Superman Iv Fx I Bowie ■ Ian Rush ■ Big Country ■ Death Stars ■ the Stranglers ■ Skiing Holidays
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Wfi,. • '/: ?/■ As'-'i-: ■ SUPERMAN IV FX I BOWIE ■ IAN RUSH ■ BIG COUNTRY ■ DEATH STARS ■ THE STRANGLERS ■ SKIING HOLIDAYS ■ WINTER COATS ■ LP/VIDEO/BOOK REVIEWS ■ JOYSTICK ROUND—UP ■ WIN A VID! ■ WIN A TOMATO! ■ WIN A CURRY! ■ REVIEW OF THE YEAR T¥m IS LM WELCOME to this 80-page A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION first issue of LMt, You've probably been JANUARY 1987 Joint Publishers Franco Frev. Oliver Published by Leisure Monthly Ltd reading Newsfield compu Frev Roaei Kean foi Newsfield Publications Ltd ter mags for some time Editor Rocrei Kean now, but you’ll find LM is Deputy Editor Paul Strange r 1986 Newsfield Publications quite different. Different, London Editor David Cheat Limited Features Editor Curtis Hutchinson because it has an aggres Sub-Editor Barnabv Paqe sively personal approach; Staff Writers Sue Dando Richard REVIEWS different because it is set Lowe IJoyd Mangram Simon Poultei Editorial Assistants Sally Newman ting out to cover the widest Mary Moms 39 Hot videos imaginable range of life's Art Director Oliver Frey aspects. Assistant Art Editor Gordon Drure (Annhilator, Back To The Future, Under LM’s strength lies in the Production Controller David The Cherry Moon, Rocky IV, hot platters Western outlook and attitude of its Pet Shop Boys, Paul Young, Spandau, Production Matthew Uffindell Mark writers, who have come China Crisis, The Stranglers, Billy, etc), and Kendnck Jonathan Rignall Nick together because they Orchard some great golden turkeys. Strong stuffing. share similar views on life. Group Advertisement Manager Roger Bennett However, sharing a gen National Sales Executive Barbara eral view is one thing — Gilliland REGULARS agreeing on the detail is Advertising Assistant Nick Wild another, especially when Circulations Manager Thm Hamilton Subscription* Manager Dcmsp 8 UPFRONT the specific covers such a Robert? generality of subject mate Editorial Offices Where it's at, the lowdown, and new bits. rial. In fighting to 'get their 47 Gravel Hill Ludlow Shropshire This month: How We Began (Lloyd goes SY8 1 OS own way', contributors' potty), Death Stars, Christmas Walkmans IS 0684 6861 '6857 elbows and shoulders have Fax: 0684 6044 and ghetto blasters, Win A Tomato, Word been rubbed raw in the con London Office Advance Works 44 Up (Lloyd’s letters col)... the list is end flict. The battle bodes well. Wallace Road London N1 IPO less. ® 01 959 9346'675C I wanted to create a lively, Fax 01 369 9332 16 STATION TO STATION opinionated, even brash ADVERTISING magazine, jammed with lnformation'bookings S 0684 4603 Around Britain with LM's intrepid team of ideas and the sense that it .?W STRANGLERS stringers. Includes reports from Dublin, 01 226 4568 was getting 'inside' what it Liverpool, Edinburgh, Norwich, Newcas- Printed in England by Carlisle Web Jg.-m Cor.TwaU’s into ccro.'-ui sr games and talked about, and I think tle-Under-Lyme and Watford. Critical. Offset Ltd Newtown Trading Estate vw:d Aboriginal cone. V.o \\ Dep Ed. you’ll find this first edition Carlisle Cumbria CA7 7NR ofLM—issue zero—is cer Membei ol the BPCC Group Colour 2'J LET US SPRAY 30 NIGHTLIFE separations bv Scan Studios tainly packed with personal Hot disc spinner Simon Goffe on the trail of lxwcton Typesetting bvTheTortoise Up sr,' .-iinst the wo. a- Vd the boss feeling and opinion. London’s best night clubs. Essential. Shell Press Ludlow OOti.iti artist is iV:>c. batser in action LM is not a style Distributed by COMAG Tavistock again. The bio vo words. magazine. We don't pre Rond West Dravton Middlesex UB7 66 TRAVEL AND HOLIDAYS The Rough Guide men slope off for a spot tend to know what you’ll 24 THE FC- - like (or should like), even Mad: . > n drags Richard of skiing in Europe. The LM expenses budget gets stretched. though we'U have a Low . • : rek. Magic. damned good go at telling 74 CONSUMER GUIDE you we do I Well, that's not The big boss man RK gets to grips with strictly true — we're only SP&Qi&l mw loads of joysticks. We know where he's human — we do think we coming from. know what's best, but we 72 MONDO BIZARRO expect to be put down, 51 1986 —THE YEAR argued with, shouted at Hunter S Minson with tales of the unex THAT WAS pected in Hollywood. A novel idea. and occasionally, no doubt, The last 12 months pinpointed, picked out, we'd like some agreement. persecuted and appraised (dig that allitera 76 HASSLES LM won't be preaching tion) Music, sport, video, films, fashion, TV, Lloyd Mangram (LM's resident agony from a platform of' know current affairs and a special report on the uncle) in action. Informative. ingness' . Our job is to bring Grand Prix season. Terrific Terry. forward items that interest 78 PRIZE CROSSWORD us as an editorial team and 62 XMAS — THE BIG ONE The first in a long line. This month: win a hope those subjects and Turkey time again. Ranting Richard Lowe curry! Hot stuff. our ways of looking at them slags the whole thing off, while Martin Sut interest you too. ton suggests you go down the flicks. 