YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT!

And despite what our Letter From Britain correspondent Simon Frith says, your returns weren’t enough to make us all drink Drano and cancel our subscriptions. Although every Kiss fan in America responded to our poll, they still didn’t make number one in anything but “Worst Group”.

The Sex Pistols made an impressive showing in the charts—without ever playing live in America, they did well in the “Best Group” category, not to mention Johnny Rotten’s solo efforts in “Punk Of The Year”, “Fashion Plate”, etc. Everybody raved on about the New Wave—either you hate it or love it, and there ain’t nothing we can tell you to shake you from either side.

Led Zeppelin toured for the first time in several years, and the results show. Bonzo and John Paul Jones finally won in their categories. No trend there.

Hey, but thanks for all of the “blank generation” polls.. .all the safety pins and torn up ballots were definitely artifacts of this generation—YOUR generation! Now we want to know what you’re going to do about it!

NO FUTURE? Who knows? Stay tuned and maybe we’ll all find out.

WAX

TOP THREE ALBUMS

tvRumours (Fleetwood Mac)

2. Love You Live (Rolling Stones)

3. Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)

4. Love Gun (Kiss)

5. Going For The One (Yes)

6. Alive II (Kiss)

7. Little Queen (Heart)

8: FoghatLive

9.Emerson, Lake & Palmer Works —Vol. I

10. Foreigner

11. A Farewell To Kings (Rush)

12. Footloose & Fancy Free (Rod Stewart)

13. Street Survivors (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

14. I’m In You (Peter Frampton)

15. Book Of Dreams (Steve Miller Band)

16. Heroes (David Bowie)

17. Marquee Moon (Television)

18 . The Grand Illusion (Styx)

19. News Of The World (Queen)

20. Animals (Pink Floyd)

21. Rough Mix (Townshend/Lane)

22. Boston

23. Hotel California (The Eagles)

24. Lust For Life (Iggy Pop)

25. Night Moves (Bob Seger&

The Silver Bullet Band)

"Lou Reed has come too far. Don't you think it's time we sent him

back?"

Ric Porterfield Hartsville, SC

TOP TWOSONGS 1. Dreams

(Fleetwood Mac)

2. Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)

3. God Save The Queen (Sex Pisjols)

4. Barracuda (Heart)

5. Life In The Fast Lane (The Eagles)

The WINNERS

'77 READERS' POLL

"So much space? This is the

blank generation!" Maria Theresa Lupinacci Pittsburgh, PA

6. Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)

7. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (TheRamones)

8. Hotel California (Jhe Eagles)

9. Cold As Ice (Foreigner)

10. Night Moves (Bob Seger& i The Silver Bullet Band)

11. Feels Like The First Time (Foreigner)

12. Tie Your Mother Down (Queen)

13. You’re In My Heart (Rod Stewart)

14. We Are The Champions (Queen)

15. Christine 16 (Kiss)

"Rat Scabies?

I think I had them once."

Mark Cutler Mt. Pleasant, MI

BEST R&B ALBUM

1. Songs In The Key Of Life (Stevie Wonder)

2. Love You Live (Rolling Stones)

3. Brick House (Commodores)

4. Monkey Island (Geils)

5. Silk Degrees (Boz Scaggs)

6. Exodus (BobMarley&

The Waiters)

7. Playin’ Up A Storm (Gregg Allman)

8. P-Funk Earth Tour

9. Rejoice (The Emotions)

10.Hard Again (Muddy Waters)

BESTR&B SINGLE

1. Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)

2. Boogie Nights (Heatwave)

3. Lido Shuffle (BozScaggs)

4. Easy (Cdmmodores)

5. I Wish (Stevie Wonder)

6. Brick House (Commodores)

7. Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)

8. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Peter Frampton)

9. Lowdown (BozScaggs) -10.1 Feel Love (Donna Summer)

“Zzzzzzz..”

