Hey Girls!
Apparently, according to someone I used to work with and who now 'works' at Q Magazine, women are buying more music these days than men.
50 Quid Bloke has been superceded by the kind of switched on modern gal who is downloading music on mp3, or mp-she, if you will...and quelle horreur :
'For the first time, more women are reading are reading metal magazine Kerrang! than men'
Now, this I find particularly surprising...in a previous life I was an avid Kerrang reader; in fact I bought the first issue (and the following 70 or so) which featured Angus Young on the front cover, and the likes of Rose Tattoo, ZZ Top (who barely anyone in the UK had heard of then) and Rainbow within it's glossy pages. That's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - not Bungle, George and Zippy...
In the olden days, Kerrang would regularly feature metal bands in photo spreads with nude ladies, in a distinctly un-PC context. One memorable issue had a centrepread with Rob Halford of Judas Priest with the current Penthouse Pet of the Year - (whose name was Cheryl, if I remember correctly...)
Rob Halford is gay - very gay. Looking back now at all the leather straps and caps and so on, it seems odd that we never suspected this at the time, but I guess photo shoots with Penthouse Pets served to perpetuate the 'Metal's Not Gay' myth...
I guess Kerrang has left such diversions behind, and there are no more pictures of Motorhead desporting with top heavy groupies on a garage forecourt in Wrexham (which I remember well from one woeful issue).
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