A virtual flip through the pages of a July 1973 issue of CIRCUS magazine. Although CREEM magazine was my primary go-to for music news and reviews in those days (long before the internet, kids) CIRCUS found its way into my lap fairly often. This one would most certainly have caught my eye with the David Bowie feature. 

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Bowie on the cover of CIRCUS - July 1973

Roxy Music ad inside front cover

Table of Contents

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The start of a feature on Paul McCartney & Wings

High technology in 1973

Record club ad... with 8-track tapes!

Nicky Hopkins new album ad

Review of Aladdin Sane (among others)

50 years on, he's still at it!

Between the 1st and 2nd Stealers Wheel albums

T Rex, circa Tanx

The way we got our music news, long before the internet existed...
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This issue came with a poster/calendar featuring a photo of Robert Plant. Not being ones to waste space, the CIRCUS publishers printed their movie reviews, horoscopes, poetry, and health news on the four back panels.

 

 

 

Interesting rating system for new releases

The CIRCUS Top 20

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I really should have subscribed

It was typical, back then, to put the main feature article toward the end of the magazine, the idea being that it would encourage people to read the rest of the magazine and not just that article. Here's the David Bowie album in full. Remember that you can enlarge these images by clicking or tapping on them.

The Uriah Heep article got put at the very back of the magazine, behind the Bowie article. 

Uriah Heep was pretty big in '73. Bigger than Aladdin Sane-era Bowie?

 

 

Finally, an ad for the latest Paul McCartney album on the back cover.