Since 1990, there have been two short-lived weekly rivals to NME (ie weekly music papers). One was Jonathan King'a effort 'Revolution'; can't remember the other but I do recall it came on 'Football Special'-style pink paper.

Staying up in Scotland, after 'Cut', there was 'M8' (still going, bit more rave than Hue & Cry these days), and the fanziney (but much-loved) Bigwig. Also, what about that indie mag from Galsahiels, 'Sun Zoom Spark'? Around the same time, Jamie Hewlett's 'Deadline' comic also featured a lot of music.

My personal favourite defunct mag (after 'Select', obv) was the independent proto lads' mag from the Ludlow-based makers of computer mags 'Crash' and 'Zap 64'. It was called 'LM' after its editor Lloyd Mangram and was a surprisingly diverse read that didn't insult your intelligence. What happened to those fellas, then? (And top marks if you can find a scan)

Anyone remember Collusion? Think I have a few copies. Also, the story at the time about Street Life was that Pete Townsend had put money into it, and sure enough he was on the cover of the first edition.

How about The Buzz? Seminal London-based mid-eighties monthly music/style/fashion glossy. Ran for a few years, kickstarted the monthly glossy fad.

Everyone who worked on the magazine went on to work in the music business as a career.

Push was the editor, went on to do Musik magazine... Adrian Boss did Promotion, went on to manage Carter USM and the Senseless Things.... Ngaire-Ruth went on to write for Melody maker... Mark Baker was the house photographer, is still a rock photographer...
etc.

I wrote for them too.

How about "Encore"? - it lasted just one issue (I think) in Summer 1995 and had Mick Jagger sweating into a microphone on the cover. I think it was produced by some Virgin-owned off shoot. I still have it in a pile somewhere. Very glossy and had a huge article on 90's surfer-friendly loons Dodgy.

In around 1995, former Melody Maker wordsmith Chris Roberts edited Ikon magazine for a few issues before they went bust, which was a shame because I could imagine it being a brilliant hybrid between early Uncut and The Word...

Sorry, no scans. I chucked the lot away to make space for, well..a conservatory.

Can someone verify that there was a flasy music mag called RAGE, remember one of the first issues was called The Drugs Issue which I quickly consulted after having my first smoke as it explained all the ramifications. Dont believe it lasted long.

Sorry, I no longer have any copies but there was a magazine I used to read in the '80s called Jamming (or was it Jammin' ?). Can't remember the editor's name now but he wrote a biog of REM. They used to give the occasional flexi disc away, which I might have a copy of...

What about "Disco 45"? It contained the lyrics from the popular tunes of the day. It's only with retrospection that I realise that these were often defined by having some secretary listen to the radio and jot down what they heard. They made a particulalry bad job of "Crocodile Rock". I'll be happy to supply more details if required. What about "Select"? I have back issues. Also of "Vox". What about that one from the early 80s with Paul Weller on the front? Was that "The Face"? Also of "Q" - ok, it's not defunct, but it might as well be. My name's Ben Elton, goodnight.

I suppose a Fabulous from 1964 would be lacking in cred here? Don't forget a 70's 'Let It Rock', either. Not that I kept one.

I used to get It's Here & Now as a teenage groover circa 1973. Far from chronicling the potheaded expoloits of Daevid Allen etc, it was a picture mag with equally garbled lyrics to the said Disco 45 as I recall.

One that has remained with me was the rendition of the line 'The Reverend Smith, he recognised me' (from Alice Cooper's 'No More Mr Nice Guy') as 'The ribbon snippy recognised me'.

The ribbon snippy?

I've got a couple of copies of an obscure Ipswich-based monthly from the early nineties. They called it 'The Word'. Catchy, non?

In the early 70s used to get a weekly paper called Disc. I think it may have even been called Disc and Music Echo at some point (which suggests there was also a Music Echo?). Anyway it finally merged with Record Mirror around 1976 ish.

Select - it was the best magazine around when I was 16 and judging by the fact at lot of the writers seem to have ended up at Word I'd guess that says something. On leaving Uni I had an interview there as a reviews writer with Alexis Petridis (now of The Guardian) who promised me some work only for the magazine to fold a month later!

