Tony Elliott obituary

Founder of the London listings magazine Time Out who replicated the formula in New York and other cities around the worldPlenty of young people had wild ideas in the summer of 1968, but Tony Elliott – who has died aged 73 after a long illness – had a great one. It was simple and not entirely original, but it was instantly different from the profusion of underground and alternative publications bursting out of basements and bedrooms in those years.In his mother’s London flat that August, Elliott began compiling a folded news sheet for young Londoners – in a world decades away from the internet – about what was on and where to go in a city blossoming with new cultural and political ideas that the mainstream press was mostly deaf to. A 1959 Dave Brubeck jazz album gave Elliott his title – Time Out – and thus did the first A5-sized edition appear, covering 12 August to 2 September 1968. By late September, the magazine had grown to a stapled booklet published fortnightly. From the early 1970s it was essential reading about anything from fringe theatre to the Troops Out movement, squatters’ rights, or where to buy a waterbed. Three decades later, it would be a global publishing phenomenon from Berlin to Barcelona, São Paulo to Seoul. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/20/tony-elliott-obituary #time_out #magazines #consumer_magazines #newspapers_&_magazines #media #london #uk_news