Customer Reviews
What a book!! - By: Jake M, 06 Jul 2008 
If you were youngin the 80s, loved the music & were a Smash Hits reader, you will almost certainly enjoy this book & spend ages reading it. But it will also appeal to the younger generations as well & make them see what a great decade it was & experience the glossiest, greatest & cheekiest pop magazine of those ten years.
This book really does capture the 80s through the eyes of Britain's once greatest pop mag & all those memories will come folding back to you, I can guarantee it.
Highly recommened!
Relive the joy of 'real' pop stars - By: D. O'Reilly, 09 May 2008 
There is no way that a magazine could get away with the irreverence of Smash Hits now, which is probably why it closed recently.
It's great to be reminded of a time when journalists could take the piss out of pop stars who would often joinin the joke. Yes, there were manufactured bands back then such as Bucks Fizz but there was some humour & none of the tiresome staged fuss of Pop Idol.
Buy it, enjoy the laughs & think wistfully back to a simpler time.
We "heart" the S/Hits - By: GoldfishNation, 03 Feb 2008 Do you grow weary of the world & its mistress (quaffing quails eggs & waftin' aroundin strokesome velvet probably) droning on about the "eighties"? How it was really greatin the "eighties"?? That music/bubble perms/nuclear paranoia aren't as good as they were backin the "eighties" ???
Well gerrova it there's nowt else to do these days.
In the faraway, neon lit, snow-washed days of said 80s, Smash Hits was a twice-monthly, 23 carat birrova larf, making the most of a decade of magnificently ludicrous pop stars by putting inverted commas around everything & not taking itself "too" "seriously". Where the swanky rotating door of its cover was as likely to welcome the likes of The Cure & Jesus & Mary Chain (imagine!) as it was Pepsi & Shirlie or Five Star & their industrial-strength shoulder implants. Since the mag cheerfully took the mick out of everyone, including itself, it was a level playing field, & managed to be irreverent & subversivein a way the inkies couldn't. By the end of the decade, however, when Pop had gone from being all-encompassing to meaning purely bubblegum, the magazine inevitably went down the editorial dumper (bah), though sales-wise it peaked with Take That. But from its inception to around 86/87 it provided the nation's mis-spent youth with songwords, posters & battling bands along with a welcome dose of peculiarly British eccentricity.
So take a letter Miss Pringle cos now it's back, back!in a hardback stylee for us all to thrill & thrill again to. Prepare to recall uncle disgusting, Morten Horten Forten Harket, Dames Bowie & Richard & a great big pair of wacky thumbs aloft & feel yourself transported back to a rainy Saturday morningin BHS cafe with a bag of Burger Bites & a raspberry Slush Puppie. Best of all is barmy letters page "Black Type" which once memorably (not to anyone born after 1978 - Ed.) listed among its Top 100 Albums of all-time "Surprisingly Cilla" by Dexys Midnight Runners, "Let's Have a Right Old Knees Up Dahn at the Old Bull & Bush Why Don't We?" by The Velvet Underground with Marvin Gaye & The Best of Lionel Richie (by The Clash).
A generation of thirtysomething toffs owes its sense of humour to Smash Hits.
You were missed. Sniff.
If you grew up in the 80s........ - By: Ms. A. J. Winter, 19 Nov 2006 Then this book is definately for you! As a 12 year avid Smash Hits reader I would search the length & breadth of town to find Ver Hits if my local newsagent was sold out. This book remembers the classic, & not so classic bands of the 80s, the full Live Aid & Band Aid stories & many interviews with the cream of the 80s, all writtenin the inimitable style all Smash Hits fans will instantly remember. Most bizarrely, there is a joint interview between 'best friends' Pete Burns & Morrissey - wonder how that friendship worked out?! I grinned all the way through reading the whole book!
Amazing! - By: Krissnikkers, 02 Nov 2006 For anyone who lived through the eighties this is a must!..It has some excellant memories for me & some great pics!...All I can say if this isn'tin the christmas stocking of every 35 year old & over then you are missing out!
