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1986 Issues

These are the issues of Record Mirror that came out in 1986.

Some of the issues I have will be available on this site (click the link on the date or picture to take you to the issue which will be available via my Flickr page). 

 

Some of the issues may just have pictures which will be there to showcase what the issue front cover was and will be there for reference.

If anyone has any issues that are not available on this site and are willing to scan them and make them available (from any year) then please get in touch via the Contact page.

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Editor - Betty Page

Deputy Editor / Features - Jim Reid

News Editor - Robin Smith

Design - Graham Black

Production Editor - Diane Cross

Advertisement Manager - Carole Norvell-Reid

Ad Production Manager - Tony Dixon

Publisher - Brian Batchelor

Copyright - United Magazines Ltd

Published By - Spotlight Publications Ltd

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 01 - 4th Jan

Volume 33 - Number 1

Cover By - Ian Hooton

Price - 48p    Pages - 48 

Front Cover - BAD

Interviews and Features:

Lizzy Tear

BAD

The Best Of The Irish

Brix Smith

King

Floy Joy

U2

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Volume 33 - Number 2

Cover By (Unknown)

Price - 48p    Pages - 48

Front Cover - Feargal Sharkey

Interviews and Features:

Royalle Delite

Brat Pack

Iccle Works

Feargal Sharkey

Thompson Twins

Asher Senator and Smiley Culture

Aretha Franklin

Colourfield

Jim Reid - Singles Reviewed

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 03 - 18th Ja

Volume 33 - Number 3

Cover By - Ashworth

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Marc Almond

Interviews and Features:

Sophia George 

Nancy Culp - Singles Review

Ozzy Osbourne

5TA

ABC

Marc Almond

Full Force

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 4

Cover By - LFI

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - The Alarm

Interviews and Features:

The Alarm

Fergal Sharkey

Cherrelle

James

Eddy Grant

Level 42

LL Cool J

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 5

Cover By - Eugene Adebari

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Volume 33 - Number 6

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Free 4 Track EP

(See Below)

Front Cover - Belouis Some

Interviews and Features:

Billy Bragg

Madness

Talk Talk

Belouis Some

Beatie Boys

Nicole

Blow Monkeys

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - Depeche Mode

Interviews and Features:

Paul Hardcastle

Depeche Mode

Red Wedge

Cactus World News

American Music Awards

Def Jam

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 7

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

 

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Interviews and Features:

Double

Hipsway

Farley and Frempton

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Fralippo Lippi

Prime MOvers

Rochelle

PIL

Albums:

Talk Talk, Ozzy Osbourne, Topper Headon, Beltane Fire

Singles: by Betty Page

Depeche Mode, The Jazz Butcher, Redskins, The Blow Monkey's, Ruefrex, Matt Bianco, Roy White, Sting, Bryan Adams, Beki, Ta Mara and the Seen, Jermaine Stewart, Owen Paul, Far Corporation, The Jacobites, The Swimming Pool, Marilyn Martin, Sister Sledge, The Rubber Goddesses

Live:

Thunderbirds, Pride, The Jazz Butcher, INXS, OMD, Feargal Sharkey

 

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Volume 33 - Number 8

Cover By - Paul Cox

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Start Of Cassette Offer

(See Below)

Front Cover - Simple Minds

Back Cover - Owen Paul

Interviews and Features:

The BPI Awards

Don Dixon

Simple Minds

From Manchester With Love

Brilliant

Kurtis Blow

Danse Society

Jim Reid - Singles Reviewed

Albums:

Singles:

Live:

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Volume 33 - Number 9

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - Jake Harris (Chakk)

Interviews and Features:

  • The Bangles

  • Charlie Sexton

  • Chakk

  • Junior

  • David Bowie

  • Simple Minds

  • OMD

Albums:

Singles

 

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Volume 33 - Number 10

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 48p  Pages - 48 

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - S S Sputnik

Interviews and Features:

