Which English musician's stage name came from a British magazine?
Retro Gamer Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games. It was the first commercial magazine to be devoted entirely to the subject. Although launched in January 2004 as a quarterly publication, "Retro Gamer" soon became a monthly. In 2005, a general decline in gaming and computer magazine readership led to the closure of its publishers, Live Publishing, although the rights to the magazine were later purchased by Imagine Publishing. It was taken over by Future Publishing on 21 October 2016, following Future's acquisition of Imagine Publishing and its print portfolio.
Bare (magazine) Bare was a British magazine developed and launched as a wellbeing brand by the John Brown Media company It was published from Sept/Oct 2000 to August 2001, with six issues per year. An early version of the magazine, then called "Well" was tested in market research groups in 1999 where Claudia Zeff, then art director of "UK Gardens Illustrated" commissioned designer, Kirsten Willey to produce a wellbeing magazine concept. It was Zeff who suggested the name change from "Well" to "Bare" after watching a BBC documentary about British architect, John Pawson.