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Flexi Pop

Flexipop magazine was famous for the re-emergence of the flexible music disc in the UK during the 1980s. Launched at the end of October 1980 (for November 1980 date) by ex-Record Mirror journalists Barry Cain and Tim Lott, the magazine featured a flexidisc in each issue. The magazine lasted just under three years with 33 issues (27 with Flexi Disc's and 6 without). One of the most notable issues was the February 1981 disc featuring Adam and the Ants performing a version of the Village People hit 'Y.M.C.A.', called 'A.N.T.S.'

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The magazine has maintained a memorable reputation among music collectors because of the flexidisc and the revival of interest in 1980s pop.

 

Huw Collingbourne, a contributing writer to Flexipop, gave an interview to Stylus magazine about the publication in which he said, "Other music mags may have dabbled in flexis, but Flexipop! made a career of it. We had singles by the top bands of the day everyone from The Jam to Depeche Mode. A really good flexi would make the magazine fly off the news stands."

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Please note: I am not sure of the actual release dates of these.  If anyone has evidence of the dates to either confirm them or move them then please get in touch. 

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I do not have any issues so if anyone has any more that they can scan and share then please get in touch.  Thank You.

Credits:

Price - 60p / 65p

Editor: Barry Cain / Tim Lott

Editorial Assistant: Leigh Bayley

Chef Photographer:

Neil Matthews 

Design: Mark Manning

Flexi Disc: Lyntone

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Published By:

Colourgold Ltd

Flexi Pop

Issue 01

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

November 1980

Front Cover - Pauline Black

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

​Flexi Disc

Selector - Clear Flexi Disc

01 - Ready Mix Radio

 

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Issue 02

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

December 1980

Front Cover - The Jam

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

​The Jam - Blue, Green and Yellow Flexi

01 - Pop Art

Issue 03

Cover By (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

January 1981

Issue 03

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Price - 60p  Pages - 

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Front Cover - Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Boomtown Rats

Clear, Green, Red and Yellow Flexi Disc

01 - Dun Laoghaire

Issue 04

Cover By (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 32

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February 1981

Front Cover - Adam Ant

Centre Spread - David Bowie

Back Cover - Advert

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Interviews and Features:

  • Spandau Ballet - A Day In The Life

  • Trifles

  • Sting

  • Madness

  • The Beat

  • Feargal Sharkey

  • Bod Geldof (Boomtown Rats)

  • The Stranglers

  • The Police

  • Paul Weller (The Jam)

  • Adam Ant

 

Flexi Disc - Blue Flexi Disc

Adam Ant 

01 - A.N.T.S

March 1981

April 1981

Front Cover - Busterbloodvessel

                            (Bad Manners)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Bad Manners - Blue Flexi Disc

01 - No Respect

Front Cover - The Pretenders

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features::

 

Flexi Disc

Pretenders - Blue and Orange Flexi Disc

01 - What You Gonna Do About It

Issue 05

Cover By (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Issue 06

Cover By (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

Issue 07

Cover By (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

May 1981

Front Cover - Motorhead

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

​Motor Head - Blue Flexi Disc

01 - The Train Kept A Rollin

Issue 08

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 40

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June 1981

Front Cover - Toyah

Centre Spread - Steve Strange (Visage)

Back Cover - Advert

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Interviews and Features:

  • Classix Nouveaux - A Night In The Life Of

  • Debbie Harry (Blondie)

  • Trifles

  • David Coverdale

  • Toyah

  • Graham Bonnet

  • Undertones

  • Tenpole Tuder

  • Kelly Johnson vs Kelly Marie

  • Motorhead

  • Girlschool

  • The Cockney Rejects

  • Kim Wilde

  • Brian Setzer (Stray Cats)

  • Tim Worman (The Polecats)

  • Buster Bloodvessel (Bad Manners)

 

Flexi Disc

​Toyah - Green and Yellow Flexi Disc​

01 - Sphinx

Issue 09

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 40

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans

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July 1981

Front Cover - Hazel O'Connor

Centre Spread - Adam Ant

Back Cover - The Clash

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Interviews and Features:

  • Linx - A Day In The Life

  • Natty Threads

  • Kim Wilde

  • Julian Cope

  • Kirsty McColl

  • Rep Butler (Psychedelic Furs)

  • Phil Oakey (Human League)

  • View From The Top

    • Cheryl Baker (Bucks Fizz)

    • Lesley Woods (Th Au Pairs)

  • Richie Blackmore

  • Eddie Tudorpole (Ten Pole Tudor)

  • Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)

  • Ian Gillan

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Picture Strip:

Dogmeat (featuring)

  • The Baroness

  • Depeche Mode

  • Sandy Cain

 

Flexi Disc

Hazel O'Connor - Yellow and Clear Flexi

01 - Men Of Good Fortune

02 - D-Days (New Version) 

Issue 10

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 40

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans

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August 1981

Front Cover - Thin Lizzy, Graham Bonnet,

                         The Polecats

Centre Spread - Spandau Ballet

Back Cover - Siouxsie

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Interviews and Features:

  • Suggs and Chrissy Boy (Madness): A Day In The Life

  • Gary Numan

  • Feargal Sharkey

  • Biff (Saxon)

  • Agnetha (ABBA)

  • Freddie Mercury

  • Rick Wakeman - reviews new Echo and the Bunnymen album

  • Julian Cope - Lifeline

  • Vaughn Toulouse (Department S) - Lifeline

  • Paul Edmond - Photo Trip Around Birmingham

  • The Vapors

  • Terry Hall - Working Week

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Picture Strip:

  • Ivor Nesquick

  • The Modettes

 

Cartoon:

  • The Adam Ant Story

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Flexi Disc - Orange

Side One​

1 - Graham Bonnet - Night Games

2 - Polecats - We Say Yah

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Side Two

1 - Thin Lizzy - Song For Jimmy

2 - Way Of The West - Monkey Love

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Issue 11

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

September 1981

Front Cover - Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc - Orange Flexi Disc

Depeche Mode

01 - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead

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Fad Gadget

02 - King Of The Flies

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Issue 12

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 40

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans

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October 1981

Front Cover - Soft Cell

Centre Spread - Phil Oakey (Human League)

Back Cover - Advert

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Interviews and Features:

  • Soft Cell

  • Imagination

  • Altered Images

  • LINX

  • Adam Ant

  • Simple Minds

  • Madness

  • Berni Nolan

  • Buster Bloodvessel (Bad Manners)

  • Sting

  • Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)

 

Flexi Disc - Green, Blue, Clear and Red

Flexi Disc

​Soft Cell

01 - Metro Mr X

02 - Remembrance Day

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Weapon Of Peace

01 - Westpark

02 - Baby When I'm Done

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Issue 13

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

November 1981

Front Cover - Ian Gillan

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Disc

Gillan - Blue Flexi Disc

01 - Higher and Higher

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Issue 14

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

December 1981

Front Cover - Altered Images

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Disc

Altered Images - Blue, Orange and Red

Flexi Disc

01 - Happy New Year

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Issue 15

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

January 1982

Front Cover - Blondie

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc - Blue and Red Flexi Disc

Blondie

Brattles

Snuky Tate

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Issue 16

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 32

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans

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February 1982

Front Cover - Phil Oakey (Human League)

Centre Spread - The Jam

Back Cover - XTC

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Interviews and Features:

  • Sal Solo - Fall Out Favourites

  • Status Quo - The First 20 Years

  • Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice) - reviews UFO Mechanix

  • Pete Way (UFO) - reviews Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

  • Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers)

  • The Human League

  • Lifelines

    • Nick Heyward

    • Anabella Lwin

    • John Cooper Clarke

    • Robert Cotton

  • Thereza Bazar - Single Reviews

  • Motorhead

  • Baroness - Working Week

 

Picture Strip

  • The Mobiles - Snow White and the Three Dwarves

 

Posters

  • Jake Burns

  • The Baroness

 

Flexi Disc (Yellow, Blue and Red Flexi Disc)

XTC - Looking For Footprints

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Issue 17

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

March 1982

Front Cover - Paul Weller (The Jam)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Haircut 100 - Clear and Green Flexi Disc

01 - Nobody's Fool

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Issue 18

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 32

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans​

April 1982

Front Cover - Marc Almond (Soft Cell)

Centre Spread - Mark Almond

Back Cover - Advert

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Interviews and Features:

  • Blondie

  • Haircut 100

  • Gary Numan

  • Lynval Golding and Frank Maudsley

  • Wattie (The Exploited)

  • Bauhaus

  • Leee John (Imagination)

  • Kim McAwliffe (Girlschool)

  • Glen Tilbrook (Squeeze)

  • Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice)

  • Lemmy (Motorhead)

  • Kim Wilde - Singles Review

  • Pigbag

  • Martin Fry - Working Week

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Flexi Disc

Bow Wow Wow 

Yellow, Blue, White, Green and Red

01 - Elimination Dancing

02 - King Kong

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Issue 19

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

May 1982

Front Cover - Adam Ant

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Madness - Clear and Green Flexi Disc

