1984 Issues

These are the issues of NME that came out in 1984.

Some of the issues I have will be available on this site (click the link on the date or picture to take you to the issue which will be available via my Flickr and Google page).

Some of the issues may just have pictures which will be there to showcase what the issue front cover was and will be there for reference.

If anyone has any issues that are not available on this site and are willing to scan them and make them available (from any year) then please get in touch via the Contact page.

Price - 40p

Editor - Neil Spencer

Deputy Editor - Tony Stewart

Assistant Editor - Paul Du Noyer

News Editor - Derek Johnson

Production Editor - Jo Isotta

Associate Editors - Andy Gill

Special Projects Editor - Roy Carr

Contributing Editor - Charles Shaar Murray

Published - Friday

To Type Up

Volume: 33 - Number: 01

Price - 40p Pages - 40

Cover photo by Anton Corbijn

Issue donated by John Harrison

7th January 1984

Cover: Roddy Frame

Articles and interviews:

Aztec Camera (2pg)
T Bone Burnett (2pg)
Sid Presley Experience
Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
In Excelsis
David Bailey (photographer)
Sheila Chandra (portrait)
1983 T-Zers Awards

Albums:

Unknown Gender, Lilliput, Jimmy Cliff, The Membranes, Richard H. Kirk, Temptations, David Lynch & Alan R Splet, Bill Nelson, Teddy Pendergrass, A-S Workers, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Standells, Best of Louie Louie (VA), Factory Benelux Greatest Hits (VA), Get Right With God (VA)

Singles reviewed by Richard Cook

Kathy Buck, Sybil Thomas, Cornell Campbell, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Ace & Scorcher, West Phillips, The Police, Yellowman & Fatman, Miles Davis & Cannonball Adderley, Die Toten Hosen, Thirteen at Midnight, Bone Orchard, Discharge, Ronnie McNeir & Instant Groove, Shango, D Train, Jessie Rogers, Run-DMC, The Twins Plus Him, Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne, Fad Gadget, Mighty Diamonds, Test Dept.

Live:

Simple Minds, Madness, Police, Tina Turner, Baby Go Boom, The Legend, Mighty Diamonds, Def Leppard, Second Image, Perfect Crime, The Four Tops, The Enid, Serious Drinking, Bonsai Forest, Hot Chocolate, Tears For Fears, China Crisis, Toyah, Radio Java, Seventh Seance,

Full page ads:

Half page ads:

Talk Talk, Comsat Angels, Fad Gadget, Grand Mixer DST, Rick Springfield, The Defects, China Crisis

Books:

Before I Get Old The Story of The Who
Yardbirds

Silver screen:

Films of the Year: King of Comedy, Nostalgia, Veronika Voss, Querelle, 48 Hours, Local Hero, Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, One From the Front, Parsifal, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Passion, The Year, of Living Dangerously, Eureka, L'Argent, Blue Thunder

Volume: 33 - Number: 02

Price - 40p Pages - 44

Cover photo by Anton Corbijn

Issue donated by John Harrison

14th January 1984

Cover: Billy Bragg

Articles and interviews:

Billy Bragg (2pg)
Bunny Wailer (2pg)
Hüsker Dü
X (John Doe, Exene Cervenka)
Einstürzende Neubauten
Alexis Korner
Nick Heyward
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Holly Johnson (portrait)

Albums:

The Pretenders, John Hiatt, The Cure, Steve Nieve, Sonic Youth, Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society, Glenn Branca, Twinkle Brothers, Trouser Press Presents the Best of American Underground (VA), General For All General (VA)

Singles reviewed by Amanda Root

ABC, John Lennon, Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Colour Field, Fiat Lux, Violent Femmes, Spear of Destiny, In Excelsis, Television Personalities, China Crisis, Dead or Alive, Donna Summer, Evelyn King, Big Country, The B Boys, Frankie & the Hit Men, Sun Palace, Herbie Hancock, Some Now Are, The Alarm, Prefab Sprout, Simonics, Sense, Australian Crawl, Thomas Dolby, Musical Youth

Live:

Lemon 'N' Curd, Vendino Pact, In the Nursery, Junk, The Redskins, Billy Bragg, Bronski Beat, Prefab Spout, Daintees, Hurrah!, Aswad, Sideway Look, Fools Can Dance, Aztec Camera, Duran Duran, Felt

Tour news:

Tina Turner, Hall & Oates, Whitesnake, Bo Diddley, , , , , , , ,

Record news:

Simple Minds, Terry Hall, Gun Club, Echo & the Bunnymen, , , , ,

Full page ads:

John Lennon, ABC, Dead or Alive, The Pretenders (lp, tour), The Colour Field

Half page ads:

Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Fiat Lux, Prefab Sprout, The Alarm, The Troggs, Black Uhuru, Gregory Isaacs

Books:

The Best of Cameron
Musical Youth
World View 1984

Silver screen:

Gorky Park
The Lift
Daniel
Sidney Lumet interview
The Honorary Consul

Video:

The Birthday Party
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Pillows & Prayers
Johnny Yesno
Alien Sex Fiend

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Volume: 33 - Number: 03

Price - 40p Pages - 44

Cover photo by Peter Anderson

Issue donated by John Harrison

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21st January 1984

Cover: Madness

Articles and interviews:

Madness (3pg)
Quiet Riot (2pg)
Soft Cell
Grand Mixer DXT
Julie Walters (portrait)
Computer games

Albums:

Ian Dury & the Music Students, Luther Vandross, Everly Brothers, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Irene Cara, James Blood Ulmer, Brian Eno, Colourbox, George Clinton, James Brown, Los Lobos, Zazou Bikaye CY1, Radio Tokyo Tapes (VA), The Blasting Concept (VA), Survival Dance Report (VA)

Singles reviewed by Paul Du Noyer

Cyndi Lauper, The Smiths, Barbara Mason, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Troggs, Simple Minds, Three Johns, The Ex & Alerta, Barb, Slap Happy, Rick James, The Higsons, Ligotage, Peter Blegvad, Vice Squad, Fiction Factory, Sons of Heroes, Talk Talk, Re-Flex, Wang Chung, Action Pact, Jimmy Cliff, Comsat Angels

Live:

Herbie Hancock, The Pretenders, The Climb, The Swamps, Ginger John the Doomsday Commando, Under Two Flags, Pink Industry, Urban Jazz Ritual, Red Guitars, Anti-System, The Bank Robbers, Stinkfist, Bourgie Bourgie, Roddy Radiation & the Tearjerkers, Red Guitars, Shiny Two Shiny, Boothill Foot Tappers, Telephone Boxes, London Against Racism (Aswad, Benjamin Zephaniah, Spartacus R, Winston Reedy, Musical Youth, Jeffrey Daniel), Welcome To 1984 (Newtown Neurotics, Action Pact, The Burial, The Damned)

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Full page ads:

Spear of Destiny (tour), Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Echo & the Bunnymen

Half page ads:

Luther Vandross, Bank Robbers, One the Juggler (tour), Stewart Copeland & Stan Ridgway, Simple Minds, Troggs, Orchestre Jazira

Books:

Bessie
The Rise and Fall of Rock

Silver screen:

The Moon in the Gutter

Volume: 33 - Number: 04

Price - 40p Pages - 52

Cover photo by Derek Ridgers

Issue donated by John Harrison

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28th January 1984

Cover: Aswad (Angus Gaye,

Tony Robinson, Brinsley Forde)

Articles and interviews:

Aswad
Holger Hiller
Sade
Gene Loves Jezebel
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Albums:

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Slade, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Billy Idol, Otis Redding, Lost Gringos, Johnny Thunders, Roy Loney, John Cale

Singles by Charles Shaar Murray

George Kranz, Mel Brooks, Elbow Bones & the Racketeers, 23 Skidoo, , , , , , , ,

Live:

Fire Hydrant Men, Nina Simone, Alternative TV, High Five Group, Your Heterosexual Violence, TV Personalities, The Satellites, The Milkshakes, The Prisoners, Playn Jayne, A Certain Ratio, Furniture, Henry Threadgill Septet, Pauline Melville, Altered Images, Reverb Brothers, Stingrays, Popticians, The Revillos, Barb, Al Campbell, Silent Running, The Ribjoints, The Charts

Gig guide / Tour news:

The Smiths, John Cale, Julian Bahula, Gasper Lawal, Orange Juice, March Violets, Diamond Head, Saxon, Quiet Riot, Manowar, Julian Cope, Carmel, Kajagoogoo, Yes, Hall & Oates, Simple Minds, China Crisis, Dionne Warwick, Thompson Twins, Spear of Destiny, Tina Turner, Hellion, , , , , , , ,

Record news:

Pretenders, Van Halen, The Actives, Linda Ronstadt, Creatures of Habit, Spirit, Lou Reed, Ultravox, Marillion, , , , , , ,

Full page ads:

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Thompson Twins, Ian Dury & the Music Students, China Crisis, The Other Side of the Tracks (TV)

Half page ads:

Stewart Copeland, Hazel O'Connor, Prefab Sprout, Madonna, , , , , , , ,

Books:

Silver screen:

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Volume: 33 - Number: 05

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover photo by Anton Corbijn

Issue donated by John Harrison

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4th February 1984

Cover: The Smiths

Articles and interviews:

The Smiths
Lloyd Cole
Danse Society
Butthole Surfers
1983 NME Readers Poll

Albums:

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Live:

Charlie Sexton & Eager Beaver Boys, The Outcasts, Sector 27, Easterhouse, Jasmine Minks, The Palookas, Tropical Fish, Monomix, Crucified by Christians, Low Down, The Clash, Malcolm McLaren, Los Lobos, Jake Burns' Big Wheel, Bone Orchard, Annie Whitehead Quintet, Ausgang, Zero Le Crêche, , , , , ,

Books:

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Volume: 33 - Number: 06

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover by Peter Anderson

Issue donated by John Harrison

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11th February 1984

Cover: Yoko Ono

Articles and interviews:

Yoko Ono
Millie Jackson
Swans Way
Propaganda
Edwyn Collins
Beki Bondage
Easterhouse
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Albums:

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Volume: 33 - Number: 07

Price - 40p Pages - 72

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18th February 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 08

Price - 40p Pages - 64

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25th February 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 09

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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Issue donated by John Harrison

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3rd March 1984

Cover: NMETAL

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Volume: 33 - Number: 10

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10th March 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 11

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17th March 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 12

Price - 40p Pages - 60

Cover by Anton Corbijn

Issue donated by John Harrison

24th March 1984

Cover: Jon Moss

(Culture Club)

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Volume: 33 - Number: 13

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover photo by Anton Corbijn

Issue donated by John Harrison

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31st March 1984

Cover: Hugh Masekela

Articles and interviews:

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Volume: 33 - Number: 14

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover photo by Pennie Smith

Issue donated by John Harrison

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7th April 1984

Cover: Marvin Gaye

Articles and interviews:

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Volume: 33 - Number: 15

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14th April 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 16

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21st April 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 17

Price - 40p Pages - 52

Cover by Derek Ridgers

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28th April 1984

Cover: Bananarama

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5th May 1984

Cover: Nena

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Volume: 33 - Number: 18

Price - 40p Pages - 52

Cover by Anton Corbijn

Thanks to John Harrison

for donating this issue

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Volume: 33 - Number: 19

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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for donating this issue

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12th May 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 20

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19th May 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 21

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover by Peter Anderson

Thanks to John Harrison

for donating this issue

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26th May 1984

Cover: Pete Burns
(Dead or Alive)

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Industrial dispute

Due to industrial action, NME was
not published on these nine dates:

2nd June 1984

9th June 1984

16th June 1984

23rd June 1984

30th June 1984

7th July 1984

14th July 1984

21st July 1984

28th July 1984

The issue dated 4th August was the next

available issue and labelled number 22

4th August 1984 - page 2 info

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Volume: 33 - Number: 22

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover by Peter Anderson

Thanks to John Harrison

for donating this issue

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4th August 1984

Cover: Rik Mayall

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Volume: 33 - Number: 23

Price - 40p Pages - 00

Cover by Peter Anderson

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for donating this issue

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11th August 1984

Cover: Mike Scott (Waterboys)

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Volume: 33 - Number: 24

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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18th August 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 25

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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25th August 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 26

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1st September 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 27

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8th September 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 28

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15th September 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 29

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22nd September 1984

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29th September 1984

6th October 1984

Volume: 33 - Number: 30

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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Volume: 33 - Number: 31

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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Volume: 33 - Number: 32

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13th October 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 33

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20th October 1984

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27th October 1984

3rd November 1984

Volume: 33 - Number: 34

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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Volume: 33 - Number: 35

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Volume: 33 - Number: 36

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10th November 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 37

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17th November 1984

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Volume: 33 - Number: 38

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24th November 1984

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1st December 1984

Volume: 33 - Number: 39

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8th December 1984

15th December 1984

Volume: 33 - Number: 40

Price - 40p Pages - 00

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Volume: 33 - Number: 41

Price - 40p Pages - 60

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Volume: 33

Number: 42 and 43

(Double Issue)

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22nd December 1984 -
29th December 1984
Double Issue

Free stuff

At times NME would either give something away Free or make it possible to send off for a Free Gift. Below are the items available in this year.

None Known This Year