Eye Magazine was published by the Hearst Corporation (Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping) to cover the emerging youth explosion of the 1960's. It was marketed to college students covering fashion, music, and politics. Most issues came with a bonus item inserted for the reader (posters, record, comic book). There were only 15 issues published between March 1968 and May 1969. (source)Sounds like a fascinating read! Apparently, the mag was big (LIFE Magazine sized) and glossy.
Articles included:
Mother Jealous of Your Freer Sex Life?
The Rolling Stones... and Young Girls
Boys and the Pill: Do They Want Girls to Take It?
Miss America Is a Bummer
Religion Report 1969: Yes, God is Alive and Well, and Everywhere...
"Who's Eating What?": Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Sharon Tate, Janis Ian, Ravi Shankar, Peggy Lipton, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, Peter Fonda, Sly Stone and others
Private Wardrobes: Peak Into the Closets of Peter Fonda, Buffy Ste. Marie, Liza Minelli, and Jimi Hendrix
Grace Slick, Peter Fonda, Julie Nixon and Frank Zappa Tell What Turns Them On
Why Cops Hate Students
This next magazine has the ultimate article title I think I've ever read:
Sorcerer of Rock: Jim Morrison Raps
Those are some great music interviews! Jeff Beck, Jim Morrison, The Rolling Stones!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very popular magazine for upper level high school students too. Topic of discussion after each issue came out. I kept every single issue, including the posters. Somewhere I stashed away the Al Kooper record. Piece of square paper you tore out of the magazine and put on your turntable. Sometimes you had to tape quarters on the corners to keep it from curling. It was a great magazine.
ReplyDeleteI never knew about this magazine before. Great covers. I really like that first one.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this seemed like quite the time capsule of the hippie youth explosion.
ReplyDeleteInteresting memories of the mag by tattered & lost!
I just bought an issue of this mag and its amazing! Full of hippie boho heroes of the late 60s. Its far better than the teenie bopper mags at the time... it mostly references the college student lifestyle and the writing is very sophisticated... aimed at an older youth crowd. The issue i've got has got stuff on fellini, truffaut and woody allen.
ReplyDeleteThe best article title I ever read was "UFOs hover over Elvis' grave". In was in a supermarket tabloid. I searched all through the tabloid but there was no actual article.
ReplyDeleteI had every issue of this mag as a teenager. There was a great article about birth order and it's effect on personality, and I'm now seeing this subject pop up lately. Eye was ahead of it's time.
ReplyDeleteDid this magazine have in insert that was usually a poster? I have several of the posters but no mags and do not remember what it was called. On the back of it was a thing called "the electric last minute". Anyone know about this????
ReplyDeleteemail me if you know about this zulupits@sbcglobal.net Thanks Brian
That brings back memories, (I wish I had stashed my copies away somewhere). It was a precurser to Rolling Stone but didn't catch on in a big way.
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