Issue Seven. Once we'd tried the magazine format we realised it was a slippery slope size-wise, and this one shot up to 17 pages. The mag was also bigger as it was the summer holidays, so I just signed on and got to work (I'd had holiday jobs during school years but there wasn't much about in Manchester at the time. Though I do vividly recall an advert for a temporary lab assistant to help care for rats being used in experiments. 'Must be nimble fingered' ran the copy in the job centre!). The info subject this time was Blackmore's guitars (put together by Nick Robinson) and there was a lengthy interview with Ritchie reprinted from Guitar magazine too. Costs were rising but even so we'd managed to keep the first subscribers going for 6 issues before renewing. I'd come up with the idea of calling the magazine Stargazer (the track had really impressed me) and found one of those limited edition Letraset typefaces made of small stars, so bought myself a sheet (they were hugely costly, to make sure only people in the design industry got them!) and did the logo from that. The photocopying quality was poor, once my typed pages had been reduced from A4 to A5, then recopied, but it was readable - just! Howie Kehl's name crops up on the letters page, he's now in Australia and been helping Drew on the Purple projects over there. The Rainbow tour was imminent (we got excited just at the first sight of a colour pic of the band on stage!) and we suggested everyone wore their badge or t-shirt so we could say hello...