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
|
IN CATALAN
IN CHINESE
IN CROATIAN 
IN CZECH
IN DANISH 
IN DUTCH 
IN ENGLISH: 
IN FINNISH
IN FRENCH 
IN GALICIAN 
IN GERMAN 
IN GREEK
IN HEBREW
IN HUNGARIAN 
IN ICELANDIC 
IN ITALIAN
IN JAPANESE
IN NORWEGIAN
IN POLISH
IN PORTUGUESE
IN ROMANIAN
IN RUSSIAN
IN SERBIAN
IN SLOVAK
IN SPANISH
IN SWEDISH
IN THAI 
IN TURKISH