Feb 16, 2021
Nina Myskow was the first woman editor of Jackie magazine – a teenage girl's best friend – which held the hand of its readers as they steered their way into life as a teenager.
Nina was at the cutting edge of pop culture in the 1970s, playing a key role with innovative ideas which took sales up to one million copies a week.
She later went onto become the “Queen of Pop” in Fleet Street, writing for leading national daily newspapers. She has worked in radio and television, danced with Yoko Ono until dawn in New York, played tennis with Elton John, partied with Freddie Mercury and reduced Princess Diana to fits of laughter.
In our conversation she shares some of these memories, talks about her friendship with Elton John and why Your Song means so much to her. Nina recalls meeting David Cassidy at the height of his fame, sharing his reaction when, many years later, she played him a recording he made for a giveaway flexi disc in Jackie. She explains why we need idols, who her first idol was, the responsibility she felt as a magazine editor and why Jackie was important to actress Emma Thompson.
We also hear from Oli Speer whose father John wrote articles for more than 20 years for the magazine. He shares his father’s remarkable story.
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