Record Mirror Music Paper May 29 1982. With cover story on Culture Club and Boy George and features on Soft Cell, Madness, Toyah, Shakatak and more. Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors. During the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official singles chart for the UK and UK album charts used by the BBC for both Radio 1 and Top of the Pops, as well as providing the US Billboard Magazine Charts.