Record Mirror
2nd April 1983, price 40p
 
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Front Cover
 
Features
KAJAGOOGOO (main photo) - Let's NOT get serious.
TWISTED SISTER
RICHARD BARBIERI
KIRK BRANDON
KASHIF
Also pictured - ULTRAVOX 'My career in blue movies' (inset photo)
 
Other features:
- PHIL COLLINS · MAISONETTES · SET THE TONE · TRACIE songwords!
- Win your height in pre-recorded tapes!
- Bowie tickets scandal!!
 
NICK BEGGS of KAJAGOOGOO: pic by Jill Furmanovsky.
 
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NEWS
 
Bowie ticket shambles
DAVID BOWIE tickets could have gone to touts rather than to fans.
 
Tickets were sold over the counter at the Arena box office, an employee alleged last week... even though they were meant to have all gone out by post.
 
"We've had people coming in to the box office, and believe tickets were being sold there," she said. "We've had one or two people buying in bulk."
 
Before she could finish her phone call, the line was mysteriously cut off.
 
And fans who wrote off for tickets are unlikely to get them. By the end of last week there were already a quarter of a million applications.
 
"Only people who read the London Standard on Thursday evening and the Sun newspaper on the Friday after the announcement will have a chance," said the Wembley employee.
 
Martin Corrie, press officer for Wembley Arena, denied the allegation.
 
"As far we know, tickets were strictly by postal application and limited to four per person. The tickets don't even come to Wembley."
 
Promoter Harvey Goldsmith was not available for comment — despite many phone calls.
 
But one Of Goldsmith's employees did say that the tickets would be sent out on a first come, first served basis.
 
That will almost certainly mean that only people who read the national press the day after will receive tickets.
 
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NEWS
 
KIRK BRANDON'S Spear Of Destiny hit the road later this month for their biggest tour ever.
 
And the group release their first album 'Grapes Of Wrath' on April 15. It includes their 'Flying Scotsman' single.
 
Their tour starts at Glasgow Night Moves on April 14. Then Aberdeen Venue 16, Edinburgh Nite Club 18, Newcastle Dingwalls 19, Manchester Metro 20, Bristol Dingwalls 21, Torquay Pavilion 22, Sheffield Polytechnic 25, Birmingham Powerhouse 15, Coventry Polytechnic 27, Norwich East Anglia University 28, Loughborough University 29, Liverpool University 30, St Albans City Hal/ May 1, Guildford Civic Hall 3, Southampton University 4, London Lyceum 5 and Brighton Top Rank 6.
 
Tickets for the shows are on sale now from the venues.
 
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ADVERT for Virgin
 
MARILLION
Script For A Jester's Tear.
Includes Hit Single "He Knows you know".
£3.99 Album & Tape
 
Marillion - He knows You Know. Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1983
Uploaded by Jack Psamit.
 
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SINGLES
Selected by MIKE GARDNER
 
Sweet dreams are made of these
 
CULTURE CLUB 'Church Of The Poison Mind' (Virgin) Boy George and his pals tread the Human League path and plunder their old Motown records. I suspect Martha Reeves will look through her post for a royalty cheque in a few months time. The Club show little of the elegance of their last two singles and it's only the endearing George and his golden larynx that carries it through.
 
B&W photo of the band.
 

Culture Club - Church Of The Poisoned Mind (TOTP 1983), uploaded by softladification.
 
These we have loved
 
THE MERTON PARKAS 'The Singles EP' (Beggars Banquet) Keyboardist Mick Talbot before he had a style councillor in the heydey of the mod revival. The wheels could be better used to run over this skeleton in the cupbaord.
 
THE MEMBERS 'Four Track EP' (Virgin) The sound of the suburbs is guaranteed to being a large smile to any face.
 
SIMPLE MINDS 'I Travel' (Virgin) A re-release from the time when they lived up to their name - all fast and frantic for no apparent reason..
 
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PETE TOWNSHEND 'Scoop' (Atco B 0063)
 
THE WHO'S Pete Townshend's latest album is a two record set of his old demos. Old Who and solo favourites like 'Magic Bus ' and 'Behind Blue Eyes' are shown in their original skeletal form. The album traces Townshend's songwriting development almost from the 'My Generation' days through to their latest vinyl atrocities like 'It's Hard'.
 
