Blitz Magazine
BLITZ magazine was a monthly media, fashion & pop culture magazine, founded in September 1980 by university students Carey Labovitch and Simon Tesler.
From the arty end of the spectrum, it documented the misfits populating clubs such as the London one that shared its name.
It was one of a trio of British "style" magazines which established a broad following internationally as well as in the UK, paving the way for the lads magazines of the early 1990s.
It closed in May 1991 with it's 103rd issue.

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Price - 45p
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Release Date - Unknown
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Publisher - Carey Labovitch
Editor - Carey Labovitch / Simon Tesler
Assistant Editor - Simon Tesler
Features Editor - Tim Hulse
Fashion Editor - Ian R Webb
(Deputy) Advertising Manager -Shauna Lovell
Art Design - Simon Tesler
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Front Cover - Peter Sellers
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Issue 1
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November 1980
Spring 1981
Issue 2
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Front Cover - Mary Watkins
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Issue 3
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Front Cover - Molly Parkin
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Issue 4
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Issue 5
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Issue 6
Cover By - Jamie Long
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Front Cover - Nick Heyward
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Issue 8
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Issue 9
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Issue 10
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Front Cover - Tony Marchant
Features and Interviews:
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Sade Odu​
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Rosie Shades on Television
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Russ Mayer
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Portfolio: Stephen Rumney
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Angus McBean
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Phil Redmond
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Paul Weller and Tony Marchant
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Reader Survey 1983 Voting
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Stephen Linard
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Christina
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The Chikes
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The McGann's
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The Lebons
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Fashion / Style:
At War
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Pleasure and the Beast, Freur, Malcolm McLaren, Va Vagabond, Bananarama, Altered Images
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Andy Warhol, The American Friend, Southern Comfort, It's Alive, My Pleasure is My Business, Take It Or Leave It​​
Front Cover - Coverirl
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Issue 12
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Front Cover - Julian Cope
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Front Cover - Ken Russelll
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Issue 15
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Issue 16
Cover By - Steve Shipman
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Front Cover - Yello
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Front Cover - Ian Dury,
Peter Blake, Humphry Ocean
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Front Cover - Rick Mayall
Matter Of Style:
Boy George, Paul Weller, Steve Strange, Sue Clowes, Peter York, Return of the Little Black Dress
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Benjamin Zephaniah​
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Charles Kennedy MP
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Portfolio: Chris Wroblewski
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Paula Yates
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Rick Mayall
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Marillion
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Readership Survey Voting
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Brian Eno
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Marylin
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People
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Jasper Conran
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Mikel Rosen
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Rachel Auburn
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Videos:
-Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Xtro, Sophie's Choice, Violent Street, The Sender, Bullshot
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Kim Wilde, Fiat Lux, Ronny, Swallow Tongue, The Weather Girls, King Kurt, Bruce Foxton, Lynn Goldsmith, The Cure, Howard Jones, New York City's Peach Boys
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Order Of Death, Star Chamber, Spacehunter, Rear Window, Young Giants, National Lampoon's Vacation, Dead
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Yello​, China Crisis, Psychic TV
Issue 17
Released: 23rd November 1983
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Issue 18
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Front Cover - Siouxsie
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Front Cover - Pete Murphy
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Issue 19
Cover By - Nick Knight
Price - 75p Pages - 56
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Issue 20
Released: 23rd March 1984
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Front Cover - Paul Weller
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Robbie Coltrane​
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Portfolio: Johnny Rosza
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Elliott Gould
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Sam Fuller
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Paul Weller
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Feargal Sharkey
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Keith Allen
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Youth Culture in Russia
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One From The Heart, Battle of Algiers, New York Nights, 48 Hours, They Call Me Bruce, Who'll Stop The Rain, The Jury, My Bodyguard, The Champions, The \pale Foundation
