Very rare 7 Days magazine/newspaper issue No 5 November 1971 

This issue includes a rare 3 page interview with Jack Bruce as part of an extensive 6 page rock music special. Unusual for this publication.

Cover photograph by Henri Bureau

HOME NEWS, pp 3-7 In the fall-out of Margaret Thatcher’s menaces the National Union of

Students met last weekend in Margate. New president is now CP man

Digby Jacks, noted for always chewing more than he has bitten off. 7.

DAYS reports on the conference. Also on this page a story of British

knavery in Nigeria and a sober (i.e. unpleasant) account of the latest

Labour Parliamentary manoeuverings.

INDUSTRY, p 4 Graham Burchell went to Coventry, explains the background to the strike

and how workers in one of the richest towns in the country are reacting

to hard times.

PHOTO-FEATURE, p 5 Among the workers demonstrating today against the unemployment

figures are militants from the Clyde. What is their future?

HOME, pp 6-7 If Mr Chataway will pardon the expression, the Compton Report came

out with a bang. 7 DAYS looks back at other reports which have

punctuated the British Army’s career, from Cyprus, through Kenya to

Aden, and at the brutal double-talk that state violence feels it necessary

to utter.

FOREIGN NEWS, pp 8-13 Cornelius Hawkridge is a Hungarian, now living in the US and late of

Vietnam. He has been trying to investigate the US army, for corruption.

7 DAYS talked to him last week, and learnt how he made 4000 dollars in

an afternoon in Saigon. Also on the foreign pages news from Uruguay

and Trinidad.

SPORT, p 10 Billy Hack scans next claimants to the heavy-weight boxing crown, tips

Argentinian Bonavena, whom he interviewed earlier this year.

CAPITALISM/ARMS As India and Pakistan near war they review their arsenal of weapons, all

TRADE, ANALYSIS provided by the major powers. 7 DA YS shows who has been selling what,

& PHOTO—FEATURE to whom; also shows just how lucrative a war in that region might be.

p 11-13 Also exclusive photographs of the Bangla Desh guerrillas.

PHOTO-FEATURE, p14 The mystic dervishes are in town — a joy to navel-gazers, and devotees

of ecstasy. 7 DAYS was there to photograph their routine.

LIFE, pp 15-16 ° Who is Britain’s most huggable mum in a million? The Mirror took on the

responsibility of supplying an answer. John Hoyland examines how the

Mirror made the big choice, and why it wants there to be a huggable

mum in the first place. 

LAW AND ORDER, p 16 The Prescott-Purdie and Mangrove trials continue. 7 DAYS had people

observing both proceedings.

IDEAS, p 17 Patriotism — last refuge of scoundrels, etc. Tom Nairn sees what the

poisonous roots of nationalism have actually nourished.

ROCK SPECIAL, pp 18-23 Do you remember the acid year of ’67?, or the uplift of Little Richard’s.

screams? Do you think the rock era was one big hype? In the first of two

Rock Specials 7 DAYS examines the latest theories about the death or

dearth of rock, reviews the latest records. Finally we talked to Jack

Bruce about his life with the Cream, his days as a super-star and what he

thinks is good about the music scene now.

BROKEN PROMISES Because of the space required for coverage of the Compton Report and

the India-Pakistan situation we have had to hold over last week’s

advertised feature on the View from the Kremlin. We'll be running it

soon. Also, if you can’t get through to our office, try writing. Fire broke

out on the premises this week’s press day. Copy was saved, but the

telephone suffered. Keep trying.

Size A3 Approx 16 ¾ " X 11½ " ( 42 x30cm )

Very Good+ condition