Talk:Smash Hits

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What colour is Tuesday?

This article says nothing about what the magazine was like. I really must put in some of the things that made it distinctive. Like asking bizarre questions, or being unable to spell "actually". Totnesmartin 14:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC) (the same height as Boy George, according to SH)[reply]

While the weekly music press of the time was mostly text, strictly columnized, and black and white - Smash Hits, undoubtedly influenced by punk fanzines, had a haphazard layout, many color images, and minimal text - mainly lyrics. Wwwhatsup (talk) 00:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damage Controversy

Unfortunately, I am unable to get a source for the Damage issue and so it keeps getting deleted. It DID happen I remember it well. Does anyone have any reference from a newspaper or magazine at the time as I am unable to find a websource. There was a big hoo haha over it at the time.

In 1997, Smash Hits debated whether or not to put the boyband Damage on the front cover of an issue of their publication. They felt that, as the band were black, this may mean that they would suffer a loss of sales for that issue. It was mistakenly thought that Smash Hits had never previously had a band with an all black line up on the cover when in fact the likes of Sade, Neneh Cherry and Five Star had featured on the front page.

Technohead1980 (talk) 22:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cover

The sample cover on the article is a bit misleading. It makes it look like a serious underground music mag when it was mostly Kylie Minogue smiling out of the cover with bright colours all through the magazine. Anyway, I'm off to an article on Number One (magazine) - since it doesn't have one. Don't know too many details about it - so if anyone does, please add to it.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 01:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]