No 70, 13th October 1984, 40p (every Thursday)
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No 1! No 70, 13th October 1984, 40p (every Thursday) |
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Front Cover ALISON (MOYET) (main photo) - Men and Me SADE - Writes to No.1 from Japan CULTURE CLUB - Exclusive Pin-Up Other features - Big Country · OMD · Spandau · UB40 · Phil Oakey FREE - GIANT DOUBLE POSTER WIN - BREAKDANCE GEAR + A CARS TRIP + POLICE VIDEOS! WHAM + FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Cover photo by Simon Fowler. |
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No1 No.70 - Page 3 (Contents) SONGS 56 Style Council Shout To The Top VIDEO 16 Big Country The lads go north of the border for 'East of Eden' and have fun in a cemetery PLUS 11 Whispers No.1 for gossip 62/63 Charts Big Country (16) photo featured in RH panel - "Doom and despair as Big Country film their new video in Glasgow. Unemployment, drink, death and guitars on the waterfront. Not for the fainthearted. Plus yet more video with XTC on page 15 and Bonnie Tyler on page 18. No.1 - where every week's video week. |
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Page 11 WHISPERS The No.1 GOSSIP COLUMN Who wants to be a millionaire and how do you do it without a) being George Michael, b) robbing a bank, c) reading the Daily Bingo, d) being Andy Ridgeley? Martin Fry of ABC knows how to do it and tells us all soon on his latest single 'How To Be A Millionaire'. Nevertheless Martin isn't there yet — hence the fact Whispers spotted him snapping up secondhand suits in the trendy Cuba shop in London's New Oxford Street. Fry emerged several quid short of his first seven figure sum clutching a brace of tartan cummurbands... Martin's Sheffield pal Martyn Ware tells us he should never be allowed to sing on a Heaven 17 album. After hearing Ware bellowing away at a grand piano singing extracts from Beethoven choral works at a recent dinner party, we're inclined to agree with him... Gary Crowley silenced! Impossible but true. Last week Gazza was yelling at Gary Kemp on his morning radio show when his voice collapsed and his tongue became swollen to several times its normal size; all the result of some dodgy antibiotics. Plucky Kemp, no silent wallflower himself, took over the show and only played 15 Spandau tracks. Later Gal was seen at Spurs where he invited Garth "Hat-trick" Crooks to see the Spands at Wembley... While Echo And The Bunnymen rest up after their lengthy tour, Mac is heading off to record a solo version of the crooner's standard 'September Song' with a jazz trio... Amongst the hordes who flocked to see American guitar legend Tom Verlaine at London's Electric Ballroom, pride of place went to David Bowie. Roddy Frame came in second, Howard Devoto pulled up and Holly was an also ran. That's Holly as in Holly And The Italians. Remember that Eddy Grant was to produce an LP for Musical Youth in Barbados? Apparently Grant's fee of 75,000 dollars wasn't quite what MCA had in mind when they suggested the liaison, so the deal is off. The pairing did result in three songs however. Expect an Xmas single for a start. Eyes popped at London's Fresh Disco when Grace Jones took to the floor sweating and frugging with her partner. She was David Bailey's model wife Marie Helvin. Whispers was quite overcome... Blonde bombshell Billy Idol wasn't at all miffed at doing a Siouxsie and getting chucked off Radio 1 's Roundtable for swearing. Sneered Idol: "I'm effing glad they did. I was really bored and there was still an effing hour to go"... Metallic shockers SPK had the plug pulled after only one number at the ICA Rock Week when the fire department decided that their welding gear was a hazard. Rioting Mohicans ransacked the stately club with bows and arrows but calmed down after being give a voucher for a future gig. To see the Fire Department? While on tour Paul Stanley from Kiss has been having troubles with his throat. In Manchester he sent out a flunkie to get him some special tablets from the local chemist. "That'll be El63," said the man behind the counter. The panicking roadie dashed back to the hotel where Paul authorised him to pay it — in cash. There were no eggs and bacon for naughty Gary Marx, bassist with Sisters Of Mercy, when he slumped down to brekkie at a London hotel. The manager took gross exception to Marx's bum, which was hanging out of the back of his trousers. "That might be OK in Leeds, laddie," said the manager, "but your bottom is putting my guests right off their cornflakes"... Boy George left the preview of Electric Dream ten minutes after it started, yawning and muttering something about "not bothering to wait for our song". Others who remained — Marilyn, Feargal, Helen Terry, y'know, rent-a-popstar — stayed on to clap and hoot the film, presumably because it had finished. At a party afterwards Phil Oakey suprised everyone by attending with the League's Joanne Catherall and showing off his splendid handlebar moustache... To Italy, where Whispers overheard Pete Wylie approach Paul Young, point at his crotch and yell "I'd know that penis anywhere". Paul looked aghast for a second or two then burst into hysterical laughter... Incidentally we can reveal exclusively that Paul's second LP is called 'The Secret Of Association'. Fact. Not many people know that... Marillion aren't very well known at their record company EMI, where Fish walked into an office recently and was grabbed by an employee who insisted that he change a lightbulb and mend some fuses. Fish, a keen amateur electrician, did as he was told... Whispers came over all peculiar while watching Cabaret Voltaire's latest vid. The camera was attached to a huge catapult on a spring, so the films seems to revolve around you. Imagine being on a big dipper after eating too many sweeties and you'll have some idea of the general effect. What are Ultravox doing with lions and tigers in Africa? Shooting a video of course, for 'Love's Great Adventure'... Congrats to Julian Cope who marries his girl Dorian in St Paul's Cathedral this week. That's St Paul's Cathedral, Long Island, New York... Steve Strange was acquitted last week of drugs possession following the citizen's arrest made on his comely person at the Camden Palace last October. Quoth Strange: "I feel as though a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders." His head? Corks popped and girls fainted as No.1 welcomed Paul Bursche to the staff the other day. Paul, who quite likes Robert Smith, may even get down to some work soon if he ever recovers from his meeting with Apollonia 6... |
