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1987 Issues

These are the issues of Record Mirror that came out in 1987.

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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Price - 55p

Managing Director - Jack Hutton

Editor - Betty Page

Deputy Editor / Features - Jim Reid

News Editor - Robin Smith

Production Editor - Diane Cross

Ad Production Manager - Tony Dixon

Advertisement Manager - Carole Norvell-Read

3rd January 1987

Volume 34 - Number 1

 

This issue was released as a Double issue with 27th December 1986 as a Christmas and New Year issue

Therefore I have labelled the next issue Number 2 to keep the labelling consistent

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Volume 34 - Number 2

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - UB40 

Back Cover - Communards

Interviews and Features:

Rockin’ All Over GB

Slaughter Joe

Alan Rankine

Mick Kahn

Jack Nicholson

UB40

Andy Kershaw

Heavy-D

Microdisney

Albums:

Culture, Crusaders, Various Artists, Robyn Hitchcock, Gregory Abbott, Various Artists, Microdisney, Red Box, Burning Spear, Sparks

Singles: by Lesley O'Toole

Was Not Was, Love and Money, The Big Dish, Mick Karn, Hue and Cry, Swanhunters, Swing Out Sister,  Steve Hurley, Mighty Mighty, Shriekback, Lowlife, Two People, Margo Buchannan, Psychedelic Furs, Nina Hogen and Lene Lovich, UB40, Heaven 17

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Volume 34 - Number 3

Cover By - Patrick Quigly

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - The Mission

Back Cover - Pet Shop Boys

Interviews and Features:

Swing Out Sister

Hip Hop In The UK

Festivals In France

Tony Wilson

The Mission

Inspirational Choir

Iggy Pop

Albums:

Zerra One, Crime and the City Solution, The Smithereens, Womack and Womack, James Last and Astrud Gilberto, Various, Two Minds Crack, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble

Singles: by Robin Smith

The The, Julian Cope, Husker Du, T La Rock, Steve Winwood, Phil Lynott, China Crisis, Style Council, Drum Theatre, Pepsi and Shirlie, Girl Talk, Jodie Watley, The Impossible Dreamers, Thrashing Doves, The Mission, Hugh Cornwell, Charlie Sexton, Tom Robinson, Then Jerico 

Live:

Go-Between, Fuzzbox, Nyah Fearties, Spandau Ballet, Icicle Works, Kool and the Gang, Dr Feelgood / No Man's Land

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Volume 34 - Number 4

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - Was (Not Was)

Interviews and Features:

Blow Monkeys 

The Big Dish

Low Life

Misty In Roots

Sound System Story

Year End Charts

Was (Not Was)

Love And Money

Style Council

Albums:

Bobby Bland, I Start Counting, Chico Debarge, Elvis Presley, Chumbawamba, Holger Czukay, Sammy Hagar, Osiris, Various, Isaac Hayes, Mike Batt

Singles: by Carole Linford

The Soup Dragons, Hurrah, Renaldo and the Loaf, David Knopfler, Europe, Hubert Kah, Cock Robin, The Flirts, Aretha Franklin and George Michael, Mental As Anything, Sister Sledge, Eddie Money, Dead Or Alive, Jermaine Stewart, June Brown, Stewart and Stax, Jassy

Live:

Hue and Cry, Microdisney, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Buddy Curtiss and the Grasshoppers, The Doonicans, Razorcuts, Voice Of The Beehive

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Volume 34 - Number 5

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Westworld

Back Cover - Dr Robert

                      (Blow Monkeys)

Interviews and Features:

Bon Jovi

Swan Hunters

Nina and Lene

The Indie Scene Revisited

Hurrah

Westworld

Rosie Vela

Attaco Decente

Psychedelic Furs

Nancy Culp - Singles Reviewed

Albums:

Husker Du, Timbuk 3, Various Artists, Jackie Wilson, David Sanborn, Various, Bobby Brown,  Various Artists

Singles: by Nancy Culp

Microdisney, Chakk, Armory Show, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Wonder Stuff, The Christians, View From The Hill,  Timbuk 3, Spear Of Destiny, X-Mal Deutschland, The Smiths, The Blow Monkey's, Bob Geldof, Red Box, Curtis Hairston, Elvis Costello, Fuzzbox, Eighth Wonder, Mantronix

