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Post by personunknown on Jul 20, 2020 17:26:22 GMT
Glossy yet a bit bland at the same time. Mainstream rock and pop though it was the go to magazine for the Brit pop years. The only one I can really remember is the Sex Pistols reunion issue. The four ageing spike tops on the cover with the strapline: 'We still hate Glen' www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53477377 |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 20, 2020 17:55:36 GMT
Not very surprising
I wonder if Mojo or Uncut will be next?
I'd not picked up a copy of Q for a good 1o years. There was a period when I bought it regularly. It was always just a bit too mainstream for my tastes.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 21, 2020 10:26:31 GMT
Good article from Alexis Petridis about Q Q magazine's demise signals the end of the old music press
It seems a strange comparison to make, but in its initial incarnation at least, Q magazine was as much a product of its era as Oz and the International Times seemed in the late 1960s, or the crudely photocopied pages of Sniffin’ Glue appeared at the dawn of punk.
It was launched in October 1986, the product of a brilliant bit of trend-spotting by its founders, David Hepworth and Mark Ellen. Both had noticed not just that sales of compact discs were steadily soaring but that music fans – particularly those of a certain age – were using the new format’s arrival as an excuse to re-buy the highlights of their record collections: “They were reliving the time they’d first heard this music on vinyl and wondering what had happened to their old heroes,” Ellen later wrote.
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Post by politician2 on Jul 21, 2020 11:42:04 GMT
Q was a great magazine for the first decade or so of its existence: witty, offbeat and irreverent. The "Who the hell…?" article was frequently hilarious, especially the hatchet job they did on Sandie Shaw, who came across as simultaneously slightly spaced-out and exceptionally self-aggrandising. They also used to run very funny articles that brought bizarre new perspectives to music – in one issue, they got the residents of a nursing home to review the new singles (one of whom though rap music was actually called "rat music") and in another did the same with children in a kindergarten. Later on, it became more mainstream as it reacted to more serious challengers like Mojo and its writers completely forgot what had made it so special.
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