Loaded Issue 27
July 1996 · Euro ’96 — Frank Skinner & David Baddiel / Three Lions · PPA Magazine of the Year cover flash
Loaded Issue 27, July 1996, is the magazine’s Euro ’96 issue, fronted by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel at the height of Fantasy Football League and the first release of 'Three Lions'. The cover also carries 'Voted Magazine of the Year Again!', marking Loaded’s second consecutive PPA Consumer Magazine of the Year award.
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- Loaded
- Condition
- Good+
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine workflow. Specialist sale records describe this issue with a Kaja poster; the poster has not been separately photographed in this accession, so its physical presence is not independently verified from the supplied views.
- Date
- July 1996
Catalogue note
Loaded Issue 27, July 1996, is the magazine’s Euro ’96 issue, fronted by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel at the height of Fantasy Football League and the first release of 'Three Lions'. The cover also carries 'Voted Magazine of the Year Again!', marking Loaded’s second consecutive PPA Consumer Magazine of the Year award. Specialist contents listings identify features on Halle Berry, Bryan Robson, Louise Wener, Mick Channon, Keith Floyd, Steve Coogan, Charlie Sheen, Pete Waterman, Ash and Underworld. The rear preserves a period Caffrey’s Irish Ale advertisement.
Why this object matters
The Skinner/Baddiel Euro ’96 cover records a specific football-comedy-music conjunction central to the period. Retain Gold at 9.0; the magazine award and unverified poster do not justify the previous 9.4.
Evidence limits: Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine workflow. Specialist sale records describe this issue with a Kaja poster; the poster has not been separately photographed in this accession, so its physical presence is not independently verified from the supplied views.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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