Live:

After Tonite, The Bhundu Boys, The Womacks, Treebound Story, English Roots against Apartheid, The Bodines, Michelle-Shocked

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Volume 34 - Number 6

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 64

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - Paul Weller

Interviews and Features:

Paul Weller

Hot House

World Party

Harrison Ford

Chakk

Fuzzbox

Bunk Up

The System

Paul Johnson

Drugs

The Christians

Albums:

The Style Council, Psychedelic Furs, Dead Or Alive, Timex Social Club, Los Lobos, Various Artists, The Gap Band, Skinny Puppy, Audrey Hall, Sylvester

Singles: by Jane Wilkes

Marc Almond, Paul Johnson, Well Red, Age Of Chance, Simply Red, Ben E King, Hot House, Bambi Slam, Level 42, The Reaction, Bananarama, Chris Yates, Morgan McVey, Hot Chocolate, Spandau Ballet, Five Star, The Hook, Paul Young

Live:

Band Of Holy Joy, Scratch Acid, Julian Cope, Timbuck 3, 5th Of Heaven / Freddie Jackson, The Painted World / Rutkowski Sisters, Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, Deacon Blue

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Volume 34 - Number 7

Cover By - Patrick Quigly

Price - 55p  Pages - 64

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - Morrissey

Interviews and Features:

The Pastels

Vesta Williams

Jess Goldblum

Thrashing Doves

The Godfathers

Liverpool

Morrissey

View From The Hill

Sudden Sway

Husker Du

BAD

Album:

Hurrah, Shriekback, Big Black, Doug E Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, Various Artists, Hugh Masekela, Pianosaurus, The Hollow Men

Singles: by Edwin I Bernard

Bliss, Miki Howard, Sparks, Westworld, Klymaxx, The Colour Field, Helena, Nitro Deluxe, Carrol Thompson, Randy Travis, Paul Simon, Screamin' Lord Such, Eurythmics, T'Pau, The Other Ones, Duran Duran, Lift Up, Paul Aaron

Live:

The Smithereens, Luther Vandross, Happy Mondays, Mighty Mighty / The Jerremiahs, The Judds The Fountainhead, Hurrah / Felt . Furry Murray's

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Volume 34 - Number 8

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 62

Free Double Sided Giant Poster of Cameo and Paul Weller

(See Below)

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Front Cover - Run DMC

Interviews and Features:

BMX Bandits

The Judds

BPI Awards

The Bolshoi

the wedding Present

Well Red

Phil Wilson

Run DMC

Railway Children

Nic Roeg

Salt 'N' Pepa

The go Betweens

Pete Burns

 

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Volume 34 - Number 9

Cover By - 

Price - 55p  Pages - 

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - The Colourfield

Interviews and Features:

Free Double sided Poster Of Run DMC and Fuzzbox 

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Volume 34 - Number 10

Cover By - Steve Double

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

7th March 1987

Front Cover - The Bodines

Interviews and Features:

'Til Tuesday

Phil Cool

Paul Newman

Momus

Shriekback

Ben E King

the Bodines

Irish Angle

Dr Robert

The Occult In Rock

Roger Morton - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 11

Cover By - Paul Gobel

Price - 55p  Pages - 56 

Front Cover - Boy George

Interviews and Features:

Marc Riley

Klymaxx

Level 42

David Thomas

Chiefs Of Relief

Y - Music From Computers

Bunking Up

Boy George

In Defense Of Disco

Julian Cope

Martin Shaw - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 12

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Mel And Kim

Interviews and Features:

Wet Wet Wet

Crazyhead

Weather Prophets

Mel 'N' Kim

Danny Wilson

Roland Gift

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 13

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Erasure

Interviews and Features:

David Bowie

Camper Van Beethoven

Immaculate Fools

Lone Justice

Erasure

J M Silk

Alison Moyet

Billy Idol

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 14

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Jimmy Sommerville

Interviews and Features:

Beastie Boys

Doctor’s Children

Wiseblood

U2

Janet Jackson

The Boys In The Banshees

Aids – Is Pop Music Doing Enough To Raise Money

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Volume 34 - Number 15

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Mighty Lemon Drops

Back Cover - Simply Red

Interviews and Features:

The Smithereens

Stumo

Ruby turner

Win

Bryan Addams

The Mighty Lemon Drops

Tommy Chase and Deacon Blue

Prince

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Volume 34 - Number 16

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Then Jerico

Back Cover - The Cult

Interviews and Features:

Throwing Muses

Icicle Works

Swing Out Sister

Sly And Robbie

Then Jerico

Aids Day

Spear Of Destiny

Scottish Family Tree

Carol Linfield - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 17

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Curiosity Killed

                         The Cat

Interviews and Features:

Julian Cope

Postcard Records

Flesh For Lulu

That Petrol Emotion

The Mekons

Maze

The Bathers

Curiosity Killed The Cat

Charity Records

Cromptons

Ozzy Osbourne

Dr Robert

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 18

Cover By - 

Price - 55p  Pages - 

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - That Petrol Emotion

Interviews and Features:

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Volume 34 - Number 19

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Swing Out Sister

Back Cover - David Bowie

Interviews and Features:

Paul King

Robert Smith

Rumblefish

The Waltones

The Cradle

Slayer

Happy Mondays

Laibach

Coil

Cutting Crew

All About Eve

Swing Out Sister

Hugh Masekela and Johnny Clegg

Madonna vs Cyndi Lauper

Andy Strickland - Single Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 20

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Glenn and Chris

Back Cover - Jam C

Interviews and Features:

The Chesterfields

Cameo

Biff Bang Pow - Alan McGee

Gaye Bikers On Acid

Blyth Power

Hoddle And Waddle

Pop Will Eat Itself

The Band Of Holly Joy

Level 42

The Jesus And Mary Chain

Eleanor Levy - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 21

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Simply Red

Interviews and Features:

The Jack Rubies

Revenge Of The Uglies

Shellyan Orphan

Faith Brothers

Simply Red

Morrissey

Pop Goes The Commercial

Jon Bon Jovi

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 22

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Robert Smith

                        (The Cure)

Interviews and Features:

Tom Jones

Slade

Pocket Rockets

Chris Isaak

Wishing Stones

Jesse Rae

Nitzer Ebb

C-Cat Trance

The Cure

The Proclaimers

Montreux Rock Festival

Pop will Eat Itself - Single Review

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Volume 34 - Number 23

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Free Double Sided Poster of

David Bowie and The Cult

(See Below)

Front Cover - Cameo

Interviews and Features:

Rupert Everett

World Domination Enterprises

Bambi Slam

Clare Grogan

Cameo

Act

Simple Minds

UB40

Albums:

Go West, LL Cool J, Various Artists, Whitney Houston, Billy Bragg, T La Rock, Various, Go Between, Latin Quarter

Singles: by Age Of Chance

ABC, Marley Marl, Slayer, Soup Dragon, U2, Janet Jackson, Clare Grogan, Stan Campbell,  Manowar, Rupert Everett, The Hepburns, Lucia and Project 2

Live:

Inspired Carpets, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, The Chesterfields, Lick The Tins, Biff Bang Pow, Deacon Blue, Beastie Boys / Run DMC

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

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Volume 34 - Number 24

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - The Housemartins

Interviews and Features:

Billy Bragg

Joe Strummer

Heartbeat UK

Shop Window

Alexander O'Neal

Anne Clark

Skin

Rosanna Arquette

Crowded house

Thompson Twins

Free Double Sided Poster of

Morrissey and Beastie Boys

(See Below)

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

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Volume 34 - Number 25

Cover By -

   Martyn Goddard

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - George Michael

Back Cover - Whitney Houston

Interviews and Features:

Terrence Trent D’Arby

Soap Box

Go West

ABC

Ruby Wax

Steve Earle

Treebound Story

George Michael

Robert Cray

Boys Wonder

Jody Watley

The Replacements

soup Dragons - Singles Review

Free Double Sided Poster of U2 and Echo And The Bunnymen

(See Below)

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Volume 34 - Number 26

Cover By - Paul Cox

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Living In A Box

Interviews and Features:

Soap Box - Dieter Meier (Yello)

