The 84-page one-off issue is already available in London and will be on sale nationally tomorrow, just days after the singer passed away in a Beverley Hills hotel room on Saturday 11 February.

The edition draws on IPC's back catalogue of content on the singer and was created "in a matter of hours" according to Jasper Scott, manufacturing director at IPC Media. Due to the nature of the content it carries no advertising, but has a cover price of £2.99.

The magazine, which is the same format as the standard Now, was printed by Polestar Colchester with a print run of 113,000, which Scott said was "absolutely fantastic".

He also praised production specialist "Rhapsody - who also played a very important part in turning this whole project round so quickly, along with Polestar (Colchester) and my group production manager, Sue Balch".