  • Lana Pellay

  • Elvis Costello

  • Outrage – who is the most controversial group ever

  • Alexander O’Neal

  • Raymonde

Albums:

Singles:

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Volume 33 - Number 11

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Siouxsie

Interviews and Features:

Madonna

Grammies

Wire Train

Betty Wright

Siouxsie

Mike Rutherford

Housemartins

Janet Jackson

S. S. Sputnik

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 12 - 22nd Ma

Volume 33 - Number 12

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

 

Free 4 Track EP

(See Below)

Front Cover - New Order

Back Cover - The Bangles

Interviews and Features:

Big Audio Dynamite

New Order

Blow Monkey's

Suzanne Vega

Black Britain

Circus Circus Circus

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 13

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 49p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Bryan Ferry

Interviews and Features:

Pet Shop Boys

Country Music

Absolute Beginners

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Adams

Pogues

Splatter Movies

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Volume 33 - Number 14

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Tippa Irie

Interviews and Features:

Tippa Irie

Faith Brothers

Jackson Brown

Balaam and the Angel

Fine Young Cannibals

Tom Waits

Herman Ze German

Redskins

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Volume 33 - Number 15

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Love and Money

Interviews and Features:

Then Jericho

Eddie O’Connell

Style Council

Anna Domino

Love And Money

Blue In Heaven

March Violets

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 16 - 19th Ap

Volume 33 - Number 16

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Blow Monkeys

Interviews and Features:

Double

The Godfather’s

Falco

Blow Monkeys

Psychic TV

The Real Thing

Bronski Beat

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 17 - 26th Ap

Volume 33 - Number 17

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Robert Smith

                          (The Cure)

Interviews and Features:

Costello Country

Belouis Some

Easterhouse

The Cure

Paul Morrissey

Steven Dante

Style Council

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 18 - 3rd May

Volume 33 - Number 18

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Hipsway

Interviews and Features:

Max

Blancmange

Five Star

SOS Band

Hipsway

The Winans

The Ramones

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 19 - 10th Ma

Volume 33 - Number 19

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

10th May 1986

Front Cover - Peter Gabriel

Interviews and Features:

Go Betweens

X-Word

Marvin Gaye

Fruits Of Passion

Peter Gabriel

Icehouse

Heaven 17

T C Curtis

Big Audio Dynamite

Rowan Atkinson

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 20 - 17th Ma

Volume 33 - Number 20

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Fuzzbox

Back Cover - Whitney Houston

Interviews and Features:

Ted Chippington

Erasure

That Petrol Emotion

Spitting Image

Fuzzbox

Hue And Cry

Doctor And The Medics

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 21 - 24th Ma

Volume 33 - Number 21

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 48p  Pages - 60

Front Cover - Zodiac Mindwarp

Interviews and Features:

B52's

Woodentops

Zodiac Mindwarp

Sandi Shaw

Red Guitars

Bad - Video Shoot

Mantronix

Montreux Rock Festival 

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 22 - 31st Ma

Volume 33 - Number 22

Cover Photo - Patrick

Price - 48p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Simply Red

Interviews and Features:

Simply Red

Pete Beale

Self Aid

The Shamen

Matt Bianco

Dainteers

Marc Almond

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 23 - 7th Jun

Volume 33 - Number 23

Cover By - Adrian Boot

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

This issue Had A Price Rise From 48p - 55p

Front Cover - B.A.D

Interviews and Features:

Colourbox

Big Audio Dynamite

Sport Aid

Gene Loves Jezebal

Cashflow

Three Johns

Free 4 Track EP

(See Below)

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 24 - 14th Ju

Volume 33 - Number 24

Cover By - Jo Novark

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Johnny Marr

Interviews and Features:

INXS

Midge Ure

Johnny Marr

The Mission

His Latest Flame on Tour

The Housemartins on Tour

Communards

Doctor And The Medics

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 25 - 21st Ju

Volume 33 - Number 25

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - The Housemartins

Interviews and Features:

Sir Mix A Lot

Furniture

House-Martins

Go! Discs

Genesis

Love Bug Starski

Suzanne Vegs

This Issue also came with a Free Laskeys £5000 worth Of CD/Hi Fi To be Won Booklet and Entry Form

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 26 - 28th Ju

Volume 33 - Number 26

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Big Country

Interviews and Features:

Free 12inch EP Offer

Thrashing Doves

Big Country

The RM Critics Choice

Queen – 30 Things You Never

                 Knew

Fountain Head

Blow Monkeys

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Volume 33 - Number 27

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Roxanne

Interviews and Features:

Roxanne

Madonna

Prince’s Trust

Bangles

Balam and the Angel

Ten Ten

Chameleons

Wham

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Volume 33 - Number 28

Cover By - Eugene Adebari

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Billy Bragg

Interviews and Features:

Weather Prophets

View From The Hill

Artists Against Aparthide

Picnic At The Whitehouse

Nightin Gales

Motorhead

Willie Colon

Billy Bragg

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Volume 33 - Number 29

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Joe Strummer

Interviews and Features:

Gilberto Gil

Aswad

Joe Strummer

Secession

Masquerade

Stan Ridgway

In Tua Nua

Queen Live

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Volume 33 - Number 30

Cover By - Patrick Quigly

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - It's Immaterial

Interviews and Features:

Sputnik Speak

It’s Immaterial

Yello

Alex Cox

Audrey Hall

Hollywood Beyond

Roger Morton - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 33 - Number 31

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 52

Front Cover - Jean Jacques Burnel

Interviews and Features:

Jean Jacques Burnel

Gwen Guthrie

Twenty Flight Rockers

Icicle Works

UK Fresh ‘86

G-Mex

Spandau Ballet

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Volume 33 - Number 32

Cover By (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 60

Front Cover - The The

Interviews and Features: 

Helen Terry,

Curiosity Killed The Cat

Matt Johnson (The The)

Everything But The Girl

Dr Calculus

James

David Rudder

Latin Quarter

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Volume 33 - Number 33

Cover By - Eugene Adebari

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Daryl Hall

Interviews and Features:

Michael McDonald

Brother Beyond

Working Week

Daryl Hall

Poly Styrene

Meat Loaf

Anita Baker

Chaka Khan

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Volume 33 - Number 34

Cover By - 

Price - 55p  Pages - 

Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

23rd August 1986

Front Cover - Michael Hutchence

                             (INXS)

Interviews and Features:

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Volume 33 - Number 35

Cover By - Patrick Quigly

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Pete Wylie

Interviews and Features:

Rita Mitsouko

Dwight Yoakam

Peter Cetera

Farley Jackmaster Funk

Pete Wylie

Light A Big Fire

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Nat Augustin

Cameo

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Volume 33 - Number 36

Cover By - Paul Cox

Price - 55p  Pages - 64

Front Cover - Pete Burns

Interviews and Features:

The Lover Speaks

Big Country

Paul Simon

Cutting Crew

Nick Cave

Pete Burns

House

Jermaine Stewart

Killing Joke

Albums:

David Sylvian, Paul Simon, Tippa Irie, George Benson, Various Artists, Howlin' Wilf and the Vee Jays

Singles: by Di Cross

Pete Wylie, Talking Heads, The Bolshoi, The Big Supreme, Bloodfire Posse, Stephen Duffy, Hipsway, Bangles, Owen Paul, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, STA, Balaam and the Angel, Cyndi Lauper, Cactus World News, Splash, Chairman of the Board, Paul Simon

Live:

The Reading Festival, Head/ The Balcony/ Biting Tongues

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

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Volume 33 - Number 37

Cover By - 

Price - 55p  Pages - 

Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

13th September 1986

Front Cover - Psychic TV

Interviews and Features:

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Volume 33 - Number 38

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 50

Front Cover - Phil Oakey

Interviews and Features:

Owen Paul

Bon Jovi

Terry and Gerry

Holiday Rap

Phil Oakey

Nigel Planer

Jackie Graham

UB40

Chance To Get A Free Album

Fruit Cake and Furry Collars

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 39

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 58

Front Cover - Psychedelic Furs

Interviews and Features:

The McCluskeys

General Public

Bobby's Boys

Big Supreme

Jaz Jankle

Wild Flowers

Psycedelic Furs

The Fall 

Madness - A Tribute

Beastie Boys

Run DMC

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 40

Cover By - Ian Hooton

Price - 55p  Pages - 70

Front Cover - Ultravox

Interviews and Feature:

Godfathers

Alice Cooper

The Men They Couldn't Hang

Black

Ultravox

Kenny G and Angela Bofill

Family Quest

Jazz In Britain

John Peel

Serious Records

Shop Assistance

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

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Volume 33 - Number 41

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 64

Front Cover - Brix

Interviews and Features:

The Edge

Cactus World News

Cortney Pine

Steve Stevens

Salvation Sunday

Brix

New Order

Wasp

Roman Polanski

Mel ‘n’ Kim

Billy Bragg

Cover One

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Volume 33 - Number 42

Front Cover By -

         Patrick Quigly

Back Cover By -

         Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages -  56

Double Sided

See Right For 2nd Cover

Front Cover 1 - Cocteau Twins

Front Cover 2 - Bad

Interviews and Features:

Millie Jackson

Swing Out Sister

Pete Waterman

Xmal Deutschland

Cocteau Twins

Status Quo

Heaven 17

Howard Hewett

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Cover Two

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Volume 33 - Number 43

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 72

Front Cover - Frankie Goes To

                         Hollywood

Interviews and Features:

Strangers and Brothers

Two People

Little Richard

The Beloved

Bangles

Hurrah

Tom Robinson

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Furniture

Ted Hawkins

Robert De Niro

T La Rock

The Woodentops

Readers Poll

The Daintees

Iggy Pop

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 44

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 72

Front Cover - The Soup Dragons

Interviews and Features:

The Bolshoi

Bad

Felt

The Cuties Are Coming

Stump

Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones

Colenso Digest

Index Points The Finger

The Mission

Soup Dragons

Commodors

Music Of Life

Jesse Saunders

Disco Aid

Kurtis Blow

Luther Vandross

Duran Duran

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 45

Front Cover - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

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Volume 33 - Number 46

Front Cover (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Debbie Harry

Interviews and Features:

The Saints

Steve Jensen

The Primitives

Huey Lewis

Debbie Harry

OMD

Georgie Fame

Rent Party

China Crisis

Billy Idol

Freddie McGregor

Womack and Womack

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Front Cover - Go West

Interviews and Features:

Pop Will Eat Itself

Bill Drummond

Basia

Ivor Cutler

Shinehead

Das Psych-oh Rangers

Railway Children

Go West

Iron Maiden

Lone Justice

Oran ‘Juice’ Jones

Full Force

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Volume 33 - Number 47

Cover By - 

Price - 55p  Pages -  

Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

22nd November 1986

Front Cover - Pet Shop Boys

Interviews and Features:

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Volume 33 - Number 48

Cover By - Patrick Quiglu

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Band Of Holy Joy

Back Cover - Eurythmics

Interviews and Features:

Music UK

Band Of Holy Joy

Bobby Womack and Ron Wood

LIP

Wire

Erasure

Communards

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Volume 33 - Number 49

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Back Cover - Joe Shutter

 

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

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Volume 33 - Number 50

Cover By - Steve Double

Back Cover - Paul Cox

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Mantronix

Back Cover - Cameo

Interviews and Features:

Brilliant Corners

Andy White

Harold Budd

Killing Joke

Readers Survey

Mantronix

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - Age Of Chance

Back Cover - The Housemartins

Interviews and Features:

Talulah Gosh

Ian Lavine

Mark E Smith

Kool Moe Dee

Managers

Age Of Chance

Chesterfields

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 33 - Number 51

Cover By - Nick Berry /

                  REX Features

Price - 55p  Pages - 40

Front Cover - Nick Berry and

                          Europe

Interviews and Features:

After Tonite

The Wallflowers

Howlin’ Wilf

What Is Wrong With The Top 40

Sly and Robbie

Alexander O’Neal

SOS Band

The Pretenders

Cover One

Cover Two

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Volume 33 - Number 52

       and 01

Cover 1 By - Joe Shutter

Cover 2 By -

                Patrick Quigly 

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

(Double Issue)

Double Sided Issue

See Right For 2nd Cover 

Front Cover 1 - Matt Johnson

Front Cover 2 - The Housemartins

Interviews and Features:

The The

Quotes Of The Year

The Housemartins

The RM Records Of The Year

Zodiac Mindwarp Cartoon

Readers Poll

Staff Choice Of The Year

Round Up Of The Year

Christmas Chartfile

The Hammy Awards

Marc Almond

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Free Stuff

At times Record Mirror would either give something away Free or make it possible to send off for a Free Gift.  Below are the items available in this year.

8th February 1986

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4 Track EP
Solid

Credits:

Label - Record Mirror – RM 1

Format - Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Compilation, Stereo

Country - UK

Released - 8th February 1986

Genre - Electronic, Hip Hop, Pop

Style - Synth-pop, Boom Bap, Pop Rap

Track Listing

Front and Back Cover

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A1 - Depeche Mode – Dressed In Black

  • Producer – Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones

  • Written-By – M. Gore

A2 - Pet Shop Boys – In The Night

  • Producer – Pet Shop Boys, Phil Harding

  • Written-By – N. Tennant/C. Lowe

B1 - Beastie Boys – Slow And Low

  • Producer – R. Rubin

  • Written-By – D. McDaniels, I. Simmons, R. Rubin

B2 - LL Cool J – Dangerous

  • Producer – R. Rubin

  • Written-By – J. Smith, R. Rubin

Companies

  • Published By – Grabbing Hands

  • Published By – Sonet

  • Published By – Cage Music Ltd.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.

  • Pressed By – PRS Ltd.

  • Lacquer Cut at – The Penthouse

Notes

  • Compiled By – Gill Smith

  • Cover – Graham Black

Side A

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Side B

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Notes

Label variation 1. On the B side there is a credit below both tracks: Courtesy CBS Records/Def Jam Records.

Label variation 2. On the B side there is not a credit below both tracks: Courtesy CBS Records/Def Jam Records.

"Dressed in Black" is an exclusive pre-release version of the track which later appeared on Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" album. This is its only official appearance on vinyl and is, therefore, unique to this release.

A1: Pub. by Grabbing Hands/Sonet on Mute Records.
A2: Pub. by Cage Music Ltd. on Parlophone/EMI Records.
B1: ℗ CBS Inc. 1985. Courtesy of CBS Records/Def Jam Records.
B2: ℗ CBS Ins. 1985. Courtesy of CBS Records/Def Jam Records. From the LP 'Radio'

Track durations not listed on the release.

Barcodes and Other Ident

  • Pressing Plant ID (Stamped in runout areas): ▽420

  • Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 1)): RM 1 A//1▽420E 11 2

  • Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 1)): RM 1 B//1▽420E 2 2

  • Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): RM 1 A//1▽420E 1 2 1

  • Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): RM 1 B//1▽420E 1 2

Advert - 1st February 1986

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15 Track Cassette
Spools Gold

Record Mirror Issue 22nd February announced that their readers could get a Free 15 Track Cassette.

In order to get this you had to send off 4 Different numbered Tokens and then send them all with a Sturdy Self Addressed Envelope and after waiting up to 28 days the cassette would be yours.