Leslie MacMillan Boston, MA

BEST RE-ISSUE

1. Beatles Love Songs

2. Yardbird’s Greatest Hits

3. Love You Live (Rolling Stones)

4. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” (Peter Frampton)

5. Raw Power (Iggy Pop)

BEST JAZZ ALBUM

1. Jeff Beck Live With The Jan Hammer Group

2. Heavy Weather (Weather Report)

3. In Flight (George Benson)

4. Chicago XI

5. Wired (Jeff Beck)

BEST C&W,ALBUM

1. Simple Dreams (Linda Ronstadt)

2. OF Way Ion (Way Ion Jennings)

3. Carolina Dreams (Marshall Tucker Band)

4. Hotel California (The Eagles)

5. “Country & Western Sucks” (Our Readers)

BEST C&W SINGLE

1. Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)

2. Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Crystal Gayle)

3. Luchenbach, Texas (Waylon Jennings)

4. Heard It In A Love Song (Marshall Tucker Band)

5. Lucille (Kenny Rogers)

FLESH AND BLOOD

TOP THREE GROUPS

1. Led Zeppelin

2. Fleetwood Mac

3. Kiss

4. Rolling Stones

5. Aerosmith

6. Queen ' 7. Yes

8. Ted Nugent

9. The Who'

10. Rush

11. Lynyrd Skynyrd

12. Heart

13. Sex Pistols

14. Pink Floyd

15. Emerson, Lake & Palmer

16. The Eagles

17. Foreigner

18. Paul McCartney & Wings

19. Boston

20. Steve Miller Band

21. Iggy Pop

22. Peter Frampton

23. Blue Oyster Cult

24. Jethro Tull

25. Electric Light Orchestra

“Shaun Cassidy should be shot."

John Santillo Smithfield, RI

TOP THREE LIVE GROUPS

1. Led Zeppelin

2. Kiss

3. Aerosmith

4. Queen

5Fleetwood Mac

6. Rolling Stones

7. Yes .

8. Ted Nugent

9. Pink Floyd

10.Emerson, Lake & Palmer

11. Lynyrd Skynyrd

12. Heart 13: The Who 14.,BobSeger

& The Silver Bullet Band

15. Foghat

16. Utopia

17. Blue Oyster Cult

18. Bruce Springsteen T9. Angel

20. The Ramones

BEST NEW GROUP

1. Foreigner

2. TheBabys

3. Cheap Trick

4. Boston

5. Sex Pistols

6. Ram Jam

7. Heart

8. Television

9. Talking Heads

10.Angel

BEST NEW WAVE GROUP/PERFORMER

1. Sex Pistols

2. Ramones

3. IggyPop

4. The Runaways

5. Blondie

6. Patti Smith Group

7. Talking Heads

8. MinkDeVille

9. Television

10. The Jam

11. Dead Boys

12. Cheap Trick

“Could you arrange to have the Dead Boys killed?**

Robin Solomon Howard Beach, NY

WORST GROUP l.lOss

2. Bay City Rollers

3. Sex Pistols

4. The Runaways

5. The Ramones

6. AC/DC

7. K.C. & The Sunshine Band

8. Led Zeppelin

9. Chicago

10.Starz

BEST MALE SINGER

1. Robert Plant

2. Mick Jagger

3. Paul Stanley

4. Rod Stewart

5. Freddie Mercury

6. Steven Tyler

7. Peter Frampton

8. Roger Daltrey

9. David Bowie

lO.BobSeger

BEST FEMALE SINGER

1. Linda Ronstadt

2. Stevie Nicks

3. Ann Wilson

4. Patti Smith

5. Christine McVie

6. Grace Slick

7. Nancy Wilson

8. Deborah Harry

9. Carly Simon

10.Bonnie Raitt v'

