Q Magazine

Q Magazine

Q Magazine was a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by the journalists and broadcasters Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, who were presenters of the BBC television music series Whistle Test. Originally it was to be called Cue (as in the sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but the name was changed so that it would not be mistaken for a billiards magazine. Another reason, cited in Q's 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands.

The July 28, 2020 issue ( No. 415) was the last to be published. The end of Q was blamed both on lower circulation and advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as being "a symptom of an expert-free internet age”.

The article about Cheap Trick includes this observation: “A series of limp albums followed and their critical reputation almost evaporated, until Lap Of Luxury in 1988, which was OK and had ‘Wrong Side of Love’, a must-hear for the superb fat sound Petersson got from his customized, and now de rigueur, 12-string bass. It also had ‘The Flame’, a weepy AOR ballad that became a Number 1 hit in the States. Cheap Trick were back.”