Hi,

How are all you naughty nymphets doing? I feel fine. I just got back from holiday (what another?) I hear you all groan. Well yes 'tis true, I feel it was a mission of mercy for a dear old friend who’s been down in the dumps just lately. You know MAZ, always eager to help a punctured tyre! Anyway, as some of you may see, I’ve drastically cut down on make-up and all that shit, as beauty really is a state of mind – not how large your bank account is – know what I mean girls?!

I am getting bored, so I do hope that record deal I’ve been promised for the last year finally has the wrinkles ironed out, so I can get together with my faithful musicians and singers, to put down all the new stuff, some of which I premiered at the "Hippo" last month. (what did U think of Dangerous?)

I must say, I was a bit unimpressed with myself – but I’ve been told that I’m a perfectionist, so I’ll be ½ content at that, my 1^st gig, and make it better next time!! Did you all enjoy? If you didn’t get snaps Vals crammed as many in here as poss, so keep em clean!

Love you all desperately – my reason 4 living is to be wanted (corny but true!!!)

Love as always,

MARILYN

 Valerie’s Letter

Hi there!

Well I hope this MAZmag came through your mailbox with a satisfying "thunk" – 12 pages this time folks! We seem to be getting bigger and better all the time!

Actually, this really is a one-off, as we’ve included a special "Hippodrome Souvenir". I hope you’ll enjoy it all and forgive us for being a few weeks late – obviously the extra pages took more time to put together, and I’ve also been waiting for MARILYN to get home and write his letter to you. Still – I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait!

PHOTOGRAPHS

What did you think of MAZ’s show then? Judging by your letters, those of you who saw him had a fab time – the only complaint was that they wanted more! Next time! I certainly had a great time too, and you can real all about that on page 8.

GORGEOUS

Actually, he’s kind-of in the other glam shots of his mother, which were taken in Jamaica in 1962, as she was just pregnant with MARILYN at the time. She looks gorgeous, doesn’t she?

SPIRIT IN THE SKY

I expect you’re all a bit puzzled as to why Spirit in the Sky is currently riding high in the UK charts by someone other than MARILYN. Al I can say is that MAZ has been so messed-around by record companies and so on that he was eventually beaten to it.

I don’t think I’m biased when I say that MARILYN’s is a FAR superior version, but obviously there’s little point in his releasing it as a single now. It will probably appear on a future album tho, so regard it as a treat that’s still in store for you.

LOVE AND KISSES

The kisses scattered thru this MAZmag are taken from genuine lipstick kissprints that MARILYN gave us himself.

Well, I think I’ve detained you all long enough – there are 10 totally brilliant pages still ahead of you, so I’ll let you get stuck in!

Much love,

Valerie

Maybe you I can face the things

That you have inside your head sometime

Are there any reasons that you can

deliver to my door to prove

That you don’t love me

That you don’t love me baby

Oh-oh oh-oh

Trace the tears I have cried in vain

For your lies to penetrate my soul

Oh, count the times I told you

Everything I have to give to you is true

I am freedom, yes I am!

You don’t love me

You don’t love me baby

Oh-oh oh-oh

Going down, down, deeper down

But there is hope

For I will rise, I will give to you

my goal, my freedom

And when I say

Don’t go to strangers

That apply to be your friend

They are shallow

And you know I’m freedom

So when all the things that I have dared to dream

Have all been crushed by your obsession

Can I carry on alone inside

With no depth of love for you?

You don’t love me

You don’t love me baby

Oh-oh oh-oh

(repeat)

Just in case you’re getting bored by now with MAZ’s Tuna & Sweetcorn Speciality (see MAZmag 5) we persuaded him to get out his recipe book once more, and let us into another of his culinary secrets.

BAKED EGGS WITH CREAM

4 oz Mushrooms

4 tbs Cream

1 tsp Onion Soup Mix

1 oz Butter

4 Eggs

1 oz Grated Cheese

Salt & Pepper to taste

Slice the mushrooms, and mix them with the cream, seasonings and soup mix. Pour the mixture equally into two ¼ pint fireproof dishes. Break two eggs into each dish, and top with cheese. Bake on the top shelf of the oven until set – about 15 minutes. Serve with toast or rolls and butter, tomato juice and green salad.

 MAZfax

Q: Is there something you want desperately but can’t have? If so, what is it, and why can’t you

have it?

A: I desperately want musical credibility, which isn’t too hard to achieve if I continue to work

hard and have the convictions in my music and goals. With enough support and help from

everyone, I’m sure I’ll get it!

Q: If you had the power to control the world, what would you do?

