SMASH HITS MAGAZINE REVISITED
YEAR OF 1981
Below you can revisit Smash Hits Magazine from 1981 by clicking the images or you can click the logo to visit Michael's fantastic Smash Hits Remembered website for a more in depth look at Smash Hits.
Archive Issue -
8th January 1981
Cover - Terry Hall
Posters - David Bowie and Gen X.
Lyrics - Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Status Quo, Showaddywaddy,
Matchbox, Visage, Chas And Dave, The Look,
Racey, The Jacksons, The Nolans, Hot Chocolate, The Specials, The Boomtown Rats, Rod Stewart and Neil Diamond.
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Archive Issue -
22nd January 1981
Cover - Steve Strange
Posters - XTC and Hazel O'Connor.
Lyrics - The Clash, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Cliff Richard, Blondie, David Bowie, Gap Band, Stevie Wonder, The Stranglers, Spandau Ballet, Pauline Murray, XTC, Adam And The Ants and The Boomtown Rats.
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Archive Issue -
5th February 1981
Cover - Suggs
Posters - Adam Ant and Debbie Harry.
Lyrics - Ultravox, Dire Straits, Stray Cats, Sheena Easton, Phil Collins, Adam And The Ants, Styx, Heatwave, The Pretenders, Honey Bane, Bruce Springsteen, Susan Fassbender, Jane Kennaway and Strange Behaviour, U.F.O, and Rainbow.
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Archive Issue -
19th Febuary 1981
Cover - Midge Ure
Posters - The Pretenders and U2.
Lyrics - Talking Heads, The Plastic Ono Band, The Teardrop Explodes, Kelly Marie, The Passions, Roxy Music, Freeez, The Jam, Fred Wedlock, Joe Dolce, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Slade, Gillan, Diana Ross and Yarbrough & Peoples.
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Archive Issue -
5th March 1981
Cover - Duran Duran
Posters - Stray Cats and Honey Bane.
Lyrics - Status Quo, Elvis Costello, Yoko Ono, The Human League, Motorhead/Girlschool, Judas Priest, Toyah, The Freshies, Beggar And Co., Duran Duran, Madness, Kiki Dee, Kim Wilde, Kool And The Gang and The Jacksons.
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Archive Issue -
19th March 1981
Cover - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Posters - Toyah and Talking Heads.
Lyrics - Visage, XTC, Hazel O'Connor, Stevie Wonder, Nash The Slash, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Adam And The Ants, Sharon Redd, The Who, Queen, Gillan, Rod Stewart, Linx, Phil Collins and Sister Sledge.
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Archive Issue -
2nd April 1981
Cover - Sal Solo
Posters - Spandau Ballet and Teardrop Explodes.
Lyrics - Bad Manners, Landscape, Heaven 17, David Bowie, The Polecats, The Nolans, Tony Capstick, Orange Juice, The Whispers, New Order,
Dave Stewart / Colin Blunstone, Visage, Classix Nouveaux,
Iron Maiden, Graham Bonnet and Spandau Ballet.
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Archive Issue -
16th April 1981
Cover - Hazel O'Connor
Posters - Duran Duran and Polecats.
Lyrics - The Beat, Ultravox, The Cure, Department S, Dire Straits, Sugar Minott, Shalamar, Public Image Ltd, Stiff Little Fingers, Keith Marshall, Bucks Fizz, Simple Minds, Stray Cats, John Lennon and Yoko Ono and The Clash.
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Archive Issue -
30th April 1981
Cover - Julian Cope
Posters - Gary Numan and Echo and The Bunnymen.
Lyrics - Madness, Echo and The Bunnymen, REO Speedwagon,
The Undertones, Adam And The Ants, Quincy Jones, Barry Manilow, Eddy Grant, Whitesnake, Saxon, T. Rex, Girlschool, Honey Bane, Bauhaus and U.K. Subs.
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Archive Issue -
14th May 1981
Cover - Department S
Posters - The Undertones and Kim Wilde.
Lyrics - Toyah, Duran Duran, Tenpole Tudor, Star Sound, Way Of The West, Human League, Level 42, Kim Wilde, Kiki Dee, Roger Taylor, Small Ads, Japan, T.S. Monk, Shakin' Stevens and Sheena Easton.
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Archive Issue -
28th May 1981
Cover - Stray Cats
Posters - Landscape.
Lyrics - Adam And The Ants, Landscape, UB40, The Polecats, Rich Kids, Squeeze, Kim Carnes, Smokey Robinson and Champaign.
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Archive Issue -
28th May 1981
Back Cover - Kim Wilde
Posters - Landscape.
Lyrics - The Jam, Talking Heads, Japan, Thin Lizzy, Bob Marley And The Wailers and Juice Newton.
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Archive Issue -
11th June 1981
Cover - Adam Ant
Posters - Lynx and Human League.
Lyrics - The Specials, Whitesnake, Hot Chocolate, Ultravox, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Linx, Imagination, Elton John, George Harrison, Odyssey, U2, Michael Jackson, Kate Robbins, Hazel O'Connor and Coast To Coast.
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Archive Issue -
25th June 1981
Cover - Kirsty MacColl
Posters - Shakin Stevens' and Siouxsie.
Lyrics - Kid Creole And The Coconuts, Kirsty MacColl,
The Evasions, Gillan, Dave Edmunds and The Stray Cats,
Department S, Kool And The Gang, Showaddywaddy, The Scars, Bucks Fizz, Phil Collins, Graham Bonnet, Bruce Springsteen, Third World and The Beat.
