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...a freebie from today (didn't get one). What's it like?


Just made me nostalgic (surprise :)) for the good old days again when the Music Press was really important (or so it seemed) late 70s.


Sounds and NME were shared around our school on Thursday(?) religously - Meloday Maker less so 'for hippies'. And us soulies also had Blues & Soul.


I guess the 80s started the sliperry slope with more specialism (keraaang) and more general youth mags The Face etc.


Sad they've gone but understand why.

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I loved the NME and read it religiously for about 25 years. I'd even get it a day early on a Wednesday on Fleet Street and I'd devour it from cover to cover and do the crossword. It was the musical bible back in its 70s heyday and sold around 250,000 a week back then but has sadly long been in decline and probably only sells less than a tenth of that now. I still buy it two or three times a year or have a glance at it online but it just isn't the same since I was a youngster. Maybe that's because I am so much older now. I hope it survives.
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I was an avid reader of the NME from late 70's to late 80's. Sounds just didn't do it for me, especially when it (Gary Bushell) started championing Oi, although I would buy it if it had a big feature on someone I liked. Don't think I ever bought MM. Some great journos/writers cut their teeth on the music press, excellent photography too...
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red devil Wrote:

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> I was an avid reader of the NME from late 70's to

> late 80's. Sounds just didn't do it for me,

> especially when it (Gary Bushell) started

> championing Oi.


Indeed. I worked in close proximity to Bushell when he was a TV columnist on the Sunday People. Everyone seemed to think he was a nice bloke except me with my seething hate of his championing of the seemingly racist Oi and his 'friend' of the Krays crap. Total tosspot.

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