People are remembering their favourite silly pop facts from Smash Hits – 23 favourites
13.
Pasty Kensit drove a Fiat Panda at the peak of her Eighth Wonder infamy.
— KatharineOfTarragon (@KateOfTarragon) June 6, 2019
14.
The first song Rick Astley wrote was called Ruddy Big Pig
— Katy (@westings) June 6, 2019
15.
And that he was from….oh bugger. Either Newton-Le-Willows or Ashby-de-la-Zouche.
— Caspar (@caspar01) June 6, 2019
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Newton-le-Willows. Whenever I go through on the train I say “home of Rick Astley” to myself in my head
— Katy (@westings) June 6, 2019
17.
Martyn Fry from ABC was born with a breast pocket.
— Keith Gregory (@medicipopes) June 6, 2019
18.
For a while I knew the Norwegian for ‘sheep’s balls to you mate’ thanks to Morten Harket. Also lodged in brain forever are the words to Need You Tonight by INXS from a quiz: So slide over here and give me a fish. I think the quiz was in honour of Terrence “Trout” D’Arby
— SmallRabbit (@smallrabbit) June 6, 2019
19.
The singer fron Hollywood Beyond claimed he washed his dreadlocks in the sea once a year…but Smash Hits had his hairdresser confirm that they were hair extensions put in a few weeks previously.
— Austin Fisher (@austinfishernz) June 6, 2019
20.
1. That Mark Owen and James Dean Bradfield have the same (terrible) dolphin tattoo, which was once given away as a transfer with every copy 2. Richey Edwards and Brian Harvey used the opportunity of guest editing the letters page to slag each other off
— lucy (@llalpaca) June 6, 2019
21.
Billy Ocean has one ‘o’ level. Spent a lot of June 86 trying to outdo Billy. Which I did. Billy, I suspect, has won out over the long run.
— Michael Holden (@thewrongwriter) June 6, 2019
22.
Shaky being ridiculously old (so it seemed) but his brothers being unbelievably old is something that stuck with me from ver Hits. Just “ver”ified that – he was mid-30s at his peak, but he was the youngest of 11 and his oldest brother was born in the 1920s!
— Ian Mcleish (@jimmy_cliff_) June 6, 2019
23.
RUDDY BIG PIG.
— Eamonn Forde (@Eamonn_Forde) June 6, 2019
And there’s a great Guardian piece about the making of the mag which is well worth a look.