Shakin’ Stevens 1982

820114 Shakin' Stevens

Shakin’ Stevens, voted the readers’ favourite male solo singer of 1981, on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 14 January 1982.

The Top 10:

1. Shakin’ Stevens
2. Roland Kaiser
3. Marius Müller-Westernhagen
4. Peter Maffay
5. Howard Carpendale
6. Max Werner (WHO?)
7. Udo Lindenberg
8. Cliff Richard
9. Ted Herold
10. Stefan Waggershausen

Bravo 14 Jan 1982

820114 Bravo Cover

Shakin’ Stevens on the cover of Bravo of 14 January 1982. This week 40 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Readers’ poll for favourite singers of 1981 (see Tuesday and Wednesday)
• The secrets of 007 singer Sheena Easton
• Steve Strange: From Ne’er-do-well to pop royalty
• Peter Maffay’s LP title pleads: “Dear God, show us the way”
• Judas Priest: Haunted by bad spirits
• Introducing Altered Images
• The man behind (the terminally unfunny) Gottlieb Wendehals
• Extrabreit: A red rag to teachers and cops
• Real life: The diary of a deathly love

Bravo 30 July 1981

810730 Bravo Cover (Shakin' Stevens)

Shakin’ Stevens on the cover of Bravo of 30 July 1981. This week 40 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Two women fight over Adam Ant
• Romance: John Travolta in love with Brooke Shields (yeah, sure)
• The actress behind Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis Eyes
• How Juice Newton found success
• Shakin’ Stevens in pics with autograph card (see Sunday’s post)
• Accept, Germany’s new hot heavy metal band
• Profile of Patrick Duffy, Dallas‘ Bobby Ewing
• Sex-ed: How birth works
• The Bernie Paul story
• Profile of German goalkeeper Eike Immel
• Tommi Ohrner’s breakthrough as a singer
• The film that killed Bruce Lee
• Queen’s Roger Taylor releases solo LP