PFM - that takes me back.Wasnt Patrick Moraz the keyboard player later replacing Rickn Wakeman in Yes? I remember they had one catchy tune, bought the album and the rest was crap. How many bands can we say that about? I guess rather like the above list of defunct music mags. Question - was The Face ever a music mag? I recall it as a fashion mag with the odd article about music and a very small section of reviews. Another question - is Word a music magazine? I class it as a lot more besides. Hopefully you will be around a lot longer unless the conglomerates get hold of you.

ZIG ZAG? Come on youse guys, you can't leave out ZigZag. It was mint. I got loads of covers. Aw shucks please don't make me go into the attic to live in the past again, I always come out all dusty.

In the mid-70's there was a very short-lived inky called "National Rock Star" or something like that - hats off if you manage to find a copy of it. Also, very vague memories (I was ~10 y.o. at the time) of an early seventies full-colour magazine called (I think) "Music Scene" which covered the likes of Pink Floyd and Lou Reed as well as the glam stars of the day. Anyone else have a more reliable memory of this?

Yep, I read "Music Scene". The editor called himself "The Beast" and wrote amusing record reviews. They published an ELP special and, in a Manticore related moment, introduced me to the wonder that was Italy's own PFM. Anyone remember them?

I may have copies of Vox (in both formats) and (if you want it) Replay (three issues with free cover mounted CD in 1992, still waiting for issue 4) and Classic Rock (issue one..and only). I'll have a look on the attic tonight

Ducks Deluxe & girl groups, plus a picture of Brian Ferry in a fetching (if rather confusing) kimono and cravat ensemble?
Well worth a fiver, I'd say.

From the 70's I remember a magazine which used to print the lyrics from top 40 hits. I think it was called disco 45?

I think I have all the copies of SFX magazine somewhere (I keep managing to stop myself throwing them out but I can't recall when I last stumbled across them) I'm sure that it was the VAT man that killed it because they had decided on a price point by calling it a magazine but the VAT man said that the VAT should be the same as any other pre recorded cassette. It was really an "ahead of it's time" podcast!

There was the short lived Street Life c 1975. I heard a story that it was produced by Island Records and was intended to fail so they could write it off as a tax loss. I thought that it was just trying a bit too hard to intellectualise music.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the very intermittently published Dark Star, which was usually worth a read when it came out.

There was also the short lived Nuggets which was a Birmingham based magazine in the mid to late 70's.

Cut
This was a music magazine based in Edinburgh between 1986 and 1989. It was conceived as a Rolling Stone-style magazine for Scotland with emphasis on the growing Scottish music scene as well as film, fashion and politcs.
It was one of the first magazines to be produced on the Apple Mac. I was the designer and still pocess a full set as well as page images.

I've got a few copies X-Ray somewhere about the pad. They're beaten to hell and back from lurking at the bottom of bags - that tiny format they favoured was great for long-distance portability - but got them I have, and, more importantly, several of their superior quality covermounted CDs. It was a fine mag, and indeed I was somewhat without quality reading material until discovering your own august publication. Hurrah for that, and a wry smile and tear in the eye for lost old friends.

Would the weekly 'part work' History of Rock qualify?

Volume was a decent read, if a tad expensive, but the CDs were execellent. (Almost Word standard, ahem)
I'd forgotten Rip and Burn. Tho a high-concept attempt to elongate one of those Q top-tunes-to-download feature always seemed a wee bit tenuous to me

There was a CD sized magazine with a free CD called Volume - I only remember because of one Cocteau Twins track.
Has anyone else mentioned Select?

Does anybody remember a magazine that was a cassette called c60 ? interviews and reviews all on a tape attached to a piece of cardboard. nobody i know seems to recall this, but i'm sure it existed

The C60 cassette magazine was called SFX
I think ex NME writer Max Bell was involved and it ran for 19 issues in the early eighties

I hope you'll dig up some copies of Beat Instrumental, a very dated and interesting mag from the 60's. And wasn't there one called Rave? I may have a copy of Street Life, but will require some digging to find it.

I have a copy of Beat Intrumental somewhere with Keith on the cover, plus all editions of of Street Life, less one with Steve Harley on the cover, that was borrowed by a girlfriend and never returned.

There are scans of some of the ones you are looking for at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/archive/pub.html. I think I still have a copy of the first edition of Vox somewhere (although I am not sure exactly where).

I remember Select very well, but the one I do miss was Muzik - featured a wide variety of dance music, and got me into Drum 'n' Bass.

I only actually keep about the last 12 issues of any monthly magazine - then it's off to the recycle bin.

