Rave (magazine)

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Rave was a UK monthly music magazine published in London from 1964 to 1971. It covered pop music and the mod subculture of the Swinging Sixties and was distributed across Europe and Canada. The magazine was launched in February 1964 by editor Don Wedge and published by George Newnes Ltd. It featured original photos, posters, interviews, and life stories of pop icons from the Beat Generation in the UK. Rave covered artists such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Small Faces, Cliff Richard, the Spencer Davis Group, the Walker Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Julie Driscoll, Peter Frampton, and Marc Bolan, as well as fashion icons Mary Quant, Twiggy, and Jean Shrimpton. It also ran work by noted women journalists such as Cathy McGowan, Maureen O’Grady, Dawn James, and Claire Rayner, with photography by Jean-Marie Périer, Terry O’Neill, and Marc Sharratt. The magazine closed in 1971 and was similar in style to Beat Instrumental.