your money and you takes your choice- I personally felt billious on seeing Roger Waters on a cover once, the Thom York one was useful on the mantlepiece to keep the kids away from the fire and we saved the Keith Richards one for halloween.

If it's attractive covers you want, surely Health and Efficency would be more suitable?

Well let's see how good what some dickheads call 'the Rolfster' looks with his shirt off!

there was no beard or prog rocker/folkie/Beatle on the cover.
I love it, a brave choice when you think that has to go on display in shops - now let's just see if they can get a female cover star under the age of 40 on the cover - that would be a real challange!

please

I did notice in T*sco yesterday that there were more than the usual number of copies on the shelf for week two. I don't think it's a case that the copies aren't selling, but that people who have bought it elsewhere, or maybe subscribe, are shop-dropping (as opposed to shop-lifting) their copies to prevent spouses, offspring, pets being alarmed by the scary naked man on the front.

..pass over me. I'm from Yorkshire.
It's just bloody horrible.

at the weekend that an Aussie MP called Jake had been caught claiming expenses for an extra leg, diddle- iddle liddle-lom.

to up-end the debate about the subscribers' issue by producing a cover to which the addition of more and more text could only be an improvement.

..which of course, he is.

in the field of popular culture? ;-)

You have a perfect right to take a pop at Iggy, but (as a new subscriber) you may not be aware that calling other users names (i.e. 'd*ckheads') is very much against the friendly ethos of The Word website.

Also, Iggy, 'talentless'? '1969,' 'Lust for life,' 'China Girl,' 'The Passenger,' even 'Real Wild Child' was kind of OK (it sounded excellent on the radio in 1987, I seem to remember). These just off the top of my (d*ck-shaped) head. Mr.Pop is a highly influential artist & widely considered (at least in my house) to be the godfather of 80s leather-trousered indie-rock (e.g. the output of Creation records).

I'm not really even a big fan of the Igster. In fact I was just calling him that in a tongue-in-cheek, ironic, humorous fashion. Sorry if it didn't translate.

Much love
Adman
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..but I've been contributing to this site for yonks (and am conversant with it's etiquette, thanks).
I obviously wasn't singling anyone out personally, and never would. Sorry if you took offence.
As for Iggy's "talent"..well whatever floats yer boat. In my house, nothing he's ever made would get past my door. The Stooges stuff is inept, and the "classic" Raw Power sounds like a wet sponge.
I tried to like him in my younger days, but now accept him for what he is..a chancer with more front than a battleship.
And that cover is still foul.

I am a d*ckhead but I don't call Iggy Pop the Igster. Help please!

..who use "The Igster" are dickheads, and not all dickheads use "The Igster".
Signed
Dickhead Shane

Comrade Iggski, Sir Igford of Popchester, Senor Iggalia Santa Maria and so on.....

but I honestly don't give a pile of putrid wallpaper paste who is on it - I buy the magazine for the writing inside.

Do you think that people who buy The New Yorker think "Oh, that's a pretty cover picture - I'll buy the magazine."

I know that's a bit fatuous (and I'm aware of the issues and economics that go into the choice), but apart from the obvious issue of beard action, the person on the cover is of secondary interest when I buy a magazine.

Harrumph.

..first in a series.
I'd buy it if The Pussycat Dolls were on the cover.