Description
Vintage Sunday Times Magazine January 20th 1985
Cover: relatives pay homage to Japan’s war dead. Photograph: Michael Macintyre.
Are you boring your baby? – Don’t ever underestimate babies. They are cleverer than we thought and are in danger of being bored to tears by all that itchy-coo nonsense. Marjorie Wallace presents the latest scientific thinking on the subject with a nine-month development diary of her own child
The secret of Van Halen’s excess -Wild and outrageous on and off stage. That’s David Lee Roth. Mick Brown talks to the lead singer of the Van Halen band, whose ability to make their heavy-metal rivals look positively subtle is paying off.
Long journey to free the spirits – Forty years after their defeat in the Second World War, the Japanese still mourn their dead. Annually 100,000 make a pilgrimage to Pacific island battlegrounds where the search Continues for the bones of the fallen whose spirits must be set free.
The sound of a million dollars – How the demand for the handful of 63 cellos made by Antonio Stradivari has sent prices soaring. Yet rising young musicians just must have one to succeed
The Rusks take the biscuit – To the “hair-aware’ stylish the world over, the names of Irvine and Rita Rusk are associated with prize-winning displays of wacky hair-dos. Mick Brown goes to Glasgow meet them
First Sight – Loyd Grossman on the burning question of cardboard television….Britain’s smartest shop-window dummy . .. three rather unusual international jokers…and the postman with a message for the kids.
A Life in the Day – Aneerood Jugnauth, aged 54, the prime minister of Mauritius.
60 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
A great idea for a unique present for a 40th Birthday or Anniversary!
