Scrap popbooks.(Or pop scrapbooks).

[John Green]

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/11/tell-us-have-you-kept-a-pop-music-scrapbook-wham "In Netflix’s new Wham! documentary (helpfully titled Wham!), part of the 80s pop duo’s story is told via the medium of the scrapbooks that Andrew Ridgeley’s mum Jennifer kept on the band from day one. She stuck in their earliest press clippings and dutifully labelled them in her rounded handwriting, rendered in blue felt-tip pen. She kept them up through their subsequent superstardom, right up until Ridgeley and George Michael called it quits in 1986. Even though we only see snippets of them, they’re clearly beautiful, loving, personal documentations of pop fandom, the kind that even those of us who don’t have children in leading pop bands are prone to keeping as young pop fans.

We’d love to see scans of your personal pop scrapbooks and learn the stories behind them: what motivated you to compile them, what ages of your life they span, what you felt you were documenting in them at the time and how they appear to you now, why you finally called it quits, and what possessed you to keep hold of them."

Share your experience

[stephenconnett]

I have one scrapbook which is something I picked up from a village jumble sale, with pictures of the Stones and Beatles and stuff like that, probably from around 1964/65 from the clothing and style of magazine, I'll have to dig it out and a closer look. The only scrapbook I had, had pictures and bubble gum cards of astronauts, gerry anderson show pics and or scribbles and stuff like that