A: I would add up the present amount of people on the earth and divide the land equally between

them, then ensure adequate birth control was enforced – etc.

Q: What makes you cry?

A: Sometimes I get very self piteous – I cried when I saw the shots from Ethiopia – Bambi –

Q: What do you like and dislike about being a star?

A: I don’t think I am one?!

Q: Do you know when you can trust someone? If so, how?

A: No, I don’t know when. It’s just guess work and hope.

To MARILYN

The season is Spring

But it’s Winter inside

My spirit’s as cold as the sea

The sun warms the land

And turns its heart green

But its warmth can do nothing for me

My beloved cares nothing for me

In crystal-clear pools

Starfish bask in the sun

Brave crabs are exploring the land

The souls of dead sailors

Are skimming the sea

Small waves re-defining the sand

In friendship I reach out my hand

But my love’s built a shell

To protect himself

It’s colder and harder than stone

Love and trust can’t break in

And his heart can’t escape

So he lives his said life on his own

While I helplessly watch him

Alone

GEE, East Sussex

MAZPOEM

I’m fourteen and I love you

MAZ with my heart true

That’s why I’m saving all my luv

And sending it to you

I’ve know of you for two years now

And loved you, oh so much

Now I long to hold your hand

And feel your magic touch

At first, a thought was good enough

But now I need much more

Please MAZ please, I beg of you

Come walking through my door!

GIRL GEORGE

MAZ WORDS

While eating my breakfast

I had a little thought

That to MARILYN’s party I could go

With the new clothes I have bought

So I got my pen and paper

And wrote a little letter

Saying "MARILYN will you have a party?

Please, please, please (oh you better)"

I will be able to meet all MAZ fans

And even MARILYN too

Oh please have a party

It will be good if you do

SARAH CLARKE, age 12

The past few weeks have been some of the most happy, exciting and busy in my entire life – weeks spent working closely with MARILYN, helping him whenever I could, as he worked toward the high-spot of his career so far – his first-ever live show.

I know that I am lucky to be in this position – I know that every one of you would give almost anything to have swapped places with me, so it seems only fair that I try, as far as I can, to share my thoughts and feelings with you, to try to make you feel that you were there beside me, right from the first moment back in March when MAZ called me one night to say: I’m going to do a show at the Hippodrome, and it’s going to be BEE-YOND!"

Each day I grew more excited as the practicalities slowly unravelled, from an afternoon spent with MARILYN as he contacted musicians and back singers, to accompanying him to numerous rehearsals – watching as bit by bit the singers learned their parts and fitted them around MAZ’s lead vocal.

Rehearsals had been under way for almost a week when I first attended one. As I set out from home that day I’m not sure what I was expecting to hear, but what awaited me at the Hippodrome was not it. I was truly amazed by how closely the sound resembled MARILYN’s records – never an easy task in these days of synths and multi-tracking. But here it all was, and MARILYN’s voice was as true and as clear as the proverbial bell. As he finished the first run-through of I Ain’t Been Licked, MAZ hopped off the stage and sat himself at my side with the question "Does it sound okay?" I responded with a slightly stunned "It was great!…" Oh understatement! It was totally brilliant!

On the Tuesday before the show, the Hippodrome held a champagne reception to announce the show to the Press. Graeme was there amongst a throng of photographers, flashing away with their Nikon motor-drives for all they were worth. I sat beside a very composed MARILYN, who looked stunning in striped ski-pants and a cut-away vest top, as he bantered with insistent journalists.

Friday morning – the day of the show – dawned brightly. MAZ called me at home shortly after 9 am, greeting me with the words "Wakey-wakey!" He was obviously in good form, and agreed that he felt bright and eager to get on with the day. We met after midday at the Hippodrome, and I was totally surprised as I walked in to the vast club. The place was swarming with an army of workmen as they transformed the formerly drab stage into a white wonderland, just as MAZ had planned when he first agreed to do the show.

After giving interviews to one or two more pressmen, and waiting for the sound-checks to be completed, MARILYN, his band and choir once more ran through the show. We left around 6 o’clock for MARILYN’s hotel, leaving the band still rehearsing, and a gang of lighting engineers setting up rows of archlamps on suspended gantries. I kept thinking of a scene from the old Cliff Richard movie The Young Ones, where the film’s characters set about staging a show in a disused theatre, as they sang the immortal line – "What d’you know – we gotta show!" The sense of latent excitement and anticipation was enormous.

Back at the hotel, MARILYN delivered yet another surprise to me when he appeared in the clothes he had bought for his performance. His Paris Designer suit of soft black stretch fabric clung to his slim, lithe body, his make-up applied so beautifully and with such skill. He was breathtaking – I’ve never seen him look lovelier.

