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Teenage magazine Jackie sold hundreds of thousands of copies each week in the 1970s but got left behind as times changed. A new musical being staged in Dundee brings Jackie back to life.
Jackie was the magazine which teenage girls in the 1970s waited with bated breath to read. Now it has formed the inspiration for Jackie the musical, the story of a 50-something woman in a mid life ...
at its height in the 1970s, Jackie, a magazine put together by a small team in Dundee and pitched at the relatively small target market of teenage girls, was selling a million copies a week.
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(Never worked for me!) Now the heyday of the country’s first teenage magazine, founded in 1964 but which hit its peak in the 1970s, is being celebrated on stage in Jackie The Musical, which is ...
Tallaght was a rural village when June Rodgers grew up there in the 1960s and 1970s ... and a magazine they would rush down to buy from the local newsagents every Thursday. “Jackie was the ...
Jackie would get you through it. Like many girls in the 1970s and 80s, I was an avid reader of Jackie magazine. My copy landed on the doormat every Tuesday tea-time and I devoured it, from cover ...
The 1970s was also the heyday of Jackie magazine, started back in 1964 but which peaked with a readership of more than a million a week in the following decade. Its served up a diet of fashion ...
Teenage magazine Jackie sold hundreds of thousands of copies each week in the 1970s but got left behind as times changed. A new musical being staged in Dundee brings Jackie back to life.