OCTOBER 1985 VOL.17 NO.5 

FEATURES 
KATRINA & THE WAVES DOING SWIMMINGLY Though No One Has Tied Concrete To Their Legs Yet! flipper ridden by 'man Lababedi 22 TOM PETTY'S NEW TALES OF THE OLD SOUTH I Wish I Was In Dixie and I'm dixie by Gary Graff 24 HOWARD JONES: WORDS OF WISDOM, MOOS OF PEACE Things Can Only Get Worse a little something by J. Kordosh 28 SCORPIONS SHOCK HORROR Sex And Schnapps And Rock 'N' Roll burg bit by Annene Kaye 30 PAUL YOUNG: U.K. SOUL MAN How's That For A Lousy Headline? dongs for the memories by Sylvie Simmons 32 CREEM'S 1985 DRUM SUPPLEMENT Boy Howdy's Guide To Drums hot crayfish by Scott K. Fish 49 SHEILA E.: THE LADY CAN PLAY! Timbales "R" Us! what a pair by Scott K. Fish  50 

DEPARTMENTS 
MAIL 6 THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE 10 ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS 13 THE BEAT GOES ON 18 'til tuesday, Neil Innes, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Mary Jane Girls LIVE AID CALENDAR & POSTER 34 CREEMEDIA 36 The Led Zeppelin Saga, Rambo: First Blood II, Day Of The Dead MEDIA COOL 38 VIDEO VIDEO 39 Weird Al, Talking Heads, Prince, Stewart Copeland's Rhythmatist CREEM'S PROFILES: THE SMITHS 41 RECORDS 42 Ratt, Motley Crue, Talking Heads. David Byrne, Marvin Gaye, Sting, Beach Boys, Bryan Ferry 45 REVELATIONS 44 ROCK-A-RAMA 48 BACKSTAGE 66 Kiss & Tell is on vacation this month
 
Cover photo of Tom Petty by Mark Weiss, Paul Young by Vincent Stills/LGI and Led Zeppelin at Live-Aid by Ebet Roberts.