Smash Hits - 5th -18th February1981

Another issue of the Smash Hits Magazine. This one is from the 5th - 18th February 1981.

In this issue you can find the following:

Cover: Suggs
Centrespread: Adam Ant
Back Cover: Debbie Harry
Interviews Include: Madness; Phil Collins; The Stranglers

Lyrics include: Ultravox - Vienna;
Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet;
Stray Cats - Rock This Town;
Sheena Easton - Take My Time;
Paul Collins - In The Air Tonight;
Adam And The Ants - Zerox; Styx - The Best Of Times; Heatwave - Gangsters Of The Groove;
Pretenders - Message Of Love; Honey Bane - Turn Me On Turn Me Off;
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run; Susan Fassbender -Twilight Café; Jane Kennaway - I.O.U.;
U.F.O - Lonely Heart; Rainbow - I Surrender.

You can click the link below to take you to the main page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered2/

or alternatly you can click the link below to take you to the issue page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered2/5th-february---18th-february-1981

Smash Hits - 22nd January - 4th February 1981

Well here is the 2nd of my Smash Hits posts for today and the one that was released on my birthday (22nd Jauary) 31 years ago, Scary.
This issue is the 22nd January - 4th February 1981.

In this issue you will find the following:

Front Cover: Steve Strange
Centrespread: XTC
Back Cover: Hazel O’Connor
Interviews include: Visage; Bauhaus; The Look
Lyrics include:
The Clash - Hitsville UK;
John Lennon - Woman, Starting Over, Imagine;
Cliff Ricard - A Little In Love; Blondie - Rapture;
David Bowie - Scary Monsters;
Gap Band - Burn Rubber On Me;
Stevie Wonder - I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It;
Stranglers - Thrown Away; Spandau Ballet - The Freeze; Pauline Murray - Dream Sequence; XTC - Sergeant Rock; Adam And The Ants - Young Parisians; Boomtown Rats - The Elephants Graveyard

Click the link below to go to the main page:

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or alternatly you can click the link below to take you to the issue page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/home/1981-issues/22nd-january---4th-february-1981

Smash Hits - 21st January - 3rd February 1982

Well here is another Smash Hits.  This one is the 21st January to the 3rd February 1982 issue.

In this issue you can find the following:

Front Cover - Depeche Mode

Centrespread - Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

Back Cover - ABC

Interviews: Depeche Mode; Go-Go's; Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

Lyrics:
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye; Orchestral Maneouvres - Maid Of Orleans; Haircut One Hundred - Love Plus One; Go Go's - We Got The Beat; Shakin Stevens - Julie; XTC - Senses Working Overtime; Mobiles - Drowning In Berlin; Kraftwerk - The Model; Kraftwerk - Computer Love; Philip Lynott - Yellow Pearl; Olivia Newton-John - Landslide;Christopher Cross - Best That You Can Do; Spandau Ballet - She Loved Like Diamond; Shakatak - Easier Said Than Done

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https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/home/1982-issues/21st-january---3rd-february-1982

Smash Hits - 24th December 1981 to 6th January 1982

So here is another issue of the Smash Hits Magazine but this time covering the 24th December 1981 to 6th January 1982.

In this issue you can find:

Front Cover - Altered Images, Clare Grogan,
Centre Spread - Altered Images,
Back Cover - Adam Ant

Includes: The 1981 Smash Hits Readers Poll Winners,
David Bowie Story Part 2

Lyrics Included:
Abba - One Of Us; Four Tops - Don't Walk Away; The Snowmen - Hokey Cokey; Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You; Kool And The Gang - Get Down On It;
Rod Stewart - Young Turks;
Sheena Easton - You Could Have Been With Me; Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody;
David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind; ELO - Here Is The News; 
Jon And Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home; Showaddywaddy - Footsteps;
Adam And The Ants - Ant Rat

So head on over to the site where you can read this and other issues:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/

Or alternately click on the link below to take you straight to the issue page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/home/1981-issues/24th-december-1981---6th-january-1982

Hope you all enjoy it.

Smash Hits - 10th December to 24th December 1981

Well here is another issue of the fantastic Smash Hits Magazine.  This time it is the 10th - 24th December 1981.

