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[Misc] Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem (BBC)
- Thread starter Wozza
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- Jun 27, 2012
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Not that niche . They were some of the biggest selling magazines in the country. Both Loaded and FHM at their peaks were selling a combined 1.2m copies a month (in/around 1998) . FHM peaked at 775K a month in 1999.
I still have copies of the first few issues of The Face. Unfortunately I cut out lots of the pix to make collages to stick on the wall. Vandal!
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,678
TBF - James Brown said he'd turned down 40 different requests to do a documentary until this request came in in the last couple of decades. He didn't really talk about Loaded for years until he wrote his memoirs a couple of years ago (which this documentary had the rights to).
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Yeah, in fairness, probably a big difference between trendy magazines in that there London compared to the 'geek' magazines I worked on from 92.
Perhaps @Comrade Sam will tell us which jobs he interviewed for?
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- #46
Hmmmm... I think James is fully justified to boost about creating a genuinely landmark magazine.
(Way more jarring that the pretty shite 90min.com piggybacks off the 90 Minutes name, I reckon!)
Stayed there several times. It is lovely.
Not sure he was so thoughtful when he got sacked from GQ for including Rommel in his Most Fashionable Men of the Century list, what with Conde Nast being owned by a Jewish family.
I was working at FHM when it did 1 million copies a month for a couple of issues. Then four of us left (before the Gail Porter one) when the publisher said they would cover the cost of the food for our staff Xmas lunch but not the booze.
The problem was that the designers for those geeky magazines all thought they were working for The Face
Actually, the Guardian redesign was just as influential, suddenly there was Garamond everywhere