78 UMQUAT THE ALIEN In so doing LM should Strewth! LM’s crazy cartoon caper rolls arouse some passions and, 14 SUBSCRIPTION OFFER into print with a not-too-distant relative of as the reader, you can join A free £19 joystick is yours free (really, Jetman. Amazing. in the debate through the absolutely free) with every subscription to letters pages and by writ LM. Accept no substitutes, LM's the real ~—. a ing counter-arguments as fling. articles. There are other reader-involvement areas too, such as STATION TO STA TION (see page 16). Cross ONEO opinion is what we want, so, as with the computer LM titles, wherever it's practic able, reviews carry the opinions of more than one critic—there you may well witness the flesh wounds caused by the clashing of g^S££sss®s^--~- ■' individual wills! ISSUE 1.1LM U ..■“''’Ipaopli'.ulw But above all, LM is thing. intended to be a packed, In all good nevfB#JJJw will be sentenced damned good read. I hope you find it so. ROGER KEAN the better choice. t Normal lacuaa of LM will bo bat- weon 112 and 124 pages SUBS?" January 1987 LM □ O |; The, hA/'Moj btb on£ke D?(6? fav’y a ^turbm9 effect. i '; k- of 110,000 — the largest ON THE BUSES advance sale ever for any game. The game consists of a Danny Kishon’s new board game, ‘Sep board and a set of shaped tember’, looks set to become a Christmas best plastic pieces (which stick seller. DAVID CHEAL—our man in Wilsden to the board thanks to a with a passion for cheap curries — discovers new chemical process cal led plastic migration). how Danny did his market research on the There are two players. One back seat of a bus. tries to map a route from the top of the board to the FOUR-and-a-half years buying and selling from bottom; the other does the ago, Danny Kishon had just each other ’ So Danny spent same from left to right. Both left university. Fearful of four gruelling years raising players also try to block off settling down to a lifetime the £25,000 he needed to the opposing player's of drudgery in his chosen launch the game himself. route. It’s simple, stimulat field, physiology and Lucky for Danny, then, ing and very addictive. biochemistry, Danny took that he met people like the Danny is currently off to America on a cheap dinner party guest who negotiating with Activision Laker flight and bought a played the game with him and Virgin on the rights for Greyhound bus pass for and was so impressed he a computer version of Sep £99. It's the cheap way to wrote out a cheque for tember. He's wary, how see the States: you sleep on £5,000. He was one of the ever, of computer games— the bus at night, and do larger investors; many they depend on reflexes. your sightseeing during the were friends who chipped There are some excellent day There's only one snag. in with a few quid. Then computer games around, Because it's a cheap ticket, came the retailers. They, but with many of them you can only travel on cer too, were sceptical at first. there's no thought tain, often very circuitous But Danny, still convinced involved. I prefer some routes; if you use the more that his idea was marketa thing which makes you direct 'A' routes, you have ble, spent hours — some think. And in general I pre to pay extra. times days—in their recep fer board games because Danny was frustrated, tion foyers until the exasp they're social—youhave to but intrigued 'It was as erated buyers finally sit down with someone to though they were playing a agreed to see him. And play them.' game with me,' he says, when he did get an appoint For Danny Kishon, the ‘trying to block off all my ment, Danny didn’t try to astonishing success of Sep routes.' The germ of an idea sell them the game; he just tember comes after years for a new game was bom. asked them to play it with of hard work. Now he's ‘Most games,' he says, him. finally seeing the rewards. ‘are based on chasing and It worked. Today Sep ‘It was like being pregnant killing.