Published by Joepie: Teen Stars from the 1970s

Joepie was a Dutch-language Belgian music magazine aimed at young people in Flanders, but also many teenagers in the Netherlands read it. The target audience was 12- to 17-year-olds, mainly girls. Joepie (Dutch: Yippie) was launched on 28 February 1973 and was initially published every fortnight, but switched to weekly publication on 5 March 1975. When it started, Joepie formed a combo with the Joepie Top 50, which was broadcast by Radio Mi Amigo in Belgium on Saturday afternoons. The magazine had an average readership of 350,000 readers. Joepie also published collector cards (stickers) in colour of both pop and film idols, and in collaboration with the chocolate brands Raider and Bounty a series of film star postcards in black and white.


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

American singer-songwriter and actress Deborah 'Debbie' Harry (1945) is best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie.


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

Village People is an American disco group well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American masculine cultural stereotypes as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. The line-up at the picture was Glenn Hughes (leatherman), Felipe Rose (dressed as a Native American), David Hodo (construction worker), Ray Simpson (cop), Randy Jones (cowboy) and Alex Briley (who started portraying an athlete but eventually took on the soldier persona).


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

ABBA were the winners at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song 'Waterloo'. It gave Sweden its first victory in the history of the contest, and ABBA became the most successful group ever to take part in the tournament. The Swedish group was formed in Stockholm in 1972 and comprised Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. (ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of their first names.) They remain one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. ABBA has sold over 400 million albums and singles worldwide and continues to sell millions of records a year.


Belgian collector card by Joepie. John Travolta in Urban Cowboy (James Bridges, 1980).

John Travolta (1954) is an American actor and singer, who rose to fame during the 1970s, when he appeared on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979), and starred in the box office successes Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978) and Urban Cowboy (1980). His acting career declined throughout the 1980s, but in 1994, Travolta made one of the most stunning comebacks in entertainment history by starring in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). Since then he starred in such films as Get Shorty (1995), Face/Off (1997), Primary Colors (1998), and Hairspray (2007). Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. In 2016, he received his first Primetime Emmy Award, as a producer of the anthology series American Crime Story in which he also played lawyer Robert Shapiro.


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

Joey Travolta (1950) is an American actor, singer, producer and director. He is the elder brother of film star John Travolta. He often acted in the films of John Landis and directed a series of B films in the 1990s. Later, he worked as a disability education teacher and founded the film company Inclusion Films, which involves individuals with disabilities in the process of making films.


Belgian collector card by Joepie. Gaston (right) & Leo.

Gaston & Leo were a legendary Flemish comedy stage, TV and film duo consisting of Gaston Berghmans (1926-2016) and Leo Martin (1924-1993). They were active from 1972 to 1992, six months before Martin died of a long illness in 1993. For a long time, they were the most popular comedians in Flanders, and several of their sketches have become classics.


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

Patrick Duffy (1949) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Bobby Ewing in the popular television series Dallas (1978-1991). He had his breakthrough with the television series Man from Atlantis (1977-1978). He is also known as Frank Lambert in the Sitcom Step by Step (1991-1998), and as Stephen Logan in the Soap Opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2006–2011, 2022-2023).


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

Bob Geldof (1951) is an Irish singer, philanthropist and songwriter. He became famous in the 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish punk rock band Boomtown Rats. Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's film Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982). His international fame grew considerably thanks to his charity concerts Live Aid (1985) and Live 8 (2005) to bring relief to the starving in Ethiopia.


Belgian collector card by Joepie.

Gene Simmons (1949) is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting and larger-than-life co-founder of the hard rock group KISS. The Israeli-American rock musician is also a businessman and an actor. Simmons is also known for his long tongue and for his reality television show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels (2006-2012).


Belgian collector card by Joepie. Golden Earring with from left tot right: Cesar Zuiderwijk, Eelco Gelling, George Kooymans, Barry Hay and Rinus Gerritsen. Gelling was a guitarist in the Golden Earring between 1973 and 1978.

Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings (the 's' was dropped in 1969). They achieved worldwide fame with their hits 'Radar Love' (1973), 'Twilight Zone' (1982), and 'When the Lady Smiles' (1984). During their career, they had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts, and over the years, they produced 25 studio albums. The band stopped in 2021.


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty Joepie. Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon in Borsalino (Jacques Deray, 1970).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (Arthur Hiller, 1970).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Gene Hackman in The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Clint Eastwood in Joe Kidd (John Sturges, 1972).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973).


Belgian postcard by Joepie / Raider Bounty. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Kenny Baker as R2-D2 in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977).


Belgian postcard by Joepie / Raider Bounty. Photo: Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979).


Belgian postcard by Raider Bounty / Joepie. Photo: publicity still for Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979).


Belgian Postcard by Joepie / Raider / Bounty. Photo: Nastassja Kinski in Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979).

Source: Wikipedia (Dutch and English).