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Sigh Jul 2020 9:16am, 21 Jul 2020 6,911 posts	Quote Pin Sigh I used to buy Sounds (circa 1980 onwards), they used to position the head shot on the front cover so it blocked the letters 'u' and 'n', so it was often entitled "Sods".
Diogenes Jul 2020 9:28am, 21 Jul 2020 51,207 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Very possibly, Sharkie, though I don't remember it specifically. I also remember when, about 13, I changed my weekly magazine subscription at the Newsagent from Shoot! to the NME. I suppose they still do that, put aside things for customers to come and collect?
LindsD Jul 2020 10:18am, 21 Jul 2020 39,083 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Our local one does, but he's closing soon. He is retiring and none of his kids want the business and he can't sell it I had Beano, Jackie, Shoot!, Smash Hits. All at different times and I'm a bit hazy as to when. OH used to love Four Four Two.
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2020 10:23am, 21 Jul 2020 18,956 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Proper LOL at Jazz mags, Nico I used to get Kerrang. Brief dalliance with Metal Hammer(?) but it was a bit too focussed on thrash. Most of my subscriptions over the years have been motorbike and Landrover magazines.
GregP Jul 2020 10:49am, 21 Jul 2020 121,348 posts	Quote Pin GregP Look & Learn, NME, Melody Maker, The Face. I still had 220 reserved at the newsagent in the naughties, for sure.
Dvorak Jul 2020 11:19am, 21 Jul 2020 20,251 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Disco 45, V'rap? My dad used to get it for me in John Menzies in big town (our wee Birrell's would not have room to stock it). Later I would buy Record Mirror, occasionally Superpop!, then moved largely onto Sounds for the metal years. Would still buy the odd RM and Malady Malawker, but not the NME because I though that, frankly, the writers were largely a bunch of arseholes (ooh, controversial!). I probably bought The Face twice and i-D once - I found them a bit ... self-regarding. I loved ver Hits though. I think I bought the first one, maybe second, with XTC flexidisc? and a glowing review of Young Marble Giants. For a period, early-mid 80s, it had the sharpest, and absolutely the funniest, writing on music and the music scene anywhere. (Disclosure: I probably bought the first Q as well, and quite a few afterwards. The odd Select, and later Uncut, usually for the CD.) https://youtube.com/watch?v=aDl02d31xZU
LindsD Jul 2020 11:43am, 21 Jul 2020 39,088 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I had a letter published in Smash Hits once. I suspect I may have said this before #seniormoments
Dvorak Jul 2020 11:45am, 21 Jul 2020 20,256 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak A fab Macca wacky thumbs aloft for that, Linds . Do you still have a copy of the mag?
HellsBells Jul 2020 12:00pm, 21 Jul 2020 26,975 posts	Quote Pin HellsBells I’d forgotten Disco 45
GlennR Jul 2020 12:00pm, 21 Jul 2020 51,270 posts	Quote Pin GlennR I suspect it was before my time.