Smash Hits RIP

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Anyone care to share memories (in Black Type of course) of Britain's number one pop rag. The first issue I bought had The Police on the front, and the second Hazel o Connor. I remember one of them included the full lyrics to the Teardrop Explodes When I Dream including all the A Ba Ba Ba Bas and whoa-oh-oh-ohs. It also had a regular indie chart featuring the likes of Flux o Pink Indians (who I still haven't heard to this day). Who can forget too the Depeche Mode in cricket-whites centerspread ? (Well, Dave Gahan for starters).

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 3 February 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

RIP Smash Hits: 1978-2006

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

What, again?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

and also Spook! Smash Hits lowers its thumbs

just to add that no one should have gone through life without hearing flux of pink indians.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Oops, didn't see all those threads. Shall go and devour. And thanks, Stirmonster, now I can die fulfilled!!!!!!!!!!!

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 3 February 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

... you're not dying are you???!?!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh, no, I was just carrying on the 'gone through life' theme of the post above. But, thanks for asking.

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 3 February 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Kind of surprises me. Sure there aren't too many boy/girl band type acts right now, but history has shown there will always be some. Thus, one would think there would always be a market for Smash Hits.

If today's kids don't want to read about the "Pop Idol" acts in Smash Hits anymore, maybe that should be an alarming sign to the "Pop Idol" people too. I mean, "Pop Idol" is basically a Karaoke competition, and one would expect the well to run dry after a while.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Yes Geir, its an alarming sign when AOR balladeers don't appeal to 13 year olds.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Being AOR balladeers hasn't hurt Westlife.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

It seems AOR balladeers are what the labels have to offer the kids these days (besides hip-hop and R&B, which is even worse than AOR balladeers)

And the kids? They (at least the male half) respond by buying 20-30 year-old albums by Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Guns'n'Roses.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 3 February 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

^Wtf?

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

"and the rest, as they say, is history"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-1981-04-02/page/n19/mode/2up

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 5 December 2022 21:58 (three years ago)

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