Tiger Beat was an American teen fan magazine published by The Laufer Company and marketed primarily to adolescent girls. The magazine had a paper edition that was sold at stores until December 2018, and afterward was published exclusively online until 2021.
6-448: Tiger Beat was founded in September 1965 by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton . The magazine featured teen idol gossip and carried articles on movies , music and fashion . Charles Laufer described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls." A distinctive element of Tiger Beat
12-401: A column. According to IMDB, Thaxton was a co-founder of Tiger Beat . Thaxton is best remembered for "The Lloyd Thaxton Show", which originated as "Lloyd Thaxton’s Record Shop" (later "Thaxton’s Hop") in 1959, and aired five days a week from 1964 to 1968. His show was recalled in the lyrics of The Go-Go's song "Beatnik Beach," which appeared on the 1982 album Vacation : "We'll lipsync
18-462: The blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to Tiger Beat ) in 2008. It concluded in 2013. Lloyd Thaxton Lloyd Eugene Thaxton (May 31, 1927 – October 5, 2008) was an American writer , television producer , director , and television host widely known for his syndicated pop music television program of the 1960s, The Lloyd Thaxton Show , which began as a local Los Angeles program on KCOP in September 1961. On his musical shows, he
24-459: The teen market dominated by Tiger Beat with similar magazines, including FaVE and Monkee Spectacular. In 1998, Tiger Beat was sold by publisher Sterling/MacFadden to Primedia , which in 2003 sold the magazine to Scott Laufer, the son of magazine founder Charles Laufer. Until 2014, Laufer also produced the similar teen magazine Bop . After 2015, Tiger Beat was published by Los Angeles –based Tiger Beat Media, Inc. Jude Doyle founded
30-415: Was its covers, which featured cut-and-paste collaged photos – primarily head shots – of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, Thaxton's face appeared at the top corner of the cover (at first the magazine was titled Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat ), and he also contributed a column. After 2016, the magazine cover featured a single image of a celebrity. During the 1960s, The Laufer Company leveraged
36-650: Was known for cutting out the mouths on artists' sleeve covers, and miming to the lyrics through the cut–out hole. The son of George Thaxton, a newspaperman, and Gladys, Lloyd Thaxton was born in Memphis, Tennessee . He grew up in Toledo, Ohio . On graduating from high school, Thaxton enlisted in the Navy, "barely hours" before he would have been drafted. His face appeared at the top of the newly launched Tiger Beat magazine (then known as "Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat "), for which he did
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