Guess the next cover star
Posted by Madrid on 1 October 2008 - 11:07am.
Soon to be with us, at least for UK subscribers, so who's it going to be?
Lots of oldies recently, so perhaps a youngster? The fat bloke from Keane? Got a new album out I see. Or fat bloke from Elbow? Has a beard if I’m not mistaken, which might help.
Out of left field, or indeed the far right, maybe Sarah Palin? Lots of mentions round here lately.
Paul Newman? That'd be good.
I'm thinking Elbow.
And you?
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Stevie Wonder
He's all over the place at the moment and has been in blighty for a few weeks, plenty enough time to grab him for a chat.
That would be amazing.
That would indeed be good.
When was the last time anything even vaguely soul related made it to the cover of a monthly? (I never see anything other than Word so may have been last month for all I know - but I doubt it).
If it is Stevie
Remember I predicted it first a couple of months ago.
Is there a prize?
If so what do I get for coming second?
He's so fat these days...
...he literally is all over the place!
I think
it's time for a woman.
I'll guess...
... Neil Young.
Rick Wright ?
But could be a left-field-er like Lemmy was.
Unlikely to be Guy/Elbow - too obvious for Word.
Psst. Insider information
Christopher Biggins.
What?
How did that get out?
He's signed up to play Buttons
In panto in Southampton. He'll need to plug it but I thought you were saving him for your Christmas edition.
Jordan.
Hoping for some Heat/OK! cross over action with a furry pink cover.
Carl Puttnam
from the mighty CUD Hopefully.
Looking at who's got new albums out
maybe Liam G from The Notfabs, or Bette Midler or Boyzone?
Seriously I'd love to see a huge cover/feature with Lindsey Buckingham. His new album's supposed to be fantastic. I'd like to buy it but I can't find a record/cd shop anymore.
Re Christopher Biggins
Mmmm...On his R2 show last night Stuart Maconie revealed that he had had lunch with Mr Biggins...
Not on his own
It was the Manchester Evening News Literary Lunch with CB & SM flogging their worthy tomes. I would have loved to have gone but could not afford the extortionate fee.
Besides I am saving up for the annual Word Christmas bash...
Photo here
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz/s/1069942_diary_bigg...
Cover
Oasis.
I'd like...
..to see David Byrne. He has a new album to plug and I'm sure he has plenty of interesting stuff to say....
Rich
I enjoy these monthly discussions.
We all put forward our disparate and somewhat uncommercial left field choices. However I note the tones of a wearied cynicism and inevitability creeping in. I suspect a greater tally of correct guessing as a result.
Oh Please
Can it be the beatles,stones,dylan or oasis
Could it be...
George Lamb please?
This month's special collectors edition of WORD...
...is available in 50 different covers, each featuring someone who may have played in Lambchop at some point. I hope I can get the one with Ryan Norris on the front.
no a better sales gimmic
would be members of the Fall surely.....
Damn!
I was relying it being the Willard Clark Conspiracy themed covers this time............
Ringo
Actually, I’m having a punt on Ray Davies. He’s promoting some musical.
inne?
That bloody song is everywhere - ok - I heard it twice last week - but it's that bloody 'it's only natural' line - that is a TERRIBLE line Ray, you miserable git. (and oh yeah, Donald Duck - not English.)
See below.....
From BMJ 11th Nov 2006
Former medical missionary and general practitioner Mallaig (b 1924; q Edinburgh 1950), died from complications of Parkinson’s disease on 8 June 2006.
After a brief foray into civil engineering, Donald Duck trained in medicine at the college in Edinburgh. He spent a year as general practice trainee in Skye before moving abroad with his new wife, Jean (also a doctor), to the Medical Missionary College at Ludhiana. There he learned Urdu and Hindi. He and his family then moved to hospitals in Quetta and later Kashmir, where he worked in a wide range of specialties, including eye surgery, until his return back to Britain in 1968. From 1968 till his retiral in 1993 Donald was the single handed general practitioner in Mallaig.
