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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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Credits:

Price - 45p

Release Date - Unknown

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

Front Cover - Peter Sellers

 

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Issue 1

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 70p  Pages - 00

November 1980

Spring 1981

Issue 2

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 70p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Mary Watkins

 

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Summer 1981

Issue 3

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 50p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Molly Parkin

 

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Issue 4

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 00p  Pages - 00

Issue 5

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Front Cover - Unknown

 

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Issue 6

Cover By - Jamie Long

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Front Cover - Nick Heyward

 

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Issue 7

Cover By - (Unknown)

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Issue 8

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Price - 00p  Pages - 00

Issue 9

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 75p  Pages - 48

Issue 10

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 00p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Tony Marchant

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Sade Odu

  • Rosie Shades on Television

  • Russ Mayer

  • Portfolio: Stephen Rumney

  • Angus McBean

  • Phil Redmond

  • Paul Weller and Tony Marchant

  • Reader Survey 1983 Voting

  • Stephen Linard

  • Christina

  • The Chikes

  • The McGann's

  • The Lebons

Fashion / Style:

At War

Trax:

Pleasure and the Beast, Freur, Malcolm McLaren, Va Vagabond, Bananarama, Altered Images

Video:

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 11

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Issue 12

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Price - 75p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Julian Cope

 

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Front Cover - Ken Russelll

 

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Issue 14

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Issue 15

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Issue 16

Cover By - Steve Shipman

Price - 75p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Yello

 

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Front Cover - Ian Dury,

     Peter Blake, Humphry Ocean

 

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Front Cover - Wham

 

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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

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

  • Charles Kennedy MP

  • Portfolio: Chris Wroblewski

  • Paula Yates

  • Rick Mayall

  • Marillion

  • Readership Survey Voting

  • Brian Eno

  • Marylin

  • People

    • Jasper Conran

    • Mikel Rosen

    • Rachel Auburn

Videos:

-Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Xtro, Sophie's Choice, Violent Street, The Sender, Bullshot

Trax:

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

Films:

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

Cover By - (Unknown)

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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

Issue 20

Released: 23rd March 1984

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 00p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Paul Weller

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Robbie Coltrane

  • Portfolio: Johnny Rosza

  • Elliott Gould

  • Sam Fuller

  • Paul Weller

  • Feargal Sharkey

  • Keith Allen

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

  • Youth Culture in Russia

Videos:

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

Trax:

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

Front Cover - Alexei Sayle

 

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Issue 21

Cover By - (Unknown)

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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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Autumn 1981

Winter 81/82

Spring 1982

October / November
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December 1982
January 1983

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September 1983

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Issue 23

Cover By - (Unknown)

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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

This issue was the publications 2nd Birthday edition

September 1984

Front Cover - Nick Rhodes 

                       (Duran Duran)

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Photography Award Winners

  • Fela Kuti

  • Look Back Over the last 2 years

  • Mel Smith

  • The Cloth

  • Tim Roth

  • Neil Jordan

  • Gary Kemp

  • John Galliano

  • Nick Rhodes

Music Videos:

Breakdance, Howard Jones, U2

Videos:

Never Say Never Again, Lace, Christine, The Twilight Zone, Class, Slaygound

Trax:

Outbar Squeek, The Armoury Show, Way Of The West, Don Letts, The Gun Club, Prince, Th Room, Little Steven

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

Adverts:

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

Front Cover - Madness

Phots Shoots - Paul Morley and

            Claudia (Propaganda) 

Features and Interviews:

  • Paul Morley

  • Michael Grade

  • Judy Blame

  • Lenny Henry

  • Kim Wilde

  • Cabaret Voltaire

  • Madness

  • Kate Garner

  • Readership Survey

  • Record Sleeve Designers

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

Trax:

Apollonia Kotero, Virna Lindt, Berntholer, , Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Torch Song, Floy Joy, Jodi Watley

Print:

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

Front Cover - Rupert Everett

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Laurie Anderson

  • Comic Strip

  • Rupert Everett

  • Paul Morley

  • Janice Long

  • Sylvester

  • Films of 1984

Music Videos:

Ready Steady Go, The Rock Revolution, David Bowie, 10cc, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran

Trax:

Japan, Monochrome Set, Jim Thirwell, The Flowerpot Men, Fatal Charm, Feelabeelia, Fiona Franklyn

Musical Landmarks of 1984:​

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

  • Prince - Purple Rain

  • David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees

  • Womack and Womack - Love Wars

  • David Bowie - Tonight

  • Various Artists - High Energy 2

  • The Smiths - The Smiths

  • The Style Council - Cafe Bleu

  • Sade - Diamond Life

  • REM - Reckoning

  • Various Artists - Jazz Club

  • The Jacksons - Victory

  • Prefab Sprout - Soon

  • Bronski Beat - Age Of Consent

Issue 28

Released: 31st January 1985

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 75p  Pages - 00

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
January 1985

February 1985

March 1985

April 1985

Front Cover - Paul Young

 

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Front Cover - Models

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Phyllis Logan

  • Tony Doyle

  • Guardian Angels

  • Julie Walters

  • L.A. People

  • Dieter Meier

  • The Advertising Industry

  • Robert Palmer

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

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

Issue 30

Cover By - David LaChapelle

Price - 75p  Pages - 64

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

May 1985

June 1985

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Front Cover - Morrissey

 

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Front Cover - Green Gartside   

                        (Scritti Politti)

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Stephen Linard

  • Alex Cox

  • Pete Townsend

  • Allen Ginsberg

  • Scritti Politti

  • Nic Roeg

  • Prefab Sprout

Trax:

Fine Young Cannibals, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Wim Mertens, Woodentops, Big Heat

Print:

Social Security, Carful With The Sharks, Hannie Richards

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

Issue 32

Cover By - Richard Croft

Price - 75p  Pages - 64

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July / August 1985

September 1985

Front Cover - Billy Idol

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Jay McInerney

  • Stephen Brook

  • Ready Steady Go

  • Mark King

  • Billy Idol

  • Nicolas Cage

  • Gill Scott-Heron

  • Greta Scacchi

  • Penelope Spheeris

  • Bruce Springsteen

Trax:

Maxi Priest, 10,000 Maniacs, Simply Red, One Justice, Shriek Back, Jason and the Scorchers, Annie Hogan, Pink Industry, Mathilde Santing

Print:

The Fruit Palace, John Lennon In His Time, A Man With A Camera, Hard Lines 2, The Minimal Self, Bright Lights Big City

Films:

Insignificance, Birdy, Mask, Mrs Soffel, Ladyhawke, Restless Natives, , Runaway, The Coca Cola Kid, Police Academy 2, The Last Dragon, Grace Quigley

Adverts:

Steve McQueen​, Jeff Lorber, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hipsway, Andrew Caine, Maxi Priest, Cabaret Voltaire, Talking Heads

Front Cover - Marc Almond

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Luc Besson

  • Jason Bratby

  • Jane Snowden

  • Sheila Smith

  • Kathy Acker

  • Matt Dillon

  • Kate Bush

  • Robert Smith (The Cure)

  • Marc Almond

  • Sly 'n' Robbie

  • The 80's So Far

  • George Clinton

Style:

Leigh Bowery, John Galliano, Richmond-Cornejo, Bodymap, Stephen Jones, Bernstock-Speirs

Trax:

Eighth Wonder, Zeke Manyika, Krupps, Anna Domino, Bluey, Colourbox

Print:

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

Issue 34

Released - 29th August 1985

Cover By - Peter Moss

Price - 80p  Pages - 96

5th Anniversary Issue

This issue had a 5p price increase

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

Adverts:

