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Mojo/Word cover CDs to a good home?

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Hi everyone. I’m sure this clarion call goes out a few times a year, but Mrs. Mickey and myself are downsizing, and one of the casualties will be my Mojo & Word covermount CDs. I have hundreds of the things, probably complete sets (though I can’t be bothered to check), but I think we’ve established in the past that there’s no “market” for them (for obvious reasons), so would anyone here want them, free to a good home? I’m in Essex, 10 minutes from the M25, prepared to drop off somewhere reasonably nearby, or is there anyone out there who’s prepared to come and collect? Cheers!

No Voting necessary – Your Favourite “free” CD

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Essential Freebies from Word, Uncut, Mojo and Q. I’m not sure if we have been here before? You may have or recall some great covermount CDs that stand out from the mire? For me, these were some excellent albums in their own right:-

# Heroes Can Be Any Size: An Introduction to Jackie Leven, a promo release came free with March 2012 edition of The Word Magazine. # Uncut 2007 01 – Comets Ghosts And Sunburned Hands # Q – DCCCDII # Word – January 2010 # Uncut 2000 12 – More Sounds Of The New Ẁest # Uncut 2008 10 – Interstellar Overdrive # Uncut Unconditionally Guaranteed vol 7 (The Coolest Sounds From The Hottest Bands Of 1998) Can AWs recall any other essential ‘free’ CDs? (Sounds like an oxymoron).

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Can I ask a favour

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Has anyone got a PDF of a copy old Word magazine squirrelled away from June or July 2009 (either the Iggy or Bono cover), I think.

It is the source of one of my proudest moments (almost as good walking in form making a cup of tea one morning from the kitchen, to hear Danny Baker reading out my Monkeys Dressed as Famous People, posted in the old place, on 5Live one morning -, which included Churchill, and Brian Blessed dressed as Vultan from Flash Gordon). There’d been some beef concerning Rod Liddle, and I had written a letter expressing some opinions on the matter.

I got an email from Mark Ellen saying that it was going to be published (with a little editing), but that when it had been received in the office, he’d read it aloud and it had received a standing ovation. That gave me a warm glow for a while, especially as Liddle went to school in my hometown of Middlesbrough (Nunthorpe School, as it happens). If you check the letters pages in question, you’ll be able to tell which one is mine…

Kate Mossman Documentary Klaxon

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I’m sure a lot of us remember Kate Mossman’s Word article about her teenage obsession with Queen. She has used this as the basis for a documentary on obsessive fandom, to be shown on BBC4 at 9pm tonight. More details here http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/29/when-pop-ruled-my-life-preview