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Edward Collins, Kirk Brandon, Pete Burns, Madonna, Swans Way, John Cale, Bourgie Bourgie, Quando Quando, 23 Skidoo, Dee C Lee, Michael Dorian, Bronski Beat, Scritti Politti, Afrika Bambaataa​
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Front Cover - Alexei Sayle
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Issue 21
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Issue 22
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Front Cover - Marylin and
Joan Rivers
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Front Cover - David Sylvian
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Winter 81/82
Spring 1982
October / November
1982
December 1982
January 1983
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November 1983
December 1983
January 1984
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May 1984
June 1984
Issue 23
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July / August 1984
Front Cover - Paul Rutherford
(Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
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Issue 24
Cover By - Mike Owen
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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This issue was the publications 2nd Birthday edition
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September 1984
Front Cover - Nick Rhodes
(Duran Duran)
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Photography Award Winners​
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Fela Kuti
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Look Back Over the last 2 years
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Mel Smith
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The Cloth
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Tim Roth
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Neil Jordan
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Gary Kemp
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John Galliano
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Music Videos:
Breakdance, Howard Jones, U2
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Videos:
Never Say Never Again, Lace, Christine, The Twilight Zone, Class, Slaygound
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Trax:
Outbar Squeek, The Armoury Show, Way Of The West, Don Letts, The Gun Club, Prince, Th Room, Little Steven​
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Top Secret, Paris Texas, Racing With The Moon, Hotel New Hampshire, Romancing The Stone, The Karate Kid, Cal, This Is Spinal Tap, The Bostonians, Electric Dreams
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Spandau Ballet​, The Armoury Show, I-Level, Falco, Any Summers, Frankie Gos To Hollywood













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Issue 26
Cover By - Nick Knight
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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Front Cover - Madness
Phots Shoots - Paul Morley and
Claudia (Propaganda)
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Features and Interviews:
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Paul Morley​
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Michael Grade
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Judy Blame
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Lenny Henry
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Kim Wilde
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Cabaret Voltaire
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Madness
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Kate Garner
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Record Sleeve Designers
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Music Videos
Don't Watch Tat Watch This, Rock Cocktail, The Rolling Stones Video Hits, Twisted Sister, Queen We Will Rock You, Japan Instant Pictures, David Bowie Live, Duran Duran Dancing On The Valentine, Ready Steady Go, UB40 Labour Of Love, Hip Hop A Street History, Rolling Stones
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Trax:
Apollonia Kotero, Virna Lindt, Berntholer, , Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Torch Song, Floy Joy, Jodi Watley
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Waterland, Serious Moonlight
The Dictionary Of Contemporary Slang, Queens
Let's Go Down The Cavern, Blood On The Tracks, The Sony Tape Rock Review, Blade On A Mirror​​
Issue 27
Released: 26th November 1984
Cover By - Johnny Rozsa
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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Front Cover - Rupert Everett
Features and Interviews:
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Laurie Anderson​
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Paul Morley
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Films of 1984
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Music Videos:
Ready Steady Go, The Rock Revolution, David Bowie, 10cc, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran
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Trax:
Japan, Monochrome Set, Jim Thirwell, The Flowerpot Men, Fatal Charm, Feelabeelia, Fiona Franklyn
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Musical Landmarks of 1984:​
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
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Prince - Purple Rain
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David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
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Womack and Womack - Love Wars
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David Bowie - Tonight
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Various Artists - High Energy 2
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The Smiths - The Smiths
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The Style Council - Cafe Bleu
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Sade - Diamond Life
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REM - Reckoning
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Various Artists - Jazz Club
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The Jacksons - Victory
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Prefab Sprout - Soon
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Bronski Beat - Age Of Consent​
Issue 28
Released: 31st January 1985
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Price - 75p Pages - 00
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Front Cover - Anne Pigalle
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October 1984
