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The Best Of Smash Hits [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Sphere (12 Oct 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 031602709X
ISBN-13: 978-0316027090
Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 22.9 x 29.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 188,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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[A] frothy celebration of the pop mag's Eighties heyday. Mrs Thatcher interview included! (OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY )

[SMASH HITS] was bright, funny, irreverent and never afraid to ask important questions such as, "If you were a domestic appliance, what would it be?" This pick of the best bits presses all the right nostalgic buttons (Q )

A fitting tribute to its surreal genius (TIME OUT )

Rest assured there's THE BEST OF SMASH HITS to help jog your memory. And what a handsome volume it is, too: 200 pages of classic features, lovingly recreated with some sample song lyrics and pullout posters thrown in for good measure. Edited by Mark Frit (Paul Burston, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )

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'A fitting tribute to its surreal genius'

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Book Ever Written!!!!!!!, 24 Oct 2006

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If the phrases "fab macca wacky thumbs aloft", "Sir Billiam of Idol" and "Roland Orzabal(and a kangaroo)" bring a smile to your face, then you need this book!

Basically, it's an anthology of Ver Hits in the 80's (ie when it was good!) featuring not only a plethora of interviews, but highlights from Black Type's letters page, a compendium of silly questions (What colour is January etc), lyrics we loved, an A-Z of phrases commonly used by this esteemed publication and best of all... a free poster with Wham (booo!!!) on one side and John Taylor (yaaaay!) on the other! Members of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Exclamation Marks may be slightly upset, though.

Better than the Bible, more fun than The DaVinci Code and even more fashionable than the Devil Wears Prada. The Best of Smash Hits is completely "Swingorilliant"... ackchewerloy!!!!!!!

Smash Hits! Pin it on, Take it off. Hours of fun guaranteed!!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, 2 Nov 2006

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For anyone who lived through the eighties this is a must!..It has some excellant memories for me and some great pics!...All I can say if this isn't in the christmas stocking of every 35 year old and over then you are missing out!

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you grew up in the 80s........, 19 Nov 2006

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Then this book is definately for you! As a 12 year avid Smash Hits reader I would search the length and breadth of town to find Ver Hits if my local newsagent was sold out. This book remembers the classic, and not so classic bands of the 80s, the full Live Aid and Band Aid stories and many interviews with the cream of the 80s, all written in the inimitable style all Smash Hits fans will instantly remember. Most bizarrely, there is a joint interview between 'best friends' Pete Burns and Morrissey - wonder how that friendship worked out?! I grinned all the way through reading the whole book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a book!!
If you were young in the 80s, loved the music and were a Smash Hits reader, you will almost certainly enjoy this book and spend ages reading it. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars Relive the joy of 'real' pop stars
There is no way that a magazine could get away with the irreverence of Smash Hits now, which is probably why it closed recently. Read more

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