Credits:

Front and Back Cover

Label - Record Mirror – RMC:60 II

Format - Cassette, Album, Compilation

Country - UK

Released - March 1986

Genre - Electronic, Rock, Reggae, Pop

Style - Alternative Rock, Industrial, Indie Rock, 

              Reggae-Pop, Electro, Goth Rock, Synth-pop

Artwork By – Graham Black

Compiled By – Gill Smith

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Track Listing

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A1 - Godfathers – Lonely Man

  • Producer – Vic Maile

  • Written-By – C. Coyne, P. Coyne

A2 - Cabaret Voltaire – The Web (Remix)

  • Producer – Cabaret Voltaire

  • Written-By – Kirk, Mallinder

A3 - Blancmange – Hello Darling

  • Written-By, Producer – S. Luscombe

A4 - Max – Brand New Revenge

  • Producer – Jeremy Healy

  • Written-By – K. Mooney

A5 - Paul Haig – Fear And Dancing

  • Producer – Alan Rankine

  • Written-By, Producer – Paul Haig

A6 - The Shamen – I Don't Like The Way The World Is Turning

  • Written-By – Colin Shamen, Derek Shamen, Keith Shamen

A7 - Doug E Fresh – La-Di-Da

  • Co-producer – Doug E Fresh

  • Producer – Dennis Bell, Ollie Cotton

  • Written-By – D. Davies, R. Walters

A8 - Housemartins – I'll Be Your Shelter

  • Producer – John Williams

  • Written-By – Lloyd Charmers

B1 - Woodentops – Move Me (12in Version)

  • Producer – Animal Jesus

  • Remix – Godwin Logie

  • Written-By – Rolo

B2 - Icicle Works – Sweet Thursday

  • Producer – Ian Broudie

  • Written-By – Ian McNabb

B3 - Aswad – Nuclear Soldier (Special RM Dub Mix)

  • Written-By – Aswad

B4 - Twenty Flight Rockers – Searching For A Hero

Written-By – Twenn, McKean, Vine, Latt

B5 - Blow Monkeys – Walking The Blue Beat

  • Producer – Michael Baker

  • Written-By – Robert Howard

B6 - Mathilde Santing – Too Much

  • Producer – Mathilde Santing, Steve Barker

  • Written-By, Producer – Dennis Duchhart

B7 - March Violets – Wild Talk

  • Producer – Mark Dodson

  • Written-By – Andy Tolson, Cleo Murray, Loz Elliott, 
                           Tom Ashton

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Example Of Tokens

Information To Send Off For The Cassette

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4 Track EP
Solid

Credits:

Label - Record Mirror – r'm 2

Format - Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Compilation, Stereo

Country - UK

Released - 22nd March 1986

Genre - Electronic, Pop

Style - Leftfield, Synth-pop

Compiled By – Gill Smith

Cover – Graham Black

22nd March 1986

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 12 - 22nd Ma

Track Listing

A1 - New Order –  Sub-Culture (Remix)

  • Producer, Written-By – New Order

  • Remix – John Robie

  • Remix [Uncredited] – Joseph Watt

A2 - Raymonde – Jennifer Wants

  • Producer – Raymonde, Sexton

  • Written-By – Maker, Huish

B1 - Hipsway – Bad Thing Longing

  • Producer – Hipsway, Paul Stavely O'Duffy

  • Written-By – Skinner, Travers, McElhone, Jones

B2 - Adventures – Walk Away Renee

  • Producer – The Adventures

  • Written-By – Calilli, Brown, Sansoni

Companies

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Factory Communications Ltd.

  • Copyright © – Factory Communications Ltd.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram

  • Copyright © – Desire Records

  • Copyright © – Phonogram

  • Copyright © – Chrysalis

  • Published By – Be Music

  • Published By – Warner Bros. Music

  • Published By – APB Music Co. Ltd.

  • Published By – Copyright Control

  • Published By – Intersong

  • Pressed By – EMI Records

Front and Back Cover

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Record Mirror - 4 Track EP - Solid - Back Cover.jpg

Side A

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Side B

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Notes

  • Free with r'm (Record Mirror, UK music magazine).
    Not for resale.

