Shindig! Magazine Issue 031 - Shocking Blue

Used Copy. Front cover is complete but has very slight storage damage to the corners. Interior pages are clean. Usual shelf and edgewear. Shindig! Magazine Issue 031 - Shocking Blue SHOCKING BLUE - That any act, no matter how fleeting their success, should be thought of as a one-hit wonder, is a cruel misrepresentation of their legacy. In SHOCKING BLUE’s case it’s verging on the criminal. There’s no getting around the fact that ‘Venus’ – their global smash hit from 1969 – remains the song with which they’ll forever be mostly closely associated, despite it having suffered via overexposure in countless movies, TV commercials and adverts, and in the hands of any number of clueless interpreters. But if you’re under the impression that ‘Venus’ represents Shocking Blue’s creative apex, or that the band itself is merely some kind of kitsch footnote in the story of late ’60s/early ’70s pop, then it’s time for you to listen up, and listen up good. BRIAN GREENE will be shocking you THE ROLLING S