Post by Paula on Feb 2, 2006 14:02:34 GMT -5
Goodbye to Smash Hits
Remember the song lyrics they used to print? The pop magazine that teenagers were mad for is now closing down after 28 years.
Music careers were launched by the music mag's interviews and 500,000 copies a week were snapped up in its 1980s heyday.
X Factor host Kate Thornton used to work for the pop bible, as did Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant and Heat! editor Mark Frith. He told The Sun "Anyone that grew up with Smash Hits will always have a special place for it... it has been a pioneering force in pop."
Today music fans can get the info they want off the web, TV and mobiles in a much faster way than a weekly magazine. Are you sad to see Smash Hits fold?
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/smash_hits.shtml
Remember the song lyrics they used to print? The pop magazine that teenagers were mad for is now closing down after 28 years.
Music careers were launched by the music mag's interviews and 500,000 copies a week were snapped up in its 1980s heyday.
X Factor host Kate Thornton used to work for the pop bible, as did Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant and Heat! editor Mark Frith. He told The Sun "Anyone that grew up with Smash Hits will always have a special place for it... it has been a pioneering force in pop."
Today music fans can get the info they want off the web, TV and mobiles in a much faster way than a weekly magazine. Are you sad to see Smash Hits fold?
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/smash_hits.shtml
