Top Half - Rip it Up

Still listening to Anne Murray, John?

– Natalie Brunt questions the taste of co-presenter John Hawkesby

I think that's the best way. It's appeal is to quite a cynical age group, and a giveaway means we guarantee that we get to a certain number of people each month. If we were selling we'd probably have to be concerned with getting Dire Straits on the cover every six months, or something.

– Rip it Up publisher Murray Cammick on the reason for a free magazine

Why did we start a music magazine? I guess, in those days, the US music magazine Rolling Stone was the coolest of cool and being a 'rock writer' or 'rock photographer' was something a young guy who sucked at sport could aspire to be. If I said I was a 'rock photographer' today, people would think I was interested in geology but in the mid 1970s 'rock' was good music and 'pop' was bad music and to be credible you had to have long hair and wear jeans. Things were about to change.

– Ex Rip it Up publisher Murray Cammick on starting Rip It Up, Audioculture, 21 May 2014