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Q MAGAZINE 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION ISSUE On Sale 29th September

Q MAGAZINE 25^TH ANNIVERSARY

COLLECTOR’S EDITION ISSUE

On Sale 29^th September

‘The Music That Change My Life’ 25* Exclusive Covers And Interviews Featuring…..

Noel Gallagher, Florence And The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Jay Z, Liam Gallagher, Coldplay, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Cee Lo Green, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Mumford and Sons, Arcade Fire, Paolo Nutini, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Elbow. Green Day, Muse, Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Plan B, Laura Marling and The Manic Street Preachers.

Q Magazine in association with BlackBerry is celebrating it’s 25^th anniversary in grand style with 25* different covers featuring artist that are shaping music right now and asking them to reveal the music that moulded their formative years and continues to inspire them.

Paul Rees Editor In Chief of Q “To mark Q’s great access we wanted to reflect three key ingredients of the magazine – it’s unparalleled access to the biggest and best names in music; it’s outstanding photography; and it’s passion for discovering great new music. I certainly hope the 25 covers, the artists portrayed on them, and the fascinating journeys each of them articulates about their own individual musical inspirations does just that.”

*Including the Jay-Z subscribers cover and the special limited Manic Street Preachers Vinyl edition issue there are in fact 27 different covers.

The 25^th anniversary issue is on the streets 29^th September and is a precursor to the Q Awards on October 24th Q at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

BlackBerry, the RIM-owned smartphone and tablet manufacturer, is working with Bauer Media to mark the 25th anniversary of the music magazine Q, with activity across print, Q Radio, online and applications.

BlackBerry has partnered with Q Magazine with to mark magazine’s 25th anniversary

The activity started in June with the launch of Q’s first app on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the app encourages BlackBerry users to vote for their favourite act in Q’s ‘The Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years’.

The partnership consists of full editorial integration in the magazine, bespoke Q25 shows on Q Radio, a major online presence at Qthemusic.com, branding at three bespoke Q25 gigs, and sponsorship of one of the Q Awards in October.

Highlights from the 25^th anniversary issue include……

Noel Gallagher

On what he missed whilst he was away in the US recording his debut solo album;

I feel like I’m watching a disaster movie when the news from home comes on the TV. Amy Winehouse dies – what a fucking waste of life and talent eh? The Euro seems to be dying. Every person you can think of’s phone has been hacked into. The Police are in on it. I mean what the fuck’s going on, man? We need Batman to come down and sort it all out we really do.

The Phone hacking scandal pissed me off actually. There was a part of me thinking ‘Andy Gray is having his phone hacked and not me?’ That’s the final insult.

News International would have called fucking exorcist if they’d picked up his 3am messages.

What was the last song that reduced you to tears?

I have never cried over music. Never. I’m not that kind of person. I can appreciate someone putting their heart out into music but I still end up analysing the chords and thinking ‘You should have gone to A minor there, mate’. Birds cry over music. I put the kettle on.

On Lady Gaga

I don’t give a fucking monkey’s about Lady Gaga. It’s all about the meat suit and the controversy isn’t it? It’s Madonna lite. Madonna was hardcore. She took it to the edge musically as well as everything else. Twenty years from now, will we be listening to Lady Gaga? No.

On which legend he’d most like to see live

I’d kill to see Bowie live. I know he hasn’t been very well but we need him. He’s just in a different league to everyone else.

Elbow

On a classic act or album from the past 25 years that leaves them cold.

Guy Garvey: Nirvana, I don’t fucking get it. Kurt Cobain was angry and frustrated. And then he died. That’s terrible but i’m not sure about the music.

Pete Turner: But they created a new sound….

Guy Garvey: I’m not sure they did The Smashing Pumpkins Gish was out already (in May 1991) they drew a lot from that.

Jessie J

On the first record she ever bought

Brimful Of Asha Cornershop I loved it. Probably because it had the word ‘bosom’ in it.

On if she ever dressed as a pop star aged 12

At school, I always wanted to be Posh Spice. But because I was tomboy I had to be Sporty Spice. So I dressed up as Sporty but I was Posh. I’d probably be Scary now.

On what acknowledged classic record does nothing for her

I was never an Abba fan. Cheesy. Abba for me is just awful wedding (sings clicks fingers) Copa! Copacabana Doo-roo-roo! (It is then pointed out that this is Barry Manilow) “Oh yeah. He can jog on as well”.

