Strawberry Switchblade fansiteThis week in 1985, both Smash Hits and No.1 magazines had full page lyric posters for Strawberry Switchblade's new single Let Her Go
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If you were rushing out to buy the new Smash Hits this week in 1984 you'd find future Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant was reviewing the singles. He declared Strawberry Switchblade's Since Yesterday to be 'one of the few records this week which isn't trying to sound like something else'.
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50+ Music"Back for Good" is a song by English band #TakeThat from their album #NobodyElse (1995). A #ballad, "Back for Good" was written by lead singer #GaryBarlow and released on 27 March 1995. The song hit number one in 31 countries, including the UK. At the #1996BritAwards, "Back for Good" won the #BritAwardForBritishSingleOfTheYear and Best Single at the 1995 #SmashHits Awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV9SeTcMOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV9SeTcMOQ
Take That - Live from the Brits, 1995 (Live from the Brits, 1995)
Smash Hits gave it single of the fortnight, saying "This is simply gorgeous... the song is an immediate classic."
https://strawberryswitchblade.net/smash-hits-review-of-trees-and-flowers-4-august-1983/
"How Long" is the debut single by the English band #Ace, from their 1974 debut album, #FiveASide. It reached No. 3 on both the US and Canadian charts, and No. 20 on the #UKSinglesChart. In a 1981 issue of #SmashHits, #PhilCollins named the song as one of his top 10 favourites, describing it as a "classic single".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_GMMLULXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_GMMLULXw
Ace - How Long HD
Our group declare to be true"Something about the way you look tonight" - Elton John
It is rumoured that a few people bought this record for the B-side. People are strange.
A few more Smash Hits winners
Oasis - best indie band
Ronan Keating - best-dressed bloke
Diana Princess of Wales - hero
Peter Andre - sad loser of '97
"Barbie girl" - Aqua
Won the NME Brat Award for Worst Single of the year, which just shows how little NME readers knew then. Or now.
Back at Smash Hits, Dr "Neil" Fox won Best DJ, Paul Nicholls and Martine McCutcheon the acting gongs, Lily Savage the best comedy, and Men in Black the best film.
Had Smash Hits lived, I reckon "Barbie The Move" would have won its year. Easily.
"Encore une fois" / "Ecuador" / "Stay" - Sash!
Mate, we're not saying that all three of your hit singles follow the same formula and are completely interchangeable.
He didn't win a Smash Hits award - Best Dance Act went to Eternal (!). Some of the folk who did:
Backstreet Boys - Best Foreign Group, Album, Video
Louise - Most Fanciable Female, Best Solo Female Singer, Best Dressed Female
Kavana - Best Solo Male Singer
Our mystery year was 1986.
Smash Hits magazine published a guide to perform the actions in "The chicken song", illustrated by top cartoonist Kipper Williams.