    A1 ℗ 1985 Factory Communications © 1985 Factory Communications
    Published by Bemusic/Warner Bros Music

    A2 ® 1986 Desire Records © 1986 Desire Records
    Pub APB Music Co. Ltd

    B1 ℗ 1986 Phonogram © 1986 Phonogram
    Copyright Control

    B2 ® 1986 Chrysalis © Chrysalis
    Pub Intersong

    A1: Exclusive remix (Note: it's an edit of Razormaid's Sarm West Mix)
    A2: Exclusive track
    B1: Preview from their forthcoming album
    B2: Specially recorded for rm

Barcodes and Other Ident

Advert - 1st February 1986

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  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): RM 2 A-1C-1-Q3- x 1

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): RM 2 B-1C-1-Q6- x 1

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): RM 2 A-1C-1-Q5- x 1 D

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): RM 2 B-1C-1-Q6-2 D

7th June 1986

Record Mirror - Vol 33 - No 23 - 7th Jun

Front and Back Cover

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3 Track EP

Credits:

Label - Record Mirror – RM 3

Format - Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP, Compilation, Stereo

Country - UK

Released - 7th June 1986

Genre - Electronic, Rock

Style - Electro, Synth-pop

Cover – Graham Black

Track Listing

A - Big Audio Dynamite – This Is Big Audio Dynamite

                                                      Super 8 Mix

  • Producer – Mick Jones

  • Written-By – BAD

B1 - That Petrol Emotion – V2

  • Producer – Hugh Jones

  • Written-By – Sean O'Neill

B2 - The Three Johns – The World By Storm

  • Producer – Steve Forward

  • Written-By – The Three Johns

Companies

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  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS

  • Copyright © – CBS

  • Published By – BAD Songs Publishing

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Demon Records

  • Copyright © – Demon Records

  • Published By – Copyright Control

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Abstract Sounds Ltd.

  • Copyright © – Abstract Sounds Ltd.

  • Published By – Low Noise Music

  • Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton

Side A

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Side B

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Notes

Free with r'm (Record Mirror). Not for Resale.

A side on label as by BAD.

 

There is a mispress version as both sides play The Three Johns' track "The World By Storm" instead of the normal tracklisting.

Barcodes and Other Ident

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped, variant 1): RM 3 A-1U-1-

  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped, variant 1): RM 3 B-1C-1-

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped, variant 2): RM 3 A-1U-1-1-13 Λ

  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped, variant 2): RM 3 B-1C-1- Λ D

12'' Compilation

Credits:

Label - Record Mirror – RM4

Format - Vinyl, 12", Compilation

Country - UK

Released - 1986

Genre - Rock

Style - Indie Rock

Track Listing

A1 - Chakk – Step By Step

A2 - Martin Stephenson And The Daintees – Crocodile Cryer

B1 - Del Amitri – Out In The Wind

B2 - Gene Loves Jezebel – Suspicion

Front and Back Cover

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Companies

  • Printed By – TOPAC

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Beggars Banquet Ltd.

  • Copyright © – Beggars Banquet Ltd.

  • Copyright © – MCA Music

  • Recorded At – Strawberry Studios

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Kitchenware Records

  • Copyright © – Kitchen Music

  • Copyright © – CBS Songs

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Momentum Music Ltd.

  • Copyright © – Momentum Music Ltd.

  • Pressed By – Sonopress – B-5540

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Side A

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Notes

  • This was a compilation 12" obtained by collecting tokens with Record Mirror Magazine in the 1980's (circa 1986).

    Free with Record Mirror. Not for resale.

Side A

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Barcodes and Other Ident

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): DM B-5540 A-2/8-86

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): DM B-5540 B-2/8-86

  • Pressing Plant ID (Label side B, embossed): Bass clef

Album
Fruit Cake And Furry Collars

20th September 1986

Credits:

38 - Record Mirror - 20th September 1986

Label - Record Mirror – RM 5, Record Mirror – rm 5

Format - Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Country - UK

Released - 1986

Genre - Electronic, Rock, Pop

Style - Alternative Rock, Synth-pop, Indie Rock

Compiled By – Andy Strickland 

          (tracks: B1 to b5), Nancy Culp (tracks: A1 to A5)

Track Listing

In the issue 20th September 1986 Record Mirror gave their readers the opportunity to send off for a Free 10 Track Album entitled 'Fruit Cake And Furry Collars'.