There is a strange fascination from seeing how the various tracks evolved — in the same way people are intrigued with the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo. But most may feel comfortable with the proper dynamic recordings of Townshend's career. + + +
 
Mike Gardner
 
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Stuart Adamson - Big Country. Profile
 
FULL NAME: William Stuart Adamson
NICKNAME: None
DATE OF BIRTH: April 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH: Manchester
EDUCATED: Beath High School, Cowdenbeath
HEIGHT: Six foot
WEIGHT: 10 stone
COLOUR OF EYES: Dirty grey/green y/blue y/bro wn
FIRST LOVE: Diana Rigg
FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT: Diana Rigg when I grew up
FIRST PERFORMANCE: Crossgates Miners Welfare Institute with a band called Tattoo
FIRST LIVE SHOW SEEN: Led Zeppelin
FIRST RECORD BOUGHT: 'Death Of A Clown' — Dave Davies
MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Leonard Cohen and Bill Nelson
INSTRUMENTS PLAYED: Guitar and synthesisers
HERO: Stan Laurel
HEROINE: Sandra — my wife
FAVOURITE BOOKS: Dice Man — Luke Reinhart, 'Coming Up For Air' — George Orwell, 'The Chrysalids' — John Wyndham
FAVOURITE FILMS: 'One Over The Cuckoo's Nest', 'Mean Streets', 'Horse Feathers 'Marathon Man'
FAVOURITE TV SHOWS: 'Coronation Street', 'Grange Hill'
BEST LIVE SHOW SEEN: U2, Nils Lofgren
FAVOURITE CLUBS: Baseball clubs
FAVOURITE FOOD: Cooked breakfasts
FAVOURITE CLOTHES: Knickerbockers
HAIRCUT: Grim
FAVOURITE DRINK: Lager
IDEAL HOME: The one I live in
IDEAL HOLIDAY: A week in bed
IDEAL CAR: Don't like cars
MOST FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE: Falling off a motorbike
WORST EXPERIENCE: Flying
FUNNIEST EXPERIENCE: Me
SUPERSTITIONS: Don't wear socks with holes when there's an R in the month
FANTASY: To be Andrew Carnegie
MOST HATED CHORE: Shaving
AMBITION: To grow a beard

 
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Secrets of success
 
THERE ARE those who have the knowledge and those who don't. Or, as Spear Of Destiny like to say, "You're either on the Shuttle or you're off the shuttle."
 
Those who have the knowledge have a secret denied to the rest of us. This can make them smug or confusing or incomprehensible. A man with a secret walks safe within his private knowledge while a smile plays around his features. Such a man is Kirk Brandon, formerly of Theatre Of Hate.
 
The features are, of course. extraordinary. The ears seem to stand at right angles to the head, the teeth jut out of the smile and the eyes are staring and quite blue. It is also the face of a ham.
 
Spear Of Destiny have abandoned Theatre Of Hate, if not their fans. Their music is relentlessly and full of the folk melodies that decorate their debut single, 'Flying Scotsman'.
 
In Leeds, Spear Of Destiny play their fourth or fifth date and the faithful appear utterly confused. The T Of H lookalikes, those bohemian-beat punks with the caps and turned-up jeans, are there in plenty but they seem unable to follow Kirk's new drift. Slow song follows slow song, colourful but ultimately monotonous, and Kirk loses the audience. That smile begins to play around his face. After all, he has the secret.
 
"We went too far too quickly," Kirk decides in the dressing room. "The problem with T Of H was that the guys behind me always used to thrash the hell out of it. Fifty per cent of the people who come probably expect that. There's so much power and soul in these new songs, to speed them up would kill them."
 
THE NEXT morning, Kirk explains himself at length. I don't always follow him but then, haven't had the same visions. "The youth are even more advanced than they think they are," Kirk intones, staring me into silence. "The majority of the audience are more advanced than I. It's just simply that I'm aware that they are and they aren't yet. I'm not going to give them a sermon but I wish to reach them contrary to how most performers do. I don't think most performers know anything. I've spent a lot of time pronouncing words so that they can be heard. I don't do it lightly."
 
