Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 27 - October 10, 1984

Smash Hits, September 27, 1984

(click on the image to see the full issue)

Cover: Wham!
Centrespread: Prince - Purple Rain
Back cover: Depeche Mode
Interviews: Holly Johnson; Wham!; Bronski Beat; Culture Club; Level 42; Big Country
Lyrics: Freedom - Wham!; Love Kills - Freddie Mercury; Shout To The Top - Paul Weller; East Of Eden - Big Country; No More Lonely Nights - Paul McCartney; The Medicine Song - Stephanie Mills; We Don't Work For Free - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five; Blue Jean - David Bowie; Purple Rain - Prince; Flesh For Fantasy - Billy Idol; Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Tom Robinson; If It Happens Again - UB40; The War Song - Culture Club
Personal File: Alison Moyet 
Bitz: Adam Ant wedding photo, August 1974; Marillion; Space Monkey, "Come With Me"; Dali's Car; Tina Turner, "Tough Enough"; Steve Grant, "Run For Cover"; UB40, "Labour Of Love", Robin and Ali Campbell, Brian Travers; Jamming fanzine; Afrika Bambaataa, "Frantic Situation"; Ray Parker Jr; Jin Miallin; Jeremy Healey, "When Malyndy Sings"; Imagination; The Police; Gary Moore, "We Want Moore"; "Beat The Street - The Very Best Of Sharon Redd", "In The Name Of Love", "Can You Handle It?"; Apollonia 6; Sister Sledge; The Noise Of Art, Mainframe, "Into Trouble With The Noise Of Art", Ying Yang Yumm records; The Fall, "The Wonderful And Frightening World Of…", John Leckie; Imagination; Shakatak; Twisted Sister, "Stay Hungry", Alvin Stardust, "I Won't Run Away"; Street Sounds, "Electro 5"; Buddy Holly Week, Paul McCartney, Albert Victor Campin Walter; Barry Manilow; "The Sony Tape Rock Review"; Nick Rhodes baby photo; Marc Bolan, "Marc On Video"; Adam Ant, "Apollo 9" 
Single reviews (Vici MacDonald): The War Song - Culture Club; I'm So Beautiful - Divine; To The Top - Style Council; The Moment Of Truth - Survivor; Two To The Power - Janet Jackson & Cliff Richard; Flesh For Fantasy - Billy Idol; Shine Shine - Barry Gibb; Never Stop (A Message) - M.E.F.F.; The Second Time - Kim Wilde; East Of Eden - Big Country; Listen To Your Father - Feargal Sharkey; Purple Rain - Prince; When Malyndy Sings - Bonaventura; Hammer To Fall - Queen; Last Salute - Getting The Fear; Native Land - Everything But The Girl; Higher Ground - Tik & Tok; Love Kills - Freddie Mercury
Album reviews (Phil Sutcliffe / Tom Hibbert / Dave Rimmer / Simon Braithwaite / Peter Martin / Ian Birch / Mark Ellen): Hope And Glory - Tom Robinson; Cypress - Let's Active; How Men Are - Heaven 17; Trapped And Unwrapped - Friends Again; Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode; Tonight - David Bowie; Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg
Nights Out: David Bowie - Jazzin' For Blue Jean; Marc Almond & The Willing Sinners
Other: The Alternative Top Forty Show - David Jensen; Way Back When...

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