Flexipop!'s shameless pop legacy

Trashy, silly and unashamedly puerile, Flexipop! only lasted two years. But, says novelist Tim Lott, who started the magazine, its revolutionary spirit can still be felt 30 years onIn 1980, a new music magazine ­appeared. In some ways it was a bad magazine. The design looked as if it had been executed by a chimp. The paper quality was poor and the contents were puerile. However, it had one characteristic that made it stand apart from all the other pop music magazines of that time – s...

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