November 1984


Front Cover - Boy George
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Issue 25
Cover By - (Unknown)
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December 1984
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March 1985
April 1985


Front Cover - Paul Young
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Front Cover - Models
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Julie Walters
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Dieter Meier
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Robert Palmer
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Trax:
David Johansen, , Bill Nelson, Hard Corps, Del Amitri, Diamanda Gaias, Hybrid Records, mark Springer, Chukk, Hula​
Print:
Family Dancing, God He Was Good, Paro Dreams Of Passion, A Curious Street, The First Anthology, Vermillion Sands, Roman
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Films:
A Passage To India, A Soldier's Story, Morons From Outer Space, Into The Night, The River, Broken Mirrors, Carmen, Fast Talking
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Chakk​, Jazz Jankle, Peter Gabriel, Yello, BAHN, Propaganda, Hype Like This
Issue 29
Cover By - (Unknown)
Price - 75p Pages - 00
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Issue 30
Cover By - David LaChapelle
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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Films:
The Natural, The Bother From Another Planet, Gabriele
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Gang Of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Bush Telegraph, Julian Cope, Marc Almond, The Room, Frankie Goes To Hollywood​

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June 1985
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Front Cover - Morrissey
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Front Cover - Green Gartside
(Scritti Politti)
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Trax:
Fine Young Cannibals, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Wim Mertens, Woodentops, Big Heat
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Print:
Social Security, Carful With The Sharks, Hannie Richards
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Films:
Witness, Stream, The Element Of Crime, The Breakfast Club, She'll Be Waring Pink Pyjamas, The Chain, Mata Hari
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Pet Shop Boys​, David Bowie, Gene Loves Jezabel, Various Artists (Massive 1)
Issue 31
Released: 25th April 1985
Cover By - (Unknown)
Price - 75p Pages - 00
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Issue 32
Cover By - Richard Croft
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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July / August 1985
September 1985
Front Cover - Billy Idol
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Gill Scott-Heron
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Greta Scacchi
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Penelope Spheeris
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Trax:
Maxi Priest, 10,000 Maniacs, Simply Red, One Justice, Shriek Back, Jason and the Scorchers, Annie Hogan, Pink Industry, Mathilde Santing
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Print:
The Fruit Palace, John Lennon In His Time, A Man With A Camera, Hard Lines 2, The Minimal Self, Bright Lights Big City
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Films:
Insignificance, Birdy, Mask, Mrs Soffel, Ladyhawke, Restless Natives, , Runaway, The Coca Cola Kid, Police Academy 2, The Last Dragon, Grace Quigley
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Adverts:
Steve McQueen​, Jeff Lorber, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hipsway, Andrew Caine, Maxi Priest, Cabaret Voltaire, Talking Heads
Front Cover - Marc Almond
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Style:
Leigh Bowery, John Galliano, Richmond-Cornejo, Bodymap, Stephen Jones, Bernstock-Speirs
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Trax:
Eighth Wonder, Zeke Manyika, Krupps, Anna Domino, Bluey, Colourbox
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Here To Go, Waterland, Learning To Swim, Insignificance, The Killjoy's Book Of The Cinema, Bikers, The Minimal Self​
Issue 33
Relapsed: 27th June 1985
Cover By - Richard Croft
Price - 75p Pages - 64
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Issue 34
Released - 29th August 1985
Cover By - Peter Moss
Price - 80p Pages - 96
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5th Anniversary Issue
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This issue had a 5p price increase
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Films:
Desperately Seeking Susan, Rambo, Perfect, The Assisi Underground, Crimes Of Passion, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Brewster's Millions, Turk 182, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dim Sum
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Adverts:
Andrew Poppy​, Animal Nightlife, ZTT Sampled
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Insignificance, Birdy, Mask, Mrs Soffel, Ladyhawke, Restless Natives, , Runaway, The Coca Cola Kid, Police Academy 2, The Last Dragon, Grace Quigley
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Steve McQueen​, Jeff Lorber, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hipsway, Andrew Caine, Maxi Priest, Cabaret Voltaire, Talking Heads


October 1985
November 1985
Front Cover - Communards
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Front Cover - Siouxsie
Features and Interviews:
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Trax:
BAD, Alan Vega, Matt Bianco, Stee Walsh, The Flowerpot Men, Twilight, Flesh For Lulu, The Replenishments, Paul Haig
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Dessert Island Biff, Slump, Glad To Be Grey, Adorned In Dreams, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels, In Search Of Forever, I Am Still The Greatest, London Rock Routes, African Pop, Like Punk Never Happened​
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Anne​ Pigalle, Clannad
Issue 35
Released: 26th September 1985
Cover By - (Unknown)
Price - 80p Pages - 00
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Issue 36
Cover By - Richard
Houghton
Price - 80p Pages - 80
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Films:
Party Party, YOL, An Officer and a Gentlemen, The Executioners Song, Eating Radul, Evil Dead
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Adverts:
Spandau Ballet​
Films:
Order Of Death, Star Chamber, Spacehunter, Rear Window, Young Giants, National Lampoon's Vacation, Dead