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Archive Issue -
9th July 1981
Cover - Depeche Mode
Posters - Mo Dettes and Buster Bloodvessel.
Lyrics - Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, REO Speedwagon, The Kinks, The Psychedelic Furs, Tom Tom Club, Kate Bush, Rainbow, Visage Visage, Quincy Jones, Elaine Paige, Sheena Easton, XTC, Randy Crawford and Bob Marley And The Wailers.
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Archive Issue -
23rd July 1981
Cover - Steve Strange
Posters - Kim Wilde and Peter Murphy.
Lyrics - Squeeze, Dexy's Midnight Runners, UB40, Star Sound, The Undertones, Abba, Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive,
David Bowie, Motorhead, The Jacksons, Duran Duran,
Echo And The Bunnymen, Saxon, Girlschool and Hazel O'Connor.
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Archive Issue -
6th August 1981
Cover - Debbie Harry
Posters - Duran Duran and Dexy's Midnight Runners.
Lyrics - Tenpole Tudor, Debbie Harry, Shakin' Stevens, Kim Wilde, The Police, Bill Wyman, The Nolans, Soft Cell, Evelyn King, Eddy Grant, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The B.B &. Q Band, Carl Carlton, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.
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Archive Issue -
20th August 1981
Cover - Annabella Lwin
Posters - Tenpole Tudor and Julian Cope.
Lyrics - Ultravox, The Pretenders, The Teardrop Explodes, The Human League, Our Daughters Wedding, Central Line, Modern Romance, The Specials, The B-52's, Kim Carnes, U2, Bow Wow Wow, ELO, Stevie Nicks and Classix Nouveaux.
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Archive Issue -
3rd September 1981
Cover - Toyah
Posters - The Pretenders and Soft Cell.
Lyrics - Gary Numan, Ian Dury, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Genesis, Dollar, Aneka, Bucks Fizz, The Jets, Simple Minds, Gary U.S. Bonds, Roxy Music, The Pointer Sisters, Hi-Gloss, Randy Crawford and Funkapolitan.
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Archive Issue -
17th September 1981
Cover - Gary Numan
Posters - Depeche Mode and Modern Romance.
Lyrics - Linx, Madness, The Look, Heaven 17, Cliff Richard, Alvin Stardust, Sheena Easton,
Foreigner, Godley And Creme, Joan Armatrading, Shakin' Stevens, Meat Loaf, The Jacksons, Ottawan and Imagination.
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Archive Issue -
1st October 1981
Cover - Phil Oakey
Posters - Ultravox.
Lyrics - Toyah, The Human League, Dave Stewart, Depeche Mode, Beggar and Co, Odyssey,
Bad Manners, The Creatures, Tom Tom Club, The Bee Gees, David Bowwow, The Rolling Stones, The Police, Phyllis Hyman and Diana Ross / Lionel Richie.
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Archive Issue -
15th October 1981
Cover - Duran Duran
Posters - Madness and Hazel O'Connor.
Lyrics - The Jam, Shakin' Stevens, Slade, Laurie Anderson, Altered Images, Crusaders / Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin / George Benson,
Japan, Led Zeppelin, Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Al Jarreau, Donald Byrd and Thomas Dolby.
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Archive Issue -
29th October 1981
Cover - Fun Boy Three
Posters - Human League and Orchestral Manouevres.
Lyrics - The Police, The Lunatics, Squeeze, Stray Cats, Dire Straits, ELO, B.A. Robertson and Maggie Bell, Gary Glitter, The Exploited, Gillan, Rod Stewart, Olivia Newton-John, The Beatles, U2 and The Cure.
Archive Issue -
12th November 1981
Cover - Kim Wilde
Posters - The Beat and Altered Images.
Lyrics - Tenpole Tudor, Kim Wilde, Spandau Ballet, Dexy's Midnight Runners, ABC, Haircut 100, The Teardrop Explodes, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Four Tops, Trevor Walters, Modern Romance, Soft Cell, Genesis and Rush.
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Archive Issue -
26th November 1981
Cover - Haircut One Hundred
Posters - Soft Cell and Olivia Newton-John.
Lyrics - Queen and David Bowie, Ultravox, The Pretenders,
Imagination, Kool And The Gang, Toyah, Dollar, The Jets, Duran Duran, Classix Nouveaux, Earth Wind And Fire, Linx, Blue Ronda A La Turk, The Monkees and
Cliff Richard.
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Archive Issue -
10th December 1981
Cover - The Human League
Posters - Japan and Simon Le Bon.
Lyrics - Altered Images, The Human League, The Police, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Madness, Status Quo, Bad Manners, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Boomtown Rats,
Bucks Fizz, Light Of The World, George Benson, Godley And Cream, Gary Numan And Dramatis and Meatloaf.
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Archive Issue -
24th December 1981
Cover - Clare Grogan
Posters - Altered Images and Adam Ant.
Lyrics - Abba, The Four Tops, The Snowmen, Foreigner, Kool And The Gang, Rod Stewart, Sheena Easton, Slade, David Bowie, ELO,
Jon And Vangelis, Showaddywaddy and Adam And The Ants.
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Archive Issue -
Book Of Pop Lists 1981
Info - This was given free with 3 consecutive issues of Smash Hits. It started with the first instalment in the 25th June issue and ending with the 26th July issue, this built up into a booklet of facts about various things such as Eurovision and the Most Richest Pop Stars of the time.
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