Shakin’ Stevens on a supersize poster in Bravo of 6 August 1981.
Shakin’ Stevens
Shakin’ Stevens 1983
Shakin’ Stevens on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 15 June 1983.
Shakin’ Stevens 1983
Shakin’ Stevens on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 10 February 1983.
Shakin’ Stevens 1984
Shakin’ Stevens and soft toys that were thrown on to his stage, on a single-page poster in Bravo of 29 November 1984
Shakin’ Stevens 1982
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
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
Shakin’ Stevens 1984
Shakin’ Stevens on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 29 November 1984. Yes, he featured twice on posters in that edition; the single-page one ran on Sunday.
Shakin’ Stevens 1984
Shakin’ Stevens and the stuffed toys which fans had thrown on stage on a single-page poster in Bravo of 29 November 1984. Shakey donated them to a Munich orphanage. The big brown teddy at back on the left seems very unhappy about this turn of events.
Shakin’ Stevens 1981
Photospread and autograph card of Shakin’ Stevens in Bravo of 30 July 1981.
Bravo 30 July 1981
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