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Then why don't you try me
I will never let you down
I will never make you wear no frown
If you say that you love me madly
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lust take three people, a slice of "Tney were very unlucky that group," sighs
“Latin jazz", a tew old spy Mark, "they misled getting on Top Of The Pops
films, mix them together and a couple of times. Still we used to have a really
great time." Next to join was Basia, a Polish
store in a cool place. singer who was once in a jazz funk band with
Peter Martin is shaken but not Danny called Bronze. Matt Bianco were finally Get up get up get out of your lazy bed
complete. After a year of writing songs and Before I count to three step to it baby
stirred. formulating ideas — amazingly they've never She goes out every night 'til the morning is light
played live or even rehearsed together — "Get .
Out Of Your Lazy Bed" is their first release. At So come on get up I won't say it again
the moment they're working on the follow up, iI'll drag you out
"Sneaking Out The Back Door", and the third
single, "Whose Side Are You On". They start
the LP in May. "Those songs are more typical of 1Get up get up get out your lazy bed
our style — a modern bossanova, Latin jazz. 1Before I count to three step to it baby
I don’t care anymore you can sleep on the floor
the idea of those spoof films with the 'Cause I'm locking you out
recently it's taken on the spy overtones. And bossanova band playing in the corner at the So come on get up I won't say it again
their image is heavily influenced by early '60s party. It's a very tongue in cheek idea — but it's lI'll drag you out
American films, especially The Nutty Professor not corny."
^ Nevertheless, I can't really see the band
wore some great suits in that," beams Mark, reaching the silver screen just yet. It
g&g Formed in July 1982, the group was seems that they're confirmed backroom
originally made up of Mark, Danny boys, interested mainly in writing and
production.
(KfK Mark sums it up. "We're pretty down to
m/L earth. We're notYeally into playing the
big pop star. Still I couldn't really sleep
last night for worrying about our chart
position!"
Michael! The Michael Jackson Story by Mark Bego is a new biography of
CRASS: THANKS
"the world's weirdest pop star". It's in the shops for £3.95. but Bitz is BUT NO PRANKS
question: is Michael Jackson's pet Muscles a) a llama, b) a three-toed Crass, the "anarchist/pacifist"
Answers to Smash Hits Michael Jackson Competition. 52-55 punk bunch from Essex, seem to
* jet. London W1V1PF. have a good line in pranks. A
couple of years back, thinly
disguised as "Creative
Recording and Sound Services",
they managed to con slushy old
Loving magazine into giving
away a song of theirs as a free
"wedding day single". Naturally
the song (winch later surfaced on

Loving were appalled. More

recently, they spliced together
bits of speeches by Thatcher and
Reagan to fake a chat between
them in which they discuss the
Falklands, nuking Western
Europe and so on. This was
distributed to the press^and^

Kotioe°thsEGBeRUunlU The*'
out. And their latest prank? Well
actually it's a single called be creative again.
"You're Already Dead", which So you could no longer be
has just been released. creative in ABC? Tm sorry." h«
sighs. "I just can't go into it."
The remaining pair — Mark
comprising the unlikely duo of White and Martin Fry, who are
former Fashion person Dee
Harris (actually, he'd rather be player, a drummer and a piani:
called Dave these days) and — were apparently very
ex-Pink Floyd keyboards man surprised at Steve's d
Rick Wright. They've a single
out on March 12 called
"Confusion" and an LP called
"Identity" to follow.
The latter end of the alphabet
seems to be fashionable this
fortnight, because there's also
this band from L.A. (man) called
X. They've got an LP out called
"More Fun In The New World".
Who are Gobo, Red. Travelling Matt, Mokey, Boober and Wembley?
The Fraggles of course, silly, the latest bunch of singing puppets to
make a single. It's called "Fraggle Rock" and there are all sorts of toys After last iss e's bit about Jac
and stuff to go with it which Bitz, naturally, is giving away. Twenty lucky
winners will each get a "Fraggle Hock" picture disc and a rather cute of Soft Cell's single. "Down In
wind-up Doozer toy. And then one extremely fortunate person will get a The Subway", EMI Music phoned
Fraggle duvet cover too. Got it? Then here's the question: The Fraggles
were created by the producers of which other TV show: (a) The Magic Mr Hammer has been solved. He
Roundabout, (b) The Wombles or (c) TheMuppets? Answers by March 14
to Smash Hits Fraggle Competition, 52-55 Camaby Street, London his real name, Earl S. Burroughs,
and to be the co-writer of the rock
'n' roll classic, "Great Balls Of