Andrew Poppy​, Animal Nightlife, ZTT Sampled

Films:

Insignificance, Birdy, Mask, Mrs Soffel, Ladyhawke, Restless Natives, , Runaway, The Coca Cola Kid, Police Academy 2, The Last Dragon, Grace Quigley

Adverts:

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:

  • Derek Jarman

  • People:

    • Charley Boorman

    • Henrietta Alele

    • David Hiscock

  • Eric Bristow

  • John Cale

  • John Huston

  • Siouxsie

  • Designer File: Rifat Ozbek

  • Style 1

  • Adrian Edmondson

  • John Mortimer

  • Ruben Blades

  • Style II

Trax:

BAD, Alan Vega, Matt Bianco, Stee Walsh, The Flowerpot Men, Twilight, Flesh For Lulu, The Replenishments, Paul Haig

Print:

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

Adverts:

Anne​ Pigalle, Clannad

Issue 35

Released: 26th September 1985

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 80p  Pages - 00

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

Adverts:

Spandau Ballet​

Films:

Order Of Death, Star Chamber, Spacehunter, Rear Window, Young Giants, National Lampoon's Vacation, Dead

Adverts:

Yello​, China Crisis, Psychic TV

Films:

Terms Of Endearment, Vertigo, To Be Or Not To Be,  Testament, Savage Islands

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

Adverts:

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

Films:

Gremlins, Red Dawn, Ghostbusters, The Killing Fields

Adverts:

Dalis Car​, David Bowie, Japan, ZTT

Films:

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:

  • People:

    • Daniel Day Lewis

    • Mick Mahoney

    • Simon McBurney

    • Gabriel Byrne

  • Mickey Rourke

  • John Lithgow

  • Peter Murphy

  • Lloyd Cole

  • Obscure Object Of Desire:

    • Sandra Goldbacher

    • Michael Morris

    • Andy Czezowski

    • Nigel Coates

  • Dexy's Midnight Runners

  • Readership Survey

  • Eric Bergere

  • David Owen

  • David Owen

Trax:

The Fabulous Pop Tarts, Fleat Up CP, Pace e Lucia, Colease Parade, Mercy Ray, Champion Doug Welch, Stanley Jordan, Topper Headen, Easterhouse

Print:

Listen To These Pictures, David Bowie: The Star Zone, Revolutionary Road, Postmodern Culture, Bumf, Slow Learner

Adverts:

Big Audio Dynamite​, Sun City, Anne Clark, Arcadia

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

February 1986

Front Cover - Maria Cornejo

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Cannon and Ball

  • Dee Snider

  • Michael Winner

  • Obscure Objects Of Desire:

    • Ian Pollock

    • Lana Pellay

    • Ed Ball

  • The Krays

  • Fish

  • People:

    • Rabbit and Doon

    • Sogho Ishii

    • Ruth Rogers-Wright

    • John Badum

    • Martine Houghton

    • Jennie Neame

Videos:

Joan Rivers, The Best Of John Belushi, The Guardian, Birdy, Guiag, Mata Harl, Steaming, Brazil

Music:

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

Print:

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

Films:

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

Adverts:

Stephen Duffy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eurythmics​

March 1986

Issue 39

Released: 20th February 1996

Cover By - Mark Lewis

Price - 90p  Pages - 96

This issue had a 10p price increase

Front Cover - David Convy

 

Features and Interviews:

  • James Brady: AIDS and American TV

  • Akira Kurosawa

  • Ian Charleson and Julie Walters

  • Karen Blixen

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • A Look At Boxing

  • Julie Burchill

  • Larger Wars

  • John Lydon

  • Anatomy Of A  Murder

  • Obscure Objects Of Desire

    • Vivianne Lynn

    • Murry Partridge

    • Peter Care

    • Sandy Powell

  • Alan Bleasdale

  • Eddie Shah

  • People:

  • Eugenie Arrowsmith

  • John Gordan-Sinclair

  • Nickelodeon

  • The Kostiffs

  • Mark Jacobs

  • Libby Kraal

Videos:

The Holcroft Covenant, The Terminator, Stop Making Sense, Revenge Of The Nerds, The Last Dragon, Johnny Dangerously, Turk 182

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

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

Adverts:

Eugenie​ Arrowsmith, Floy Joy, Talk Talk

April 1986

Issue 40

Released: 17th March 1996

Cover By - Carl Bengtsson

Price - 90p  Pages - 96

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:

  • Larry Cohen

  • Jamie Reid

  • Stephen Duffy

  • Derek Jameson

  • Samantha Fox

  • Designer Previews 1986

  • Depeche Mode

  • Jean Paul Gaultier

  • Obscure Objects Of Desire

    • Claudia Brucken

    • Pete Davis

    • Donna Muir

  • Ken Livingston

  • Faking It

  • People:

    • Tom Hulce

    • Mark Rodgers

    • Martine Sitbon

    • Simon Doonan

Music:

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

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

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

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

May 1986

June 1986

Front Cover - Helena Bonham

                          Carter

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Jerzy Skolimowski

  • Youth Programming

  • Anthony Sher

  • Blitz Designer Collection

  • Robert Howard

  • Portfolio - Eilish McCarrick

  • Johnathan Richman

  • Fashion - New York Warriors

  • Fashion - Ballet Hoo

  • Gridiron

  • Obscure Objects Of Desire:

    • Magenta De Vine

    • Steve Woolley

    • David Jenson

  • Vivienne Westwood

  • Fashion - Donna Karan

  • All That Glitters - The New York Glam Revival

  • John Peel

  • People:

    • Eric Robinson

    • Barry Kamen

    • Helena Bonham Carter

    • Karen Finley

    • Diane Abbott

    • Alison Fisher

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

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

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Caravaggio, The Medium Is The Message, Herzog, A View Of The English Stage, The Heart Of The Matter, The Black Book, You Might As Well Live, I Can't Stay Long, Paradise Postponed, AIDS and the new Puritanism, Total Chess, Memory Babe, Talking To Women, The Price Of Truth

Adverts:

Promises​, Win

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July 1986

August 1986

Issue 43

Released: 1996

Cover By - Marcus Tomlinson

Price - 90p  Pages - 112

Issue 44

Released: 21st July 1996

Cover By - Unknown

Price - 90p  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Daniel Day Lewis

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Adventures In The rand Prix Trade

  • Daniel Day Lewis

  • The Blitz Designer Collection

    • Jacques Azagury

    • Eric Bergere

    • Bernstock Speirs

    • Body Man

    • Leigh Bowery

    • Jasper Conran

    • Enrico Coveri

    • Culture Shock

    • John Galliano

    • Katherine Hamnett

    • Betty Jackson

    • Joseph Stephen Jones

    • Stephen Linard

    • Mark & Style

    • Jean Muir

    • Rifat Ozbek

    • Zandra Rhodes

    • Richmond Cornejo

    • Paul Smith

    • Vivienne Westwood

    • DSM

  • People:

    • Todd Oldham

    • Richard Jobson

    • Ken Smith

    • Malcolm Poynter

  • Frank Bruno

  • Fashion

    • Dead Cool Katski

    • Taylor Made

  • Crack

  • Calvin Klein

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

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

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

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

​This Issue had a 20p price increase

Issue 46

Released: 24th September 1996

Cover By - Unknown

Price - £1.10  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Boy George

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Bob Hoskins

  • Ian Botham

  • Boy George

  • Holly Johnson

  • Baader-Meinhof

  • Dieter Maier

  • Everything But The Girl

  • Stephen Barkoff

  • Music Publishing

Videos:

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Music:

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

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

Films:

Under The Cherry Moon, Aliens, Jakespeed, Pretty In Pink, Target, At Close Range, Rosa Luxemburg, Betty Blue, Highlander

