Reviewing the 1981 charts on stolen chip wrap

My homemade pop magazine was meant to compete with Smash Hits. But what did an 11-year-old proto-critic know? Reading on mobile? Watch here"STATISTICS!" parps the cover of the first ever issue of Pop Scene, "published" in 1981. Because, of course, when you're an 11-year-old boy writing your own pop magazine on paper taken from your parents' chip shop, there are few more exciting things in the world than STATISTICS! As a dedicated 11-year-old chart watcher, I knew from the outset that Pop Scene w...

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