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Adverts:
Yello​, China Crisis, Psychic TV
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Terms Of Endearment, Vertigo, To Be Or Not To Be, Testament, Savage Islands
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Adverts:
Carmel​, The |Pale Foundation, Art Of Noise, Prefab Sprout, Jacqui Brookes, Julian Cope
Films:
Top Secret, Paris Texas, Racing With The Moon, Hotel New Hampshire, Romancing The Stone, The Karate Kid, Cal, This Is Spinal Tap, The Bostonians, Electric Dreams
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Spandau Ballet​, The Armoury Show, I-Level, Falco, Any Summers, Frankie Gos To Hollywood
Print:
Gore Vidal, Angela Carter, Semiotext(e), Graham Swift, Michael Morcock, JG Bollard, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sue Stewart and Sheryll Garratt, Pauline Kael
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Films:
Gremlins, Red Dawn, Ghostbusters, The Killing Fields
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Adverts:
Dalis Car​, David Bowie, Japan, ZTT
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mishima, St Elmo's Fire, Prizzi's Honour, The Supergrass, The Emerald Forest, The Bride, Cat's Eye, Letter To Brezhnev, ed Sonja, Weird Science​

Issue 37
Released: 28th November
1985
Cover By - (Unknown)
Price - 80p Pages - 96
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December 1985
January 1986
Front Cover - Peter Murphy
Features and Interviews:
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Lloyd Cole
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Obscure Object Of Desire:
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Sandra Goldbacher
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Michael Morris
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Andy Czezowski
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Nigel Coates
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Readership Survey
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Eric Bergere
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David Owen
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David Owen
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Trax:
The Fabulous Pop Tarts, Fleat Up CP, Pace e Lucia, Colease Parade, Mercy Ray, Champion Doug Welch, Stanley Jordan, Topper Headen, Easterhouse
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Print:
Listen To These Pictures, David Bowie: The Star Zone, Revolutionary Road, Postmodern Culture, Bumf, Slow Learner
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​Adverts:
Big Audio Dynamite​, Sun City, Anne Clark, Arcadia
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Films:
Back To The Future, Defence Of The Realm, Legend, Plenty, My Beautiful Laundrette, A Zero and Two Noughts, Turtle Diary, King Solomon's Mines, Santa Claus, The Goonies, Turf Turf, Lost In America, Came A Hot Friday​
Issue 38
Released\: 23rd January 1996
Cover By - Mark Lewis
Price - 80p Pages - 80
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February 1986
Front Cover - Maria Cornejo
Features and Interviews:
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Obscure Objects Of Desire:
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Ian Pollock
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Lana Pellay
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Fish
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People:
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Rabbit and Doon
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Sogho Ishii
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Jennie Neame
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Videos:
Joan Rivers, The Best Of John Belushi, The Guardian, Birdy, Guiag, Mata Harl, Steaming, Brazil
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Floy Joy, Fresh, Royalle Delite, Country Music, Public Image, Psychic TV, Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band, Eugene Chadbourn, Los , Zeitgeist, Del Ray and the Blue Gators
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The Mugger, Hangover Square, Flying Visit, Empire Of The Sun, Movies On TV, Bunny's: The Real Story Of Playboy, Slouching Towards Sethleharn, Mclnnes Omnibus, Stunning The Punters, Floral Street, Granta, Funny Money, Eighties In The Shade, With Geldof In Africa, Caribbean Style, Zones Of Conflict, Lies Damned Lies, My Last Breath, Story Of The Eye, A Japanese Mirror​
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Anne Devlin, Dreamchild, Death Wish 3, Jagged Edge, Shaker Run, Certain Fury, The Sure Thing, Re-Animator, Alamo Bay, Teen Wolf, Thunder Alley, Rocky IV
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Stephen Duffy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eurythmics​
March 1986
Issue 39
Released: 20th February 1996
Cover By - Mark Lewis
Price - 90p Pages - 96
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Front Cover - David Convy
Features and Interviews:
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James Brady: AIDS and American TV
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Akira Kurosawa
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Ian Charleson and Julie Walters
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Karen Blixen
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Arnold Schwarzenegger​
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A Look At Boxing
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Julie Burchill
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Larger Wars
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John Lydon
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Anatomy Of A Murder
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Obscure Objects Of Desire
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Vivianne Lynn
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Murry Partridge
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Peter Care
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Sandy Powell
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Alan Bleasdale
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Eddie Shah
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Eugenie Arrowsmith
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John Gordan-Sinclair
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Nickelodeon
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The Kostiffs
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Mark Jacobs
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Libby Kraal
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The Holcroft Covenant, The Terminator, Stop Making Sense, Revenge Of The Nerds, The Last Dragon, Johnny Dangerously, Turk 182
