Friday, March 23, 2012

R.I.P. Eric Watson: 1955 - 2012

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In 1981 he was invited to work for Smash Hits, after the editor, David Hepworth, saw photographs Watson had shot for Madness.
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Monday, September 5, 2011

I'm sure Oscar Wilde enjoyed a nice leg of mutton

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Tom Hibbert interviews Morrissey, January 1985.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

RIP Tom Hibbert

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At Smash Hits in the mid-80s, he helped invent a cartoon fantasy world in which everyone interviewed seemed to exhibit the same slapstick ch...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Like Punk Never Happened!

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Dave Rimmer's classic account of New Pop, Like Punk Never Happened , has been republished by Faber. It is available from Amazon and Ama...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

“I hoped that people might stumble across the scans and get a kick out of reading them.”

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In June 1979, a 10-year-old from Derry, Ireland, Brian McCloskey, visited some family in Northern Ireland. There, he and his mother went to ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

There's something charming about the idea of communally-minded individuals painstakingly scanning entire copies of Smash Hits

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Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits archive seems to be keeping its promise to add a new edition of the magazine every fortnight, "on the ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

It was the little touches that got me into Smash Hits

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"People keep writing to me via the blog to tell me they've wasted days on a 1981 copy of Smash Hits," McCloskey says. "Th...
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