Peter Maffay 1980

German rock singer Peter Maffay on the cover of Bravo of 8 May 1980.

Peter Maffay 1977

German rock singer Peter Maffay on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 24 February 1977.

Peter Maffay 1981

German cult singer Peter Maffay looking moodily moody on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 15 January 1981. Smoking isn’t good for you, Peter, and it makes your breath stink.

Peter Maffay 1976

German rock singer Peter Maffay on the back-cover of Bravo of 15 January 1976.

Singers of 1979

Nearly 130,000 readers voted for their favourite singers of 1979.

10. Bonnie Tyler / Andy Gibb
9. Anita Ward / Peter Orloff
8. Luisa Fernandez / Leslie McKeown
7. Andrea Jürgens / Plastic Bertrand (“singer”)
6. Paola / Shaun Cassidy
5. Amanda Lear / Bernhard Brink
4. Amii Stewart / Jürgen Drews
3. Suzi Quatro / Patrick Hernandez
2. Donna Summer / Peter Maffay
1. Olivia Newton-John / Leif Garrett

The kids pictured in circles won a chance to present the respective winners with their Otto trophy. Sometimes that took them on international trips.

Peter Maffay 1984

German rock singer Peter Maffay on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 20 September 1984. Imagine his stinky breath!

Bravo 15 Sept. 1977

German rock singer Peter Maffay on the cover of Bravo of 15 September 1977. This week 45 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• How Bravo discovered ABBA’s Annifried’s father
• Harpo: With new moves out of jail (for conscientious objection)
• Niki Lauda: From the fire to the podium
• Sweet’s Brian Connolly and Uriah Heep’s members in private
• How Elvis Presley grew up
• UK punk band Screwdriver: Do they have a screw loose?
• Peter Maffay: New beard and new songs
• Smokie’s Chris Norman and his women
• Introducing new TV star Thomas Gottschalk
• Sex-ed: How a boy turns into a man
• Marianne Rosenberg on her first love
• Book for next week’s Bravo Disco concert in Mainz with The Clash (!), Frank Zander, Elke Best and Rosetta Stone

Peter Maffay 1971

German singer Peter Maffay on the cover of Bravo of 21 June 1971. This week 51 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Deep Purple on love, sex and drugs
• Sex-ed: The experiment of teachers and pupils together in a nudist camp*
• Donovan as the the Pied Piper in new movie
• Katja Ebstein’s future plans
• Sci-fi show “Time Tunnel” coming on German TV
• Chris Roberts on his career
• Hollywood homes of stars like Elvis, Barbara Eden, Carl Wilson, Peter Fonda, Linda Evans and others

*It would probably be a bad idea to try that today…

Peter Maffay 1979

Singer Peter Maffay on a centre-spread poster of the Swiss-German pop magazine of 28 June 1979.

Bravo 22 Jan 1981

Peter Maffay on the cover of Bravo of 22 January 1981. This week 40 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Readers’ poll winners for best actors of 1980 (see next Monday’s post)
• Bob Marley is dying: Smoking is killing him
• Thin Lizzy: Hard rock full steam ahead
• Björn gets married: Is Agnetha upset?
• The lovebirds from The Blue Lagoon: Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
• Narcotics detectives reveal all
• Part 4 of Beatles bio: Why John had to marry Cynthia
• Bravo questionnaire: What do you know about sex
• Peter Maffay’s reveals secrets
• Profile of AC/DC’s Malcolm Young