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Post by Cartman on Mar 27, 2021 9:18:24 GMT
A thread for any old and now discontinued magazines or newspapers you used to get years ago or occasionally used to read through.
Here's a few I remember from years ago.
Weekend. Mum and dad used to get this, probably late 60s.
Reveille. A kind of weekly tabloid newspaper, a bit in the style of the People or News of the world.I
Before my time but Dad said he used to get a paper called the Daily Herald
Tit-Bits. No, it wasn't a dirty mag! It was a very old established one, it was a bit vaguely rude I suppose, did the rounds a bit at school
Punch. A bit like Private Eye really, not bad.
A few car mags I used to get which seem to have disappeared, Practical Motorist and Popular Mechanics
Before my time again, but Mum told me she used to get one called Picture Post, probably during or just after the war
And a few comics, Look in, a sort of junior version of the TV Times, I used to get this in the early 70s, and the Beezer, Whizzer and Chips
Anyone remember these?
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 27, 2021 9:57:52 GMT
I was partial to the UK Hot Rod magazine Street Machine as a kid after being given a lot of back issues. Always planned to make a Rod but never did get around to it having had kids at a young age.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 11:27:57 GMT
Being a metalhead, the first one that comes to my mind is the 'rival' to Kerrang which was Raw. It was a better mag in a lot of ways, I used to get it every week almost. Kerrang was a great mag once upon a time too but when they 'updated' the Pandora comic strip and made it more modern, colourful and totally changed the feel of it, the writing was on the wall. Plus, all the bands that were coming along, most of them were shite, it just stopped being what it was, which was the go to 'bible' for metalheads and rockers, all the bands we were interested in ended up in monthlies like Classic Rock and stuff so I guess it was inevitable I would end up not buying it after about 96 or so. I used to buy a lot of publications as a teenager/early 20s but then I just bot bored of them and wanted to spend my money on something else instead and for a while I didn't listen to any music at all, that lasted years, until Lemmy popped up again and resparked my interest. I got back into the tunes but not the mags.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 27, 2021 15:52:04 GMT
I remember the first colour newspaper, Today, it began in 1986 & lasted till 1995.
I used to get a video magazine imaginatively titled 'Video- The Magazine'. It wasn't an 'adult' mag but it did have ads at the back of it for a soft p**n video company called Fiona Cooper featuring black & white topless photos of the models in school uniforms, etc., this caused a problem when my parents saw it. The company was run by a man in Yorkshire who was later convicted of crimes related to the sexual abuse of the models he photographed.
I was a fan of horror films growing up & would buy an American horror film magazine called Fangoria from a newsagent that stocked imported magazines. It's still going but I haven't bought a copy since about 1990. A British horror film magazine I got regularly in the late 80's was The Dark Side, I think it's still going in some form.
Oink was a Viz type comic aimed at younger readers that lasted from 1986-88, Frank Sidebottom featured in most issues.
Book And Magazine Collector ran from 1984 - 2010, there was a small ad in there I replied to from a man selling film memorabilia. I bought most issues of House Of Hammer magazine from him, this was a 70's mag devoted to horror films including comic strips of various Hammer films. I think I was about 13 when I first sent off for stuff, it was a real thrill at that age to get a parcel containing old 70's magazines and film posters. I bought an original Get Carter poster from him for 75p, sold it on ebay 30 years later for over £100.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Mar 27, 2021 19:18:27 GMT
I remember Practical Motorist and Popular Mechanics DIY car magazines too as well as a now defunct rival to Street Machine magazine "Custom Car" and there was Hot car too.
I used to get a classic orientated one called "Popular Classics" which was a glossy colour magazine and rather than the practical articles went more for road tests and history articles on cars and restoration stories of a particular car. It only ran from 1989 to 1996, as it was absorbed by Practical Classics (much more DIY and hands on, and still with us), and many of the previous mags writers went on to write for them. Both mags were under the EMAP publishing empire.
I also remember Record Mirror for pop fans and record collectors, sometimes giving away a free 7 inch disc, which my brother got on one issue in early 1988. The magazine ran apparently from 1954 to 1991.
The news magazine "Now" which only ran from 1979 to 1981 was another I remember.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 16:44:47 GMT
Other pop culture mags are popping into my mind now like Look In and Just 17 - which was never bought by 17 year olds, it was bought by 12 year olds like me who thought they were being sophisticated! When you were 17, you had long since moved onto something like Cosmopolitan, if you were that way inclined. The problem page in that was hilarious at times.
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Post by Cartman on Mar 28, 2021 17:15:37 GMT
I remember glancing at Cosmopolitan occasionally, as copies of it sometimes were left lying around in the tea room at the office I used to work in by some of the girls who worked there.
It was a bit of an eye opener in comparison with the ones Mum used to get when I was a kid, Woman's Realm I think, all that appeared to be were knitting patterns and receipes
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 28, 2021 18:41:24 GMT
My sister used to get Just Seventeen. Don't think she read Jackie and My Guy. Misty was a horror comic aimed at girls I remember seeing in newsagents, it ran from 1978-1980, I was 9 in 1980 but I do remember buying a copy & thinking it wasn't very good.
I used to dislike 'style magazine' The Face & others that followed in its wake. Of the music papers I used to buy Sounds regularly in the late 80s, unlike the NME & Melody Maker it concentrated more on the heavier & noisier bands I liked at the time. NME & Melody Maker were more concerned with 'indie' music & the writing struck me as pretentious. Sounds ended in 1991, Melody Maker in 2000, NME ended in 2018 but still exists in digital form.
Also used to buy Kerrang & Metal Hammer regularly for a time in the late 80s, both are still going.
My dad used to buy The Universe, a Catholic newspaper, each Sunday when we went to Mass. It had a crossword in it called 'Hunt The Saint'
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Post by Cartman on Mar 28, 2021 18:50:34 GMT
I used to occasionally get Record Mirror in the 70s. I liked the cartoons in it, by a bloke called J Edward Oliver, they were surreal, sometimes a sign saying "abolish Tuesdays" would appear, or a box with a crank handle on the side, which was never explained, and Madeline Smith used to feature too, J Edward seemed to have a major crush on her (understandably at that time!)
Eventually she complained about this, so he responded by....doing a cartoon of her complaining!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 28, 2021 22:51:21 GMT
Not sure I've seen his comic strips before, had a look at his website & it mentions that Madeline Smith spoke to him on the phone about her concerns, apparently she had personal body issues that caused her some distress.
Smith has appeared in recent years on nostalgia tv shows talking about being seen as a 70's 'dolly bird' & she didn't seem regretful about it, though I imagine at the time she got tired of being thought of as just a pretty face & pair of breasts.
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