This magazine cover is aimed at many different audiences, firstly at old and new rock and rollers. Noel Gallagher is the stand out on the front cover and he was in one of the most famous rock and roll bands, oasis, therefore the first target audience being aimed at is oasis fans, this is then broken down into old fans who have been with them since they formed in 1991 and then younger people who have maybe grown up listening to them and still listen even though they have split up. The cover has tried to appeal Noels new start to them and they did this well by having a big picture of him and then ‘NOEL STARTS OVER’ in bold writing and different coloured font so it stands out from everything else, also at the bottom of the page it says ‘win signed noel singles, read classic interviews. See page 13’ this is enticing the aimed audience into reading the magazine. On the left hand side it says ‘it’s like when definitely maybe came out, everything feels out of control’ this makes that target audience think ‘what’s that about’ and makes them want to read about it.

The next target audience is REM fans, at the top it says ‘REM split the original indie icons remembered’ so even if a fan doesn’t read this magazine they might want to get just this one copy because it has something about that particular band in it. They have put ‘REM split’ in black and white which is different to any of the other writing they’ve dine this to make it stand out and catch peoples attention even though its in smaller font.

On the left hand side there are three small paragraphs, the first one says ‘Arctic monkeys sex tape!’ This is targeting teenagers and although there probably isn’t a sex tape the teenagers and Monkeys fans are still thinking they must read to see why it says it on the front cover. Underneath that it says Bloc Party and a quote directly from them ‘were auditioning for a new singer’ this creates a wider audience because if you’re a singer you might think its interesting and they could audition and then anyone could think its interesting that they’re auditioning for a singer and would then want to read about it. Then the last one is targeting a different type of music genre because it says ‘plus, marina and the diamonds, Metronomy, Wretch 32 and wolf gang’ so this is targeting these bands audiences and what this magazine will have to say about them, also all of these sub headers are in black font to make them stand out with red font underneath to make it stand out more.