Melody Maker Writers - Melody Maker, Mary Harron, Simon Reynolds, Steve Lamacq, Everett True, Jon Savage, John Pidgeon, Bob Stanley, Simon Frith (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Melody Maker, Mary Harron, Simon Reynolds, Steve Lamacq, Everett True, Jon Savage, John Pidgeon, Bob Stanley, Simon Frith, David Keenan, Kris Kirk, Ben Myers, Tom Morton, Mark Beaumont, Richard Williams, Paul Lester, Nick Kent, Barney Hoskyns, John Harris, Simon Price, Serge Clerc, Caroline Coon, Vivien Goldman, Caitlin Moran, Sarra Manning, David Stubbs, Allan Jones, Chris Welch, Chris Petit, Ray Coleman, Taylor Parkes, Colin Irwin, Christopher Dawes, Peter Paphides, Peter Robinson. Excerpt: Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) New Musical Express. Originally the Melody Maker (MM) concentrated on jazz, and had Max Jones, one of the leading British proselytizers for that music, on its staff for many years. It was slow to cover rock and roll and lost ground to the New Musical Express (NME), which had begun in 1952. MM began its Melody Maker LP charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror published the first UK Albums Chart. On 6 March 1965, MM called for The Beatles to be honoured by the British state, which happened on 12 June that year when all four were made MBEs. By the late 1960s, MM had recovered momentum, targeting an older market than the teen-oriented NME. MM had larger and more specialised advertising; soon-to-be well-known groups would advertise for musicians. It ran pages devoted to "minority" interests like folk and jazz, as well as detailed reviews of musical instruments. A 1968 Melody Maker poll named John Peel best radio DJ, attention which John Walters revealed may have helped Peel keep his job despite concerns at BBC Radio 1 about Peel's style and re...