Name-checking in April of 1980

Family Fodder : Debbie Harry

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"Debbie Harry" is the English post-punk band Family Fodder's offbeat love letter to Blondie's front-woman from a bargain 12" single titled "Sunday Girls".

Deborah Harry I'm aiming at you 
You got your raygun and I got mine too 
I'm gonna stun you with my transgalactic lasers 
I'm gonna blast you with controlled vector phasers 

Stains : John Wayne Was A Nazi

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Based in Austin, Texas, The Stains released 500 copies of "John Wayne Was A Nazi" before moving to California and changing their name to Millions of Dead Cops.

John Wayne slaughtered our Indian brothers 
Burned their villages and raped their mothers 
Now he has given them the white man's lord 
Live by this, or die by the sword

Splodgenessabounds : Simon Templar

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Signed to the Moody Blues label Deram Records, Splodgenessabounds released their "Simon Templar" EP in April of 1980 about the Leslie Charteris character The Saint. 

Simon Templar is so hunky

All his birds are very funky

Simon's got a hairy chest

Goes to bed without his vest on

        By July the octet would grace the cover of Smash Hits. On page 15 Roger Rodent explains the band philosophy:

"It's getting sillier all the time, and we work on the principle that if we're having a good time, the people are going to have a good time. If we've got a philosophy it's that".