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lop-sided hah, he used to be a

Culture Club's "Colour By

Numbers" LP. And now he's got <
record all of his very own. It's
called "The Word Is Out" and.
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Wakeling, guitarist and vocalist
with The Beat, was on Top Of
The Pops singing a version of
Andy Williams' trusty classic
"Can't Get Used to Losing You".
THIS IS A PUBLIC Jones was "my guitar hero —
and now I could ofmrhim about,
Roger was deligh3|®P®®*®*^^®
The Beat had a Top Five hit on
AMOIMCEMENT:
“Would all persons wishing to know what's
associating with t^^™

happened to Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger

please read on”
afresh by forming a new group. terribledictator figure^ Now, any Stoker (an original member of
And they called themselves Dexys) who hit the drums harder
General Public. Why? lings has got to have than almost anyone in **- -
"We were outside the House of lg going for it." e. Meanwhile, the band
il Public came together proper hope to veiflure into
public performance in the spring
, j:'No Admittance To The with music which, according to
General Public'," explains rang up Wakeling to an_ Dave Wakeling, is^tridenf
Wakeling. "And then, of course, "I'm your new bass player," a
they're always referring, on the Runners during their "Comi
telly news and documentaries, t< Eileen" period); Micky, actually searching for bass
something of an arrangement players at the time, said: "Yes.
expert, knew the difference OK, you are.”
Finally, guitarist Mick Jones,
'Big Brother' stuff. General Public horrible noise and so was who had recently fallen foul of
counted in. Next to arrive was The Clash, agreed to lend his
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 WHAT’S IN
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HUANG CHUNG, BUT QUITE | LOT IF
YOU CHANGE IT TO WANG CHUNG.
STILL WITH US? WELL, DON'T WORRY
— IAN CRANNA'S NOT TOO SURF
WHAT'S GOING ON EITHER.

"non-contemporary rock person".

The Jack in question is Jack Hues, the
band's lyricist, singer and guitarist who,
armed with a music degree from Goldsmiths
College in London, wound up in a band called
This particular combo was the brainchild of
bass player Nick de Sprig, previously a
psychology student at Liverpool University
(until he got kicked out for spending more
the disabled and retarded.
Together with Darren —who's worked in
his family's cleaning firm to buy his first set of
drums —they formed a band in 1977 called 57
Men. Actually there were only six of them but
they did include Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory
("a good friend, he's great") and Bow Wow
Wow's Lee Gorman ("he's my next door
neighbour; I've been in lots of bands with
Lee."). Nick also used to be in a band with Jon
Moss (see page 40!).

unearthed and means the perfect pitch that

the sound of his guitar. That's the only

The spelling, incidentally, was changed
because the band found it "a bit inhibiting"
because people apparently didn't know how
DANCE HALL DAYS
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at Arista, who tried to force a Chinese image AND MAKE HER DO A HIGH HAND STAND AND IN HER MOUTH AN AMETHYST
on them. Wang Chung, Darren readily admits, AND TAKE YOUR BABY BY THE HEEL AND IN HER EYES TWO SAPPHIRES BLUE
AND DO THE NEXT THING THAT YOU FEEL ANtnTOU NEED HER AND SHE NEEDS YOU
classical mush?which provides their main
: our aScISiu^?! REPEAT CH0RUS
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THAT'S THE NAME OF THE SINGER AND THE BAND.
THEY'RE HUGE IN GERMANY, CRAZY ABOUT THE
ROLLING STONES AND SAY THEY DON'T SOUND
REMOTELY LIKE BLONDIE. JOHNNY BLACK ISN'T SO SURE.
Even at 7.30 in the morning, even after a late night on the
♦own, Nena Kerner is strikingly beautiful.
And she knows exactly what she wants. Right no
wants buttermilk for breakfast. Needless to say, the
breakfast-room of her West London hotel has none, so
instead Nena is offered fried bacon, sausages, eggs and
tomatoes. She settles for a glass of ordinary milk and is
consoled with a kiss from her boyfriend Rolf Brendel, the
band's drummer. As far as I can tell, when this pair of
turtledoves aren't kissing, they're fighting.
"It can be difficult having your boyfriend in the band,"
admits Nena. Rolf nods and she continues, "there is a lot of
fighting, but a lot more love."
They met in Nena's German hometown, Hagen, an
industrial city which she dismisses as "a small and boring
place, but I like the forests nearby, and I used to spend all my
time in the Madison Club."
It was in the Madison that a friend suggested she should
consider becoming a pop singer. "I never had the wish to be
a singer. At school I learned piano, flute, guitar and .." lost
for a word, she flaps her hands in front of her and emits a
peculiar wailing sound. After five minutes of
head-scratching, we agree to call it an accordian. "But
anyway, we made up this group called The Stripes."
"Just like Michael Jackson, we had six singles taken from
our first album," says bassist Jurgen Dehmel.
Michael Jackson, nobody bought them."
Success eluded Nena and Rolf until they moved to Berlin
and teamed up with Jurgen, guitarist Carlo Karges and
keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Peterson. The boys were
all as handsome as she is beautiful and, having called the
group after Nena, comparisons with Blondie naturally crop
"We didn't plan it that way. We didn't work out any
image, any concept, we have no plans. We are just we,"
declares Nena, rather keen to bring the topic to a rapid
I suggest that maybe the record does sound a teensy
weensy bit like Blondie. "All I can say is, I like the older
music, like The Rolling Stones. I like James Brown, I like
Blondie. I don't like to put labels on my music", adds Nena.
She also doesn't like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode or The
Human League. "Bands who use electronic instruments
sound strange and plastic and all the same..."

