QUIZ: Looking Back At Look In 5

For children of the 1970s in Britain there were three certainties:

1. Getting into a Rolls-Royce in Stoke Mandeville was ill-advised. 
2. Look-In magazine will feature an alarming hand-painted front cover of the biggest in vogue celebrity, musician or TV star (assuming that star is on an ITV programme only)
3. The Grimleys is on. 

Moving back to number two and its always a source of joy to compile quizzes about old magazines as they really are the closest thing to a direct time tunnel with access to everything you could possibly need from that period in history. Or more likely with Look-In, a selection of baffled "WHO THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?" (I was born in 1980, we didn't allow Skiboys.) pointing. 

And I still haven't gotten over whatever this is...

So to help in my identification process, here are four front covers as its time to ask...

"Who the f**k ...in Look-In?" 

Click here for the answers: 

1. Paul McCartney, 2. Boney M, 3. Bjorn Borg, 4. David Essex

And as ever, if you like this quiz, please please share it! Thank you. 

All rise, Sir Gingerbeard Gwapenuts...

QUIZ: Profoundly In Love With Pandora

I was recently in the three by two foot section WHSmith has left allocated for magazines next to the chocolates, cards, Kobo Readers, board games and novelty musical socks. (You know, just next to the internal Post Office and the fourth KFC.) Anyway, it was there I noticed a new copy of Kerrang! magazine, a periodical I read faithfully between the years 1995 to 2001 and had assumed folded the minute I stopped reading it because music was not as good as it used to be.

Amazingly it was full of new bands I'd never heard of in my befuddled 35 year old state. All Time Low? Pierce The Veil?? I. Ron Maiden? WHO?!? Where were the likes of Symposium, Midget, Tampasm and Kittie? The only face I seemed to recognise on a cursory glance over was actually a drawing: Pandora, Ray Zell's excellent snarky rock star dismisser who had taken down all the bands of my reading era. Not that I had a clue which current rock star she was presently snarking at but it was good to see her carrying on nonetheless.

And so I wondered if any of the old strips were online and - would you adam and Eve 6 it - there's a whole archive!! You can guess the next bit...

Which various musical types is Pandora graciously allowing in her strip below? Answers after Continuum...

 © RAY ZELL

1. Ash, 2. Jon Bon Jovi, 3. Green Day, 4. Ozzy Osbourne, 5. The Hives, 6. Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), 7. Marilyn Manson, 8. Courtney Love, 9. Jonathan Davis (Korn), 10. Keith Flint (The Prodigy)