VOX No. 1
Special First Issue — Shaun Ryder / Happy Mondays
Launch issue of VOX, IPC’s monthly music-and-movies magazine from the NME publishing stable. The October 1990 first issue places Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays on the cover in a Kevin Cummins photograph and combines major music journalism, record reviews, film coverage and a 32-page Record Hunter supplement.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- VOX
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR completeness rule, including the advertised 32-page Record Hunter supplement; no missing issued component has been reported.
- Date
- October 1990 (cover date)
Catalogue note
Launch issue of VOX, IPC’s monthly music-and-movies magazine from the NME publishing stable. The October 1990 first issue places Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays on the cover in a Kevin Cummins photograph and combines major music journalism, record reviews, film coverage and a 32-page Record Hunter supplement. Contents include Happy Mondays in the United States, James Brown interviewed from prison, Bob Dylan, Electronic with Pet Shop Boys, Dream Warriors, Carter USM, Living Colour, James and Prince.
Why this object matters
The complete VOX launch and Record Hunter supplement preserve IPC’s 1990 music-monthly proposition with Cummins’s Ryder cover. Retain Gold at 9.0 as a specific publication launch, modestly below more foundational youth-style titles.
Evidence limits: Complete under the standing TMR completeness rule, including the advertised 32-page Record Hunter supplement; no missing issued component has been reported.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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