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Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts
13.4.16
19.3.16
19/3/81: New issue of 'Look-In' magazine
Thursday 19 March 1981 saw the new issue of Look-In magazine for week ending Saturday 21 March 1981, featuring pop group Abba on the front cover.
The magazine feature on Abba was entitled 'Abba's seven Super years' and looked back over their career which dated back to their Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The group had also just had a number one album and single in the UK (Super Trouper and the title track), although they would release just one more studio album at the end of 1981 before splitting up.
Look-In was a weekly magazine, targeted towards young people, based on ITV programmes in the UK. It featured a mix of pop music, quizzes, competions and TV programmes, which were also represented by comic strips. It ran from 1971 to 1994.
source and pic: mag-a-zone.blogspot.com
The magazine feature on Abba was entitled 'Abba's seven Super years' and looked back over their career which dated back to their Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The group had also just had a number one album and single in the UK (Super Trouper and the title track), although they would release just one more studio album at the end of 1981 before splitting up.
Look-In was a weekly magazine, targeted towards young people, based on ITV programmes in the UK. It featured a mix of pop music, quizzes, competions and TV programmes, which were also represented by comic strips. It ran from 1971 to 1994.
source and pic: mag-a-zone.blogspot.com
16.3.16
16/3/81: Time magazine (Alexander Haig cover)
On 16 March 1981, Time magazine featured the US Secretary of State Alexander Haig on its front cover.
Haig (b. 1927) was a veteran of both the Korean and the Vietnam wars and had served as NATO Supreme Commander from 1974–79. His term in office under Ronald Reagan was relatively short and his comments and actions often met with controversy both at home and abroad. He resigned from his post in June 1982. His memoirs, Inner Circles: How America Changed The World, were published in 1992. Haig died in 2010.
Haig (b. 1927) was a veteran of both the Korean and the Vietnam wars and had served as NATO Supreme Commander from 1974–79. His term in office under Ronald Reagan was relatively short and his comments and actions often met with controversy both at home and abroad. He resigned from his post in June 1982. His memoirs, Inner Circles: How America Changed The World, were published in 1992. Haig died in 2010.
22.2.16
22/2/81: Sunday Times magazine
Selected contents:
ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS - As Pope John Paul prepares for his pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Murray Sayle visits the atom-bombed cities to see how each has come to terms with its horrific experience
(9½ pages)
BOBBY ROBSON - How Bobby Robson has survived twelve years as the manager of Ipswich Town
(3½ pages)
PIETRO ANNIGONI - Italy's most famous living artist, favourite of heads of state from Queen Elizabeth to President Kennedy, has, at 70, renounced worldly portraiture to spend much of his time at the Monte Cassino monastery near Naples painting - in return for his keep - an enormous fresco. John Pearson interviewed him near the end of his monumental task
(5 pages)
SHIRLEY CRABTREE (BIG DADDY) - "A life in the day of..."
source (pic. & text): crazyaboutmagazines.com
19.2.16
19/2/81: Midge Ure on the cover of Smash Hits
On 19 February 1981, singer and musician Midge Ure was featured on the front cover of the new fortnightly issue of Smash Hits magazine in the UK. Ure was the lead singer with the group Ultravox who were enjoying success with their latest single Vienna.
Ure had joined the band in 1979 after the previous lead singer and founding member John Foxx had left to pursue a solo career. The new formation's debut album, also entitled Vienna, was released in the summer of 1980. Released as a single in 1981, the title track became a seminal eighties track, also thanks to its groundbreaking promo-video, although it was famously kept of the top of the charts firstly by the recently deceased John Lennon's Woman and then by Joe Dolce's novelty hit Shaddap You Face.
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| pic scan: Like Punk Never Happened |
source. Smash Hits archive, Official Charts archive.
9.2.16
22.1.16
22/1/81. Steve Strange (Visage) on cover of Smash Hits (UK)
On 21 January 1981 a new issue of Smash Hits appeared in newsagents around the UK with a startling picture of Visage front-man Steve Strange on the cover.
Steve Strange (b. Stephen John Harrington , 1959) had been at the spearhead of the new fashion and music movement which had grown out of the London club scene in the late 70s. After performing in various post-punk bands, he eventually formed the studio based outfit Visage in 1979 along with Midge Ure and rusty Egan formerly of the Rich kids, and Barry Adamson, John McGeoch and Dave Formula of Magazine. They released their first eponymous album at the end of 1980 and eventually reached the singles charts at the beginning of 1981 with the single Fade to Grey which would become an 'eighties' standard and anthem of the 'New Romantic' movement.
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| pic:Like Punk Never Happened |
Steve Strange (b. Stephen John Harrington , 1959) had been at the spearhead of the new fashion and music movement which had grown out of the London club scene in the late 70s. After performing in various post-punk bands, he eventually formed the studio based outfit Visage in 1979 along with Midge Ure and rusty Egan formerly of the Rich kids, and Barry Adamson, John McGeoch and Dave Formula of Magazine. They released their first eponymous album at the end of 1980 and eventually reached the singles charts at the beginning of 1981 with the single Fade to Grey which would become an 'eighties' standard and anthem of the 'New Romantic' movement.
The iconic video for Fade to Grey, directed by Godley and Creme, was also shown on Top of the Pops for the first time on the evening of 21 September. (watch it here)
Strange would continue to record and publish music under the name of Visage with various degrees of success throughout the early 80s. In his autobiography Blitzed! published in 2002, Strange openly talks about his sexuality and heroin addiction. He made critically acclaimed musical comeback in 2013 with the Visage album Hearts and Knives, although died in February 2015 from a heart attack.
Sources: Popscene, Musicbrainz, wikipedia
10.1.16
10/1/81: Titbits magazine (UK) / Joan Collins
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| pic: joancollinscollection.com via pinterest |
In this week's issue archetype MILF Joan Collins (b. 1933) explains "how to be a hit with younger men", while one reader retells their dramatic horror plane crash story.
Although already an established actor in 1981, Collins became most famous for her role as the scheming Alexis in the US soap Dynasty which started airing in the US on January 12, 1981. Collins' character, however, did not appear until the first episode of Season 2, appropriately entitled Enter Alexis, first broadcast in November '81 in the US. The programme started running in the UK in May 1982, and the second season with Collins appearing, from 1st January 1983.
The Titbits magazine/periodical was published in Great Britain from 1881 - 1984. In reporting its closure, the Financial Times described Titbits as 'the 103-year-old progenitor of Britain's popular press'.
On TV:
- BBC One, 7.10 pm Nanny A new series in ten parts starring Wendy Craig as Nanny Barbara Gray. Spring 1932. After a broken marriage Nurse Gray has completed her college training and is ready to embark on her first job. (source: BBC Genome, see also pop-culture-scrapbook entry)
9.1.16
9/1/81: RAM magazine / David Bowie
Cover of Australian magazine RAM featuring David Bowie and a look back on his work in 1980.
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