Entertainment For Lively Minds
Street Life
Posted by tintoverrano on 15 January 2010 - 10:34pm.
Does anyone else out there remember the amazing Street Life magazine, which ran from about 75-77? It may even have been briefer than that.
I think they were trying to produce a UK version of Rolling Stone. It had some terrific articles about(mostly)music but also a bit of football, literature and politics.I still have some copies of it (err... somewhere..)
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Before my time
But there is a mention here :
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/any-old-paper
Not before my time
and I liked it so much that I bought (through a "small ad" - wot's that?) the whole lot - and I still have them! Haven't looked at them lately but am now inspired to do so.
Remember it fondly
Thinking about Street Life now it seems like a publication from the future. It wasn't until The Independent and Sunday Correspondent in the late 80s/early 90s that a journal of its size in Britain (if I'm right, maybe Modern Review as well?) had articles on so many aspects of popular culture. It's the common currency of every newspaper now.
I remember reviews of The Man Who Fell to Earth and a big piece on Be Bop Deluxe. As a kid it paved the way for the street education that later was honed by the NME of the Golden Years.
I had them all - great stuff
I had them all - great stuff and formative reading for this 15 year old of the time. I kept them and put them up for sale, but no-one was interested. They were all lost in the ephemera cull of the mid 1990s (beyond my control).