Q Magazine's 20th-Anniversary Covers: What's Wrong With These Pictures?

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Q Magazine's 20th-Anniversary Covers: What's Wrong With These Pictures?

British Dad-rock bible Q is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and to celebrate, they've made 20 covers for the commemorative issue, which hits stands in the UK tomorrow. When the above picture of all 20 covers crossed our transom this morning, we had a, shall we say, strong reaction to it—for a publication that claims to be "at the forefront of credible music," it seems like a few credibility gaps are woefully apparent in this picture. We're wondering: What sticks out most to you?

Q [q4music.com]

2:15 PM on Fri Sep 29 2006
By mjohnston
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by Dan Gibson at 02:00 PM on 09/29/06
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I'm just surprised to see that Albarn isn't behind a translucent screen or represented by a marionette.

Also, I'd like to thank Q for reminding me of Dido's extensive musical accomplishments. I'm sure at the magazine's anniversary party, she and Paul McCartney will have a lot to talk about.
by Nicolars at 02:02 PM on 09/29/06
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That Britney picture is going to give me nightmares.
by Ned Raggett at 02:10 PM on 09/29/06
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The fanfic is going to be odd for that one.
by skinny412 at 03:45 PM on 09/29/06
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david gilmour looks like dame judy dench. jimmy page looks like he's running for senate in 1988.
by Nicolars at 04:38 PM on 09/29/06
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Seriously, it looks like an Aphex Twin album cover.
by Leto at 04:43 PM on 09/29/06
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Just when you thought Britney's Vanity Fair cover wasn't enough...
by h. ross piroshky at 05:52 PM on 09/29/06
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yikes! that's a gnarly photo of richard ashcroft. it's like a howard stern/joey ramone "if they mated".
by mishaps at 01:21 AM on 09/30/06
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I was going to vote for "too many old white dudes, not enough women of any race." But that's not a listed option.
by AcidReign at 02:01 AM on 10/02/06
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.....No one even knows who Jimmy Page is anymore. Of course, he hasn't really ripped it up since Physical Graffiti, 26 years ago. No big surprise. Still, I felt it was offensive. Guy was my hero, and I plopped down wasted a LOT of times at the midnight movie watching the Song Remains the Same...
by snark at 08:59 AM on 10/02/06
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I worked on the Led Zep DVD a few years ago and, while watching some performance rushes with Jimmy Page, I told him that playing the guitar with a violin bow sounded shit back then and it still sounds shit now. His reaction wasn't exactly the one you'd expect from a mid-level paper-mill manager from Slough. More a compendium of all the rude words they didn't print in the English Oxford Dictionary For Children. Yeah, I'd say he's still got it in him...
by Bon Jour, Pee Wee at 03:51 PM on 10/02/06
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Keith Richards looks like the grim reaper.
by AcidReign at 05:49 PM on 10/02/06
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.....I have to agree about the violin-bow thing. And of course, all us young impressionable guitar-hero-wanna-be's had to go rip off a bow and try it at home. It's the sort of thing that will have your parents putting arsenic in your supper! That, and imitating Ted Nugent's feedback on Double-Live Gonzo...

.....I was into Pagey's monster riffs, the cool chords he used on stuff like the Rain Song, and the great old-time blues standards that he ripped off note-for-note.