issue of the magazine.

 

Below are the winners for each Category

 

Please Note:

It says that this is the Sixth Smash Hits Poll Results.  As the First one was printed in 1979 then this makes it the Seventh Smash Hits Poll Results.

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Results - Page 1

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Results - Page 2

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Results - Page 3

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Results - Page 4

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Results - Page 5

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Results - Page 6

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Results - Page 7

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Results - Page 8

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Results - Page 9

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Results - Page 10

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Results - Page 11

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Results - Page 12 - 13

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Results - Page 14

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Results - Page 15

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Results - Page 16

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Results - Page 17

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Results - Page 18

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Results - Page 19

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How The Stars Voted

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Advert
4th December - 17th December 1985

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Single of The Year

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill

Video of The Year

A-Ha - Take On Me

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