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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2018 7:14:11 GMT
This week's copy of the NME will be the final printed issue. It was running for 66 years and it killed off its own circulation by sticking to a narrow and ever less popular focus. I was a Sounds reader myself, but bought the NME when the newsagent had sold out of my preferred weekly fix of music news.
It became the NEW Musical Express, a free national paper in 1952, after a £1000 purchase of a publication called The Accordion Times and Musical Express was made just 15 minutes before its official closure.
The first British record charts appeared in the paper in 1952.
Web only from now on - have you got any memories of it?
I remember reading a review of one of the very last Led Zep gigs, which I think I may still have somewhere.
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Post by John on Mar 8, 2018 7:59:53 GMT
Yes sad. Like you Chris I was more into Sounds at the time
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Post by MartinT on Mar 8, 2018 8:56:56 GMT
It was Melody Maker for me, I gave up on NME when the punk scene came in around 1977 and they behaved as if all other music was inferior and not worth listening to.
These days I read the occasional Q or Rolling Stone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 10:46:19 GMT
I've bought the occasional NME magazine, usually when about to go on holiday and went through a small phase of buying the Uncut magazine, but found that I didn't agree with a lot of their recommendations or reviews, so stopped getting it.
Either way, it is a shame to see them stopping the printed issues.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 11:12:20 GMT
The last time I purchased NME was to read about the 1980 Reading Festival I been to, and how good Slade were on the day!
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Post by Barrington on Mar 8, 2018 11:26:20 GMT
I gave up on NME when the punk scene came in around 1977 and they behaved as if all other music was inferior and not worth listening to. . Yes didn't they just , although I did stick with it . |
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Post by mikeyb on Mar 8, 2018 13:45:32 GMT
I was a Sounds man too.
But I've hardly bought any printed material since I got on the internet so hardly surprising really that it's gone.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 8, 2018 14:24:38 GMT
My dad always called it "The Enemy" when I got it. Like others, I graduated to Melody Maker and Sounds, then ZigZag, and in later years, Uncut.
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2018 14:35:22 GMT
I read Mojo now. It has that heady mix which balances the modern and the crusty that suits me just fine!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 15:09:50 GMT
Id forgotten about Sounds, Melody Maker and NME. Past the age of 18, I don't ever recall looking at them, before that age, I rarely even glanced at them in WH Smiths and don't think I ever bought a single copy of any of them. I hadn't realised they had much of a post-teenage readership to be honest.
My only lasting memories are the cheap paper they were printed on and the propensity to feature bands I thought of as "noise" rather than music. But then I'm not, and never have been into rock music.
In today's world where musicians can reach out directly to their fanbase, I can imagine it being hard to maintain a decent level of circulation. I struggle to understand why people still buy newspapers these days, let alone their music counterparts.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 8, 2018 15:57:31 GMT
Speaking as an ex printer and seeing what modern tech does I can see very little future for printed materials like NME.
(Can't remember if I got NME or Melody Maker each week. So long ago.....)
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