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CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 15 - Spring 1995 (last A5 size issue)

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CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 16/17 - 1995 (double issue)

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Next issues features: Interviews with Hank Marvin & Kirk Whalum

Jon

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 18 - 1996

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Next issue features - Oxygene 7-13, Oxygene 8: The Remixes, Interviews with Jean Michel Jarre, Francis Rimbert & Michel Grainger

Jon

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 19 - 1997

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Next issue features - The Oxygene Tour: Special Double Issue & Interviews with Francis Rimbert, Dominique Perrier, Laurent Faucheux & Christophe Papendieck

Jon

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 20/21 - 1997 (double issue)

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Next issue features - Oxygen In Moscow Concert , Odyssey Through O2, Interview with TK. Komuro, Rendez-Vous 98

Jon

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 22/23 - 1998 (double issue)

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Next issue features - Electronic Night & Jarre @ Apple.expo,

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CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 24 - 1998

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Next issue features - Metamorphoses, Interview with Jean Michel Jarre & Joachim Garraud, 12 Dreams Of The Sun

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CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 25 - 1999

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Next issue features (last magazine of COTM) - 12 Dreams Of The Sun Special Concert Edition (double issue)

Jon

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issue 26/27 - 2000 (double issue - final issue)

This is the last issue of a fantastic fan based magazine that ran for 10 years, 1990 to 2000. Starting from a humble fanzine to become a superb full colour glossey professional publication, that is now sadly missed.

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plate of chips

Brilliant uploads Jon. Fantastic stuff.

Just inspired to name it Conductor of the Masses.

As first edition was before mass Internet, how did people find out there was going to be a fanzine magazine.

Where was it announced there was going to be a fanzine magazine.

Music magazines like Record Collector, record fairs, BBC Ceefax probably (the BBC teletext service), etc. I know the Dutch TV had ads for fanclubs on teletext (page 372, hittext

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Richard-Eastham

plate of chips wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:24 pm Brilliant uploads Jon. Fantastic stuff.

Just inspired to name it Conductor of the Masses.

As first edition was before mass Internet, how did people find out there was going to be a fanzine magazine.

Where was it announced there was going to be a fanzine magazine.

I was amazed when I first saw a copy of COTM fanzine. I was a JMJ fan but the music press in the UK at that time effectively ignored him. I had a sense I was his only fan; it was a lonely time! A friend of mine bought a copy from a local record shop. I then subscribed and received it mail order. Some of my letters were published by COTM in 1992 and 93 and then Mark Gidley (editor) kindly invited me to contribute some articles in 1994 and 95. I was thrilled to see my name in print in a JMJ fanzine!

So, it's been great to see Mark's name appear alongside official concert photos from Bratislava and this summer's tour.

About the COTM name: I recall a letters page in one issue, where Mark had to explain that the "Conductor" wasn't him or the fanzine and that "the Masses" weren't his army of subscribers

.... but JMJ and the millions that attend his concerts.

I also loved the original fanzine logo - the simplified JMJ image of just glasses and long hair - based on the La Défense concert laser projections.

Finaero

Off Topic

Speaking of, I always thought the Bob Moog Foundation logo looked suspiciously familiar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Moog_Foundation

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Dr_Jones wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:06 pm Music magazines like Record Collector, record fairs, BBC Ceefax probably (the BBC teletext service), etc. I know the Dutch TV had ads for fanclubs on teletext (page 372, hittext )

I wonder whether advert was taken out in NME in uk. I recall Teletex on bbc, itv, channel 4, maybe was advertised on channel4 teletext.

I'm trying to wrap my head around

how on earth people found out about COTM first issue.

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Richard-Eastham wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2025 11:28 am
plate of chips wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:24 pm Brilliant uploads Jon. Fantastic stuff.

Just inspired to name it Conductor of the Masses.

As first edition was before mass Internet, how did people find out there was going to be a fanzine magazine.

Where was it announced there was going to be a fanzine magazine.
I was amazed when I first saw a copy of COTM fanzine. I was a JMJ fan but the music press in the UK at that time effectively ignored him. I had a sense I was his only fan; it was a lonely time! A friend of mine bought a copy from a local record shop. I then subscribed and received it mail order. Some of my letters were published by COTM in 1992 and 93 and then Mark Gidley (editor) kindly invited me to contribute some articles in 1994 and 95. I was thrilled to see my name in print in a JMJ fanzine!

So, it's been great to see Mark's name appear alongside official concert photos from Bratislava and this summer's tour.

About the COTM name: I recall a letters page in one issue, where Mark had to explain that the "Conductor" wasn't him or the fanzine and that "the Masses" weren't his army of subscribers .... but JMJ and the millions that attend his concerts.

I also loved the original fanzine logo - the simplified JMJ image of just glasses and long hair - based on the La Défense concert laser projections.

It's a brilliant name COTM I immediately got that it referred to JMJ.
Clever clear logo. JMJ should adopted it. Like Michael Jackson had a logo of his legs in a dance move.

Would you link from Jon's upload links to the issues your articles were in. I would enjoy reading them.

Would be neat if Mark would share how he got the word out on the first issue, also how the interviews happened.

CONDUCTOR OF THE MASSES - Issues 1 to 27 (1990 - 2000)