Fields Of The Nephilim

Playing At Trains - Norman Wisdom

                   meets Scritti Politti

The Joan Collins Fan Club

Sonic Youth

Suzzanne Vega

Evil Dead

Long Ryders

Laurie Anderson

Blood Uncles

Living In A Box

Pop Goes To Brighton

Dwight Yoakam

Danielle Dax

Hula

Robin 'nasher' Smith - Singles

           Reviewed

Free Double Sided Poster of Prince and Madonna

(See Below)

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Volume 34 - Number 27

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Volume 34 - Number 28

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Kane Gang

Back Cover - Janet Jackson

Interviews and Features:

Record Mirror Half Year

     Round Up

Genesis

Gargoyles

Gaye Bikers On Acid

Justified Ancient Of Mu Mu

House Of Love

Hard Corps

The Kane Gang

The Rappin' Reverend

John Farnham

Hot House Flowers

Errol Brown

Two NAtions

Mel And Kim

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - LL Cool J

Interviews and Features:

Westworld

Primal Scream

Wall Of Voodoo

A-Ha

Warren Zevon

Julie Kavner

Black

Dolphin Brothers

Hue And Cry

LL Cool J

Whitesnake

Stryper

Guns 'n' Roses

Trash Metal

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 29

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Wet Wet Wet

Interviews and Features:

Balaam and the Angel

Andy Summers

Freddie McGregor

Orbit

War

Black Britian

Buddy Curtess

Thomas Lang

Wet Wet Wet

The Christians

Cabaret Voltaire

Man To Man

Blow Up

All About Eve - Singles Reviewed

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Volume 34 - Number 30

Cover By  -(Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Terrence Trent D'Arby

Interviews and Features:

Einsturzende Neubauten

Birdhouse

Terrence Trent D’Arby

Echo And The Bunnymen

Trouble Funk

Momus

Ivor Biggun

Regina Belle

Jill Jones

Steely Dan

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Volume 34 - Number 31

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - The Cult

Back Cover - Jody Watley

Interviews and Features:

Margot Kidder

Rock In The Movies

Talulah Gosh

Three Colours

Felt

The Cult

Neil Young

Suicidal Tendencies

The Shamen

Def Leppard

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Volume 34 - Number 32

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Los Lobos

Back Cover - Billy Idol

Interviews and Features:

Bad

Cry Before Dawn

The Lift

Jessie Rae

Warm Letherette

The Gap Band

James Herbert

The Hoodoo Gurus

Starship

Head

Dub Sex

The New Music Seminar

Los Lobos

B-52’s

Les Rits Mitsouko

The Dukes Of Stratosphear

 

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Volume 34 - Number 33

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Elvis,

  Elizabeth Westwood (Westworld),    Colbert Hamilton (Black Elvis)

Interviews and Features:

Blow Monkeys

MTV Launch Party

Atlantic Starr

Ghosts From The Past

Kim Wilde

A R Kane

Voice Of America

Bruce Willis

Elvis – Pocket History

Elvis – The Stars Speak Out

Crazyhead

Was (Not Was)

Sally Timms

Trouble

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Volume 34 - Number 34

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Shirley Bassey

Interviews and Features:

Depeche Mode

Sherrick

Roger Daltrey

Sammy Hagar

Pseudo Echo

Roxanne Shante

Thirteen Moons

Shirley Bassey

Yello

Billie Mackenzie

New Order

Edwyn Collins

The Stupids

Joanna Hogg

Icehouse

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Volume 34 - Number 35

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 55p  Pages - 56

Volume 34 - Number 36

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Michael Jackson

Interviews and Features:

Ted Chippington

Rick Asstley

Mel Gibson

Michael Jackson

Squeeze

Sting

Voodoo Child

Batfish Boys

Mary Coughlan

Flare’s – a look back

Tashan

Bhundu Boys

Dead Can Dance

Alan Rankine

T’Pau

Front Cover - Transvision Vamp

Interviews and Features:

Michelle Shocked

The Primitives

The Smiths

Transvision Vamp

Viz

The Butthole Surfers

Rock Star Families

Sophie And Peter Johnson

Max

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 37

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 55p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Marc Bolan and

                        Dr Robert

Interviews and Features:

