Andrew joins the Giddy Carousel to talk about an issue of Smash Hits from May 1980 – available tomorrow if that sounds like your kind of thing.
Giddy Carousel of Pop podcast – Andrew Harrison
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I can add a bit of humour to the proceedings … 10th May … Arsenal 0, West Ham United 1.
Of course, I wouldn’t dream of laughing “at” that, merely “towards” it.
Trevor Brooking, 13th minute, with a header. Well, it looks more like he fell over backwards and the ball hit him on the way past.
As he said for the next 30 odd years: “I don’t get many with my head”.
Oh … and Willie Young’s cynical scything of Paul Allen when through on goal with only Pat “Frying Pan Hands” Jennings to beat. Only got a yellow card
And I was there. Aged 12, with my Dad…had my first taste of lager at the end.
Eh? I enjoy the podcast despite being a bit too old to have been a Smash Hits reader. Good work.
Cheers Dai.
A great listen @WholeHogg, one point, Sparks had fairly recently been in the charts and on TOTP with both “No. One Song in Heaven” and “Beat The Clock” in 1979, Ron was rocking the “Hitler look” also at that time.
Just heard the second Live Aid one. I loved the complete pummelling of Belouis Some. I had a similar strong dislike – perhaps he’s the Scrappy Doo of 80s pop?
I remember there was a feature on Icelandic band, Mezzoforte. They had a one off hit with an instrumental called Garden Party. In the article we hear that you don’t have to sell many records to have a hit single in Iceland.
Inserted in the text is this:
(“I’m off!” – Belouis Some)
The NME interviewed poor old Belouis and described him as a “peroxide pop prat”.
In the headline.
He really came across as an utter twerp in that Smash Hits article. Dr Volume really let rip.
The epithet of choice in SH in those days was “plank” as I recall.
Some would have said wally, or even more devastatingly, pranny.