“NO FUTURE.**

Francis Carroll Pitman, NJ

BEST GUITARIST

1. Jimmy Page

2. AceFrehley

3. Keith Richard

4. Jeff Beck

5. Ted Nugent

6. Peter Framptdn

7. Brian May

8. Ron Wood

9. PeteTownshend

10.Robin Trower

BESTR&B SINGER

1. Mich Jagger

2. Stevie Wonder

3. BozScaggs

4. David Bowie

5. Southside Johnny

6. George Benson

7. Rod Stewart

8. Peter Wolf

9. Stevie Nicks

10.Willy DeVille

BESTR&B GROUP

1. Rolling Stones

2. Earth, Wind & Fire

3. The Commodores

4. Geils

5. Hall & Oates

6. Parliament/Funkadelic

7. Southside Johnny &

The Asbury Jukes

8. MinkDeVille

9. Average White Band

10.KC & The Sunshine Band

“Elvis Presley died seven years too late and Groucho died centuries too early.** Lou DuHamel ■ '“tsqui, British Columbia CANADA

BEST C& W SINGER

1. Linda Ronstadt

2. Dolly Parton

’ 3: Waylon Jennings

4. Willie Nelson

5. Crystal Gayle

BEST C&W GROUP

1. Marshall Tucker Band

2. The Eagles

3. Charlie Daniels

4. Lynyrd Skynyrd

5.TheOutlaws Kl . „ ■

BEST KEYBOARDIST

1. Keith Emerann

2. Rick Wakeman

3. Elton John

4. Christine McVie

5. Gary Wright

BEST BASSIST

1. John Paul Jones

2. Gene Simmons

3. Paul McCartney

4. Chris Squire

5. John Entwhistle

BEST DRUMMER

1. John Bonham

2. Peter Criss i!

3. Carl Palmer

4. Keith Moon

5. Neil Peart

“How come my comments never get printed?**

. Debbie Roszkowski Hamtramck, MI

BEST HORN PLAYER

1. David Bowie

2. James Pankow

3. Edgar Winter

4. Andy MacKay

5. Doc Severinsen

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

1. Jimmy Page

2. Brkln May

3. Gene Simmons

4. Ted Nugent

5. PeteTownshend

BEST PRODUCER

1. Jimmy Page

2. Eddie Kramer

3. Todd Rundgren

4. Jack Douglas

5. Glimmer Twins

BEST SONGWRITER

1. Page/Plant

2. Stanley/Simmons

3. Jagger/Richard

4. Taupin/John

5. Mercury/May

BEST INSTRUMENTALIST

1. Ian Anderson

2. Magic Dick

3. Brian Eno

4. Peter Frampton

5. Jean-LucPonty

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash

2. Led Zeppelin Tour Cut Short

3. Rock Music Awards

4. Peter Frampton

5. Elvis’ Death

6. NoRollingStonesTour

7. Kiss

. 8. No Elton John Album 9. No Who Tour 10. NoAerpsmith Album

SUNDRY

DRUG OF THE YEAR

1. Marijuana

2. Alcohol

3. Cocaine

4. Angel Dust

5. Boy Howdy! Beer

6.THC

7. Quaaludes

8. Television

9. Speed 10. Valium

HERO/HEROINE OF THE YEAR

1. Robert Plant

2. Jimmy Page

3. Keith Richard

4. Gene Simmons

5. Ted Nugent

6. Stevie Nicks

7. Steve Martin

8. David Bowie

9. Linda Ronstadt 10. PeteTownshend

RIPOFFOFTHEYEAR

1. Album Prices

2. Concert Prices

3. Kiss

4. Punk Rock

5. Rock Music Awards

6. Drug Prices

7. No Led1 Zeppelin Concert

8. Elvis Nostalgia • N

9. Peter Frampton 10. Jimmy Carter

MOST PATHETIC

1. Shaun Cassidy

2. Kiss

3. Elton John

4. Punk Rock

5. Bay City Rollers

6. Sex Pistols

7. The Runaways

8. Peter Frampton

9. Iggy Pop

10. David Bowie

FAD OF THE YEAR

1.PunhRock

2. Star Wars

3. Sex

4. Death

5. Skateboards

6. Getting High

7. Breaking Up

8. Disco

