As we look forward to the Euros 2024, here is a 32-page mini-magazine in the Bravo of 5 June 1980, introducing the West-German squad to the Euro 1980 in Italy — the team that would win the competition with a 2-1 victory over Belgium in the final. The idea is to fold the pages in such a way as to create a pocket-size magazine. The player pictured on the instructions page is Hamburg’s Manfred Kaltz.
The reader’s charts in Bravo of 5 June 1980. Not a great list; I had six of these records (both AC/DC, Styx, Marianne Faithfull, Pink Floyd, Sugarhill Gang). But in June, my favourite records were Dexys Midnight Runners’ “Geno”, the Ramones’ “Baby I Love You”, the Pretenders “Brass In Pocket”, and, a little older, Tim Curry’s “I Do The Rock”.
Marianne Faithfull on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 5 June 1980.
A few months earlier Faithfull had enjoyed a comeback hit with “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”, and her follow-up, “Broken English”, had just been released. Faithfull, her voiced ravaged by “lifestyle choices”, was regarded as some kind of grandmother. She was 33 years old.
An advert for Langnese’s “Disco” ice cream in Bravo of 5 June 1980, buying into the Zeitgeist of the fashionable youth by offering the music-themed ice-cream, stuck between a wafer that is supposed to look like a record.
Judas Priest on a back-page poster in Bravo 5 June 1980. It shows rhythm guitarist Glenn Tipton with singer Rob Halford inset. Judas Priest had just been on a Germany tour to promote the British Steel album.
Rock Hudson on a single-page poster in Bravo 5 June 1980. In 1980 in a magazine geared at teenagers. Bravo must have known what they were doing.
Alex from The Teens features on the cover of Bravo of 5 June 1980. This week 44 years ago Germany’s youth read about:
• Fleetwood Mac in pics, with autograph card
• All about TV series Taxi, which starts on German TV on 25 June
• The members of The Teens on handling female fans (well, they had only female fans)
• How to get a holiday job
• Dutch singer Maggie McNeal’s farm animals
• How comedian Mike Krüger came up with his novelty hit “Der Nippel”
• 10cc’s Eric Stewart was at death’s door for weeks
• Rock Hudson’s life and films
• How Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros is in private
• Kristy McNichol in a new TV film
Dutch child star on a “Star of the Month” calendar poster in Bravo of 2 June 1969.
(h/t www.bravo-archiv.de)
Sean Connery and his short shorts on a “Star of the Month” poster in Bravo of 1 June 1965.
(h/t www.bravo-archiv.de)
Connie Francis on the back-cover of Bravo of 28 May 1960. Bravo was thrilled that the US superstar would sing with German star Peter Kraus.
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