Flexible Friends

...and there was a magazine called FLEXIPOP which had a free flexi disc each issue and they managed to run for two years! Featuring the stars of the day a mixed bag of eighties music from The Jam, Bad Manners, Depeche Mode, The Selecter, The Cure, Bucks Fizz, Haircut 100 among others made it onto various coloured discs. It's contents shambolic, its approach daft. But that's exactly what the pop world of the early eighties was.
'Cheap sleaze for retards' was the magazine's catchphrase.

Flexipop's biggest selling issue featured

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTAX77ekmA

Adam and the ants -A.N.T.S (YMCA)

Curiosity corner: FLEXI DISCS

'Place coin here'

That was the legend on the humble flexi disc. Given away free by music papers, magazines, Fan clubs and record shops they were a marketing tool that all bands seemed to use be they Pop, Prog, Rock Indie or otherwise.

The quality on these discs was variable but they had an appeal that is missing in today's music industry. They were free and a bit of fun. I had a good few myself, where they now reside is anyones guess, they were throw away and instant and no poorer for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNuoqTM-Wws

The who flexi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZfSNAtPPc

monty python flexi