LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Now that even the NME's publishing house plans to muscle in on the teenie-trendie circulation success of Smash Hits with its own lyrics/pinups/gossip glossy weekly, image-mongering may well become Britain’s next nationalized industry.
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
POLLS, ROSES and ROLES
Cynthia Rose
Now that even the NME's publishing house plans to muscle in on the teenietrendie circulation success of Smash Hits with its own lyrics/pinups/gossip glossy weekly, image-mongering may well become Britain’s next nationalized industry. This embryonic mag for yer fadmad little br.o and sis is to be aimed at advertisers serving a 12-19 year-old market. An^it’s already been dubbed Number 1: a reflection of its publishers’ concern that “the action remain chart-orientated.”
Where is the action? Well--in a country so small that two spins of a platter by Someone at Radio One ensures said disc a spot up in the top two-thirds of our Hot Hundred, the real action’s often a scratchmy-back-I’ll-scratch-yours. This is our new act: cover it! This is our new club: plug the address! These are our new clothes: here are the pix! It’s a great little record: take my word for it!