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 18th June - 1st July 1986

Smash Hits - 18th June - 1st July 1986 - Wham, The Housmartins, Big Audio Dynamite, Midge
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18th June - 1st July 1986

 

Volume 8 - Number 13 - Issue 197

Cover Photo: Tony McGee

Price - 45p    Pages - 80

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Interviewers

Sorrel Downer - The Housemartins

Tom Hibbert / Vici MacDonald

Duncan MacDonald / Sylvia Patterson / Duncan Wright - Is There Life On Other Planets?

Peter Martin - Wham

Lola Borg - Big Audio Dynamite

Photographers

Retna - Big Audio Dynamite (Page 3)

Pictorial Press - Astronaut (Page 3)

Ross Barnett - A-Ha Fans (Page 3)

Russell Young - The Housemartins (Page 3, 12-13)

Andy Catlin - Mick Hucknall (Page 24)

Steve Rapport - Robert Smith (Page 24)

Andy Catlin - Space Ships (Page 24-25)

Zbysiu Rodak - Martin Degville (Page 25)

Brian Moody Patrick Moore (Page 25)

Paul Rider - Status Quo (Page 25)

Pictorial Press - Elvis Presley (Centre Spread 1)

Davis and Starr - David Bowie (Centre Spread 2)

D.I.D Circle - Morten Harkett (Centre Spread 3)

LFI - Peter Gabriel (Page 49)

Andy Catlin - Peter Gabriel (Page 49)

Ross Barnett - A-Ha (Page 54-55)

Assorted Images - Duran Duran Sleeve Covers

(Page 64-65)

Liam Woon - Big Audio Dynamite (Page 68-69) 

D.I.D Circle - Midge Ure (Back Cover)

Issue Information

The Housemartins - Happy Hour

Falco - Vienna Calling

Eurythmics - When Tomorrow Comes

Queen - Friends Will Be Friends

Genesis - Invisible Touch

Lovebug Starski - Amityville (The House On The Hill)

Wham - The Edge Of Heaven

David Bowie - Underground

Prince - Mountains

Amazulu - Too Good To Be Forgotten

Bananarama - Venus

Janet Jackson - Nasty

Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show

Suzanne Vega - Left of Centre

Front Cover:

Wham

Centre Spread:

01 - Elvis Presley

02 - David Bowie

03 - Morten Harkett

04 - Big Country

Back Cover:

Midge Ure

Interviews

General

Personal File

The Housemartins

Bananarama

George Michael

Genesis

Big Audio Dynamite, 

Bananrama

Bitz

Features:

Is there Life On Other Planets?

 

Book Of Love

A-Ha

Satellites

Eric Clapton

The Beatles

Samantha Fox

Scarlett And Black

The Chameleons

Artists Against Apartheid

Lovebug Starski

Wasp

Mantronix

Otto Von Wernher

Dr Robert

Furniture

5TA

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Sade

The Woodentops

Picnic At The Whitehouse

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Birthdays:

Paul McCartney (44)

Blair Cowan (26)

Brian Wilson (44)

John Taylor (24)

Mark (Big Country) (29)

Ray Davis (42)

Leo Sayer (38)

Anna (23)

Jimmy Sommerville (25)

Cyndi Lauper (33)

Derek Forbes (30)

Green (30)

Adam Faith (46)

Astro (29)

Curt Smith (25)

Andy McCluskey (27)

George Michael (23)

Georgie Fame (43)

Mick Jones (31)

Tony Hadley (26)

Stedman Pearson (22)

Colin Hay (33)

Ian Paice (38)

Adrian Wright (30)

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Fan Clubs

Bananarama

Big Audio Dynamite

Genesis

George Michael

Star Trek

Dr Who

Gerry Anderson

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Posters

Owen Paul

Wham

Reviews

Singles:
Duncan Wright

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

James - So Many Ways

Aurra - Like I Like It

Van Halen - Dreams

Paul Hardcastle - Foolin' Yourself

Tracie Young - We Should Be Together

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears

Drum Theatre - Home (Is Where The Heart Is)

INXS - Listen Like Thieves

Big Country - The Teacher

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place

Pete Murphy - Blue Heart

Love And Rockets - Kundalini Express

Katrina and the Waves - Sun Street

Force M.D.'s - Here I Go Again

Box Of Frogs - Average

Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On

Albums: 

Simon Braithwaite
Collete Campbell
Deborah Sippitts
Sylvia Patterson
Tom Hibbert
Helen Mead

Queen - A Kind Of Magic

Pete Shelly - Heaven And The Sea

Sting - Bring On The Night

The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4

The Woodentops - Giant

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Genesis - Invisible Touch

Get Smart:

Duran Duran Get Smart Special

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Various

Film:

Bring On The Night

Books:

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Ultra

Video:

Marillion 1982 - 1986 (Sylvia Patterson)

Kate Bush - The Hair of the Hound (Collete Campbell)

Nights Out: 

A-Ha in Australia

Merchandise

This issue also printed the Seventh set of pages in a series entitles The Bitz Book Of Life which was located in the Bitz Section

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For more on that click the link below

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The Bitz Book Of Life

Mutterings:

Madonna

Falco

Pete Wylie

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Lloyd Cole

George Michael

Boy George

Samantha Fox

Prince

Boomtown Rats

Johnny Fingers

Simon Crowe

Dolph Lundgren

Grace Jones

Feargal Sharkey

Haircut 100

Nick Heyward

Nik Kershaw

Phil Collins

Bananarama

Ozzy Osbourne

Mick Hucknall

Freddie Mercury

Doctor And The Medics

Big Country

Madness

Jerry Hall

Mick Jagger

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Janet Jackson

Andrew Ridgeley

Queen

Norman Greenbaum

We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It

Billy Idol

Elvis Presley

Tony James

Adverts

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead Album

David Bowie - Underground Single

INXS - Listen Like Thieves Single

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Single

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool Single

Doctor And The Medics - Laughing At The Pieces Album

Paul Hardcastle with Kevin Henry - Foolin' Yourself Single

Big Audio Dynamiter - Medicine Show Single

Marc Almond - A Womans Story Single

Queen - A Kind Of Magic Album

The Art Of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia Single

Drum Theatre - Home (Is Where The Heart Is) Single

Links

Happy Reading

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