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Music:
Raymonde, The Go Betweens, The Minutemen, Radio Def am, Johnathan Richman, David Thomas, Half Man Half Biscuit, Melissa Morgan, Ruby Turner, The Blow Monkeys, The Danse Society, Chakk
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Films:
Commando, Clockwise, Streetwise, Sweat Dreams, Mr Love, Death In A French Garden, The Girl In The Picture, No Surrender, Agnes Of God, Out Of Africa
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Adverts:
Eugenie​ Arrowsmith, Floy Joy, Talk Talk​​​

April 1986
Issue 40
Released: 17th March 1996
Cover By - Carl Bengtsson
Price - 90p Pages - 96
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Print:
Invisible Man, The Slaves Of Solitude, The Sound Of The City, Black Water, The Authorised Autobiography of Alfred Hitchcock, Crash, The New Journalism, The Wasp Factory, And I Don't Want To Live This Life, The Wall Jumper, Less Than Zero, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz, The Pat Hobby Stories, Dreamers, Virgin Prunes, Rebel Radio
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Front Cover - Homage To
Hermes
Features and Interviews:
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Larry Cohen
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Jamie Reid​
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Stephen Duffy
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Derek Jameson
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Samantha Fox
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Designer Previews 1986
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Depeche Mode
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Jean Paul Gaultier
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Obscure Objects Of Desire
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Claudia Brucken
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Pete Davis
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Donna Muir
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Ken Livingston
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Faking It
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People:
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Tom Hulce
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Mark Rodgers
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Martine Sitbon
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Simon Doonan​
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Vic Goddard, Black Britain, Strangers and Brothers, Rolling Stones, Blow Monkeys, James Brown, Paul Lawrence, Electro Hip Hop II, Julian Lennon, Jimmy Jimmy's, Matt Bianco, Pet Shop Boys, The Redskins, Red Guitar, Test Department, Ted Chippington, Nightingales, Husker Du
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Print:
Patrick Hamilton, Post Office, The Professor Of Desire, Peeping Tom, The Stories of Raymond Carver, The House of Mitford, Bliss The Film, Happy Trails, 52 Pick-up, Blues Dance, The Inner Eye, Filming The Impossible, Girls On Film
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Films:
Absolute Beginners, Return Of The Living Dead, Mixed Blood, A Room With A View, Detective, Heartbreakers, Runaway /Train, Vagabond, White Nights, Young Sherlock Holmes
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Adverts:
R​yuichi Sakamoto, Red Guitars
Issue 41
Released: 21st April 1996
Cover By - Robert Ogilvie
Price - 90p Pages - 96
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Issue 42
Released: 19th May 1996
Cover By - Unknown
Price - 90p Pages - 00
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May 1986
June 1986
Front Cover - Helena Bonham
Carter
Features and Interviews:
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Jerzy Skolimowski
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Youth Programming
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Anthony Sher​
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Blitz Designer Collection
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Robert Howard
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Portfolio - Eilish McCarrick
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Johnathan Richman
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Fashion - New York Warriors
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Fashion - Ballet Hoo
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Gridiron
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Obscure Objects Of Desire:
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Magenta De Vine
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Steve Woolley
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David Jenson
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Vivienne Westwood
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Fashion - Donna Karan
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All That Glitters - The New York Glam Revival
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John Peel
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People:
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Eric Robinson
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Barry Kamen
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Helena Bonham Carter
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Karen Finley
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Diane Abbott
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Alison Fisher
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Music:
James, Husker Du, Culture Club, Hipsway, APB, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joe Jackson, Floy Joy,, Art Of Noise, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Stephen Duffy, Camper Van Beethoven, Gap Band, Sudden Sway, Love and Money, Control, Nick Heyward, The Practice
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Films:
Fright Night, The Jewel In The Nile, Billy The Kid and The Green baize Vampire, Flesh and Blood, Clue, Love Letters, Zina, , Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous, Caravaggio
Front Cover - Unknown
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July 1986
August 1986
Issue 43
Released: 1996
Cover By - Marcus Tomlinson
Price - 90p Pages - 112
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Issue 44
Released: 21st July 1996
Cover By - Unknown
Price - 90p Pages - 00
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Front Cover - Daniel Day Lewis
Features and Interviews:
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​Adventures In The rand Prix Trade
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Daniel Day Lewis