Speaking of which, the band's dress sense is decidedly

basic — leather jackets, t-shirts and jeans. As far as Nena is
concerned, we take fashion too seriously here. "German
kids are not so hung up on images. Sure we have a few little
Boy Georges and Nenas on the street, but mostly it is
denims and t-shirts."
Nena is currently just about the biggest thing happening
in Germany and, with the single taking off well worldwide,
they've found themselves hotly pursued by the press.
When they do get a break, Nena likes to go ski-ing. "You
can't describe it, but when you have been skiing all day, it is

Rolf scowls. "She watches TV all the time." Nena says

something very sharply in German. Rolf says something
louder and quicker. Nena gives him a dirty look. He shouts at
"I think we must be catching our plane back to Germany,"
says their manager tactfully and, reluctantly, I turn my tape
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sitting comfortably?
really filthy guys with really short hair and really
odd clothes. "It was The Clash, then just
about to get their deal with CBS, but that was

Joe Strummer went: 'How do you know?' I

said: 'Well, it's written on the back of your
now retired, owned the Alkit chain of
menswear shops — and Jon had a "happy and
secure" childhood in Hampstead, London. But and promptly got beaten up by a jealous ex of
though good at sport — he was a keen boxer — his then girlfriend. He only lasted two months
and bright enough to stay on and bag three with The Clash. "There were all these promises
A-levels, he wasn't too happy there. but nothing ever happened." In any case he
was arguing with Mick Jones and manager
Bernie Rhodes and decided it wasn't for him.
°S«il™Kere vras’music. As a young child he With a friend called Riff Regan he formed a
used to pick out pop tunes on the family piano. band called London. They toured with the
At the age of 13, he began bashing about on his Stranglers, got a record deal and released a
"wayward" elder brother D:j'- J- single, "Everyone's A Winner", which
long frieni
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lost its sense of humour and "that was the
Pig William, Phone Bone of that". So Jon joined The Damned for a w
Boulevard, Pastrami Barmy, —"at
placing Rat scabies. "It wasn't really me,
Boulevard. Then Pastrami Barmy. Then Eskim ier on the hhead." Driving to see The Ram
Eskimo Norbert, The Clash, Norbert. Their only notable achievement was
London,The Damned, The supporting Thomas Dolby at a St Paul's Schoc
concert. They were booed off. J<
Edge, Jane Aire & The
Belvederes, The Nips, Adam
And The Ants and Culture ians had grown up
Club. as impenetrable for aancf called The
young musicians ... unless you w< >tudio at his mu
What do all these groups After about 300 letters and a few
have in common? They all had he was taken on as a tape operatoi »and!'Thn^ahndn
the same bloke playing drums.
And more weird things have
happened to him than he'd
The Clash: "All these Teally filthy guys
care to remember. Dave with really short hair and really odd
Rimmer gets all the gory details
of... A bit of scraggy, long-haired hippy in those
days, he'd walk into shops, pull a cake out of an
old brown paper bag and say: "What about one doing his "wheeler-dealing" and having the
time of his life.
"The Edge were a great band, really manic
e. He then worked for h and powerful. Lu was a genius but impossible
organiser and I always seem to pick up with
The rot started to set in when The Edge
discovered they could make pots of money
i, punk had started. "When I doing sessions. They became the Belvederes,
•istols I thought they were a I
id then one day the penny really stupid thing" and had an affair with Ms
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But three's just that little bit cosier. Neil Tennant
has a tete-a-tete-a-tete with The Style Council.
go with it quickly.
nocmP au fWd ter*an d Mick MICKrj think Paul's got a more
iing-room at BBC Television
_re, waiting to record Top
Of The Pops. Wondering
whether or not to wear his new
red pork-pie hat, muttering that
*-*■ Hits is going
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»cd their music to put
anti-Tory mentality"

