1987
- 03/01/87 Robbie Coltrane
- 10/01/87 The Style Council
- 17/01/87 Beastie Boys
- 24/01/87 Julian Cope
- 31/01/87 Hot House
- 07/02/87 Free EP given away - no cover star
- 14/02/87 The Smiths
- 21/02/87 The Bhundu Boys
- 28/02/87 Terence Trent D'Arby
- 07/03/87 Paula Yates
- 14/03/87 U2
- 21/03/87 Speed metal issue
- 28/03/87 The Weather Prophets
- 04/04/87 Salt-n-Pepa
- 11/04/87 Baby Amphetamine
- 18/04/87 Rhythm Kingdom issue
- 25/04/87 Deacon Blue
- 02/05/87 Shane MacGowan
- 09/05/87 Def Jam
- 16/05/87 Suzanne Vega
- 23/05/87 The Housemartins
- 30/05/87 The Blow Monkeys and Curtis Mayfield
- 06/06/87 U2
- 13/06/87 Neil Kinnock
- 20/06/87 George Michael
- 27/06/87 Trouble Funk
- 04/07/87 Terence Trent D'Arby
- 11/07/87 Steal It - The Pop Theft Epidemic
- 18/07/87 Bruce Springsteen
- 25/07/87 Grebo
- 01/08/87 Hue and Cry
- 08/08/87 The Jesus and Mary Chain
- 15/08/87 The Primitives
- 22/08/87 The Stupids
- 29/08/87 Summer special
- 05/09/87 Michelle Shocked
- 12/09/87 That Petrol Emotion
- 19/09/87 The Motorcycle Boy (an infamous issue in which this little-known indie band were elevated to the cover after a themed issue on censorship was itself censored, and Stuart Cosgrove sacked)
- 26/09/87 Lloyd Cole
- 03/10/87 Pop Will Eat Itself
- 10/10/87 Chuck D and Eric B
- 17/10/87 Los Lobos
- 24/10/87 The Sugarcubes
- 31/10/87 The Fall
- 07/11/87 Eurythmics
- 14/11/87 Coldcut
- 21/11/87 Yargo
- 28/11/87 Peter Gabriel
- 05/12/87 The Cult
- 12/12/87 Krush
- 19/12/87 New Order
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