Though originally from London, he relished the highlands of Scotland. He was a keen fisherman and stalker. He was an elder and stalwart supporter of the kirk in Mallaig, and a gifted lay preacher. He had a keen sense of humour and enjoyed many situations where his name led to confusion—for example, when signing cheques or prescriptions (he preceded the eponymous cartoon character by 10 years).
His wife predeceased him in 1997, and he is survived by his four children (one a doctor) and seven grandchildren.
Bernard Cribbins
My life in Music and Film
"From She to Right Said Fred via Green Cross Code and Railway Children"
Now that would be interesting.
Don't forget
The Wombles.
Outside bets
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.
Gary Glitter anyone?
Teddy Thompson
proper pop star but with word friendly roots
Eno & Byrne?
They've got a new album out and fit the "Word profile", well, except the beards I guess.
Stevie Wonder would be a good one.
Please, not Elbow, I'm a bit baffled by the Word Massive's love of this Group - dull name, dull band, dull faces...Keane, Coldplay get stick (rightly so) but I can't see Elbow being any different with their tuneless dirges.
Julian Cope's just released a new album...hint!
Yes Eno and Byrne
That's what I meant to say. ooops
I buy blindly but
Please say it ain't so. But I'm really waiting with interest as to the content of the next couple of mags especially with all the recent opinion posts.
Please tell me
it's not Benji bloody Hughes.
If it's Vini Reilly ...
... I'll take out a lifetime subscription.
It's not Glasvegas, is it?
I'm bored of them already
Paul Weller please....
What with 22 Dreams and all that.
Grumpy old sod but doesn't pull any punches.
Emmylou
She's been touring. She's got stories to tell and there hasn't been a woman on the cover for a while.
It really should be...
White Lionel.
You mean
Black Dave of course.
"Easy, Lionel."
.
Can I have another guess?
Edwyn Collins?
This is as exciting as guessing the figure to come out of the Camberwick Green Music Box when I were a lad.
ha ha!
so true.
Play School
Or trying to guess which window we were going to see through.
Andy Partridge
Well, OK, it won't be him. But I just have this forlorn hope that if I mention him often enough hereabouts, then Word will track him down and interview him. Bloody hell, they got two pages out of decrepit, gigging-phobic old soak Kevin Ayers, so why not?
Seconded
I'm sure it would be interesting.
Ian McNabb...
Must be promoting something, somewhere. Good value raconteur as well...
Kate Bush
Not because she's got anything new out - Kate Bush? Anything new? Ha! - but simply because it's been more years than I care to think about since she was any cover of any magazine. And if Word can put Lennon/The Beatles on the cover for the millionth time, then why not Kate Bush once?
You
have made an excellent point.
What has she done lately?
She had a Mojo cover and lengthy feature when Aerial came out (late 2005 I think), but she hasn't really done much since. Nothing to put her on the cover for until she announces a new project.
She's still been more active
than John Lennon over the last few years.
Roll of drum...
and crash of cymbal. Nice one!
Bryan Ferry
There's been a bit of Roxy Music talk on the podcast lately. He doesn't do it for me, but it could be Mr M&S suit-and-tie on the cover.
Parlour game: How many Beatles covers has THE WORD done?
Have a guess. Answer in a minute or so.
None?
Only the individual members.
I have a lousy memory for these things, by the way.
One Beatles, with Macca only on the front.
One George (dead stars issue). And Lennon makes three.
But I can understand why people think they're always on our cover. The Distinguished Competition do Beatles covers at least twice a year, it seems, and one's memory can play tricks.
Anyway we hope you like the next cover (top of page on the right).
If it were only true
You'd get my vote for top cover anyway.
I am disturbed by that
She is more attractive than she is (if that makes sense).
Oh no, I feel confused...
...it's like being an adolescent again. I'll be breaking out in spots next.
Harrumph....
And don't think I didn't notice the "injuries in rock" article alert. What were Q saying their new direction was? I think I'd prefer Benji Hughes.
(Yes, yes, yes, important, worthy, scoop even, world defining, all that, but we want to read about XTC and Ian McNabb....... And see how well time has fared with their majesty.)
Memo: Add to list of 50 annoyances, world events and politics in pop music comics. Blimey, next you'll be running features about telly programmes.........
