Comments on: Right on cue, er, Q….

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:05 +0000

Always confuses me how monthly music mags such as Q are dated two months hence – something to do with the release date of the product under review perhaps.
MJ is not really my scene and the current wall to wall coverage irks betimes. But he is huge in popular music up there with the Beatles who incidentally are not my scene either.
Yet it was the collective singing of a song from the latter, by a troop of Manhattan toddler school kids as they were being shepherded through the Upper East Side, which really made me stop and think about the value of popular music.
People in their millions love Jacko for his musical talent and this is transferred to the next generation. (In this context Jarvis -common people – Cocker is a jealous tosser),
In the world of bank bailouts where monetary concepts of value are rendered meaningless, the value of artistic endeavour is more negotiable than ever. Such a shame that MJ had to “kick it in the head” by the time he was fifty and that his creativity is counterposed by primae facie acute psychological dysfunction.
Should be emphatically on school curricula, this seemingly ubiquitous downside of greatness.

By: David All

David All — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:39:54 +0000

Ah, the perils of publishing. Something similar happened to Roger Morris, whose biography of Reagan’s first Secretary of State General Al (“I’m in Charge) Haig* was published just after Haig was fired by Reagan!

*No relation of and not to be confused with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:28:49 +0000

“August 2009, surely?”

Indeed! Fixed. Ta!

By: Mark T

Mark T — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:20:16 +0000

Oh, and its dated “August 2007″.

August 2009, surely?

By: bill d

bill d — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:58:28 +0000

At least it was an obvious choice of cover story from Q.

Whereas the people at World Finance Magazine who decided to make Allen Stanford their man of the year have a wee bit more explaining to do.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2009/02/13/magazine-cover-of-the-year

World Finance’s 2008 Man of the Year award was bestowed upon Sir Allen Stanford as he clearly stood out when, two years ago, he began cautioning those in the financial services industry that an impending global economic storm was brewing. His ability to lead the Stanford Financial organisation through this current turbulent environment unscathed and his commitment to philanthropic causes in the cities around the world where Stanford conducts business were the deciding factors in selecting him as this year’s award recipient.

You know what happened next. As the editor later wrote:

When we took the decision we felt we had to discount unproven accusations from various sources that were in the news at that time. We determined that if those speculations had come to nothing it would have been an error to count them in our decision. It was a calculated editorial risk.

By: Sy

Sy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:54:15 +0000

“Well, it must be a magazine editor’s worst nightmare…”

You’re joking, aren’t you? Still, Bauer should be able to afford a spectacular wreath paid for by all those extra sales.

By: Jon d

Jon d — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:43:44 +0000

Oddly reminiscent of the way I found out about princess Di karking it.
I’d had the girlfriend over for the weekend and we went straight out for a walk in the morning without watching any telly or hearing any radio. Popped into the shops and the newspaper headlines gave various accounts of the crash from ‘royal leg accidentally injured’
Upto the Times which as befits the paper of record had it right. The Mail iirc was going with a trademark immigrant scare story or similar.

On the shelves above were the celebrity paperazzi magazines with the famous grainy picture of a distant, unrecognisable couple on a boat captioned ‘DI! SO IN LOVE!’. I bought the Times as a souvenir. When I went back later on the celebrity mags had all been removed from the shelves.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:28:07 +0000

Ah I saw the issue at tesco’s in Surrey Quays yesterday. As you said the first thought was “God they were quick.”

Not sure it was “dated “August 2007″” though!