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slips into his cycling gear.

"Pop music could fight back in

i>igway," Paul claims, "and I
>n't think there's many people

After their first year together,

e release of their debut LP

PAUL: Yeah, well I think he's

better than Michael Foot but
that there's some quality he
hasn't quite got. He's not quite
strong enough, that's what
frightens me, that he's not quite
going to be able to do it. I think
arHd'e^Kst* 'sorneone'^who^eally
think there's enough romance in
politics. If you had a romantic
leader of the Labour Party or a
socialist party, he'd win hands
down. Kinnock's a good talker
and everything but he hasn't
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woman strutting about being

really provocative and
everything. It's not only bad tasi
but it is also SEXIST. Will this b<
banned? No? Why? Because it's
by theRolling Stones.

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"I'm Still Standing" — Elton John.
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2nd) "They Don't Know" — Tracey
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wow, what a gripping plot! what she thought about complain that people that say OK
What's going to happen to lucky enough to he Yah make them sick. OK Yah?
in concert as they've never been probably true but half a good.
to Derby. I don't happen to know girls won't realise that i Andy Ridgeley's Fila Socks,
making goofy faces? Is she John Taylor's telephone humber
going to meet another or even Roger Taylor's uncle's
hunky fella'? Can't wait. cousin's hairdresser's window Well that's got that sorted
cleaner's cat's address. leave her alone. So up yours.
The most thrilling things that A Tracy Nolan And Jam Fan,
I agree totally with Sally Miller
I'heT5umPfl™ner and Duran Fan (February 2). it's good to hear
somebody standing up for
Animal Rights, especially
having just read Wendy Lloyd's

group/singer. A Supt
person who is absolutely madron

how much stuff they've got are

not Superfans but Bigheads. To
i really disgusted with all
one thing — money. So as well as
Bigheads they are also rolling in Nolan (February 16). They
it. These sort of people really
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Liverpool^ Polytechnic (3), Newcastle
Dundee Fat Sam's (11), Bath Moles
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few balloons, loon about for a couple of minutes and that's your lot. And
the audience love it just the same.
You can go to one of these shows, see TEN ACTS in an afternoon, and
Lon don^oMsm ith*'* Coheg e 06),*' still have time to catch Kool & The Gang and Swans Way before breakfast.
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Culture Club fans jig around like The Boy
the audience and we're the stars' thing going."
I think it's about time to go. To go to the
Hammersmith Palais, that is. I mean I've only
himself. And "New Moon On Monday" goes seen ten bands so far today and the Odeoris
I just down the road, and KOOL & THE GANG
are on in a few minutes. Once inside I just
As you may have gathered, th plonk myself down in my cinema-style seat
rdinary concert. (the Palais was standing only). Within seconds
Leicester De Montfort Hall (30). I the lights go down and voices — much deeper
this time — reach whooping pitch. Kool and
his Gang have been boogieing on down
OMD: Glasgow ApoHo Way 26), through three decades now (they formed in
I going a bit mad in the Palais. TherJs r
'64) and tonight they merrily skip through their
collection of disco classics, from "Funky Stuff"
Derby Assembly Rooms (31), Card

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ill too energetic for me.
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| 5SISS 'hat they do: as long as they're
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sound quite magnificent, like on th
ming look y. HOWARD JONES,
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(4), St Austell Coliseum (6), Cardiff S rather sheepishly ar ind the stage, this time III left feeling slightly
Newcastlecity Hal? nojU^pswfch giving away gaudy:----
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staying the distance.
Can I go home now pleas

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