WAX

Communards

Clive Barker

Reading DFestival

Marc Bolan

Taffy

Natalie Cole

Hot House

M/A/R/R/S

Metallica

REM

Bodines

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Volume 34 - Number 38

Cover By - Simon Fowler

Price - 65p  Pages - 64

This Issue Had A 10p Price Increase

Front Cover - Boy George

Interviews and Features:

A Consumers Guide To Grebo

Strangeways Here We Come

Don Johnson

Lizzie Tear

Johnny Hates Jazz

Boy George

Laura Branigan

Apple Mosaic

F-Mix

Twisted Sister

The Limespiders

Steve Jones

The Waltons

Go-Betweens

The Smith

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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Volume 34 - Number 39

Cover By - Parker

Price - 65p  Pages - 56

Included A Free Flexi Disc (See Below)

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - The Housemartins

Interviews and Features:

The Housemartins

Hue And Cry

The Leather Nun

Jellybean

Andy Gill

Pepsi and Shirlie

Bad News

Duane Eddy

Donny Osmond

Fra Lippo Lippi

CJ Mackintosh

Singles: By Primal Scream

Showaddywaddy, Glen and Chris, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Nick Kamen, Sisters Of Mercy, Johnny Thunders, Erasure, Westworld, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, New Model Army, The O'Jays, Sheena Easton, Was (Not Was), Pop Will Eat Itself, Living In A Box, Pleasure Head, Mark Stewart and the Mafia, The Vaselines

Albums: The Housemartins, Wet Wet Wet, Fat Boys, Ritchie Valens, Van Morrison, T'Pau, The Leather Nun, Pussy Galore, Kim Wilde

Live:

Randy Crawford, REM, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Westworld, The Doctor's Children

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Volume 34 - Number 40

Cover By - (Unknown)

Price - 65p  Pages - 64

Front Cover - The Cult

Back Cover - Michael Jackson

Interviews and Features:

North / South Devide

The Music Of Ulster

The Bolshoi

Oliver James

Mickey Rourke

Scarlet Fantastic

The Cult

The Fat Boys

Housemaster Boyz

Animal Nightlife

Spizz

La Bamba

David Eaaster

Sergion & Herbtree

The Sugarcubes

The Three Johns

Def Leppard

Singles: By Roger Morton

Age Of Chance, Terrence Trent D'Arby, The Godfateres, Bryan Ferry, David Sylvian, Sergion and Herbtree, Boss, Jo Jo and the Real People, The House Of Love, Tot, Spear Of Destiny, Beastie Boys, Alison Moyet, UB40, Belouis Some, Dead Or Alive, Big Pig, Secession

Albums: Depeche Mode, Wendy and Lisa, Various, The Chills, Chris Rea, John Cougar Mellencamp, The Railway Children, Steve Jones, Bee Gees, Paul King, John White, Third World, The Ramones, Annabel Lamb

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Volume 34 - Number 41

Cover By - Patrick Quigley

Price - 65p  Pages - 56

Front Cover - Black

Interviews and Features:

Bruce Springsteen

Primal Scream

Black

The Chills

Cardiacs

10,000 Maniacs

Wendy and Lisa

Chest An Illusion

Raymonde

Freddie McGregor

The Bee Gees

Madonna

Albums:

The Communards, ABC, Primal Scream, Sinaed O'Connor, Bhundu Boys, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Peter Tosh, Various Artists

Singles: by Ian Dickson

Aerosmith, That Petrol Emotion, Voice Of The Beehive, Tom Petty and th Heartbreakers, Yargo, Balaam and the Angel, Blood Uncles, Five Star, The Alarm, Samantha Fox, Siddeleys, Squeeze, Da Rock, Oran 'Juice' Jones, Jody Watley, Veloreand Double O,Bryan Admas, Tom Robinson BAnd, The JAck Rubies

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

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Volume 34 - Number 42

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Voice Of The Beehive

Interviews and Features:

Aerosmith

Sisters Of Mercy

Cookie Crew + Kiss AMC and the Ruthless Rap Assassins

Aslan

Pete Whlie

Voice Of The Beehive

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Heart

Zor Gabor

Singles: By Pete Paisley

Louis Phillips, Anthony Adverse, The Mekons, Skinny Puppy, Band Of Susans, Bam Bam and the Calling, Mr Manic and Sister Cool, McCarthy, Alternative Television, Mr X and Mr Z, The Cure, Eurythmics, Clannad, The Fields Of Nephilim

