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For much of the 1960s, Jim Delehant worked as a staff writer and editor for the magazine. According to his recollection, ''Hit Parader'' covered "an extremely boring music scene" in the early 60s prior to the emergence of hugely popular rock groups such as [[the Beatles]] and [[the Beach Boys]] in 1964. At that time, it was a common practice among music magazines to write fake articles pieced together from sources such as bios and publicity material distributed by the record companies. ''Hit Parader'' employed traveling rock journalists who spent time with the artists and wrote legitimate feature articles about them.<ref name="RBP/Delehant">{{cite web|url=http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/jim-delehant |title=Jim Delehant |publisher=[[Rock's Backpages]] |access-date=June 2, 2015}}</ref> In addition to Delehant's contributions, ''Hit Parader'' also published articles by music journalists Ellen Sander, Keith Altham and [[Derek Taylor]]. Over the following decade, its contributors included [[Nick Logan]], [[Barbara Charone]], [[Lenny Kaye]], [[Jonh Ingham]] and [[Alan Betrock]].<ref name="RBP/HP" />
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During the 1970s, ''Hit Parader'' frequently covered rock acts such as [[Led Zeppelin]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Elton John]], [[David Bowie]], [[Blue Öyster Cult]], [[the Kinks]], [[Three Dog Night]], [[the Who]], [[Cheap Trick]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], and [[Van Halen]]. As the decade progressed the magazine began covering [[Punk rock|punk]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] artists as well.<ref name="SecherInterview" /> The magazine typically featured song lyrics, artist photos, feature articles, album reviews, interviews, reader mail, bits of trivia on popular rock acts, and readers' polls.
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