Bravo 8 Oct 1981

Peter Maffay on the cover of Bravo of 8 October 1981. This week 39 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Desirée Nosbusch’s nude scenes: “Was that necessary?”
• Grace Jones: “The most beautiful predator”
• Adam Ant’s new costumes
• David Bowie’s career in photos, plus autograph card
• Kim Wilde: “Sex doesn’t really exist for me”
• Motörhead interviewed
• Punk from Berlin tells of his life
• Focus on John McEnroe
• How Nudge Ure rules Steve Strange
• Focus on singer-songwriters: Georg Danzer, Konstantin Wecker, Georges Moustaki and, er, Chris de Burgh

Desirée Noschbusch’s nude scenes which prompted Bravo to ask: “Was that necessary”? Only to feature several photos of her naked…

 

Desirée Nosbusch 1981

Teenage TV presenter Desirée Nosbusch on a photo spread and autograph card in Bravo of 16 July 1981.

Bravo 16 July 1981

Actress and TV presenter Desirée Nosbusch on the cover of Bravo of 16 July 1981. This week 39 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Yoko’s revelations about John: “Was Lennon a wimp?”
• The houses where ABBA are hiding
• Désirée Nosbusch in pictures, with autograph card
• JR Ewing: The man everybody loves to hate
• New James Bond movie “In tödlicher Mission” out soon
• Hana Mandlikova, the new tennis queen
• New band Bow Wow Wow set for German TV debut
• How T. Rex invented glam rock
• Ultravox live on stage
• Quiz: Are you a true AC/DC fan
• Actress Sibylle Rauch: “Everybody knows me naked” (cue photo of Rauch with a breast exposed)

Desirée Nosbusch

Luxembourgian TV presenter and actress Desirée Nosbusch on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 4 June 1981

Georg Danzer 1980

Austrian singer Georg Danzer on the back-page poster in Bravo of 6 November 1980. He was attracting attention at the time for his song “Zehn kleine Fixer” about heroin addiction and society’s lack of care for them.

See this video, and if you understand German, listen to teenage Desirée Nosbusch’s excellent interview with Danzer at the end of it.

 

 

Desirée Nosbusch 1981

Actress and TV presenter Desirée Nosbusch on the back-page poster of Bravo of 24 September 1981. She was appearing in her first feature movie, Nach Mitternacht, in which the 16-year-old had full frontal nude scenes. It was a different age back then…

Kristy McNichol & Desirée Nosbusch 1981

Kristy McNichol and German TV/radio presenter and actress Desirée Nosbusch — two Bravo favourites — on a backpage poster in Bravo of 12 February 1981. According to the caption, the photo was taken in summer 1980 when Nosbusch visited the Little Darlings star in LA.

Both of them have featured many times in Bravo, and on this site, McNichol more times than Nosbusch.

Desirée Nosbusch 1980

Teenage TV presenter and actress Desirée Nosbusch on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 9 October 1980.

Bravo 9 Oct 1980 (Nosbusch)

Actress and TV personality Desirée Nosbusch on the cover of Bravo of 9 October 1980. Gentleman, avert you eyes: the girl was 15 at the time!

In that issue Germany’s youth read about English “rock-teen” band Def Leppard and Judas Prierst, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nina Hagen on tour, all about Olivia Newton-John, and how Tanya Roberts (gorgeous and legal) landed her role on Charlie’s Angels.

And readers could vote for their favourite record cover from a selection of 20, among them Sgt Pepper’s, Aladdin Sane, Captain Fantastic, The Wailer’s lighter cover of Catch A Fire, The Mallards’ and Roxy Music’s self-titled LPs, Ummagumma, Abraxas, School’s Out and Be-Bop Deluxe’s Axe Victim.

Desirée Nosbusch 1980

Desirée Nosbusch, TV and radio presenter and actress from Luxembourg, and every teenage boy’s fantasy girl in the early 1980s, on a centrespread poster in Bravo 17 January 1980.