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The Blitz Designer Collection
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Jacques Azagury
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Eric Bergere
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Bernstock Speirs
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Body Man
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Leigh Bowery
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Jasper Conran
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Enrico Coveri
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Culture Shock
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John Galliano
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Katherine Hamnett
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Betty Jackson
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Joseph Stephen Jones
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Stephen Linard
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Mark & Style
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Jean Muir
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Rifat Ozbek
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Zandra Rhodes
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Richmond Cornejo
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Paul Smith
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Vivienne Westwood
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DSM
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Todd Oldham
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Richard Jobson
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Ken Smith
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Malcolm Poynter
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Frank Bruno
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Fashion
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Dead Cool Katski
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Taylor Made
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Crack
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Calvin Klein
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Music:
Sixty Minute Man, Dhar Braxton, Bid, Krush Groove, Pete Shelley, The Woodentops, James, Oran 'Juice' Jones, Cash Flow, Lee Perry, Barbara Mitchell, Book Of Love, Thomas Mapfumo and the Black Unlimited
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Front Cover - Unknown
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September 1986

Print:
The Bikini, Star Turn, The Last Of The Country House murders, The Clatter Of Pop, The Beams of Egypt, Boys From The Black Stuff, At The Chelsea, Adventures In The Screen Trade, My Beautiful Laundrette, My Last Breath, Tough Guys Don't Dance
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Films:
The Mission, An Impudent Girl, Youngblood, Black Moon Rising, A Woman Or Two, The Doctor and the Devils, Static, Murphy's Romance, Bring On The Night, La Cage Aux Folles 2, House, The Trip To Bountiful
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Adverts:
The Blow Monkeys​, State Of Play, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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October 1986
Issue 45
Released: 1996
Cover By - Paul Gobal
Price - £1.10 Pages - 112
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​This Issue had a 20p price increase​
Issue 46
Released: 24th September 1996
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Front Cover - Boy George
Features and Interviews:
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Bob Hoskins​
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Ian Botham
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Boy George
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Holly Johnson
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Baader-Meinhof
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Dieter Maier
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Everything But The Girl
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Stephen Barkoff
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Music Publishing
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Videos:
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The Godfathers, Anita Baker
Balaam and the Angel
Meatloaf, Big Flame, The House Sound of Chicago, Chaka Khan, Everything But The Girl, Mary Coughlan, Stephen Duffy, REM, IMI Kamoze, Soul Asylum, Talking Heads, The Triffids, Sophie and Peter Johnson, Peter Case
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Print:
Look Back on Stephen Tennant
Perfect, Mailer, Encyclopaedia of Murder, Star Is Torn, Rock Wives, The Way We Live Now, Understains, Piece Of My Heart, The Aerodynamics of Pork, From and Island Sea, Other Fires, City Of Night, Violence Silence, A Henry Miller Reader, Sixty Stories, The Custom House Of Desire, The Glass Test
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Films:
Under The Cherry Moon, Aliens, Jakespeed, Pretty In Pink, Target, At Close Range, Rosa Luxemburg, Betty Blue, Highlander
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Adverts:
It's Immaterial, David Sylvian, Pete Wylie​
Front Cover - Unknown
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November 1986
December 1986
Front Cover - Unknown
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Front Cover - Cyndi Lauper
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Issue 47
Released: 1996
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Issue 48
Released: 1996
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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January 1987
February 1987
Issue 49
Released: 1997
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Issue 50
Released: 1997
Cover By - Mark Lewis
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Front Cover - Rachel Roberts
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Front Cover - Amanda Donohoe
Features and Interviews:
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Oliver Stone
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Bobby Womack​
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Sleaze
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Mandy Smith
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Fashion:
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Barry Kamen
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Hilde Smith
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Ice Hockey
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David Cronenberg
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Anthony Burgess
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Jim Jarmusch
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People:
