Brief Encounter (Flexipop! 19 June 1981) was self-explanatory when you saw the picture underneath the headline, Killing Joke’s Youth with trousers firmly around his ankles. ‘Killing Joke put up a front’ was the subhead. ‘”Y?” asks Huw Collingbourne.

In Fantasia (Flexipop! 20, July 1982) Haysi Fantayzee shed their poppy, innocent image for a spot of nipple licking, with Kate Garner’s tongue making one of Jeremy Healy’s pink chest appendages really shiny, shiny.

Kiss & Tell (Flexipop 21, August 1982) featured one of Flexipop!’s most controversial photos – a full on snog between Boy George and Jon Moss. A month later Culture Club’s debut album, Kissing To Be Clever, was released…