1. Music Magazine Evaluation
Questions 4 & 5

2. Groups of people this magazine
would be targeted at, are
Skinheads, Mods and Rudeboys.
My background is of the group
The Specials, in the 80’s, this
group catered music to like
likes of Skinheads, Rudeboys
and Mods. Their music was
very upbeat with a reggae
twist.
Target audience – Men and
Women ages between 16
and 25

3. Skinhead girls didn’t
tend to shave their
whole heads, they
shaved parts Fred Perry
short, leaving longer clothing
hair at the front.
Braces
Short Skirts
This is a picture taken from the film
‘This Is England’. This is what a
typical group of skinheads look like. Skinheads wore a lot of Fred Perry shirts
Skinheads weren’t only men but and t-shirts, jeans or short skirts for the
there were female skinheads also. girls, with fashion braces.

4. Skinheads are one of the Skinheads have been around A skinhead is a member
main groups that listened to since the 60’s and the of a subculture that
SKA music, alongside MODS skinhead culture is still very originated among
and Rudeboys. much around today. working class youths in
London in the 1960s and
then soon spread to
other parts of the
United Kingdom.
Skinheads then later
spread further to other
countries around the
world.
Skinhead Boys Named for their close cut or
shaven heads, the first
skinheads influenced by
Since then, however, attitudes toward race and politics
West Indian rude boys and
have become factors by which some skinheads align
British mods, in terms of
themselves. The political spectrum within the skinhead
fashion, music and lifestyle.
scene ranges from the far right to the far left, although
Originally, the skinhead
many skinheads are apolitical. Fashion-wise, skinheads
subculture was primarily
range from a clean-cut 1960s mod-influenced style to
based on those
less-strict punk- and hardcore-influenced styles.
elements, not politics or

5. Hat
Levi
Checked Shirt Jeans
Long Black
Coat
Red
Socks
Boots
Skinhead Fashion Braces

6. SKA Music Groups
These bands pictured were all
at their height when ‘SKA’ was
at it’s biggest in the 70’s and
80’s

7. MODS

8. MODS
MODS originated in London in Mods listened to music such as
the late 1950’s – early 60’s. SKA, British beat, Northern Soul and
Reggae
Mod fashion consisted of either an
American US army parker or a tailored Mods rode scooters, which were
suit. mainly all customised with a lot of
mirrors, chrome fittings and sprayed
pictures of album covers or artists.
Mods are still very much alive today
and take part in scooter rally’s and
rideouts.

9. This is the front cover of my music
magazine.
On my front cover, I have used the
two-tone checkerboard as the border
for the magazine. Two-tone is very
popular with Mods and was used on
a lot of SKA album covers, as well as
a SKA magazine that was around in
the 80’s , ‘SKA 80’.
I have taken a lot of
inspiration from ‘SKA 80’
as it was a big magazine
that appealed to a lot of
SKA music listeners in the
80’s.