During the 1970s, Jackie published a mix of fashion and beauty tips, gossip, short stories, and comic strips (including The Andy Fairweather Low Story). The latter were usually illustrated with line drawings or posed photographs, especially if the story involved a …

Sep 18, 2013 · 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.

In the 1970s, there was often a full-size, pull-out poster in the magazine’s centre pages featuring a well-known pop, TV or film star of the time. Female activist Rhonda Wilson worked as a trainee for D.C. Thomson in the 1970s and as the Jackie music editor, photographer, and agony aunt.

Jackie magazine was hugely popular with teenage girls in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Along with fashion, gossip and agony advice, it included short stories and photo stories about friends and boyfriends, about finding love and solving the dilemmas that …

Jan 14, 2025 · It seems inconceivable to imagine now that a weekly print magazine for teenage girls could at its peak sell well over a million copies, and yet that’s what DC Thomson’s Jackie managed to do at one key point in the 1970s.

Vintage old Jackie magazine back issues to buy. We have a huge collection of Jackie magazines for sale from the first issue in the 1960s through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in our store. One of our best-sellers and highly collectable.

Jackie magazine was launched in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania and ran until 1993 when Take That were topping the charts. But it was the 1970's that Jackie is best remembered for and...

Nov 12, 2024 · Jackie: 60 Years of Magic is the ultimate celebration of an iconic teenage magazine. A long time before the internet, mobile phones or Tiktok, there was only one place where teenage girls went...

The Jackie magazine was essential reading in the 1970s for teenage girls with its legendary problem page section, and agony aunts Cathy and Claire, gave both honest and helpful advice to those teenage girls on everything from good and bad boyfriends, acne, and bad-hair days.

Apr 22, 2024 · It is little surprise therefore, that the bestselling, iconic UK teen magazine of the 60s and 70s was called Jackie. The magazine launched on 11 January 1964, but there is a suggestion that...

Jul 9, 2017 · One of the main reasons for choosing Jackie for analysis is its great success as a weekly magazine. Since it first appeared in 1964 its sales have risen from an initial average of 350 000 (with a drop in 1965 to 250 000) to 451 000 in 1968 and 605 947 in 1976.

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.

During the 1970s, Jackie published a mix of fashion and beauty tips, gossip, short stories, and comic strips (including The Andy Fairweather Low Story). The latter were usually illustrated with line drawings or posed photographs, especially if the story involved a …

Mar 4, 2016 · 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...

Apr 9, 2007 · Jackie Magazine: A Girl's Best Friend: Directed by Joanna Lee. With Arabella Weir, Gordon Small, Sue Carroll, Jacqueline Wilson. A look at "Jackie", the popular British magazine for teenage girls published in 1964-1993, and its golden age in the 1970s.

Jackie was the best-selling teen magazine in Britain for ten years, particularly in the decade of the 1970s. The name was chosen from a list of girls' names, although it was nearly dropped due to the association with Jackie Kennedy following her husband's assassination in 1963.

Jan 11, 2024 · In every girl’s room in the 1970s, the wall posters of Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Slade and the Bay City Rollers would have got there courtesy of Jackie magazine.

May 2, 2015 · Jackie was read by a million girls a week in the 1970s, but the teen magazine folded over 20 years ago. Yet fans refuse to let the brand die. Nick Duerden finds out why. A 'Jackie' edition...

Apr 30, 2015 · A few years ago, the journalist and broadcaster Nina Myskow was at the BBC to promote a coffee-table book celebrating Jackie, the bestselling girls' magazine of the 1970s.