Throughout the 1960s, Spotlight magazine brought to young Irish people all the latest news about their favourite showbands and pop stars. Beginning as a tabloid paper similar to Melody Maker and New Musical Express, its format changed a number of times, finally becoming an A4 size weekly magazine. Along the way it had added the word "New" to its title and merged with a rival magazine, Top Ten. Hitsville magazine covered the Dublin beat scene in the late 1960s. Many thanks to David Gaffney, John Murphy, Jimmy Reilly, Eddie Kelly, Joe Dodd and Tadhg Curtis who allowed me to add some scans from their collections for these pages.