People are remembering their favourite silly pop facts from Smash Hits – 23 favourites

There were loads of reasons to love Smash Hits – it called Adam Ant ‘Alan Ant’, Paul Weller ‘Paul Welder’ and depicted the Human League’s Phil Oakey as “living in a house where his father and the budgie had the same lopsided hair”.

It also came up with no end of brilliant silly pop facts, such as these.

A recent tweet reminded me that Corrinne from Swing Out Sister has size 8 feet. This is because many Smash Hits pop facts have been lodged in my mind forever. (Also that Howard Jones had a vegetarian dog). What silly pop fact do you remember from Ver Hits? #SmashHitsmagazine

— Complete Control PR (@pollybirkbeck) June 6, 2019

And Polly Birkbeck’s tweet got loads of people sharing their own silly pop facts, of which these are our favourites.

1.

Howard Jones also loved the smell of cut grass, so much he asked for cuttings to be left in his dressing room.

— Sabotage Times (@SabotageTimes) June 7, 2019

2.

That in Wales, Prince would be legally classified as a midget. I don’t think this is true at all, but it’s still lodged in my head for 30 odd years.

— rob manuel (@robmanuel) June 6, 2019

3.

FAB MACCA WHACKY THUMBS ALOFT 👍

— Heidi Stephens (@heidistephens) June 6, 2019

4.

I can remember more details about Roger Taylor from Duran Duran’s wedding pictures than I can about the weddings of half my friends. Silver suit. A yacht off the coast of Naples

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) June 6, 2019

5.

Weren’t there flamingos involved? Or am I thinking of Nick Rhodes’ “nuptials”?

— Michael Hogan (@michaelhogan) June 6, 2019

6.

Flamingos was Nick Rhodes.

— Martin O’Lowery (@martin_lowe) June 6, 2019

7.

Julian Lennon’s ansaphone machine message being ‘we are in, we’re just in the garden’ so burglars wouldn’t come and rob the house

— Jenny Colgan (@jennycolgan) June 6, 2019

8.

George Michael had to stay awake all night after an amorous encounter because he was too frightened to sleep with his contact lenses in. I speak as a former Smash Hits Young Writer Of The Year *preen*, along with @QuadRoyal

— Julia LlewellynSmith (@JuLlewellyn) June 6, 2019

9.

Andrew Ridgely once possessed a jacket which could neither be washed or dry cleaned and simply got filthier and filthier.

— Pete Kavanagh (@PeteKavanagh) June 6, 2019

10.

I remember various people being asked ‘what does love mean?’ and Kirsty MacColl replied, ‘not minding someone else’s farts’ which horrified me as a 13 year old but makes perfect sense as an adult.

— Siân Rowland (@Sian_Rowland) June 6, 2019

11.

That Debbie Gibson cuts her burgers rather than picking them up. I thought that was cool, so have always tried to do the same

— Hannah Verdier (@wordsbyverds) June 6, 2019

12.

Susannah Hoffs of The Bangles used to put her Milky Way bars in the fridge and eat them in the shower.

— Flic Everett (@fliceverett) June 6, 2019