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Very Spooky
Whilst wandering around Waitrose this afternoon, I browsed the magazine rack and spotted the new edition of Q magazine, out today. On the cover was a close up pic of Michael Jackson's face, framed by what looked like a black border. "Crikey" I thought to myself "They got that tribute edition out bloody quickly." Except, of course, that it isn't a tribute edition. It is in fact, just by weird coincidence, simply the latest Q magazine with a cover feature timed to coincide with Jacko's O2 shows.
What makes it even weirder, is that the Jacko piece is entitled "The Last Four Years" which actually refers to the four years of his life leading up to the O2 shows, but in the light of recent events, it now takes on a rather eerie significance.
Has anyone else seen this? I don't have the knowitall to paste a pic of the cover, if one exists.
It really did send a chill down my spine.
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The new Q has not arrived in Scarborough yet, we get the papers 3 days late here! It does sound spooky though, will investigate further when the new issue arrives. I wonder if Word will be doing a last minute change of cover in light of Michael's demise?
Here it is:-
The words Hot and Cakes
The words Hot and Cakes spring to mind.
http://news.q4music.com/2009/06/post_27.html
And I quote:
"If you do take offence to any part of the issue in light of Michael Jackson’s tragic passing, I can only apologise on behalf of Q. Hopefully, you will understand that no offence was intended or meant.
I hope instead that Q’s salute to the Thriller album within the issue stands as our tribute to Michael Jackson. It remains a remarkable work by a truly remarkable pop star. We shall not see his like again.
Paul Rees – Editor In Chief, Q"
So, whatever is in the mag was good enough to say when he was alive, but not good enough to say now he's dead? Well, either you should give the living the same consideration you offer the dead - why do we think it's so terrible to speak ill of the dead but are willing to kick the crap out of the living and try to humiliate them while they're around to be hurt by it?
Or you can have the balls to stand by what you wrote before he went horizontal and not try passing off a bit about "Thriller" as a tribute. It's not a crime to dislike him, even if he will be bench pressing daisies in the not too distant.
Would Mark Ellen / David Hepworth be writing the same load of tosh if Bono had croaked this weekend after the last cover issue? I'd like to think not.
the apology
made me go.... "but why!?"
fair enough about timings in the magazine and print industry, I deal with that myself, but if you publish something a bit off these days, do you have to then publish a retraction and/or apology when the target expires?
WTF! are we coming to?
Its in the shops?
I haven't got my subscribers copy yet :(
New Q
Even stranger is the fact that the cover promises an article called CSI Rock. The contents page descibes this as "A medical expert explains rock's strangest deaths".
Is being 'The UK's biggest music magazine'
really anything for them to brag about?
*ahem*
People in glass houses and all that...
But that's a 'proper' award
Merely being 'the biggest' is hardly something to shout about, surely?
Presumably...
...the 'UK's biggest music magazine' boast is based on circulation - I suspect Mark and David would gladly swap places with Q in that regard.
Is it?
I read 'biggest' as 'most pages' rather than "the UK music magazine with the largest circulation"
A cursory search reveals...
...that, according to ABC at least, Q is indeed the music mag with the biggest circulation in the UK (three times that of The Word, if you're wondering).
Technically it's
Germany's biggest circulation UK music mag
I wonder if this will start a trend
where the Q cover star promptly conks out? PR and management teams will be running around trying to ensure their man isn't slated for the cover spot. The poor person who does appear will feel like someone's passed him the old black spot.
"...trying to ensure their man isn't slated for the cover spot."
The cynic in me reckons they'd consider a cover spot related death a brilliant way to shift more 'product'.
A bit tough on the talent, of course, but that's show business...
So many possibles...
...so few covers
Expresso Bongo?
snaps of Rome...