5th March 1983, price 40p
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Record Mirror 5th March 1983, price 40p |
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Front Cover Features Sarah Jane (Belle Stars) (main photo) - STAR STYLE - March into spring with the BELLE STARS. Also pictured - Mari Wilson 'I'd rather muck about than be sexy' (inset photo) Other features: - Haysi, Indeep songwords! - OMD, Spandau albums! - Plus NOISE! - JOBOXERS, BIG COUNTRY, ORANGE JUICE. - Around the world with Musical Youth. - EXCLUSIVE! THE CLUB COUNTRY GUIDE - Fun, filth, and frolics in London town! BELLE STARS' SARAH JANE pic by Rob Brimson, MARI WILSON pic by Joe Shutter. |
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NEWS Juggling the dates ONE THE Juggler, who have just released their 'Passion Killer' single, will be back from Israel in March for an extensive tour. Dates for the tour are Dartford Flick March 3, Redhill Lakers Hotel 4, Brighton Top Rank 6, Leicester Horsefair 7, Swindon Brunel Rooms 8, Hull Dingwalls 10, Liverpool Poly 11, London Lyceum 13, Manchester 17 and Retford Porterhouse 19. They are also coming back to record their debut album. One the Juggler - Passion Killer, uploaded by juggler66. Photo: THE NEW hour long laser disc. Mini Pops THIS WEEK three major companies (Sony, Phillips and PolyGram) are co-launching a digital audio system which could mean the end of the road for the 12 inch vinyl long player, and certainly looks set to make the turntable obsolete. The Compact Disc system revolves around an iridescent disc which is 5 inches in diameter. It contains the recording in the form of digital information, which is reproduced as sound by a laser beam. This removes the need for a stylus, so there's no chance of scratching the surface, therefore the disc will never wear Out. It plays on one side only, but contains up to one hour of music. The major advantage of the CD is, of course, the superb quality of sound reproduction: what you hear coming out of your speakers is closer than ever before to what the artist hears in the studio! The snag, is the cost of the system. The CD player (currently being manufactured by some 30 different companies) will cost between £450 and £600, and the discs themselves between £8 and £10. But, as with video recorders and tapes, the cost is likely to come down if the system is a commercial success. The following artists are among those who already have albums available in the CD format: Abba, Human League, Soft Cell, Kiss, Rush, Status Quo, Visage and Culture Club. Many more will be added in the coming months, but as EMI have no CD involvement, there's no digital Duran Duran as yet. The companies involved are looking into the problem of singles on CD at the moment, and are already planning to launch in-car CD systems and a CD version of the Sony Walkman. |
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NEWS MARILLION HAVE added a second London date to their tour. The group, in the charts with 'He Knows', play another night at the capital's Hammersmith Odeon on April 18. Meanwhile, their debut album 'Script For A Jester's Tear' is released on March 14. Marillion - He Knows You Know. Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1983. HQ, uploaded by Aleks Saif. |
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SINGLES Scrap metal mayhem with ROBIN SMITH THE STYLE COUNCIL 'Speak Like A Child' (Polydor) The world waits with baited breath. The pubs are emptied and the streets are deserted as people scurry home to see if Paul Weller's quarter of a million deal with Polydor has paid off. And yes, the voice of a nation is set to cut it again. What I like is the fact that the bitterness has gone - there was nothing worse than Weller launching his tirades against art and society. Weller relaxes and coughs up a rich little number with his big toe in the past and his eye well and truly on the future. Weller's new baby is bawling lustily. May it grow to be strong. The Style Council - Speak Like A Child, uploaded by TheStyleCouncilVEVO. Page 19 VIRGIN RECORDS Advert - THE FINAL AUDIT Full page advert for Haysi Fantayzee's debut album - 'Battle Hymns for Children Singing' Includes hit singles: 'John Wayne is Big Leggy'* and 'Shiny Shiny'. * Did this single inspire the title for Tony Butler's 2001 track "Bruce Is Big Leggy" on his album "Demos Of Themes And Other Dreams"? |
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Page 28 US 45s 9, 11 - Back On The Chain Gang, Stranglers, Epic 20, 24 - Mr Roboto, Styx, A&M (This week / last week) Compiled by Billboard The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang HQ Music, uploaded by This Is Music!. |
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Page 35 Country Casuals BIG COUNTRY'S leader Stuart Adamson doesn't like wasting time. If he can't write a song in half an hour, then the ideas usually end up in the bin. "Our single 'Fields of Fire' took about 20 minutes," he says, "I like to keep my ideas fresh and spontaneous. I'm not a person who likes to take four days to write four lines." But although he doesn't pore over his songs, Stuart reckons that he's able to express an almost endless variety of ideas in his work. "The single 'Fields of Fire' is about love and life," he says. "It's quite a deeply personal song so I don't want to say too much about it. Basically it's about people having to live apart in order to survive." Another of Big Country's best known songs 'Harvest Home' was equally as adventurous. "It's all about the Highland clearances after the Battle Of Culloden," says Stuart. "Scotland became a wasteland and the same sort of thing is happening today. The oil boom has burst and now there's a lot of workers up there living caravans shivering with nothing to do. Scotland's always been plagued by hardship." Stuart's had his share of tough times as well. Bred in a mining town in Fife, he has a tale or two to tell. "It was kind of the place where you were considered a poof if you wanted to form a band," he says, "I got thumped once, but I didn't attempt to hit the bloke back because he was so big." SO STUART locked himself away in his bedroom and taught himself guitar, developing his well known and personal style to its current polished level. "I don't really go in for the American style of playing," he says, "I think that's why my style of playing is so different from a lot of others." I suggest that Stuart plays the guitar with the ferocity and style of somebody playing the bagpipes and he raises an eyebrow and half agrees. "This band has a lot of spiritual input, so if you think we make a hard sound you can put it down to that," says Stuart, "We don't have to copy anybody and we're not looking back over our shoulders to see if anybody is following." "I think the record buying public is getting younger which means that a lot of bands are beginning to sound like each other." "There are some bands around who are really good businessmen but perhaps their hearts aren't really where they should be," says bass player Tony Butler, "I'd like to see many more bands playing because they simply enjoy it." "What really upsets me is the use of drum machines," says drummer Mark Brzezicki (try saying that quickly). "I don't like to see anybody performing with equipment that looks like an irong board and not having to work hard. There's something very false about it all." "We really try to give a true performance," continues Stuart. "We're trying to make contact between us and the audience rather than being some kind of idol on a pedestal." "We're making music to move mountains and melt the snow in your heart." Robin Smith |
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Page 38 Top Singles as used on Top Of The Pops 38, 62, 2 - Midnight Summer Dream, Stranglers, Epic 49, 64, 2 - Fields of Fire, Big Country, Mercury 55, 36, 7 - New Year's Day, U2, Island 74, 49, 4 - He Knows You Know, Marillion, EMI 84, 78, 4 - Passion Killer, One The Juggler, Regard (This week / last week / weeks in chart) Compiled by Gallup Big Country - Fields of Fire, uploaded by adamcharney. |