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Dylan Jones: 'Beckham sells a lot of magazines'

The British edition of the men's magazine GQ is 20 years old, and for the past nine years Dylan Jones has been its editor. Here he selects his favourite covers

Monday, 27 October 2008

David Beckham, Dec 2008 ? Still one of the most famous men in Britain, one senses there are many more chapters in his life.

David Beckham, Dec 2008 ? Still one of the most famous men in Britain, one senses there are many more chapters in his life.

In the last 20 years, we have featured politicians, actors, sex symbols, sportsmen, chefs and the occasional James Bond on our cover. We have always gone out of our way to choose men or women who somehow represent an aspect of GQ. The only politicians to grace our cover have been Conservatives – Michael Heseltine, John Major and David Cameron.

We decided on David Beckham for our anniversary issue because we felt that he was perhaps the one male figure from the last 20 years who had achieved the greatest global sweep in terms of recognition. And he sells a lot of magazines... We put him on the cover of an issue a few years ago dressed as David Bowie's Thin White Duke, and it sold out in 10 days.

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