December 2011
$27.95 paperback
ISBN 978-0-9871326-7-3
Pop Life.
Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984 - 2007
From 1984 to 2007, Smash Hits became the biggest selling pop magazine in Australia. It had more fizz than a bag of sherbet and millions of teenages were hooked on its mix of song words, interviews, posters, letters and Bitz.
This is the unofficial insider's guide to that pre-internet pop phenomenon, written by three former Smash Hits writers and editors. It's the story of both the greatest pop publication on the planet and a generation of Australian pop fans. It might just be your story too!
Praise for Pop Life
'Smash Hits was THE magazine for pop fans.' Kylie Minogue
About the authors
Claire Isaac, David Nichols, and Marc Andrews worked as writers and editors of Smash Hits Australia in the 80s and 90s.
Claire was the unabashed fan who went on to find a home for her exclamation marks as editor of OK! magazine and is currently deputy editor of Woman’s Day; David got into pop journalism quite by chance, enjoying the experience almost in spite of himself. He went on to become an academic and author of The Go Betweens and The Bogan Delusion; while Marc was the young gay Queenslander who found identity in the pages of Smash Hits and went on to become a writer and contributing editor for DNA magazine and assistant editor at Mediaweek.
