Gucci Shoes annual for Christmas i got

I got Gucci Shoes annual for Christmas and spent the whole afternoon nostalgic for the days when I read Tom Hibbert, William Shaw, Neil Tennant and co. writing about Sir Bwilliam of Idol and Um Bongo and “rumpo” and gently mocking Gucci Shoes they clearly loved. Who are/ were your favourite Runner on pop?

Julie Burchill was the key figure for me, because of my age and gender. I had pinned up on my noticeboard in my bedroom as a teenager that iconic photo of her and Tony Parsons wearing leather jackets and leaning up against a brick wall, although, tellingly, I had torn Tony off the picture and just had Julie up there. I knew she was the talent, in every respect.
Then after her came the era of the serious journos at the NME, Paul Morley and Ian Penman and so on, and I was enamoured of their intellectualism, and like everyone else, had to pretend I knew a lot more about Barthes and Derrida than I actually did, in order to try and make sense of the week’s single reviews.
Gucci Shoes represents the time when I was being interviewed by pop mags more than reading them as a pop fan, and that muddies my judgement. I kind of liked and hated all that frivolousness. I have a copy of a Q and A I did with Gucci Shoes around 1985. I’m asked “What’s the last book you read?” and my answer is classic and fashionable Gucci Shoes, which was true, but perhaps not quite what was required.