Albums:

Various Artists, Age Of Chance, Jene Loves Jezebel, Hip Hop '87, The Wedding Present, Heart, Cabaret Voltaire

Live:

Thrashing Doves, Paul Johnson, Laugh, Hothouse Flowers, Five Star, The Communards

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Volume 34 - Number 43

Cover By - Martyn

       Strickland

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - All About Eve

Interviews and Features:

Roddy Frame

Erik B and Rakim

Yargo

Sample Or Steel

Sinead O’Connor

All About Eve

The Godfathers

The Motorcycle Boy

Gene Loves Jezebal

Derek Jarmin

Albums:

Hue and Cry, Sting, Erasure, Various Artists, Bad News, Lee Scratch Perry, Various Artists, The Christians, Duane Eddy, View From The Hill, Raymonde, Dri, Barry White

Singles: by Steve and Reamann

Young Gods,

Gaye Bikers On Acid, George Michael, Brother D, Barry White, Maxi Priest, The Fall, The Style Council, Microdisney, Then Jerico, 

The Triffids, Pete Wylie, The La's, Aztec Camera, Black

Live:

Bronski Beat, Mighty Mighty, Cooking Vinyl Crew, Raymonde

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Volume 34 - Number 44

Cover By - 

Price - 65p  Pages - 

Front Cover - Bryan Ferry

Interviews and Features:

Thank you to John Harrison for Donating the Issue for Scanning

Volume 34 - Number 44

Cover By - 

Price - 65p  Pages - 

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Volume 34 - Number 45

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Lloyd Cole

Interviews and Features:

Front Cover – Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole

Maxi Priest

Public Enemy

The Ramones

Basia

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3

Then Jerico

Microdisney

The Wedding Present

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Volume 34 - Number 46

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - LL Cool J

Interviews and Features:

The Christians

Yes / No People

Gaye Bikers On Acid

Goodbye Mr MacKenzie

LL Cool J

Readers Poll - Voting Form

Into A Circle

Pop Will Eat Itself

Donna Summer

Zodiac Mindwarp

Albums:

Eurythmics, George Harrison, Rick Astley, Paul McCartney, The Screaming Blue, Donna Summer, Billy Connolly, The Dream Academy, Whodini, Steady B

Singles: Edwyn Collins

The Proclaimers, The Pastels, Robbie Robertson, Louise Goffin, Willy De Ville, Squeeze, Suzanne Vega, Danny Wilson, PIL, The Fat Boys, Whitesnake, Icicle Works, The Fall, The Raw Herbs, Kill Devil Hills, The Heart Throbs, The Wolfhounds

Live: None

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Volume 34 - Number 47

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

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Volume 34 - Number 48

Cover By - 

Price - 65p  Pages - 

Front Cover - Eric B & Rankin

Interviews and Features:

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

Front Cover - T' Pau

Interviews and Features:

Fields Of Nephilim

Happy Mondays

The La’s

INXS

Barry White

The Gun Club

Screaming Blue Messiahs

Steve Martin

T’Pau

Dream Academy

The Men They Couldn’t Hang

BB King

The Triffids

Albums:

Sisters Of Mercy, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Aztec Camera, Various Artists, Shakin' Stevens, Heavy D and the Boyz, Total Contrast, Janet Jackson, Marc Riley and the Creepers

Singles:  by Robin Smith

LL Cool J, Peter Gabriel, Boy George, Tom Jones, Dollar, Hothouse Flowers, Meatloaf, Def Leppard, ABC, Jellybean featuring Elisa Fiobillo, John Cougar Mellencamp, Simply Red, Paul Simon, Johnny Hates Jazz, Dizzi Heights,  Men Without Hats, Princess, Starship

Live:

Suzanne Vega, Marillion, , The Leather Nun, The Triffids, Big Audio Dynamite, Thomas Lang, Nitzer Ebb, Pop Will Eat Itself, All About Eve / The Shamen, The Christians, The Soup Dragons

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Volume 34 - Number 49

Cover By - Steve Double

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

Front Cover - Rick Astley

Interviews and Features:

The Flat Mates

The Heart Throbs

Peter O'Brian

ABC

Six Sed Red

The Patels

Go Boil Yer Head

Blue Mercedes

Marc RileyThe Family Way

Rick Astley

Was (Not Was)

James Taylor Quartet

Jennifer Warnes

Sisters Of Mercy

Albums:

Various Artists, Black, The Fall, The Bomb Party, Various Artists, Pato Banton, Rowan Atkinson, Inner Circle, The Triffids, The Damned, The Judds, Various Artists, Branford Marsalis, Loop, Earth Wind and Fire, Various Artists, These Immortal Souls, Heidi Berry, Various Artists

Singles: by Lysette Cohen

The Pogues, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Nat King Cole, The Christians, Mkultra, The Ramones, Pet Shop Boys, Jim Jiminee, Madonna, Morley Morgan, Oldland Montano, New Order, Karel Fialka, Anthrax, Five Star, Los Lobos, Pepsi and Shirlie, Bruce Springsteen, Bad News, Run DMC, Mel and Kim, Chris De Burgh

Live:

The Pogues, Microdisney, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Fields Of The Nephilim, Tom Waits, Aztec Camera, Donna Summer, Age Of Chance, John Shuttleworth / The Jack Rubies, Freddie McGregor

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Volume 34 - Number 50

Cover By - 

Price - 65p  Pages - 48

Front Cover - Simply Red

Interviews and Features:

Public Enemy

They Might Be Giants

10,000 Maniacs

Frazier Chorus

Motor Head

Brother D

Go Boil Your Head

'Cross The Tracks

Mike Jagger

Simply Red

Miaow

Dollar

Pepsi and Shirlie

Jim Reid - Singles Reviewed

19th December 1987

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Volume 34 - Number 51

Cover By - 

Price - 65p  Pages - 

Front Cover - The Pogues

Interviews and Features:

Better Scan Coming Soon

 

Thanks to Charles Patrick

for Donating this issue

for scanning

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Volume 34 - Number 52 and 01 (Double Issue)

Cover By - Joe Shutter

Price - 65p  Pages - 64

Thank You To Adrian Andrews For Donating The Issue

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.

Poster

21st February 1987

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The 21st February 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Double Sided Giant Poster.

 

This consisted of the following:

 

Cameo

Paul Weller

David Bowie

Pride Flag

Cameo

Pride Flag

Poster

6th June 1987

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The 6th June 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Double Sided Giant Poster.

 

This consisted of the following:

 

David Bowie

The Cult

The Cult

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David Bowie

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Poster

13th June 1987

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The 13th June 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Double Sided Giant Poster.

 

This consisted of the following:

 

Morrissey

Beastie Boys

Morrissey

Pride Flag

Beastie Boys

Pride Flag

Poster

20th June 1987

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The 20th June 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Double Sided Giant Poster.

 

This consisted of the following:

 

U2

Echo And The Bunnymen

Echo And The Bunnymen

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U2

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Poster

27th June 1987

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The 27th June 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Double Sided Giant Poster.

 

This consisted of the following:

 

Prince 

Madonna

Prince

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Prince

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Flexi Disc

26th September 1987

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The 26th September 1987 issue of Record Mirror they gave away a Free Flexi Disc entitled The Housemartins.

Credits:

Label - Record Mirror – RM FLEXIDISC 2

Series - RM Flexidisc – 2

Format - Flexi-disc, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided, Promo, Mono

Country - UK

Released - 26th September 1987

Genre - Rock, Non-Music

Style - Interview, Pop Rock5

Track Listing

Companies

Notes

Stan Cullimore Interview

Plus Track - We Are Not Going Back

Credits

  • Artwork By [Cover Design] – Graham Black

  • Composed By – Heaton, Cullimore

  • Engineer – Phil Bodger

  • Interviewee – Stan Cullimore

  • Interviewer – Tanya Hide

  • Producer – John Williams

Manufactured By – Flexi Records Ltd – FLX 615

Barcodes and Other Ident

Matrix / Runout: FLX 615

Flexi-disc given away with the Record Mirror music paper dated September 26th 1987.
Published by Go! Discs Music Ltd.
℗ & © Go! Discs Ltd. 1987

Front Cover

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Side A

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Flexi Disc Info

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