MELODY MAKER, UK. A Classic of the British Rock press.
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 prosletysers for that music, on its staff for many years.
It was slow to cover rock and roll - one editorial describing the music as "a flash in the pan" - 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.
Bob Dylan reading Melody Maker, 1966.
27 March 1965
4 April 1965
1st May 1965
8 May 1965 
22 May 1965
11 September 1965
14 May 1966
4 June 1966
6 January 1968 [1119]
27 January 1968
27
April 1968
17 August 1968
2
November 1968
26 July 1969
2 August 1969
16
August 1969
23 August 1969
30 August
1969
6 September
1969
20 September
1969
17 April 1971
10 June 1971
7
August 1971
27 November 1971
3 February 1973
10 November 1973
12 January
1974
27 April 1974
10 August 1974
28 June 1975
8
November 1975
10 January 1976
16
October 1976
20 August 1977
4
February 1978
11 March 1978, 1/4
page
6 May 1978
17 June 1978, 8
pages
24 June 1978, with its 8-page special
15 July 1978
22 July 1978, 4
pages
29
July 1978
6 January 1979
17
November 1979
27
June 1981
3 February 1990, 8
pages
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