Magazine of the Week #34

This week's magazine is the October 1981 issue of RELIX, the mag that brings us "Music For The Mind".

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The three-page cover story, "THE ROLLING STONES: The Wait Is Over" by STEPHANIE FINNEGAN, gives a brief history of The Stones, and hypes the '81 tour. Then there's a "Rolling Stones Celebrity Corner" page, with photos of various Stones with various celebs, including OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN with MICK, JIM CARROLL with KEITH, and KINKY FRIEDMAN "advising the Stones".


There's three pages on PETER TOSH - "De Bush Doctor Speaks", featuring an interview where Peter's words are transcribed to reflect his accent. Peter is asked "What kind of sensation was it to open up for The Rolling Stones?". His reply: "Oh mon, can you imagine?Can you imagine?! Dere was no nervousness because I do not boder wit dat. Nervousness was eliminated out of me after dying a tousand times, for after dying a tousand times dere is no fear left. But going on stage wit Mick Jagger and playing before an audience dat never even heard reggae music. I mean going before a hundred and twenty tousand people dat never even knew dat dere is a music dat exists called reggae. Can you imagine!? Dat means dat if de music did not have de potential, I would not be here before you today. For if de potential was not dere, I would have been mobbed by dose people."

In the "Vital Vinyl" record reviews, Finnegan reviews "Tatoo You", and tells us "the tunes on Tatoo You are collectively bland, but they are bound to become familiar and tolerable through extended airplay".


Lots of other good stuff in this issue, including Reggae Sunsplash 1981, THE TUBES, ROBERT HUNTER, "Remembering Janis", reviews of THE GO-GOS, LITTLE FEAT, and THE PRETENDERS, and a "GRATEFUL DEAD Song Title Centerfold", a two-page comic art spread depicting "100 GREATEFUL DEAD SONGS".