Melody Maker
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.
It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright; the first editor was Edgar Jackson.
In 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) New Musical Express.
Melody Maker launched its own weekly singles chart (a top 20) on 7th April 1956, and an LPs charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror had published the first UK Albums Chart.
From 1964, the paper led its rival publications in terms of approaching music and musicians as a subject for serious study rather than merely entertainment.
Volume - 59 Number - 31
Price - 45 Pages - 48
Cover By - Tom Sheehan
Front Cover - Jimmy Sommerville
(Bronski Beat)
Interviews And Features:
Matt Bianco
A Flock Of Seagulls
Screaming Blue Messiahs
Talking Drums
Person To Person
Bronski Beat
Dr Feelgood
Thank You To Charles Patrick For The Loan Of The Issue For Scanning
Volume - 60 Number - 25
Price - 45 Pages - 48
Cover By - (Unknown)
Front Cover - Green (Scritti Politti)
Interviews And Features:
Thomas Leer
Flesh For Lulu
Mai Tai
New Model Army
Green (Scritti Politti)
Trouble Funk
Janice Long
Thank You To Charles Patrick For The Loan Of The Issue For Scanning
Black - To Be Scanned
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Brown - Scanned Need Sorting
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