Shortly after midnight we set off for the Hippodrome, I with MARILYN’s second costume – a suit of similar fabric, but this time in a rich shade of midnight blue, and with a cut-short top; tres MARILYN! – draped over my arm.

At the club, I left MAZ in the dressing room, and after arranging his blue outfit in the small stage-side changing room in readiness for his costume change halfway through the act, I set off to meet his mother and grandmother. Settling myself at their table, I waited for the moment we were all longing for – MARILYN live on stage.

The Hippodrome was packed in every direction. A regular later told me that she had never seen so many people there. Then finally, after an introduction by the club’s MC, the band launched into the opening bars of Pray For That Sunshine, and we all knew that it could be only moments now before MARILYN took to the stage. With a sound like rockets zooming through the firmament, the music changed and suddenly we were hearing the beginning of I Ain’t Been Licked. Our hero ran down the stairs onto the stage, his blonde hair flying behind him as he sang "Throw down the gangway so they’ll see that it’s me!" Oh yes – we could see!

I wondered afterwards what MAZ’s mum must have thought at that moment if she had happened to look across the table at me. I found the experience so intensely moving that I sat there with a glazed fixed smile, and tears streaming down my face.

Below me, the crowds were going wild – everyone seemed to be Calling His Name. MARILYN paused at the end of I Ain’t Been Licked to introduce Give It Up. Word by word he seduced the audience through the song, reaching a climax with a note-perfect acappella version of the chorus.

Next, MAZ gave his first public performance of one of the songs he demo’d back in January – Dangerous – and it certainly was! This song has to be a great potential single.

At this point he left the stage, and the audience was briefly entertained by a friend of MARILYN’s, Eddie Armani, who many have since described as a Tina Turner look-a-like. MAZ returned to close Eddie’s song by joining him for the final bars.

Then it was vintage MARILYN time. As he turned his back to the crowd, we listened expectantly as the band began to play Calling Your Name, waiting for him to turn with a swish of golden dreadlocks and sigh the opening "Aaah!"

We were not disappointed! MARILYN, oozing sex as only he knows how, sung us to an orgasmic crescendo. The audience screamed and applauded, begging for an encore, and were thrilled when MAZ and his back singers performed a mind-blowing acappella Dangerous. And then he was gone! Sensational! Every single person in that crowd was left with the certain knowledge that no matter how MARILYN is abused and misquoted by the press, he AIN’T been licked, and he WILL be back soon!

Valerie

I’m sure you’re all desperate to know more about the four hunky guys in MARILYN’s backing band. MAZ has christened them Eclipse, and here’s a brief bio of each of them…

Lee Collins – Drums * Born: 25.5.1959 in Stoke Newington * Musical influences: Jazz and Jazz-Funk; drummers such as Billy Cobham and Buddy Rick; admires Go West * Likes: Playing drums, listening to music, films, tv, girlfriends, cars, dancing * Dislikes: being under pressure, insects and spiders.

John Earley – Bass Guitar * Born: 15.6.1963 in Luton, Beds. * Musical Influences: Soul and Jazz * Admires: George Benson * Likes: Animals, healthy food, fresh air * Dislikes: hypocrites.

Larry Newman – Lead Guitar * Born: 17.12.1959 in Ontario, Canada, but moved to UK at age 6 * Musical Influences: Dolly Parton, Hank Williams * Likes: Spending money, playing guitar, Dallas, having his photo taken * Dislikes: Having no money, being cold.

Dominic Hawken – Keyboards * Born: 19.4.1967 in Welwyn Garden City * Musical Influences: Japan, Trevor Horne * Likes: Ice-cream, bananas and cats ("but not all on the same plate!") * Dislikes: Insincerity, and people who don’t listen to what you say.

Dear Valerie,

Thanks a million for the letter you sent me regarding MARILYN’s live appearance at the Hippodrome. I appreciate it. Ta!

Wasn’t MARILYN just out of this world? He was everything I knew he’d be and more, and MORE!

I have only one complaint, and that us that he wasn’t on for long enough. Once I had seen MARILYN I just needed to see more, and I found I didn’t want to face the reality of him going away. When MAZ was up n the stage it was heaven, and when he left, there was nothing.

At the moment, my feelings are mixed; I am so happy, yet so sad. But after a while I felt a feeling of hope – his performance to me was FIRST CLASS, and if he had the same effect on the rest of the audience as he had on me, he will soon be where he belongs, AT THE TOP. In my eyes he’s already there, and he certainly deserves to be.

I would love to, and need to see MARILYN again as soon as possible.

