1985
- 05/01/85 The Triffids
- 12/01/85 Frank Sinatra
- 19/01/85 John Blake
- 26/01/85 Spitting Image
- 02/02/85 Smiley Culture
- 09/02/85 Eddie Murphy
- 16/02/85 No cover artist as such (but main articles were about The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Ramones)
- 23/02/85 Morrissey
- 02/03/85 Shelagh O'Hara Brookside soap
- 09/03/85 Run-D.M.C.
- 16/03/85 James
- 23/03/85 Los Lobos
- 30/03/85 Alison Moyet
- 06/04/85 The Long Ryders
- 13/04/85 Lloyd Cole
- 20/04/85 ABC
- 27/04/85 Neil Kinnock
- 04/05/85 Can music survive in the video age?
- 11/05/85 Elvis Costello
- 18/05/85 "Watching the Detectives" themed issue
- 25/05/85 Free EP (no cover star as such, but lead story about Jimmy Somerville)
- 01/06/85 Paul Weller (then of The Style Council)
- 08/06/85 Morrissey
- 15/06/85 Sting
- 22/06/85 Bono
- 29/06/85 Jimmy White
- 06/07/85 R.E.M.
- 13/07/85 Miles Davis
- 20/07/85 Live Aid
- 27/07/85 Theresa Russell
- 03/08/85 Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout
- 10/08/85 Madness
- 17/08/85 The Pogues
- 24/08/85 Propaganda
- 31/08/85 Everything But The Girl
- 07/09/85 The June Brides
- 14/09/85 The Jesus and Mary Chain
- 21/09/85 J.G.Thirlwell
- 28/09/85 Bobby Womack
- 05/10/85 Boxing and soul (article by Stuart Cosgrove)
- 12/10/85 Fanzines
- 19/10/85 Tom Waits
- 26/10/85 Matt Dillon
- 02/11/85 Fine Young Cannibals
- 09/11/85 South Africa
- 16/11/85 New Order
- 23/11/85 Computer crimes
- 30/11/85 The 100 greatest albums ever made
- 07/12/85 Cameo
- 14/12/85 Robert Wyatt
- 21/12/85 Del Boy and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses
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