THE HIT Magazine September 1985

4 RIOT CITY
TV night that Birmingham burned.
7 HOT
Hüsker Dü, haircuts def and dodgy short, sharp, hot.
12 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Kev speaks! A nation changes its trousers! A HiT
exclusive.
16 THE MAD MAX STORY
One worried warrior bares his soul.
20 KIRK BRANDON
Putting the boot in - HiT style.
22 SINGLES
The discs to risk.
24 THE POGUES
Shane MacGoycan: a case of Genius or just a crate
Guinness? A roving Pogue goes back to his roots.
27 MADNESS
Not so nutty, they say. Judge for yourself and enter The
HiT's exclusive shirt-and-album competion.
28 THE CURE
Robert Smith presents his critical guide to . .. Robert
Smith. Another right slagging in store, Bob?
32 WOMACK AND WOMACK
The first family of modern soul.
35 ALBUMS
Hall & Oates get down, Kate Bush gets, well, peculiar.
38 POWERBOATS
The HiT Squad shoot the wild Wild waves in Devon?
40 HiT THE ROAD
The Rapiers cruisejbrward to the past: days of
haircream and the Almighty Twcang revisited.
THE Hit LIST
Whatever 's going on, it's going in The HiT List.
42 THE Hit PARADE
Five fact-packed pages Q/ all that's on top Q/ the charts.
54 HiT OUT
Tony Parsons is the call-up a cock-up?

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