The history of The Observer Magazine - in pictures
Not To Be Sold Separately, an exhibition celebrating five decades of the Observer Magazine, opens this weekend. Here we look back on some of the covers that launched us on our way
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The first Observer Magazine cover 6 September 1964, featuring Lord Mountbatten
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Observer Magazine cover 21 March 1965, covering the class issue in Britain
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Observer Magazine cover 16 January 1966, featuring an interview with Edward Heath
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Observer magazine cover 6 February 1966, investigating economic troubles in the north of England
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Observer Magazine cover 6 March 1966, featuring a bull's-eye dress by Pierre Cardin
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The Who on the 20 March 1966 cover, photographed by Colin Jones
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Observer Magazine cover 22 January 1967, covering the Russian Revolution
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Observer magazine cover 24 September 1967, featuring an exclusive interview with Svetlana Stalin
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George Best on the cover of the 17 November 1968 issue
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Observer magazine cover 9 March 1975, featuring P.G. Wodehouse
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Queen Elizabeth II visiting California on the 13 March 1983 cover
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Observer Magazine cover 8 March 1983 celebrating 10,000 editions of the paper
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Observer Magazine cover 28 August 1983 featuring Punks behind the Iron Curtain
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Observer Magazine cover 13 March 1984, celebrating the 80th birthday of the British actor Sir John Gielgud
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Observer Magazine cover 16 September 1984
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Observer Magazine cover 29 December 1985, featuring T-shirts based on Katharine Hamnett's immensely popular protest designs
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Observer Magazine cover 11th September 1994 featuring extracts from Alan Bennett's diaries
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Observer Magazine cover 26 May 1996, celebrating five decades of Jane Bown's photography for The Observer
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David Hockney cover 15 March 1998
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Observer Magazine cover 16 May 1999, featuring Hugh Hefner and his bunny girls
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