Kirk has faith in the youth. In his mythology, they will come to replace the "old bastards, the governments, landowners. secret societies, religions - the people that own everything." This is very optimistic, very 60s. "The young now are the old of tomorrow and if they have the right directives in their heads, they won't be like the old bastards that's around now. Going around all these little clubs around the world, clubs where the young men go, the same feeling is there in every club. It's there, it's alive, it's growing, preparing for itself. Now is the time of learning, not the time of action..."
 
It is ten in the morning and I am hopelessly lost. What, Kirk, is it? What's growing? "The Spirit Self's been around a long long time now," says Kirk. A long silence follows. "How long nobody knows. In the past the forces that be decided to completely cloud everything so that everything fogged. It's only now that it's clearing up: we helping it to open up. The old bastard still rules and 'We, like lesser men, struggle beneath his legs.' Throughout the ages, the consciousness moves forward. Not just the small groups who're very aware but the world as a whole. There's an incredible opening up going on right now. It's coming very quickly and people should aware of that. Those who are are beacons, transmitters. This is a passing age that's passing quicker than anybody can believe. You have to lose the old, the old morality, the old thinking, to go forward. Tomorrow's coming anyway. If you stand in its way, it'll crush you..."
 
KIRK, ISN'T all this a trifle hard for the layperson to follow? What has this to do with Spear Of Destiny? What is this spear? "It has to do with Christ," says Kirk mysteriously. He's not some stupid bastard stuck up in churches: he had a lot of bottle. Christ came along and he illuminated things for people. Through him, it is possible. He showed the way in a moment when civilisation was completely clouded over. Established religion came to break Him into pieces and Longinus, the Roman, grabbed the spear in compassion and stuck it in Christ's side so that blood and water flowed. They put Christ on that cross to stop it, to stem the flow. That spear is the symbology of the flow of humankind. All the world's religions turn Christ into this deity. this figure of worship. But he was a man and he is coming again. It is coming; it is the end, the ultimate beginning. The point where Alpha and Omega Cross..."
 
Kirk has the secret. Interviewing him is like talking to a Jesus freak who has seen the light. Like any convert, Kirk is complete. Whether this will help his music or not is another matter. The crowd in Leeds didn't appreciate the songs from the forthcoming 'Grapes Of Wrath' but maybe it was a bad night. Kirk didn't play 'Westworld' and he remained determined. "If I cut my own legs from under me, so be it. If I don't use the spear, it'll kill me." Perhaps it'll kill him if he does. Either way, he has his secrets.
 
by Mark Cooper
 
Photo: SPEAR OF DESTINY'S KIRK BRANDON: is this the most incomprehensible feature ever to appear in RECORD MIRROR?
 
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Top Singles
as used on Top Of The Pops
Week ending April 2, 1983
 
Photo of Clare Grogan entitled "CLARE: a sweet smile at 7"
 
2, 5, 2 Let's Dance, David Bowie, EMI America
4, 4, 3 Speak Like A Child, Style Council, Polydor
13, 31, 6 Fields of Fire, Big Country, Mercury
22, 15, 3 Visions In Blue, Ultravox, Chrysalis
24, --, -- Two Hearts Beat As One, U2, Island IS109
38, 61, 2 The House That Jack Built, Tracie, Respond
90, --, -- Market Square Heroes, Marillion, EMI EMI5351
(This week / last week / weeks in chart)
 
Compiled by Gallup
 

Big Country - Fields of Fire, uploaded by adamcharney.
 
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Tracie
 
Who owns the house that Jack built?
Who owns the house that he built?
Who owns the house that Jack built?
Dont you know that we own the house that he built?
 
(And the house that Jack built)
Is crumbling away
The house that he built is a derelict
(And the house that Jack built)
Is sliding away
And if you hold to the side then you go down with it
 
Reapeat Chorus
 
And the house that Jack built
Has taken its toll
And all the lives swept underneath the carpets
(And the house that Jack built)
Is more than deceased
It's made bitter young minds and a home for hatred
 
Reapeat Chorus
 
Is it my imagination, or living foundation
We've got nothing to lose
 
Reapeat Chorus twice
 
On Respond Records
Music and words: Barry/Robinson
© 1983 EMI Music Publication Ltd.

 

Tracie - The House That Jack Built, uploaded by thecatkeaton.
 
N.B. Produced by Paul Weller (The Jam, Style Council), who also played bass guitar. Mick Talbot (Style Council) played keyboards.
 

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