During the days of punk, I was at Harlow journalist college with a guy who ran a fanzine called 48 Thrills. Anybody remember this? It was mostly Clash and Pistols-based.

Agree wholeheartedly about Select. Fond memories of several 1991 and 1993 issues. It reacted to the zeitgeist like a chameleon if I recall it correctly.

That would be Adrian Thrills - I ended up working on the rival paper to his, tho he already fled to the NME by then.
Sadly, I never managed to flee to the NME ot any other section of the business they call music. In fact, a certain Word contributor once turned me down for a job on Q.
Ah, the myriad joys of being a jobbing hack....

Wasn't there a monthly magazine in the late 70's called Rock Star or something similar. I don't think I've saved any but I remember a Bob Geldof interview (and maybe a full page picture of Gaye Advert - or is that wishfull thinking?)

Flexipop also springs to mind - so called because they had a flexi disc on the cover - I've got the Jam doing Pop Art Poem on one gathering dust somewhere.

Ahh yes - Volume! That was the one that used to have tropical fish on the front. Some of those cds were really good.

I've just remembered that tucked in among my old NMEs will be a few copies of the weekly that was satrted as a breakaway stop gap paper while the NME was on strike in the early 80's (maybe 1980). I'm struggling to remember waht it was called though.

What about "Disco 45"? It contained the lyrics from the popular tunes of the day. It's only with retrospection that I realise that these were often defined by having some secretary listen to the radio and jot down what they heard. They made a particulalry bad job of "Crocodile Rock". I'll be happy to supply more details if required. What about "Select"? I have back issues. Also of "Vox". What about that one from the early 80s with Paul Weller on the front? Was that "The Face"? Also of "Q" - ok, it's not defunct, but it might as well be. My name's Ben Elton, goodnight.

No offence to you lovely folks at WORD but isn't this tempting fate?É People in glass houses etc. I have back issues of Street Life!

Jamming was by Tony Fletcher, who has his own v readable website under said title. (Bit too much on wine IMHO, but I'm no sommelier like).

Anyone else remember Punk Lives which transmogrified from UK82-cheerleading to goff whimsy and, much to my chagrin and the health of its sales, to Oi aggrandisement before expiring? A few Sounds and MM types were to be found within its pages, oft replete with pseudonyms. But it was genuinely the only avenue to find out about punk-related bands for a while.

Sadly I thought the Face was arrant sarfcentric arse, but I was a scruffy northern oik at the time. But I sent no flowers

Heck, I still miss Underground but I did also have the misfortune to pick up a copy of the ham-fisted gubbins that was Lime Lizard. I believe its contributors purveyed their craft for gratis, which explain summat.

Someone who once worked under me went to Smash Hits, which - in my eyes - explains its demise. Laws of libel prevent me etc etc

How about the old classic fold out style Poster magsthat turned into large pinup size things - I had one on Wings, and Saturday Night Fever

Other long lost mags include

Punk Lives - Smash Hits with safety pins

And Virgin - did a music very briefly in 95

There was an inky called Musicians Only, I think it was around in the very early eighties. I seem to remember it was actually quite good - gene-splicing Beat Instrumental and Melody Maker.

Admittedly these are stateside mags but they made my life better for a while.

ICE - originally International CD Exchange then they shortened the title. A very information dense newsletter detailing CD release dates in the states as well as info about "grey area" CDs and a fantastic section called CD watchdog which detailed mastering errors, lousy re-issues, etc.

The 910 - Only focused on Beatles bootlegs. Expanded out to some great books detailing releases and best sources as well as compiling an ever evolving "core collection".

What was I thinking when I carefully tucked away those copies of Street Life magazine 31 years ago? "Hmm, one day, these will provide a valuable insight into Rock Journalism in the 1970s"? I've still got issues 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and they make fascinating reading. There are some hilarious reviews by Angus McKinnon - don't know what he was on, but I think Paul Morley must have been inhaling from nearby. Looking at them now it seems extraordinary that they could run lengthy cover features on Portugal's revolution, and even put footballer Stan Bowles on the cover of issue 17 (although I seem to remember that Rolling Stone was similarly broadsheet in it's coverage of the World Beyond Rock).

I have some shots of the covers, and can let you have high quality copies if needed - I can't work out how to add them to this blog thingy, if it is indeed possible.

It was a good magazine while it lasted unless some one else has mentioned it already that is.

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