| Credits (Main Page) : | Assistant Editor : Paul Du Noyer | | |
| Magazine tags : | | Rock | |
| Video | | New Musical Express 1966 Poll Winners All Stars Concert (in colour) | |
| Image | | NMEF (1).jpg | |
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| Websites | | https://www.nme.com/ (www.nme.com/) | |
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| Info as displayed on the thing : | 26 May 1984 40o US $1.95(by air) ISSN 0028 6362
NME NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
The Drag Factor
INSIDE:FREE COLOUR SUPPLEMENT
UNDRESS NME STRIPS BARE
THE FASHION WORLD
THE SCRATCH MATCH!
BOYS GEORGE&BURNS BITCH IT OUT
BIBA KOPF CONFRONTS PETE BURNS - PAGE 29
BOY GEORGE WRITES HIS OWN TRUCE-PAGE 3
THE TROGGS
ROBERT SMITH
SISTERS OF MERCY
TRIPLE CASSETTE OFFER
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
THE JAZZ BUTCHER
NIGEL PLANER
Not burning, just smouldering. Dead Or Alive's Pete Burns. Photo by Peter Anderson | NME NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS
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| Notes : | | New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is an indie and pop music magazine in the United Kingdom. It was published every week from March 1952. It was the first British magazine to include a singles chart.
The magazine's first issue was published on 7 March 1952. It was like a newspaper.
During the 1960s, the magazine championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were on the front cover a lot. They would also be at the NME Poll Winners Concert, an awards event that featured artists voted as most popular by the NME's readers. The concert also had an awards ceremony where the winners would collect their awards. In the later part of the 1960s, the magazine began to report about psychedelia.
In early 1972, the magazine was nearly closed. A new person became editor and it changed radically to something intended to be smarter, hipper, more cynical and funnier than any mainstream British music paper had previously been (an approach influenced mainly by writers).
In mid-1973, the paper was selling nearly 300,000 copies per week and was outselling its other weekly rivals, Melody Maker, Disc, Record Mirror and Sounds.
1976 saw Punk Rock arrive on the music scene and NME, like other "specialist" publications, was slow in reporting and covering this new music phenomenon. In an attempt to boost sales, the paper advertised for a pair of "hip young gunslingers" to join their editorial staff. This resulted in the recruitment of two journalists, Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons, who made sure the magazine was completely up to date on this new music style. Bands who a few months previously had been criticising the NME were now eager to be included.
The magazine also became more openly political during the time of Punk. Its cover would sometimes feature youth-oriented issues rather than a musical act.
Sales were dropping, and by 1985 NME had hit a rough patch and was in danger of closing again. During this period, the editors at the magazine were split between those who wanted to write about hip hop, a genre that was relatively new to the UK, and those who wanted to stick to rock music. Sales were apparently lower when photos of hip hop artists appeared on the front and this led to the paper suffering as the lack of direction became even more apparent to readers.
The late eighties and early nineties had a generally weak rock scene in the UK and the paper was forced into giving a high-profile to long forgotten bands like Kingmaker and the Railway Children.
By the end of 1990, although the magazine still supported new British bands, the paper was dominated by American bands, because that was what the music scene in general was about.
Although the period from 1991 to 1993 was dominated by American bands like Nirvana, this did not mean that British bands were being ignored. The NME still covered the Indie scene a lot.
By 1992, some new British bands were beginning to appear. Suede were quickly hailed by the paper as an alternative to the heavy Grunge sound and hailed as the start of a new British music scene. Indie however was still the dominant force, but the rise of new British bands would become something the paper would focus more and more upon.
In April 1994 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead, a story which affected not only his fans and readers of the NME, but would see a massive change in British music. Grunge was about to be replaced by Britpop, a new form of music influenced by British music of the 1960s and British culture. The word was coined by NME after the band Blur released their album Parklife in the month of Cobain's death. Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop gather popularity for the rest of 1994. By the end of the year Blur and Oasis were the two biggest bands in the UK and sales of the NME were increasing thanks to the Britpop effect. 1995 saw the NME cover many of these new bands and saw many of these bands play the NME Stage at that year's Glastonbury Festival where the magazine had been sponsoring the second stage at the festival since 1993.
The new millennium saw the NME focus on new British bands such as Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Chiefs who emerged as "indie music" continued to grow. This commercial success led to bands such as the Arctic Monkeys being both very successful and being championed by the NME; a phenomenon not seen since Britpop.
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