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Smash Hits 24 April 7 May 1985
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THE SONY RADIO AWARDS COMPETITION!
LARGER
THAN
LIFE!
• One of them likes fondling
vegetables. • One of them talks
about “spaceabilly”. • One of them
fancies a member of Whitesnake. •
And one of them flushed his famous
gold lame suit down the lavatory. •
What? asks Chris Heath. And why?
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Mark White is 5' 10" tall and has been in /
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■My character? It’s based on Bleep and Booster,
the two characters who used to be on Blue Peter
who had antennae coming out of the top of their
heads. I call the look 'spaceabilly'.
"I’ve had my hair like this about six months. My
hair goes curly like that naturally- when I was 16,1
was a big Marc Bolan fan and had ringlets to my
shoulders.
”1 gotthe
rely cosmetic - it’s the one which
looked bestonttie slielf at ~Hamley's.
some of Eden's and my clothes - they take lots of
styles and mix them together. This one is a mixture
of a mod parka and a glam 1974 pop star outfit.
“I play most of the stuff on the records at the
moment and write the songs with Martin and, as
always, we also use session musicians to carry out
the bits we can’t play ourselves to perfection. ’’
What happened to all the old members?
“They quit, basically. What I want and what
Martin wants ABC to be, coincide the most
closely. These days we share a flat together in
London. Being in agroup should be really special,
really exciting, not like working in afactory. if it
becomes like that I think you should leave - that’s
what happened to those people."
Shakespeare? Ronald Reagan?”
And maybe ABC one day will be
not as a replacement tor Mickey h
explains that they’re already a hit
MARTIN
being typecast--*-
we are with nothing else T R Y
Martin Fry is 6’ 3" tall, charming and
ABC’s singer. Three years ago when
ABC were never out of the Top 10,
this 27 year old ex-literature student
could be found crooning overblown
love songs on the nation's stages
se it’s successful. All very well, and TV screens in a ‘dressed to look
but some people are saying that the reason why “Be a million dollars’ gold lame jacket:
Near Me” has given them their first hit for ages is “I tried to flush it down the toilet ol
exactly that it does sound like the old successful the Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, at the
ABC of “The Lexicon Of Lose”. Mark agrees up to a end of the tour. I was sick to death of
point, revealing that the song is actually two years it. Actually it wouldn’t quite go down
old. “I wrote it with Martin in 1983 just after we’d but I got one trouser leg in. ’’
finished the first tour. It is the closest to the "Now we're interested in jet trash.
‘Lexicon’ - it’s got a lot of those virtues and we're They're jetsetters, people who get
not embarrassed by that - we’re very proud of it.
But it’s a lot more modern. It’s a lot harder
rhythmically, a lot barer. Even so it’s not
representative ol what we’re doing now.” fashionable European people.
What they are doing now is just putting the We’re pretty mobrle-not glued to
finishing touches to their new LP, “Zillionaire”. “A one place - so I suppose we qualify
collection of ten strong songs,” says Martin
confidently, which apparently have titles like
“Vanity Kills”, “15 Storey Halo”, “Fear Of The
World” and “So Hip It Hurts”. You can see in and the Banana Splits? Yeal
Martin’s eyes that he's still thrilled by the whole Banana Splits! Great sense l
thing. But then all the time he talks about^pop costume! But Afnka Bambaataa?
Now. if you’d said James Brown...’’
'•nrchnc cweniihi thmunh the new release’ racks Do you miss being in the public
nd gets passionately eye so much as a pop star? “Well,
pop records. Which is I'm not pretty enough to be a pop
[?!!«' to feel about ABC. star. I don ’t particularly want to be
David Cassidy and I never will be.”
Will you show your grandchildren
the pictures and play them ABC
records when you’re 60?
"Naaah! I don't think they'll
appreciate it. They'll be into
something much more
contemporary.”
EDEN
Eden is “bold as brass”. She has the ability to
"change with mood and circumstances", wears a
variety of coloured wigs and is “larger than life, like
In real life, her name is Fiona Russell Powell- a
“jack of all trades” who spends most of her time
writing for the style magazine The Face. Though
that's not something she'll admit- she sounds
pretty narked that anyone even knows about it. In
fact she's not very keen on questions at all. .
‘How old am I? I was 22 last week if you must
know. Why? It was the worst birthday of my life. It
was horrible. I was moving out of my flat. The
person at No. 92 has been complaining about the
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The Sex Pistols tell their story Gary Numan's weird vision of the future The Jam and the Mod
revival The Boomtown Rats when they were number one Blondie when they were number one
The UB40 story The Specials and 2-7 : A new group of "poseurs" called Spandau Ballet The
Police in America Madness making a video Adam Ant hiding away in France when "Stand And
Deliver" was number one Duran Duran visit New York for the first time: "We're going to crack i
big' The Midge Ure story Meat Loaf going bonkers on his ranch Big stars like Bryan Ferry and
Diana Ross Kevin Rowland ranting about Dexys Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke in Yazoo The
Human League at home in Sheffield Sting at home in Hampstead Culture Club's first visit to
America Michael Jackson on the phone fcurythmics make it big Nick Heyward leaves Haircut
One Hundred Duran Duran meet Princess Di U2 in Dublin Heaven 17 in Putney
Shea Stadium Paul McCartney talking about The Beatles Duran Duran in Australia Paul Young
on Saturday Superstore Spandau Ballet touring America The misery of Morrissey A tete-a-tete
with The Style Council Michael Jackson s party
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• She comes from
a French town something to offer. I don’t see
famous for walnuts myself as Jesus Christ, I just do
my bit and do the best that I can. If
and skiing.
• She speaks
strange English,
sings great songs
and is signed to
Frankie’s label ZTT.
• And, according
people get famous they just sit on
to Peter Martin, their fat ass like a big, fat
she’s “mysterious”. vegetable. I will never get like that.
You don’t have to end up that way,
Very. you just stick to what you
Anne Pigalle is French, a singer, believe in, your ideals, tell no
signed to ZTT Records and not lies, take no crap, that’s all.’’
Still a bit of a mystery, isn’t
Ve“Peoplearenot happy, people she? I have another go at prying
are rough, they are having a
rough time, there is a huge class
break, the rich stay with the rich
and get richer, the poor are left
behind ... I can't walk down the
streets oblivious to that, thinking
I'm on ZTT so things are cool. I decided that “stop fiddling about
see things and I can’t ignore.”
As you may have gathered, few years ago she sung on her
Anne Pigalle is not like most pop friend Nick Plytas’ EP-“Hot
stars. In fact, she’s not a bit like Sagas” under the group name
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