The Best of "Smash Hits" (Hardcover)

'[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 Frith, with a foreword by one-time assistant editor Neil Tennant, it's a reminder of how great the magazine was in its day' Paul Burston, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A brilliant memorial to the mag. Imagine burrowing into a glittering time capsule in which early interviews with Madonna and George Michael rub shoulders with pop posters, rock stars' shopping lists, pen pals, song words and - a stroke of genius, this - old adverts for Fluorescent Ultra Hair Glo and Texas Instruments calculators. The design is fantastically faithful to the old issues, and even the paper smells like it used to. Several of Kylie's jaunty hats should be taken off to former SMASH HITS Ed Mark Frith and co for this labour of love' WORD 'For anyone who grew up in the 1980s - Adam Ant, Kajagoogoo and other fashion disasters' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A must-have for anyone who wanted to marry Nik Kershaw' FIRST 'What a rainbow of poptastic 80s talent in which to immerse oneself: Boy George, while still very much a boy; Madonna, the sassy pre-yoga version . . . An indispensable guide for anyone who was young enough to remember the 80s' IRISH EXAMINER 'With interviews, highlights from Black Type's letters page and a compendium of silly questions (What colour is January? Etc.), this issue is packed with all the things we loved and that made Smash Hits an essential read' DAILY MIRROR 'Those whose own teenage years took place in the 1980s will squeal at the sight of THE BEST OF SMASH HITS . . . it's a hilarious celebration of the gloriously eccentric pop magazine's heyday' GLOSS MAGAZINE 'Within these hard covers can be found a hilarious collision between some of the silliest outfits, ludicrous postures, and barbering follies ever devised, and a group of commentators who relished every tiny detail of this exhibitionist decade while unpicking it gleefully with sharp little pens' EVENING STANDARD 'Literally the only present we want . . . Swingorilliant!' GUARDIAN 'A nostalgic jaunt through the 80s golden era of the mag. An unmissable treat!' CLOSER 'I'm getting all my friends THE BEST OF SMASH HITS, a brilliant collection from the 1980s. It's is a reminder of what was so good about the mag' Emma Bunton, THE TIMES

'A fitting tribute to its surreal genius'