Teenbeat Monthly was one of the wave of 1960s UK magazines published as part of the beat boom (see also Rave magazine). A friend found a copy of the 1966 Teenbeat Annual in a skip in New Cross and passed it on to me. The Annual promised the 'Big Beat Star Parade', and featured The Rolling Stones, Beatles and Kinks on the cover, with features inside on them and many other bands from that period (Swinging Blue Jeans, Searchers, Yardbirds etc.).
Teenbeat was edited by Albert Hand, who also edited Elvis Monthly and the Elvis Special Yearbooks.
Every band featured seems to be composed entirely of white blokes, hardly reflective of some of the great music of the day. Still I love this great picture of The Kinks.
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