Adverts:

It's Immaterial, David Sylvian, Pete Wylie​

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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

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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

Issue 50

Released: 1997

Cover By - Mark Lewis

Price - £1.10  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Rachel Roberts

 

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Front Cover - Amanda Donohoe

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Oliver Stone

  • Bobby Womack

  • Sleaze

  • Mandy Smith

  • Fashion:

    • Barry Kamen

    • Hilde Smith

  • Ice Hockey

  • David Cronenberg

  • Anthony Burgess

  • Jim Jarmusch

  • People:

    • Amanda Donohoe

    • Maria Marshall

    • Tama Janowitz

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

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

Adverts:

Drum Theatre​

Issue 51

Released: 16th February 1997

Cover By - Unknown

Price - £1.10  Pages - 00

March 1987

April 1987

Front Cover - Rupert Everett

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Sleeve Art

  • Oliver Read

  • La Vida Loca

  • Paul Morley on

    • Ben Elton

    • Jasper Carrott

  • Rupert Everett

  • Waling

  • Cybill Shephard

  • Peter Cook

  • The Snap Pack

  • Peter Cook

  • Raymond Carver

  • People:

  • Spike Lee

  • Tom Dixon

  • Timothy Spall

Videos:

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Music:

The Bodines, Happy Mondays, Nonesuch, Simply Red, Psychedelic Furs, Three O'clock, The Thrashing Doves, Grandmaster Flash, Doctor Eric Leeds, Monus, Dead Or Alive

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

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

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:

  • Bertrand Blier

  • Mark Salzman

  • Gary Oldman

  • Tom Jones

  • Advertising

  • Duran Duran

  • Hippies

  • Vine Street Blues

  • Patrick Moore

  • Exposure

  • People:

    • Joanna Hogg

    • Steve Parsons

    • Martin Millar

    • Carlo Gebler

Music:

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

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

Issue 54

Released: 1997

Cover By - Russell Young

Price - £1.10  Pages - 112

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

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

Issue 56

Released: 13th July 1997

Cover By - 

Price - £1.10  Pages - 00

Front Cover - Paula Ciccone

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Timothy Mo

  • James Bond

  • Fashion - New York Living

  • Tour De France

  • Hustlers

  • Beyond The Fringe

  • Jim Kerr

  • Klaus Barbie

  • James Reid

  • Roy Orbison

  • Dwarf Throwing

  • People:

    • Paula Ciccone

    • Melanie Griffin

    • Courtney Love

    • Christophe Lebourg

    • Patrick Gale

    • Bruce Campbell

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

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

Adverts:

Paul Johnson​, Beat Gets Wilder

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Issue 57

Released: 1997

Cover By - Richard Croft

Price - £1.50  Pages - 132

This issue had a 40p price increase

​This issue is the Seventh Anniversary

September 1987

Front Cover - Matt Dillon

 

Features and Interviews:

  • Jim Shelley

  • Malcolm Bradbury

  • Lloyd Cole

  • Charlotte Rampling

  • Fashion - Tokyo Dreams

  • Matt Dillon

  • Ken Livingstone

  • Germaine Greer

  • John Boorman

  • Cliff Richard

Videos:

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

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

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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Films:

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

Adverts:

Max​, Wendy and Lisa

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November 1987

December 1987

Issue 59

Released: 1997

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Issue 60

Released: 1997

Cover By - Russell Young

Price - £1.50  Pages - 132

Front Cover - Ben Elton

 

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Front Cover - Emily Lloyd

 

Features and Interviews:

  • New York Posses

  • Gore Vidal

  • Emily Lloyd

  • The Inla

  • Sov-art

  • Spike Milligan

  • Esa-pekka Solonan

  • Roddy Frame

  • Bill Forsyth

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

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

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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Films:

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

Adverts:

Anne Pigalle, Bryan Ferry​

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