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This has brought back some memories and made me feel very old....

yah, I had that one too! Was there one with Soft Cell on?

Had that one as well. I was an A&TA fan at the time. Very much into Kings Of The Wild Frontier lp at the time. I bought Dirk Wears White Sox on cd a year or so ago. Best album of theirs, without a doubt.

It was just another ordinary album track for me, because it's on the Canadian John Foxx LP. It wasn't until the Age of the Internet that I realized it was an obscure rarity in the UK. It's a darn good tune, so it's surprising it was only on a flexi until relatively recently.

Am I the only one who thinks there is a remarkable similarity between 'You Were There' on The Garden and 'My Face'?

Yes, they are very similar. I assume John reworked My Face & wrote new lyrics & it then became You Were There.

Have you noticed the similarity between Walk Away & No-One Driving?

I just assumed that "My Face" was the demo and "You were there" was the finished article,same drum pattern,same beat,different arrangement,different lyrics!
Plenty of other artists have done the same.

Fond memories indeed of Smash Hits and the old flexidiscs. It probably seems bizarre to kids today, but back then the concept of a magazine giving away free music was so bizarre that you'd keep the flexidics even if you didn't like the band!
Equally odd is that, back in the "Golden Age of Synthpop" (1980-1983), Smash Hits was one of the few magazines where you could read about your favourite bands. The weekly music press (memorably once described by John as "Clowns, Melody Faker and New Musical Excess" (!) ) were very snooty about anything that didn't feature guitars and the concept of monthly music magazines such as Q and The Word was unheard of. As the 1980s progressed and music became less interesting, Smash Hits went downmarket and finished up as little more than a marketing brochure selling boybands to teenage girls.

Could I also add another free flexidisc to the others mentioned on this thread - I had one featuring both The Skids and XTC (I think the tracks were "The Olympian" and "Ten Feet Tall" respectively.)

I still have a copy of my face from smash hits it's in my parents loft complrete with mice teeth nibbles. Did anyone have one by the Skids think it was called Chrade?