Coldplay

On the music that makes him cry

Chris Martin: Well, the last one would be (Any Winehouse’s) Back To Black because she died, but that record moves me anyway. I’m 35. I don’t cry any more. I just tense my muscles and grit my teeth. I’m getting progressively more English, managing to learn how to suppress all my feelings. Except on record.

On the best album of the past 25 years

Chris Martin: Nirvana’s Nevermind. Every single person who’s been playing guitar fir more than two minutes can play Nevermind but no one on earth can writ it. It boggles my brain.

Liam Gallagher

On the classic record that does nothing for him

I’ve never even heard OK Computer but anything by Radiohead doesn’t make much sense to me. Karma Police is alright but it’s The Beatles innit.

On who is the one person is he’s met with the worst taste in music

Noel Gallagher. He’s just into a lot of shit. He’s into himself. He’s a big fan of Morrissey and I like Morrissey as a person but I don’t know about that.

Damon Albarn

On his writing an English Opera (Dr Dee)

I’ve done one English musical (Blur’s) The Great Escape. I’ve always thought that could be a great musical. We wrote that record as we were playing out the Britpop explosion with Parklife. We were in the studio and every day I would go in and write about something that had happened in the papers. So it’s a snapshot in time. Maybe at the time it was a little bit too arch in it’s observations because it was too close. But now with that distance it might be a good thing to stage as a period piece.

On what’s next for Damon Albarn

I’d like to do a record with my name on it, that’s the next one I want to make. I’m writing about an empty club. Empty club music. I’ve been trying to listen to the real coalface of popular music, which is made easier because my daughter (Missy, 11) is really into that. It’s quite homogenous. It has to be about a club. Either you’re getting ready to go to the club, queuing up, in the club or you’ve just let the club, to go to a better club. I thought that it would be good to make a pop record about a club nobody goes to.

With his opera Dr Dee returning for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

I’m really looking forward to that. I think it’s opening the Cultural Olympiad. It’s another festival isn’t it? And I might do some sort of big gig next year.

When asked if this would be under his own name

Hmmmm….I don’t know. I might do something, as it’s an all kind of British year. I might as well go for it. I’ve got a few songs that might work.

Florence Welch

On the first single she bought My Name Is by Eminem

I got this from Woolworths when I was 10. The single had an age certificate on it but my Mum wasn’t too fussed. Before that she’d bought me (Spice Girls) Spiceworld for me. I use to listen to it whilst playing waitresses.

Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)

On Q’s anniversary, “We’re the same age!”

On the first record he ever bought

I think it was a cassette single and if it wasn’t (PJ and Duncan’s) Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble it might be Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You. The new generation have got it easy now, haven’t they? You’ll ask some kid and because of downloading it will be Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures. I’d like to be able to say that, but it probably was Lets Get Ready To Rhumble. Actually, it might have been Zig And Zag…

On musical heroes he’s met

First time we played New York David Bowie came to watch us. We talked about nothing because we freaked out basically. We just all went silent and he could see what was happening and just went ‘Good gig. I’m off now”. That would be an example of how not to meet someone you admire.

Dizzee Rascal

On the album that got him laid, R-Kelly’s TP-2.com

This is baby making music. What’s the scenario? She comes back to the bedroom. You offer her a drink and some crisps. R Kelly comes on and, very shortly after the clothes come off. He’s definitely a nutter but R Kelly has got me laid more than a few times.

On what he’d like played at his funeral

I’d have (Nirvana) On A Plain played at my funeral: It’s kind of sad but it suggests floating off, like it’s not over.

Manic Street Preachers

On a classic album whose appeal eludes them

Nicky Wire: Arctic Monkeys. I never understood that. They’re the flattest, most linear thing ever. And it’s degenerated much like The Strokes into cataclysmic boredom.

James Dean Bradfield: Anything Brian Eno has to say or do these days I fucking detest with every atom of my being. He’s the Nick Clegg of the music world. He’s a bad motivational speaker. He’s an empty vessel who spouts bullshit and means nothing.

Mumford And Sons

On a genre of music that he’s never really understood

Marcus Mumford; Honestly? Dubstep. Most music you can realise objectively why people might like it, even if it’s the tele tubbies soundtrack or something but Dubstep? I don’t get it.

Tinie Tempah

On the best piece of advice ever given to hmm by another musician

Don’t get married. Lionel Richie told me that. He said ‘You know what? Just don’t get married T’ And Damon Albarn said ‘Never ever compromise. Do what you do, what you love. You’ll become a popular artist off the back of your creativity.