Creem Magazine would have been 42 years old this year.
The national rock magazine, which launched in 1973, folded in 1986. It was founded in Detroit's Cass Corridor and later moved to Birmingham.
On Thursday, the the city of Birmingham honored its musical roots by unveiling a commemorative sign in remembrance of the former offices of Creem magazine at 187 S. Old Woodward, according to a Detroit News article by Melody Baetens:
Former Creem editor Susan Whitall — who left the magazine in 1983 to write for The Detroit News, where she is today — attended the banner reveal ceremony Thursday with Creem’s founding art director, Charlie Auringer, photographer Tom Weschler and others. They took photos in front of the site with a cutout of the late rock critic Lester Bangs, who was Creem editor in the early 1970s.
Whitall said she and the other staffers would spend late nights on deadline at the Birmingham office preparing to publish the magazine, which at the time was called “America’s Only Rock and Roll Magazine.”
“It was a culture clash,” she said. “Nobody knew we were there except the cops; there was no sign out front.”
