OT but, who remembers New Musical Express

1964, I was 16 and got it every week, made me feel trendy to keep up with all thos with it, kool goups.....


Freddy and the Dreamers, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, The faces, The Shearches, Hermans Hermits

Those were the days, and Helen Shapiro

 

Wasnt even born then, nd New Musical Express i was like huh!! then it clicked NME, dont think i ever bought it once though, tbh i thought it was still going.

Looks like it is

http://www.nme.com/

 

Good job it went on for decades...after you read it Syd, so it gave the rest of us a chance to see it.

Was good for gigs etc.................but then along came the net...

 

syd did you move on from melody maker

 

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Now then, now then now then...........................

It's in black and white...

 

Aye every Friday morning before school no matter what the weather I climbed over the fence into the house over the backs garden, up their path, through their front gate and off to the paper shop to get the NME. Then back home to look through it over breakfast. It was essential reading in those days.

 

I can't remember the show or the magazine, but I do remember the first record that I ever really liked was a song called 'You were made for me', and I believe that was by Freddie and the Dreamers...

 

Started work at age 15, first thing I did was added the NME to our normal paper delivery.

Pretty sure I have "Schools out" by Alice Cooper on one of those sheets of black plastic records, that were attached to the front at times. May be a couple of others too amongst my Vinyls in the loft.

 

Used to get that and melody maker back in school days.

Never bothered with either after I left school though.

 

Both of them! Ah unlike you Cestria i wasn't one of those rich schoolkids.

 

Me too, prior to starting work, I was more likely to nick it. <shamefacedsmiley>
Or get it off a mate when he was finished.

 

Used to get Sounds to cool for the NME.

 

How about this one?

May be a one off in my case, when I turned 16 I also had Playboy added to our delivery, it was delivered wrapped in a brown paper bag cellotaped down.
Like I told my Mam at the time and I'm telling you lot I bought it for the articles.
The centrefolds just happened to be handy to hang on my bedroom wall along side my full size posters of Jimi Hendrix and Brigette Bardot in cutoff jeans leaning against a motorbike.

Bought my posters from "The Durham Book Centre" just down from "Maxwells" and the "Ling Hong" in the town centre.
Anyone remember that shop?

 

Durham book centre yes.....

But being a non deviant..i'm lost on your talk about playboy.....was it similar to razzle?

 

Watching Freddie and the Dreamers I wonder if MON was a fan it may explain where he got that leap from.

 

Used to get my posters from there as well
Got NME occasionally but was more a Smash Hits girl

 

NME got me into The Smiths and I still would be if it wasn't for Joey Barton going on like he discovered them! Spoils everything that tool....

 

Probably got my love of reading from there, as I often bought a second hand book along with the latest poster of Marilyn Monroe.

The NME was more to my taste then as I wasn't that into "pop" more the burgeoning start of Heavy Metal.
My first sighting of Black Sabbath was a tiny paragraph in NME, along the lines of watch out for these boys from Birmingham.
Like everyone else I loved the Beatles though.

Met Freddy and the Dreamers and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes when travelling on holiday with my parents at a motorway service station.
They were absolutely minging and stunk, so I assume they were kipping in the back of the vans back then.

 

And how about..5-4-3-2-1 and Cathy Magowan




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