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Pages 16 & 17 East Of Glasgow "No 1", October 1984 Big Country are back with a new single, "East Of Eden", and a harrowing new video about unemployment, despair and death... Paul Bursche travelled to their beloved Scotland to watch them work. Big Country are coming home, in more ways than one. After spending nearly all of the second half of last year in America, the group are now eagerly looking forward to playing in Britain again. their new video for "East Of Eden" also sees them going back to Glasgow - scene of some of their best concerts. Set in the early '50s, the video is about a family torn apart by economic circumstances; the son has to leave home because he can't find a job. Played by Stuart Adamson, he makes his way to Glasgow, meeting the other members of the band on the way. There he finally finds a job on the shipyards working as a welder, and he begins to piece his life together. But back home his father has died, ravaged by drink and despair, and Stuart has to comfort his mother during the funeral. "East Of Eden" isn't a particularly happy or sad song says Stuart. "It's a questioning song, a song about always having to look for any hope or inspiration." Stuart says he wrote the song as a result of living alongside the unemployment and anger in the dockyards and factories. "The fact that it's set in the '50s makes it doubly ironic, " he says, "because that's when we'd 'Never had it so good'." The funniest moment of the shoot came when director Mike Brady hired 50 dockers to act as extras in the scene where Stuart is seen as a welder on a huge ship in dry dock. As soon as they collected their money for the day's work they all shot off to the pub. That's funny, we thought Big Country were re-enacting Brideshead, not The Charge Of The Light Brigade! |
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Page 51 Full page advert for "Steeltown" BIG COUNTRY THE NEW ALBUM STEELTOWN LIMITED QUANTITY IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE INCLUDES THE SINGLE ·EAST OF EDEN PRODUCED BY STEVE LILLYWHITE, ENGINEERED BY WILL GOSLING Mercury RELEASED NEXT WEEK! |
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Page 56 Style Council Lyrics for Shout To The Top I was half in mind I was half in need And as the rain came down I dropped to my knees and I prayed I said, "Oh heavenly thing Please cleanse my soul I've seen all on offer And I'm not impressed at all I was halfway home I was half insane And every shop window I looked in just looked the same I said, "Send me a sign To save my life 'Cause at this moment in time There is nothing certain in these days of mine" Chorus: Y'see it's a frightening thing When it dawns upon you That I know as much as the day I was born And though I wasn't asked I might as well stay An' promise myself each and every day - That When you're knocked on your back An' your life's a flop And when you're down on the bottom There's nothing else But to shout to the top (We're gonna) shout to the top (Repeat 3 times) Repeat Chorus (We're gonna) shout to the top - Shout! (Repeat 5 times) Repeat Third Verse (We're gonna) shout to the top - Shout! Repeat to fade Words and music: Paul Weller Reproduced by kind permission EMI Music On Polydor Records |
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Page 58 One to 1 OK No.1, this is it! Wakey wakey! Don't you think it's about time you published some good features on Big Country and U2? Forget wimps like Nik Kershaw. Let's face it, it's only Big Country and U2 who really know how to overcome the wimps of today who hog the music scene. So what's your excuse now No.1? Get cracking. Helen, the milky bar kid. P.S. Roll over Simper - Bursche is the best! Turn to pages 16 & 17 for the one true answer to your question. Photo of Big Country, entitled: "Big Country in another typical non-wimp pose" |
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Page 60 TOURS Marillion have added some extra dates to their tour. They are Liverpool Royal Court November 3, Poole Arts Centre 5, Gloucester Leisure Cenre 6, Cardiff University 7, Hanley Victoria Hall 8, Glasgow Barrowlands 19 (6pm show), Birmingham Oden 21, and Aylesbury Friars 22. |
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Pages 62 & 63 CHARTS, Week ending October 13, 1984, UK Charts compiled by NME (New Musical Express). Readers' Chart 4 Pride, U2 (Island) 9 The War Song, Culture Club (Virgin) 16 Blue Jean, David Bowie (EMI/America) 18 Passengers, Elton John (Rocket) UK Singles 4, 2, 5, 2 Pride, U2 (Island) 7, 5, 4, 5 Blue Jean, David Bowie (EMI/America) 13, 9, 3, 13 East Of Eden, Big Country (Mercury) 16, 9, 4, 9 Hammer To Fall, Queen (EMI) 27, -, 1, 27 Shout To The Top, Style Council (Polydor) THE NEXT 25 51, -, -, - Shine, Frida (Epic) 64, -, -, - Passengers, Elton John (Warner Bros) (This week, last week, weeks on chart / highest postition) UK Albums 1, 9, 2, 1 Tonight, David Bowie (EMI/America) 11, -, 1, 11 The Unforgettable Fire, U2 (Island) 12, 10, 32, 2 The Works, Queen (EMI) 26, 22, 2, 22 Under A Blood Red Sky, U2 (Island) 28, 24, 15, 2 Breaking Hearts, Elton John (Rocket) 31, 31, 6, 14 Dreamtime, The Cult (Beggars Banquet) 41, 36, 5, 23 Greatest Hits, Queen (EMI) THE NEXT 25 65, -, -, - War, U2 (Island) (This week, last week, weeks on chart / highest postition) |