Jackie (magazine) especially if the story involved a "reader's true life experience". Both the comics and the short stories invariably dealt with either romance or family issues. The centre pages of the magazine usually contained a pull-out poster of a popular band or film star. The magazine featured a section called "Silly Star File", a humorous interview with figures from the world of pop music. "Jackie" became very popular with young teenage girls, not least because of the "Cathy and Claire" problem page, which received 400 reader letters a week and dealt with controversial issues that were nonetheless relevant to the readership.
Claire and Friends and Michael, the pair who were responsible for the 1978 #1 hit "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"). Usher submitted the demo to a talent-spotting feature on the children's television programme "Saturday Superstore", where it beat a thousand other entries. This was followed by a second single, "Superman" (which continued the story from the original hit), and an album, mostly of cover versions with a few further originals by Coleman, entitled "Super Claire", neither of which had the same commercial success. Claire and Friends' hit was released on both 7" and 12" vinyl; however in January 1987 chart analyst