Scaaty
Jul-22-2011, 09:01 GMT
Unknown
 | Q magazine has a thing against Paul Simon - Surprise was mention briefly though they did publish an interview with him at the time . There was no mention of his 2008 tour in Britain ( where the magazine is from). I used to get Q regularly and enjoyed many of their articles but when they had a top 100 singersongwriter list and Paul simon did not appearing it though Neil diamond Michael Jackson bob Dylan all did I gave up on it! |
Mark
Jul-22-2011, 12:06 GMT
United Kingdom
 | Q used to be a good magazine years ago but I stopped rading it a long time ago, much prefer Mojo and Uncut. |
Klausi
Jul-22-2011, 15:23 GMT
Germany
 | Yes Mark, Q first appeared almost in the same month as Graceland.
I was long time buyer. The best magazine for quite a while. Not now anymore.
Not the first time that music magazines changed dramatically. Patrick Humphries wrote for "Melody Maker" and two books about Paul Simon as a fan.
But afterwards in 1983 "Hearts And Bones" got a bad, hating review by "MM".
"New Musical Express" was hating Simon before, but learned that Graceland was a great album and wrote very much about the political aspects in a quite friendly way. This debate was helpful for the album sales.
After "Apartheid" was gone, things became even worth in South Africa, but not "officially" and in the constitution. So the rest of the world is satisfied.
So we had and have only "Rolling Stone" as halfway serious music paper, although they write about a lot of boring things like politics etc. |