Wait til you see the Subscribers' Special Edition
with no coverlines. Quite astonishing.
Like the coverlines
she's wearing? Now that would confuse me.
All sounding a bit "Hotty" to me
Springer? Nigelthebald? You have a rant to make.....
Would this be a Readers Wives Issue
Didn't know that Sarah's hubby was one of us. Who is he. Nigel surely not you?
Nigelthebald runs, screaming,
as far and as fast as he can at the very idea. It's no good getting involved with a woman you disagree with on so many issues, no matter how attractive you may find her. Just doesn't work. (Voice of experience.) (NB My "Couldn't we just..." post below was in reply to Retro. I said I was tired....)
Couldn't we just
pretend I've made one? I'm still worn out from the last time.
Oh...
....Sweet Mother of God, what´s next? Michelle Obama in a swimsuit ? Hang on..
Well done Madrid!
You win! He has the stubble and everything!
Actually
in the Mercury Music Prize thread I 'demanded' that Elbow be coverised. It's nice to know I'm listened to by Heppers and the lads*. Now can I have an issue devoted to Cathal Coughlan, Luke Haines and comics please. TIA. xxx.
*sorry Kate
Comics I can do, the others might be trickier.
Let me go to work on Mark...
If it's that easy to influence editorial content..
..can I please have an in-depth multi-page analysis of the mighty Felt. Plus cover. I bet that's never been done before. Go on, I did guess Elbow.
So it's Elbow...
Zzzzzzzzzz...
Now I clearly said please NOT Elbow...
he's got a bloody beard too, is music really that bad that we have to have Elbow on the cover of The Word!?
edit: ha ha, I just noticed the Girls, Guns and Grateful Dead mock-up cover...that's more like it chaps! Doesn't that beat bloody Elbow hands down?
Girls, guns and the Grateful Dead
That sounds like a great name for a 1000 page book. Copyright it it now, before Greil Marcus nicks it. Beats the exclamation marked "cover" piece.
Elbow are fine for the cover
I think they are probably the one band more than any other that a large number of readers of Word have appreciated this year.
I bow to the Word Massive's love of Elbow...
just don't get them at all personally, although I'm hard pushed to think of another contemporary band (that isn't completely leftfield or under the radar) that Word could feature from a commercial point of view.
Looking through the back issues - Word haven't done very well with contemporary bands, I'm not a fan of Radiohead but I can understand them being on the cover but I mean, come on - The Killers, Travis, Pete Doherty - please!
Maybe after all it is better to stick with the tried and trusted beard, dead or over 50 formula!
Talking of Elbow
Was just browsing the movie trailers at Apple.com and see that "Grounds For Divorce" is being used on the trailer for the new Coen Brothers film - Burn After Reading.
Anyone just not another Dad-Rock "ledge"
There's always Mojo for that kind of nostalgic BS
Or maybe there's a member of the dreary Pink Floyd who hasn't featured lately
Surely...
...Andrew Harrison campaigns each month to get British Sea Power on the cover. Probably sell less copies than Dido but it would be magnificent. They have been nominated for just about everything, rock (ahem, sorry), had a decent selling record, aren't dead or overexposed and are a bit intelligent. Perfect Word criteria! Am I wrong or am I wrong?
Perhaps they'll settle for this
... an appearance on Countryfile. Seriously, I'm not making it up.
John Craven
for the cover. He's a ledge.
come on now!
BSP and John Craven together but not JC on his own- keep it sensible!!
Ok - makes sense
Will put my vote to that.
BSP remain a mystery to me
But John Craven interviews British Sea Power (or anyone for that matter) would be the first article I would read. If I were David Cameron, the first thing I would do is put John Craven and Johnny Ball in the Lords and Shadow Cabinet. Who aged 25-50 wouldn't believe them?
YES YES YES
BSP on the cover could just be the push they need to be as massive as they are fantastic. The Campaign starts here!
NEXT COVER STAR
Robert Mugabe surely... or indeed a Gary Glitter career re-appraisal perhaps - both have big celebrity profiles at the moment I gather for some reason!
Or failing that X-Factor, by jesus it surely should have the recognition it deserves for services to popular music (oh, was i being sarcastic there?)