Q
Bauer Media Group has announced the closure of Q music magazine, after 34 years. I used to buy it back in the day, but haven't read it for well over two decades.
The penultimate issue of the magazine read like a eulogy, with writers past and present recalling their most memorable interviews of the last 34 years. Writer Adrian Deevoy recalled a 1991 encounter with Madonna, where she declared: "Everyone probably thinks I'm a raving nymphomaniac, when the truth is I'd rather read a book."
Mark Savage, BBC music reporter
To be fair, it was an image that she cultivated, as the original pop tart. But what was the book she'd rather read? (thinking)