Smash Hits - 23 March - 5 April 1988 with Hannah Verdier

The Giddy Carousel of Pop

Simon and Gavin welcome you once again to The Giddy Carousel of Pop!

In the first of two parts, we have a good look through the Smash Hits of 23 March - 5 April 1988 (the Easter hols!) with the help of our special guest, freelance pop culture writer, contributor to The Guardian and former Smash Hits deputy editor in the late 90s/early 00s, Hannah Verdier.

Hannah tells us about her time at the mag including a rather awkward encounter with Jon Bon Jovi and pop larks with Ash and Boyzone, as well as taking us back to the Smash Hits-obsessed teenage music geek who dreamed of nothing but getting a job at Ver Hits.

Artists discussed include Pet Shop Boys, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Voice Of The Beehive, Des O'Connor, Michael Jackson, Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Patsy Kensit, Taylor Dayne, Michael Hutchence, Heart, UB40, Bros, Climie Fisher, Sinitta, Taja Sevelle, Erasure, Deacon Blue, Patrick Swayze, The Fall, Morrissey and Rick Astley

You can read the issue for yourself thanks to Like Punk Never Happened and Smash Hits Remembered and also check out the music from its pages on our Spotify and YouTube playlists. It’s the next best thing to taping it off the radio!

LINKS TO THE ISSUE

Like Punk Never Happened: https://tinyurl.com/u68jmmj

Smash Hits Remembered: https://tinyurl.com/sn8dqn5

PLAYLIST LINKS

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/slyu6zm

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/skrrphe

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