#the legend!

[dreamings-free]

THANK YOU, JOSH! ❤️

9/9/24

[stillunusual]

The Legend! (issue #4) YEAR: 1985 CREATED BY: Jerry Thackray LOCATION: London SIZE: A4 WHAT'S INSIDE…. English music journalist and musician Jerry Thackray became known as The Legend! while working as the compere at club nights organised by Alan McGhee in the early 1980s. Thackray's single, "73 in 83" was the first release by McGee's Creation Records, and he contributed to the first two issues of McGee's fanzine Communication Blur before starting his own. He also continued to use the pseudonym The Legend! when he began working for the NME at roughly the same time….

Issue #4 of The Legend! fanzine has a deliberately chaotic layout and was one of a number of zines in the mid-1980s (like Rox, Attack On Bzag and Idiot Strength) that still had the look and feel of the original punkzines and were written with the same kind of attitude by people who were generally old enough to have been part of the original punk rock explosion (although Thackray changed things in the next issue of The Legend!, which was more colourful, stylish and reminiscent of a typical indie pop zine like Matt Haynes' Are You Scared To Get Happy).

He is clearly passionate about music, as well as being keen to share his feelings about life in general. Bands featured include The Mighty Lemon Drops, Bogshed, The Shop Assistants and Age Of Chance (who were from my home town of Leeds and also one of the first indie bands to incorporate electronic beats and samples into their sound). A flexi disc featuring a track each by The Shop Assistants and The Chesterfields was also given away with issue #4 of the zine.

Thackray enthuses at great length about fanzines (and his top 10 zines include all those mentioned above). This issue of The Legend! also features a humorous contribution from Miki Berenyi of Alphabet Soup.

The Legend! was one of the fanzines that appeared in Berenyi's Gutterpress. It was also described as “a load of old cobblers” in issue #2 of Pop Avalanche, but that was probably tongue in cheek….

Thackray is better known as "Everett True", the pseudonym he adopted after he was sacked by the NME in 1988 and started writing for Melody Maker instead.

Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages….

my box of 1980s fanzines flickr

[introvert-slushie]

Currently thinking about how much Ford tries to hide his hands a lot when he can…behind his back with this stance. Due to how often he’s been bullied for it.

And also, how Mabel is one of the ones who Ford feels happy about showing his hands to because she thought they were cool looking upon first shaking his hand, instead of him being judged for his six fingers.

[ID: Gravity Falls screenshots. The first three are of Ford with his hands crossed behind his back. The last two are of him shaking hands with Mabel, and letting her paint a turkey on his hand. He's smiling in both. End ID.]

[sabertoothwalrus]

ah my favorite zelda game *looks at smudged writing on my hand* Wind Baker

[beemovieerotica]

every time I see some bigshot scientist revealed as a fraud my knee-jerk reaction is "hell yeah elisabeth bik got 'em good" AND IM RIGHT

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

ICONIC!!!!

[heart-locket-musicboxless]

There are three kinds of LGBT headcanons:

Actual queer coding / metaphors ("Nimona is trans because her creator made her as a way to express his feelings as a trans person")

Vibes ("Link is genderless because I said so")

It's funny ("Phoenix Wright is asexual because he's the Ace Attorney")

[retrogamingblog2]

[jinaxxo]

Zelda and Link as "The Shadow" (1909), Edmund Blair Leighton

[soranatus]

Mabel & Ford: Favorite moments

bonus:

[sickfreaksirkay]

“no rapping tonight"

why?

"you rap about arthurian knights everytime, it's embarrassing"

ok

[after one beer]

uh oh y'all i go into a trance a lot

[blueskittlesart]

TOTK - Eternal (part 1)

part 2 here

[antennatoheaven]

[ultimateinferno]

A 2017 classic updated for the new game.

[alasion-art]

Unwilling revolutionary 💢

[sabertoothwalrus]

more Dungeon Meshi in Wind Waker style! (first part)

I like the idea that Link could stumble on Laios's party in dungeons, maybe after the miniboss, and they offer you a meal that replenishes your health, sort of like Yeto from TP! You could take some with you in a bottle like grandma's soup. There could be a funny interaction if you show Marcille a joy pendant, and she thinks it's really pretty until Laios and Senshi tell her it's actually a treasure bug.

[greykolla-art]

If Cursed Cat Alastor talked I imagine it would say so many upsetting things.👌