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Baby-sitters Club was a series of books for teenage girls by Ann M Martin, popular in the 80s and 90s. They were popular with the same readers as Judy Blume and Paula Danzinger books.The series was based around a group ... Bad Boys. Short stories about a boy (s) getting up to mischief, pulling faces, jumping in puddles.
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May 3, 2021 · By the 1960s, the magazines came together to become Young Miss, and in the 1980s, YM began to stand for Young and Modern. It saw its final name change in 2000, when it became Your Magazine. The print publication ceased in 2004. YM changed and shifted not just in name, but in content as well. Though a fashion-focused magazine in its later years ...
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- A Smash Hit
- Moving on After 'Just Seventeen'
- 'Q' — A Glossy Music Mag For The CD Generation
- The Hepworth and Ellen Empire
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'Smash Hits' was launched in 1978 and was the idea of Nick Logan, who had been editor of 'New Musical Express' and would later create influential style magazine 'The Face'. 'Smash Hits' brought together pop lyrics, features and high-quality photography in a glossy format. It was an instant hit, selling 100,000 copies of each issue, despite 1978 arg...
Meanwhile David Hepworth had been developing a new magazine for the same publisher EMAP, 'Just Seventeen', aimed at teenage girls. 'Just Seventeen' combined the type of pop features published in 'Smash Hits' with items on affordable fashion and make-up that could be bought at Miss Selfridge and Boots alongside problem pages and articles on relation...
Pet Shop Boys would appear on the cover of the third edition of 'Q' magazine, the new project developed by Ellen and Hepworth and edited by Ellen. The first issue of 'Q' magazine appeared in October 1986. The cover featured Paul McCartney, as well as Mick Jones and Joe Strummer (both former members of The Clash and now working together on new proje...
Hepworth and Ellen were now the brains behind a media powerhouse so it was apt that their next launch, a film magazine, was called 'Empire'. The first issue was published in June 1989 with the strapline 'The modern guide to screen entertainment'. That first issue featured Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis in a new biopic 'Great Balls of Fire', articl...
'Empire' 1989-date (London: EMAP Metro) [National Library of Scotland shelfmark: HJ9.550].'Q' 1986-date (London: EMAP Metro) [Shelfmarks: HJ9.236 and SJ8.6639].'Rock stars stole my life!: A big bad love affair with music' by Mark Ellen (London: Coronet Books, 1984) [available as a National Library e-book].'Smash hits' 1978-2006 (Peterborough: EMAP National Publications) [Shelfmarks: HJ9.76 and HJ10.421].1980s: Print Culture. The publishing industry was very much affected by the trends affecting other areas of popular culture in the 1980s—the concentration of power in large corporations and the public thirst for status through consumption. The concentration of power in publishing took two forms. First, the number of book publishers decreased ...
Apr 22, 2015 · The 1970s and 1980s – the pre-Internet Age — witnessed the rise of so many great genre magazines. Starlog and Fangoria were two favorites of mine, and publications widely read and appreciated by fans. Also popular at the time was the long-established (and beloved) Famous Monsters, and the scholarly Cinefantastique.
Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–) were the queens of the romance novel. A new series— called Harlequin Romances—offered a steady stream of romance fiction intended for women. The 1970s also saw the first appearance of the man who would dominate the best-seller list for the rest of the century: horror writer ...
