The era of pure pop

During the high pop 60s, between 1963 and early 1967, Britain had an incredibly vigorous pop and teen press, with at least a dozen weeklies and/or monthlies vying to bring their readers all the latest news, gossip and interviews about the Beatles, the Stones, the Searchers, Cilla and Dusty, right the way through to the Walker Brothers and the Small Faces.

An excellent piece from Jon Savage in today’s Observer (the UK Sunday newspaper, not the New York one) provides a detailed look at Britain’s lively pop magazine culture in the mid-1960s.