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If anybody rivalled The Beatles for column inch coverage in the 1960s, it was George Best, but with the Fabs having hung up their guitars, as a group at least, George was out in front on his own by 10 December 1970 when he was featured on the front of TV Times.  ...

After finishing as England’s skipper, Bill Beaumont took up a regular role as a Rugby World columnist in the 1980s. And we Beaumont talked about the role of the captain, as he did in April 1985, he was always worth listening to.   “A good captain can influence...

Formula 1 has just completed its pre-season testing in Bahrain, with all the sages telling us that it was no real indicator of what’s to come. Which rather begs the question, ‘why report it then?’   That was not the case with testing in 2009, as Autosport drew...

Every golfer, from those at the top, to the most amateur of hackers, has fever dreams of the perfect round. But what exactly does it look like?   Golf Monthly had stab at piecing it together in November 2006, selecting the best shot ever played from every club in...

One of the pleasures of reading through old magazines is that we can do it with hindsight. Take the July 1998 issue of FourFourTwo for instance.   When it went to press, it was still assumed that Paul Gascoigne would be a central part of England’s team, and a...

Despite a front cover of Horse & Hound on 4 April 2013 that seems to suggest Katie Walsh is using her horse Seabass to protect her from the weather, the interview with Katie inside the magazine, on the brink of the Grand National, was fascinating stuff.  ...

Few guitarists gave better interviews than the late Frank Zappa, who received his second Guitar Player cover in February 1983.   In a wide ranging interview, Zappa had some particularly pertinent things to say about how video was going to affect music, here in...

Did any guitarist better define the job of rock star than Keith Richards, and did he, and the Rolling Stones, ever do better work than ‘Exile On Main Street’?   The answer to both questions is ‘no’ and ‘no’, as any fule kno, which is why the October 1997 edition...

Has the game of football ever produced a brain – or feet – quite like those packed into the whiplash frame of Johan Cruyff? I think not.   In July 2009, FourFourTwo undertook the sizeable task of unpicking the genius of the world’s first total footballer, the man...

We’re rolling the clock back to February 1925 with this edition of Golf Monthly which would give any PR professional the screaming abdabs in 2025.   There on the cover – right next to an ad for an alcoholic beverage that is certainly not on his sponsorship roster...

The great JPR Williams would have been celebrating his 76th birthday on 2 March had he not been taken from us too early just over a year ago.   Rugby World featured him on their cover in October 1973, an issue that included a fascinating article entitled...

After a lengthy hiatus, Dr Who finally returned to TV screens in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor.   Not that he hung around much, for after just one season, he was gone and that central feature of the whole series, the regeneration of the Time Lord,...

Formula 1 indulged itself in a 75th birthday party last week, as it launched the new cars and the new 2025 season, marking the anniversary of the World Championship which began in 1950.   There from the start, near enough, was Autosport, which launched just three...

Jerry Garcia, full-on exploding hair, fully armed, and on the cover of Guitar Player. If that doesn’t scream April 1971 at you, you’ve missed a memo somewhere.   The leader of the Grateful Dead sat down with Fred Stuckey and amongst much else, discussed how music...

Has any album cover ever been so regularly plundered and copied over the years as The Beatles’ ‘Sgt Pepper’? Probably not and ‘Guitar World’ has got in on the act on occasion too, as with their September 1998 edition.   Piecing together a montage of some of the...

Spring might, at last, be in the air, so let’s celebrate with this cover from ‘Horse & Hound’ back on 8 April 1977, capturing the departure of winter at long last and the promise of brighter days ahead. But we’ve picked this issue out for more than just a chance...

Over the jumps they go at Newbury in this cover shot for Horse & Hound in February 1974, Richard Pitman leading the way on the appropriately monikered Outstanding.   Elsewhere in the magazine came the crucial news that the Grand National would continue to be...

Liverpool might be bound for the Premier League title this season, but before Bill Shankly arrived on Merseyside, they were stuck in the Second Division and going nowhere fast.   It was Shankly that rebuilt Liverpool and set in motion over 60 years of regularly...

February 1995 and Golf Monthly was coming to terms with Nick Faldo’s decision to dump the European Tour and concentrate on his career in the United States.   An extensive interview with Ken Schofield, Executive Director of the tour, showed him in bullish mood:...

February 1972 and Autosport featured John Davenport’s brilliant summary of the Monte Carlo rally, illustrated by some great photography, including on the cover.   “After what was one of the most exciting Monte Carlo rallies for years, Sandro Munari and Mario...