NME being handed out free....

NME was tops of the three. Loved the pretentious sarcastic writers. Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
NME was tops of the three. Loved the pretentious sarcastic writers. Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray.
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This
Melody Maker was for old farts and Sounds for the pop crew
I loved their agendas and their interstitial g writers, add a young Danny Kelly and Chrissy Hynde. Didn't Nick Hornby also write for them?
 
OB1 said:
At one point, in late 70's, I used to get Sounds, NME and Melody Maker every week and read them cover to cover. Kept them all too for years (mostly boxed up in the attic) but they eventually got binned at my wife's insistence :(

Definitely preferred Sounds. NME was always a bit pretentious, especially when punk / new wave came along, but did have some very good writers at times.
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Bloody hell got an alert and it was a 3 year old post, :) Yes suppose it depended what music you liked and Sounds always took it's rock / metal more seriously with Geoff Barton etc and other writers that went onto Kerrang and now appear in classic rock, so that matched my tastes.
 
squirtyflower said:
This
Melody Maker was for old farts and Sounds for the pop crew
I loved their agendas and their interstitial g writers, add a young Danny Kelly and Chrissy Hynde. Didn't Nick Hornby also write for them?
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Think so. Other famous names - a young Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, Danny Baker. I remember the first Queen album being reviewed 'as exciting as a bucket of cold urine'. They could be a little 'cutting' at times. I remember some fantastic interviews - Springsteen just before Born to Run broke, Bowie, around the Aladdin Sane tour. Their annual prize winners was something else:

NME Awards 1974

Those were the days!
 
Absolute essential reading for me from 79 to 92.
Black ink all over the hands every Thursday
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Saddleworth2 said:
Think so. Other famous names - a young Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, Danny Baker. I remember the first Queen album being reviewed 'as exciting as a bucket of cold urine'. They could be a little 'cutting' at times. I remember some fantastic interviews - Springsteen just before Born to Run broke, Bowie, around the Aladdin Sane tour. Their annual prize winners was something else:

NME Awards 1974

Those were the days!
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I forgot about Burchill and Parsons.
She was a fledgling and hung on to his coat tails to get the gig at the NME. When she became famous she dumped him fast
 
shame, i struggle to see how magazines survive nowadays when you can read the same and more from the internet
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Think so. Other famous names - a young Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, Danny Baker. I remember the first Queen album being reviewed 'as exciting as a bucket of cold urine'. They could be a little 'cutting' at times. I remember some fantastic interviews - Springsteen just before Born to Run broke, Bowie, around the Aladdin Sane tour. Their annual prize winners was something else:

NME Awards 1974

Those were the days!
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Golden age of music looking at those awards, especially the single and album ones.
 
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