In this issue you have the following:
Front Cover: The Human League,
Centre Spread: Japan,
Back cover: Simon Le Bon

Interviews: Human League; Godley & Creme

Part 1 of the David Bowie Story

Lyrics included:
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy; Human League - Don't You Want Me; Police - Spirits In The Material World;
Elvis Costello - Sweet Dreams; Madness - It Must Be Love; Status Quo - Rock 'n' Roll; Bad Manners - Buena Sera;
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden; Boomtown Rats - Never In A Million Years; Bucks Fizz - The Land Of Make Believe; Light Of The World - Ride The Love Train; George Benson - Turn Your Love Around;  Godley And Cream - Wedding Bells; Gary Numan And Dramatis Love Needs No Disguise; Meatloaf - Dead Ringer.

So go on over to my Smash Hits site to see this and other issues:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/

Or alternatly click the link below to go dirrectly to the issue page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/home/1981-issues/10th-december-to-24th-december-1981

Hope you all enjoy:

Smash Hits - 7th January to 20th January 1982

Well early last year I set up a sister blog with the intention of putting up old issues of Smash Hits Magazine.  I put up a couple of issues and then life took over, as it does.

Well I decided to try and do better this year and put more issues up (Can't promise this will happen but will try hard I promise).

So here is to the first of the new issues and this is one that is 30 years old this week being the 7th to 20th January 1982.

In this issue you can find:
Front Cover - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark,
Centre Spread - Squeeze,
Back Cover - Dollar

Interviews:
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark,
Adam Ant,
Pigbag,
Siouxsie and the Banshees

Lyrics included:
Hazel O'Connor - Sons And Lovers; Heaven 17 - Geisha Boys And Temple Girls;
Depeche Mode - Dreaming Of Me; Duran duran - Friends Of Mine; Pink Flloyd - See Emily Play; Echo And The Bunnymen - Monkeys; Elvis Presley - King Creole; Soft Cell - Memorabilia;
Leyton Buzzards - Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees; Queen - Killer Queen;
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead; The Damned - Don't Cry Wolf; Talking Heads - Psycho Killer;
Human League - Being Boiled; The Shangri-Las - The Leader Of The Pack.

So head on over to my site to check out this one and others on there:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/

Or click the link below to take you straight to the issue page:

https://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazineremembered/home/1982-issues/7th-january---20th-january-1982
Hope you all enjoy.

Smash Hits Magazine - 25th December 1980 to 7th January 1981

Smash Hits was a pop music based magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time.

Smash Hits was founded in 1978 by Nick Logan, who had previously edited the New Musical Express during one of its most creative periods and went on to create '80s fashion bible The Face.

After releasing a test issue in September 1978, with Plastic Bertrand on the front and a centre spread of Sham 69, the first issue was published in November 1978 and featured Blondie on the cover. The publication was initially monthly but switched to fortnightly after only three issues, which it remained until its demise. The backbone of the magazine in its early years, and one of its major early selling points, was the publication of Top 20 song lyrics.

Always loved Smash Hits along with another magazine called Number 1 I always bought thse on the day of release. As I got older I also bought NME but never gave up reading Smash Hits. I Managed to find some of the magazines from 83 and 84 which I will put up here in the coming months. But for now I wanted to let people know of a great blog that is dedicated to Smash Hits. This issue has been posted on the site so if you are interested go on over to

http://likepunkneverhappened.blogspot.com/

and check out the site. I am also thinking about setting up my own fan site. When I do I will let people know. In the mean time click the link below to download this issue. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8x2mic8p085hz

The Smash Hits - Christmas From The Stars 1982 Flexi Disc

Smash Hits - Happy Christmas From The Stars was a flexi disc given away free in a copy of Smash Hits magazine December 1982.

This is an edited version cutting out advertisements for Levis black denim trousers, sorry Levis. Mark Ellen is the host and the acts appearing are;

Duran Duran
Adam Ant
Bananarama
Fun Boy 3
Mari Wilson
Captain Sensible
Midge Ure
Bucks Fizz
ABBA
Madness

Click the link below to download the flext disc:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2ccb7d0cd98a6267aaca48175a79d1c38f20c157560531e3d6f20ee4ff677d52

Smash Hits - Christmas From The Stars Flexi Disc - Fan Made Video