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Amanda Donohoe
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Maria Marshall
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Tama Janowitz
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Music:
Taffy, Lian Ross, Modern Rocketry, Gary Low, MC Miker G & DJ Sven, Swing Out Sister, Vicious Rumour, Aleern, Rob Olson, Sylvester, Michael Dee, Randy Travis, Mark Shaw, Peter dBrickley, Holger Czukay, Style Council, Dave Thomas, The Pastels, Michelle-Shocked, Microdisney, Streetsounds, Sheila E, Pulp
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Print:
Look at Ernest Hemingway
Carpenter's Gothic, Greasy Lake and Other Stories, Mr Majescyk, The Adventures of Robina, Your Cheating Heart, Motel Chronicles, The Magnetic Fields, The Collected Works of Konrad Bayer, The Boston Strangler, The Apes Of God, There's No Business, Bring Me Your Love
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Films:
The Name of The Rose, A Judgement In Stone, Playing For Keeps, A Love Bewitched, The Mosquito Coast, Police Story, Salvador, Boy Soldier, Down By Law, Escalier C, Short Circuit, When The Wind Blows, Heavenly Pursuits
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Adverts:
Drum Theatre​
Issue 51
Released: 16th February 1997
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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March 1987
April 1987
Front Cover - Rupert Everett
Features and Interviews:
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Sleeve Art
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Oliver Read​
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La Vida Loca
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Paul Morley on
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Ben Elton
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Jasper Carrott
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Rupert Everett
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Waling
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Cybill Shephard
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Peter Cook
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The Snap Pack
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Peter Cook
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Raymond Carver
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People:
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Spike Lee
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Tom Dixon
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Timothy Spall
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The Bodines, Happy Mondays, Nonesuch, Simply Red, Psychedelic Furs, Three O'clock, The Thrashing Doves, Grandmaster Flash, Doctor Eric Leeds, Monus, Dead Or Alive
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Print:
Look at Ramsey Campbell
The Woman's Decameron, Bruno's Dream, The European Tribe, I Could Never Be Lonely Without A Husband, The Harlot's Room, Choose Your Baby Name, The Pub and the People, Cameron in the Guardian, Who is Teddy Villanova, The Periodic Table, The Good Terrorist, The Damnation Game, Star​
Front Cover - Jasper Conran
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Issue 52
Released: 16th March 1997
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Films:
The Colour Of Money, Working Girls, Soul Man, Nanou, The Fantasist. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Castaway, Macaroni, Cactus, Children Of A Lesser God, Back To School, Coming Up Roses, Duet For One, The Fly, Gothic
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Adverts:
Anne Pigalle, Hurrah, Morgan McVay, Mick Khan, Siouxsie and the Banshees​
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May 1987
June 1987
Front Cover - Martin Amis
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Front Cover - Simon Le Bon
Features and Interviews:
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Bertrand Blier
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Mark Salzman
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Gary Oldman​
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Tom Jones
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Advertising
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Duran Duran
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Hippies
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Vine Street Blues
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Patrick Moore
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Exposure
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People:
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Joanna Hogg
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Steve Parsons
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Martin Millar
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Carlo Gebler
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Danielle Dax, Swing Out Sister, Deacon Blue, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Sly and Robbie, The Lounge Lizard, Donna Allen, Patrice Rushen, Smokey Robinson, Paul Johnson, Three Wise Men, Dwight Yoakam, Mark Germino, Fleetwood Mac, New Grass Revival, The Dubliners, Renegade Sound Waves
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Print:
Fortuna Secrets, Under The Eye Of The Clock, The Enemies Within, Norma Dolby's Diary, Travels In Hyperreality, The Hollywood Murder Casebook, Narcomania, Conan Doyle​​
Issue 53
Released: 1997
Cover By - Unknown
Price - £1.10 Pages - 00
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Issue 54
Released: 1997
Cover By - Russell Young
Price - £1.10 Pages - 112
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Films:
Best Shot, Death Of A Soldier, 52 Pick-Up, Space Camp, Desert Bloom, Home Of The Brave, Three Amigos, Empire State, Foreign Body, High Season, The Morning After, The Whistle Blower
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Adverts:
UB40, Tina Turner, Stan Campbell​
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Issue 55
Released: 20th June 1997
Cover By - Jack Pedota
Price - £1.10 Pages - 96
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Issue 56
Released: 13th July 1997
Cover By -
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Front Cover - Paula Ciccone
Features and Interviews:
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Timothy Mo​
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James Bond
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Fashion - New York Living
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Tour De France
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Hustlers
