Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like.
We got such a positive response to our post about a recently-excavated back issue of Rolling Stone, that we thought we'd dig a little deeper in the nostalgia pile, all the way down to October 24th, 1985.
RS No. 459 features Billy Crystal, an environmental disaster, a long interview with cover-mogul Steven Spielberg, and a glowing writeup of a RHCP album (debut full-length Freaky Styley), making this strictly a déjà vu affair. There's also a snarky takedown/recap of the second annual MTV Video Awards, which reads suspiciously like a blog ("Someone performed fellatio on someone else in the hall, but nobody cared -- they weren't famous"). Ouch.
After the jump: portable turntables are all the rage, E.T. blanches Spielberg's netherparts, and Ray Charles ends a sentence with a preposition. Unknown vandals swiped the Table of Contents and the charts (along with pictures of the Eurythmics), so you'll have to settle for a context-free graphic that details a big-money showdown between The Boss, Luther Vandross, Wham!, and anyone lucky enough to be on tour with the Scorpions. May the best band win!
What, no stars? How are we supposed to tell what's good?
From a hilarious-in-retrospect special feature about audio/video. When Ray Charles is the only one who can see what's good about laserdiscs, you know your business is in trouble.
No recollections of this. Any guesses as to the plot of this show?
Yes, Brooke: George Michael is the perfect specimen of manhood. Almost too perfect...