Thanks MARILYN, love always

BERNADETTE

P.S. He’s looking Dangerous!

Dear Val,

Me and my hubby Steve had the day off work on the 11^th of April and drove down to London to see MARILYN. We booked into a hotel and arrived at the Hippodrome at 9.30. We sat at the front of the stage waiting for MAZ to come on, and started talking to some very nice people and even exchanged addresses.

When MARILYN appeared he looked absolutely gorgeous. He sounded great and he was very, very SEXY!! I was in heaven.

I gave him a rose, which he threw into the crowd. Tell MARILYN the girl who gave him the rose loves him.

All the best,

KATHY, Boulton

Dear Valerie,

I went to see MARILYN and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was excellent, wasn’t it? The Hippodrome is usually full of tacky people on a Friday, but on that night there were loads of groovy-looking people about – they were mostly squashed up at the front of the stage; it was quite obvious who they’d come for!!

I had a brilliant view, I was at the front, about three rows back, and almost right in the centre.

I especially loved MARILYN’s performance of DANGEROUS, but all of it was excellent. I was so sad when it ended.

Afterwards a few of my friends and I went up to the restaurant area of the club, and we watched MARILYN for ages. I was dying to go up to him, but didn’t dare – what could I have said? Also saw Boy George. I think I saw you there … when some fans gave MARILYN some gifts he went back to his table and handed them to someone, and I thought that person might have been you???!

Tons of love,

CATHERINE, London

To Whom It May Concern,

After reading your letter about MARILYN live at the Hippodrome, I would like to know why people who are under the age of sixteen cannot go. I am not even sixteen yet, but I would like to go and see him.

Yours faithfully,

HAYLEY, Peterborough

MAZ,

Today I received a letter from ya saying about the live show at the Hippodrome, and I was very annoyed.

First of all you left it a bit late for us to organise ourselves, and also we have to appear over eighteen years old. I think this is awful. Couldn’t MAZ do something for the under-eighteens? Although I probably could have got in, I’m not going to risk the sheer embarrassment of maybe being turned away. The last train from London to here is 11 PM, so no way could I go, although I’d really love to.

It says in the letter "MARILYN needs the support of everyone". Well, maybe if MAZ made it easier for us to support him, we could all go.

I wrote to Valerie over two months ago and I still haven’t had a reply. I’m not trying to fall out with you, but please sort it out.

Love,

NATASHA, Bracknell

"I’m doing all the things other people haven’t got the courage to do, so that they can do them through me – that’s entertainment!"

MARILYN

US member Nancy de Salvo recently sent us a chart compiled by an American Record Import Company listing their 15 top selling world imports for the whole of 1985. Both MARILYN and I were delighted to see that at number 4 is Baby U Left Me, and MAZ’s album Despite Straight Lines is at number 10!

Great news I’m sure you’ll all agree and thanks to Nancy for the information.

We were fascinated to receive a report from Aussie club member MIRELLA GANDOLFO, describing MAZ’s trip "down under". Although it took place some time ago now, MARILYN still has many fond memories of his visit to Australia, and we felt sure that you’d all be interested to read what Mirella had to say.

I can never forget the excitement and frenzy caused by MARILYN’s arrival at Melbourne in March ’84. It was a beautiful Melbourne day when he stepped out from Tullamarine Airport, looking as dazzling as the sun, and clad in a blue parachute suit, Lennon-style mirror glasses and an ankle-length blue coat adorned by a badge reading WHY BE NORMAL?

Actually, MAZDA’s departure from the airport was far from ‘normal’. Whilst going through Customs, he cracked a joke about cocaine (naughty boy) and was stripsearched. Then in all the confusion getting to his car, he slipped into the wrong Mercedes!

On a certain Monday night, MAZ went to do the Bert Newton show – gosh, he looked gorgeous in his blue tartan jacket and pants! Anyway, the show turned out to be actionpacked, with a full-scale verbal battle between MAZ and Deryn Hinch (Australia’s top critic and radio announcer). You know how much MAZ already dislikes critics, but after that show – wow! Anyway, like a storybook ending everyone lived happily ever after, and now they’re friends.

The following day it was off to the Hilton hotel for Australian Television’s night of nights - The Logies (like the Oscars).

There was a bit of confusion before MAZ arrived when a look-a-like almost got into the studio by fooling the security guards! Luckily everything calmed down before MARILYN arrived in his chauffeur-driven Merc.

You might think that, after two weeks of this, MARILYN’s patience would have run out – but he left us with one of his witty comments. After being asked about himself by a male reporter, MARILYN replied: "I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be, and a better woman than you’ll ever get!"

MIRELLA GANDOLFO