Jackiemagazinewas the British equivalent ofTiger Beat . At its 1970s peak , 600,000 copies were sold each calendar week . Its fashion tips , romance advice , and fame gabfest were pass around sleepover from London to Leeds . Each publication was illuminate up with pictorials of boyish heartthrob . The Monkees , the Osmonds and David Cassidy were favorites .
The stick - up forthe October 7 , 1967 issuewas an interesting choice . It was Pink Floyd , the same band whose obscure , druggy , and musically and thematically complex record album have become classic .
The four immature menare decked out in spotless mod attire , their hair slick magazine and shiny as they grant the photographic camera half - smiles . leash singer Syd Barrett , always off cue , is closing his eyes .
The set wound up in the magazine despite — or , perhaps , because of — the fact they were far from stars then . The editor ofJackiehad never heard a Pink Floyd disc because there was n’t one when the pictures were flick .
According toEchoes : The Complete account of Pink Floydby Glenn Povey , the photoshoot pass on Feb. 6 , 1967 , five 24-hour interval after the banding signal to EMI and five weeks before they released their transgressive first unmarried , “ Arnold Layne , ” about a transvestic . EMI had raise the ring from the London club conniption and quickly schedule two photo shoot , one forJackieand another for a magazine calledFashion 208 , presumably foresee they ’d be published when Pink Floyd had material out . Their psychedelically flavour first phonograph record , The Piper at the Gates of Dawn , came out two calendar month before theirJackiepin - up did .
Launched in 1964,Jackiewas all about the latest popular hotshot . Engelbert Humperdinck , the Dave Clark Five , the Rolling Stones and , of course , the Beatles appearedon covert . So it was up for boast the tardy EMI signee without having actually heard them . ( The magazine publisher shutteredin 1993 , its circulation dwindling as it resisted the trend of juicy , more sexually explicit magazine . )
The air between teen pop and meaty music was blurred to magazine back then . In the U.S. , a writer for16 Magazineexperienceda “ dream day”with Jim Morrison of the Doors and a kiddie publication calledTeen Scoopoffered a vinyl group criminal record interviewwith Simon and Garfunkel as a bonus .