All you had to do was collect 4 Different Numbered Tokens and send them with a 88p Postal Order and after approx. 21-28 days the album is all yours.

If you didn't want to collect the tokens all you had to do was send a Postal Order or Cheque for £1.85 and the album was all yours.

Front and Back Cover

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Record Mirror - Fruitcakes And Furry Collors Album - Back Cover.jpg

Companies

A1 - It's Immaterial – Festival Time

  • Producer – Dave Bascombe

  • Written-By – Whitehead, Campbell, Trad.

A2 - Marc Almond – Indigo Blue

  • Producer – Marc Almond, Mike Hedges

  • Written-By – Almond

A3 - The Fall – L. A.

  • Written-By – Brix E. Smith, Mark E. Smith

A4 - Yello – There Is No Reason

  • Producer – Yello

  • Written-By – Blank, Meier

A5 - The Woodentops – Why

  • Producer – Rolo

  • Remix [Remixed] – Adrian Sherwood

  • Written-By – Staples, Rolo, Mawby

B1 - Edwyn Collins – Kindred Spirit

  • Written-By – Collins

 

B2 - Pulp – Don't You Know

  • Written-By – Doyle, Cocker, Mansell, Senior

 

B3 - Jazzateers – Pressing On

  • Written-By – Jazzateers

B4 - The Wild Flowers – Where My Heart Lies

  • Written-By – Atherton, Fisher, Cook, Waldron

B5 - The Hit Parade – See You In Havana

  • Written-By – J. Henry

Notes

A1 - Published by Virgin Music Ltd.

  • ℗ 1986 Siren Records Ltd/Essential Productions

  • © 1986 Siren Records Ltd/Essential Productions

 

A2 - Published by Copyright Control.

  • ℗ 1986 Some Bizzare. © 1986 Some Bizzare

 

A3 - Published by Minder Music. Live at the Deptford Albany Empire

  • ℗ 1985 Beggars Banquet. © 1985 Beggars Banquet

 

A4: Published by Warner Bros Music Ltd.

  • ℗ 1982 Phonogram GMBH. © 1982 Phonogram GMBH

 

A5: Published by Zoo/Warner Bros Music/Copyright Control

  • ℗ 1986 Rough Trade. © 1986 Zoo/Warner Bros Music


B1 - Published by Zomba Music © E. Collins
B2 - Published by Twist And Shout Music © Fire Records
B3 - Published by Jazzateers © Stampede Records
B4 - Copyright Control
B5 - Published by JSH Records © Copyright Control

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Siren Records Ltd.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Essential Productions

  • Copyright © – Siren Records Ltd.

  • Copyright © – Essential Productions

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Some Bizzare

  • Copyright © – Some Bizzare

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Beggars Banquet

  • Copyright © – Beggars Banquet

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram GmbH

  • Copyright © – Phonogram GmbH

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Rough Trade

  • Copyright © – Zoo Music Publishing

  • Copyright © – Warner Bros. Music

  • Copyright © – Edwyn Collins

  • Copyright © – Fire Records

  • Copyright © – Stampede Records

  • Copyright © – Copyright Control

  • Published By – Virgin Music Ltd.

  • Published By – Copyright Control

  • Published By – Minder Music

  • Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

  • Published By – Zoo Music Publishing

  • Published By – Warner Bros. Music

  • Published By – Zomba Music

  • Published By – Twist And Shout Music

  • Published By – Jazzateers

  • Published By – JSH Records

  • Pressed By – Sonopress – B-6425

Barcodes and Other Ident

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): DM B-6425 A-1/10-86

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): DM B-6425 B-1/10-86

Information Leaflet

Side A

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Side B

Pride Flag
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Order Form

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