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Revolution was a radical counterculture magazine published in 11 issues between May 1970 and August 1971. Promoted as "Australia's First Rock Magazine" it grew out of Go-Set, a pop music magazine which since 1966 had catered to the youth market and was owned and operated by three entrepreneurial Melbournites aged 19, 21 and 22.

Revolution was a natural progression for editor / publisher Phillip Frazer, focussing on an older audience and moving into broader areas associated with the burgeoning counterculture.

Frazer arranged for Revolution to include a supplement of 8 pages of the American music magazine Rolling Stone starting with issue 4 in May 1970, until Revolution was closed down by the new owners of Go-Set in 1971.

Frazer then launched another Australian counter-culture magazine to succeed Revolution, called High Times (with Pat Woolley and Macy McFarland) and then, in January 1971, he launched an Australian edition of Rolling Stone which has been published continuously ever since by a series of independent publishers.
 

These issues are published here with the permission of Phillip Frazer and Woolongong University (https://ro.uow.edu.au/revolution)
 
           
May
1970
June
1970
July
1970
August
1970
September
1970
November
1970
           
         
 December
1970
January
1971
March
1971
June
1971
August
1971
         
         
         
         
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