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Beyond The Fringe
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Jim Kerr
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Klaus Barbie
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James Reid
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Roy Orbison
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Dwarf Throwing
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People:
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Paula Ciccone
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Melanie Griffin
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Courtney Love
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Christophe Lebourg
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Patrick Gale
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Bruce Campbell
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Music:
Victoria Williams, After Tonite, Popular Mechanics, Transvision Vamp, Jill Jones, Neil Young, Go Betweens, Jody Watley, Thomas Lang, George ones, Randy Travis, The Replacements, August Darnell, The Cure, Bobby's Boys, Edwyn Collins, Justifies Ancients Of Mu Mu
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Print:
Look at Chaman Pincher
Advanced Trivia Quiz Book, Jane Russell Autobiography, Flying High, Falling In Love, The Design Dimension, The Provisional IRA, Bitter Sweet Dreams, Against Interpretation, Pasollini, The Beat Generation, Without Falling, Later The Same Day, One Is A Wonderer, The Golden Gate​
Front Cover - Johnathan Ross
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July 1987
August 1987
Films:
Cannes Film Festival
Something Wilde, The Gate, Straight To Hell, Radio Days, The Boy Who Could Fly, Nobody's Fool, Evil Dead II, The Secret Of My Success, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Nothing In Common, Raising Arizona, Streets Of Gold, Paltoquet, Mannequin, Take It Easy
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Adverts:
Paul Johnson​, Beat Gets Wilder
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Issue 57
Released: 1997
Cover By - Richard Croft
Price - £1.50 Pages - 132
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​This issue is the Seventh Anniversary​
September 1987
Front Cover - Matt Dillon
Features and Interviews:
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Jim Shelley
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Malcolm Bradbury​
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Lloyd Cole
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Charlotte Rampling
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Fashion - Tokyo Dreams
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Matt Dillon
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Ken Livingstone
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Germaine Greer
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John Boorman
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Cliff Richard
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The Last Resort, Whoops Apocalypse, The Mosquito Coast, Deadly Friend, The Color Purple, Vamp, Better Off Dead, Slowburn, Big Trouble In Little China, Betty Blue, Scanners, Invaders From Mars, Fatherland, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Mission, Rude Boy
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Music:
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Elvis Presley, Lester Bowies Brass Fantasy, Pet Shop Boys, The Kane Gang, Max, Miami Sound Machine, Alexander O'Neal, Van Morrison, Dionne Warwick, Lizzie Tear
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Print:
Focus on Julian Barnes
Shoot The Piano Player, Black Friday, Nightfall, Perfume The Story of a Murderer, Transactions In A Foreign Country, Loving Roger, Mojo Hand, Demon Box, Into The Crocodile Nest, Beyond The Blue Horizon, Confessions Of An Advertising Man, A Child Of The War​

Issue 58
Released: 21st September 1997
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October 1987
Front Cover - John Galliano
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The Big Easy, Hope and Glory, Pee Wees Big Adventure, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Swimming In Cambodia, Hellraiser, Good Morning Babylon, Lethal Weapon, My Jolly Lives Next Door, Didn't You Kill My Brother?, Power, The Big Town, Comrades, Blind Date, Outragious Fortune, Amorosa
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Max​, Wendy and Lisa
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November 1987
December 1987
Issue 59
Released: 1997
Cover By -
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Issue 60
Released: 1997
Cover By - Russell Young
Price - £1.50 Pages - 132
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Front Cover - Ben Elton
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Front Cover - Emily Lloyd
Features and Interviews:
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New York Posses
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Gore Vidal​
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Emily Lloyd
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The Inla
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Sov-art
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Spike Milligan
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Esa-pekka Solonan
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Roddy Frame
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Bill Forsyth
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Videos:
Evil Dead II, Little Shop Of Horrors, Heartbreak Ridge, Round Midnight, She's Gotta Have It, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, Mannequin, Doctor At Sea, The Night Porter, The Golden Child, Nighthawks, The Color Of Money, Salvador
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Music:
John Hiatt, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Sting, Bryan Ferry, Robbie Robinson, Ry Cooder, Tom Robinson, Louise Goffin, Pop Will Eat Itself, Gaye Bikers On Acid, Rose Marie, Aztec Camera, Camel, Maxi Priest, Angela Winbush, Eurythmics, Earth Wind and Fire
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Print:
Look at Frank Jackman
Pocket Money, Prisons We Choose To Live In, Movers and Shakers, Granta 22, Zeffirelli, Don't Tread On Me, Corruptions Of Empire, The Movie Barfly, Fortune, Continent, The Way-Paver, Queen Of Stones​​
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Wish You Were Hear, House Of Games, Little Dorrit, A Month In The Country, Made In Heaven, Space Balls, Cry Freedom, Best Seller, Amazing Stories, The Dead, , Manon Des Sources, Bliss, Surender, Housekeeping
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