01 - My Girl

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Issue 20

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

June 1982

Front Cover - Kim Wilde and Simon Le Bon

                          (Duran Duran)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Associates - Clear Flexi Disc

01 - Even Dogs In The Wild

Issue 21

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 60p - Pages - 32

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July 1982

Front Cover - Belle Stars

Centre Spread - ABC

Back Cover - Kirk Brandon (Theatre Of Hate)

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Interviews and Features:

  • The Cure

  • ABC

  • Mari Wilson

  • Kid Creole

  • Ian McCulloch

  • The Belle Stars

  • Len Fairclough

  • Imagination

  • Bill Nelson

  • Culture Club

  • Fashion

  • Tight Fit

 

Flexi Disc

Genesis (Green)

01 - The Lady Lies

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Issue 22

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

This Issue had a 5p Price Increase​​

Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

August 1982

Front Cover - Martin Fry (ABC)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Cure - Green and Red Flexi Disc​

01 - Lament

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Issue 23

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

September 1982

Front Cover - The Stranglers

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

Bauhaus - Blue Flexi Disc

01 - A God In An Alcove

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Issue 24

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 32

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Thank you to Izzy Kyser for the scans

 

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October 1982

Front Cover - Haircut 100

Centre Spread - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Back Cover - Japan

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Interviews and Features:

  • Heaven 17

  • Mari Wilson

  • Readers Poll Results

  • Don't Quote Me

  • Nick Heyward

  • View From The Top:

    • Blancmange

    • Diamond Head

  • Lifelines:

    • Boy George

    • Billy MacKenzie

    • Billy Idol

    • Nick Karma

  • Midge Ure

  • Sal Solo - Singes Review

  • Toyah - Welcome To The Working Week

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Picture Strip:

Soft Cell - Bedsitter

Bad Bax 2 (featuring)

  • The Meteors

 

Flexi Disc - White and Black Flexi Disc

Marc Almond (Soft Cell)

01 - Discipline

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This issue was banned by WH Smith due to the Picture Strip, featuring The Meteors, entitled Bad Bax 2 and it's depiction of violence.

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Issue 25

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

November 1982

Front Cover - Psychic TV

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc

​Bucks Fizz - Green and Blue Flexi Disc

01 - Pinball Wizard

02 - Hot Stuff

03 - Do You Think I'm Sexy

04 - Knock On Wood

05 - All Over The World

This was Specially recorded mass up

Flexi Pop - Issue 26 - Malcolm McLaren.j

Issue 26

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

December 1982

Front Cover - Malcolm McLaren

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc - Punky Party EP

Clear and Red Flexi Disc

​ANL

01 - World War III

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The Defects

02 - Dance Until You Drop

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Meteors

03 - Mutant Rock

Flexi Pop - Issue 27 - Mick Jones The Cl

Issue 27

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

This was the last issue to give away a Free Flexi disc

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

January 1983

Front Cover - Mick Jones (The Clash)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

 

Flexi Disc - Clear and Green Flexi Disc

​Haysi Fantaysee

01 - In The Mix

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Flexi Pop - Issue 28 - Paul Weller (The

Issue 28

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

 

New Logo and No Flexi Disc

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

February 1983

Front Cover - Paul Weller (The Jam)

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop - Issue 29 - The Creatures.jpg

Issue 29

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

March 1983

Front Cover - The Creatures

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop - Issue 30 - Wham.jpg

Issue 30

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

April 1983

Front Cover - Wham

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop - Issue 31 - The Specimen.jpg

Issue 31

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

May 1983

Front Cover - The Specimen

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop - Issue 32 - Glove.jpg

Issue 32

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

June 1983

Front Cover - Glove

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop - Issue 33 - Aleister Crowley.

Issue 33

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price 65p - Pages - 00

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Do Not Have Can You Help
Do Not Have Can You Help

July 1983

Front Cover - Aleister Crowley

Centre Spread - 

Back Cover - 

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Interviews and Features:

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Flexi Pop Web Site

There is an amazing site dedicated to Flexi Pop Magazine set up by the people who worked on it.  click the link below to take you to the site.​

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Magazone is an on-line resource and NON-PROFIT fan archive website . 

The site does not make any money or charges anyone for using the site.

 

If you are the copyright owner of any of the magazines or items featured on Magazone then please get in touch if you want them removed from the site. 

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