9. Elvis Collectibles 10. Mopeds

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

1. Iggy Pop

2. Fleetwood Mac

3. Led Zeppelin

4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer

5. Crosby, Stills & Nash

6. Bob Welch

7. Elvis Presley

8. Ted Nugent

9. Yes 10.Foghat

ROCK CRITIC OF THE YEAR

1. Lester Bangs

2. Robert Christgau

3. Robert Duncan

4. Billy Altman

5. Rick Johnson

6. Susan Whitall

7. Air-Wreck Genheimer

8. Jaan Uhelszki i

9. Lisa Robinson

10.Richard Riegel

BEST DISCO

1.MDisco Sucks” “

(Our Readers)

2. CBGB’s (’Cause it’s not)

3. Studio 54

4. Starwood

5. Regine’s

ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

1. Neal Preston

2. BobGruen

3. Barry Levine

4. Richard Creamer

5. Annie Lebowitz

6. Fjn Costello

, 7. Roger Ressmeyer

8. MichaelN. Marks

9. Lynn Goldsmith

10.Leee Black Childers

ALBUM COVER OF THE YEAR

1. Love Gun (Kiss) v

2. Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)

3. Love You Live (Rolling Stohes)

4. Book Of Dreams

v (Steve Miller Band)

5. I’m In You (Peter Frampton)

6. News Of The World (Queen)

7. The Grand Illusion (Styx)

8. Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)

9. Point Of No Return (Kansas)

10.Street Survivors (Lynyrd

Skynyrd)

FASHION PLATE OF THE YEAR

1. Johnny Rotten *

2. Gene Simmons

3. Stevie Nicks

4. Rod Stewart

5. David Bowie

6. Deborah Harry

7. Freddie Mercury

8. Jimmy Page

9. Linda Ronstadt

10.Woody Allen

SEX OBJECT OF THE YEAR

1. Stevie Nicks

2. Robert Plant

3. Linda Ronstadt *4. Paul Stanley

5. Farrah Fawcett-Majors

6. Deborah Harry

7. Peter Frampton

8. Jimmy Page

9. Rod Stewart

10.Roger Daltfey

ROCK JOCK OF THE YEAR

1. Rod Stewart

2. Robert Plant

3. Roger Daltrey

4. Elton John

5. Bruce Jdnner

6. Reggie Jackson

7. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych

8. Bill Walton

9. Fran Tarkenton

10.T^d Nugent

BEST ROCK ’N’ ROLL MOVIE

1. Star Wars

2. The Song Remains The Same (Led Zeppelin)

3. The Grateful Dead Movie

4. A Star Is Bom

5. Kentucky Fried Movie

6. Rocky

7. Looking For Mr. Goodbar

8. Tommy

9. The Rocky Horror Show TO. The Groove Tube

BEST TV SHOW

1. Saturday Night Live

2. Soap

3. The Gong Show

4. Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert

5. Monty Python’s Flying Circus

6. Fernwood 2-Night

7. M’A*S*H*

8. Three’s Company

9. Charlie’s Angels

10.Baretta

“Your mag is the wvorst piece of crap I've ever seenl Cancel my subscription!”

Kris Pederson Sacred Heart, MN

COUPLE OF THE YEAR

1. Rod Stewart & Britt Ekland

2. Mick & Bianca Jagger

3. Gregg & Cher Allman

4. Paul & Linda McCartney

5. Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham

6. Robert& Maureen Plant

7. David Bowie & Iggy Pop

8. Joe & Elissa Perry

9. James Taylor & Carly Simon

10. Lee Majors

& Farrah Fawcett-Majors

PUNK OF THE YEAR

1. Johnny Rotten

2. Iggy Pop

3. Steven Tyler

4. Joey Ramone

5. Gene Simmons

6. Patti Smith

7. Shaun Cassidy

8. Lou Reed

9. Deborah Harry

10.David Bowie