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With Welsh readers in mind, we’ve decided to find something to cheer you up in the pages of Rugby World.   Going back to June 1975, we’ve unearthed the cartoon page here, which we hope will take your mind off things in your time of trial. There’s always next...

November 1964 and while some of these jokes on the cartoon page here are 61 years old now, let’s face it, you’ve probably heard plenty of variations on the theme on more recent ‘light entertainment’ shows.   Still, recycling is good for the...

The Catchpole cartoon was a staple of every issue of Autosport for donkey’s years, but this effort from January 1977, which you can find here, will have particular resonance for quite a few F1 drivers slinking away from the Australian Grand Prix this weekend and...

The illustrated front cover has been something of a rarity in the magazine world since reproducing photographs become a staple of the print world in the 1950s, but there are exceptions.   Take this cover of Horse & Hound from November 1987, celebrating the...

Kevin Keegan famously declared that once he had hung up his boots in 1985, that was him done with football as a full-time job. A wise investor of his money, and a footballer who understood his value in marketing terms, there was no need for Keegan to go into coaching...

It took 52 cracks at the US Masters to find a British winner, but it was Sandy Lyle who finally broke the curse and won the green jacket, an achievement commemorated in the May 1988 edition of Golf Monthly.   “It was a victory which, in terms of pure drama,...

January 1988 and the Paris-Dakar rally was mired in controversy after a catalogue of death and injury showed the course to be simply too gruelling, according to Autosport, a reminder of the dangers that the rallying world customarily faced.   “Several competitors...

It’s May 1962, in a UK that is still, for the most part, ignorant of the existence of The Beatles, currently engaged in Hamburg. And so it is that the return of Frank Sinatra is the biggest musical story in the country.   As TV Times breathlessly reports, “Frank...

The results were in and Rugby World’s Player of the Year for 1978, by a country mile, was the immortal Gareth Edwards. Receiving 1186 points across the reader’s votes, he more than doubled the score of his closest rival, Scotland’s Andy Irvine, who managed 583.  ...

U2 were just beginning to come to the attention of the world, and the USA in particular, after their spectacular Red Rocks concert in Colorado in 1983 put them on the map, so in June 1985, Guitar Player caught up with The Edge for his first cover interview, catching...

Guitar World caught up with The Edge of U2 in September 2005 as the band were celebrating their 25thanniversary. In an excellent, wide ranging interview covering the band’s history, the thing that the guitarist was most concerned with was remaining relevant,...

The Cheltenham Festival is upon us this week, one of the biggest events in the racing calendar, and naturally enough, Horse & Hound has given it plenty of coverage over the years.   Back in 2005, they sought out amateur rider Marc Barber who, to that point,...

If anybody rivalled The Beatles for column inch coverage in the 1960s, it was George Best, but with the Fabs having hung up their guitars, as a group at least, George was out in front on his own by 10 December 1970 when he was featured on the front of TV Times.  ...

After finishing as England’s skipper, Bill Beaumont took up a regular role as a Rugby World columnist in the 1980s. And we Beaumont talked about the role of the captain, as he did in April 1985, he was always worth listening to.   “A good captain can influence...

Formula 1 has just completed its pre-season testing in Bahrain, with all the sages telling us that it was no real indicator of what’s to come. Which rather begs the question, ‘why report it then?’   That was not the case with testing in 2009, as Autosport drew...

Every golfer, from those at the top, to the most amateur of hackers, has fever dreams of the perfect round. But what exactly does it look like?   Golf Monthly had stab at piecing it together in November 2006, selecting the best shot ever played from every club in...

One of the pleasures of reading through old magazines is that we can do it with hindsight. Take the July 1998 issue of FourFourTwo for instance.   When it went to press, it was still assumed that Paul Gascoigne would be a central part of England’s team, and a...

Despite a front cover of Horse & Hound on 4 April 2013 that seems to suggest Katie Walsh is using her horse Seabass to protect her from the weather, the interview with Katie inside the magazine, on the brink of the Grand National, was fascinating stuff.  ...

Few guitarists gave better interviews than the late Frank Zappa, who received his second Guitar Player cover in February 1983.   In a wide ranging interview, Zappa had some particularly pertinent things to say about how video was going to affect music, here in...

Did any guitarist better define the job of rock star than Keith Richards, and did he, and the Rolling Stones, ever do better work than ‘Exile On Main Street’?   The answer to both questions is ‘no’ and ‘no’, as any fule kno, which is why the October 1997 edition...