Posted by Ian on 2009-07-04
in Observation
One of my favourite lyrics of a pop song is by Dr Hook and the song in question is The Cover of the Rolling Stone. The first verse goes as follows:
Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go;
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show.
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone.
Well that’s a little how I feel when it comes to magic magazines: I’ve never yet made the front cover of any, even when I was editing a couple.
I suppose the one I perhaps should have made is The Magic Circular, which is the . is the magazine of The Magic Circle: this despite being a member for many years. Having written that, I guess there is no particular reason why I should have been on the front; but there again there’s no particular reason why I shouldn’t.
The chances are, at least in the present time, remote. I’ve had a couple of falling out with the present editor so I suspect I’m quite a long way down the list of his tentative possibilities.
There is presently one other British magic magazine that has a ‘proper’ front cover: this is called Magicseen – and is a surprisingly successful full colour magazine aimed more at the magic enthusiast and amateurs than the professional. It’s also targeted at a younger age group which probably explains why I’ve had no success at gracing their front cover.
The two best selling magic magazines in the world are probably the two principal, and rival, American magazines, known as Genii and the inspiringly titled named MAGIC magazine. They tend to concentrate on American magicians but there have been a few UK magicians who have made it (not me obviously!). Indeed even being a prestigious American magician doesn’t guarantee you the accolade.
The Amazing Johnathan, who stars in his show in Las Vegas, was asked to do an interview for MAGIC. He said he would only consider it if he could be on the cover. The editor said he couldn’t make any such promises – and he ended up on the front cover of Genii.
Both Genii and MAGIC do their best to be exclusive with what they publish. There was quite a bit of amusement a few months ago when a Belgian magician managed to get on the cover of both in same month – despite ensuring both editors that he was only doing the interview for them. At the time he was plugging a new book so it was quite a shrewd marketing tool for him. However I suspect that’s a game you can only play the once.
The Dr Hook song goes onto grieve further the fact that they can’t make it to the front cover, including my favourite couplet...
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine....
I suspect that after this song Dr Hook did eventually make it to the cover. I’m hoping my lament will have the same outcome.
Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go;
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show.
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone.
Well that’s a little how I feel when it comes to magic magazines: I’ve never yet made the front cover of any, even when I was editing a couple.
I suppose the one I perhaps should have made is The Magic Circular, which is the . is the magazine of The Magic Circle: this despite being a member for many years. Having written that, I guess there is no particular reason why I should have been on the front; but there again there’s no particular reason why I shouldn’t.
The chances are, at least in the present time, remote. I’ve had a couple of falling out with the present editor so I suspect I’m quite a long way down the list of his tentative possibilities.
There is presently one other British magic magazine that has a ‘proper’ front cover: this is called Magicseen – and is a surprisingly successful full colour magazine aimed more at the magic enthusiast and amateurs than the professional. It’s also targeted at a younger age group which probably explains why I’ve had no success at gracing their front cover.
The two best selling magic magazines in the world are probably the two principal, and rival, American magazines, known as Genii and the inspiringly titled named MAGIC magazine. They tend to concentrate on American magicians but there have been a few UK magicians who have made it (not me obviously!). Indeed even being a prestigious American magician doesn’t guarantee you the accolade.
The Amazing Johnathan, who stars in his show in Las Vegas, was asked to do an interview for MAGIC. He said he would only consider it if he could be on the cover. The editor said he couldn’t make any such promises – and he ended up on the front cover of Genii.
Both Genii and MAGIC do their best to be exclusive with what they publish. There was quite a bit of amusement a few months ago when a Belgian magician managed to get on the cover of both in same month – despite ensuring both editors that he was only doing the interview for them. At the time he was plugging a new book so it was quite a shrewd marketing tool for him. However I suspect that’s a game you can only play the once.
The Dr Hook song goes onto grieve further the fact that they can’t make it to the front cover, including my favourite couplet...
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine....
I suspect that after this song Dr Hook did eventually make it to the cover. I’m hoping my lament will have the same outcome.
