SOUNDS, UK

    SOUNDS was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications (part of Morgan Grampian), which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left MELODY MAKER to start their own company. Sounds was their first project, a weekly paper devoted to progressive rock and described by Hutton, to those he was attempting to recruit from his former publication, as "a leftwing MELODY MAKER".
    SOUNDS was intended to be a weekly rival to titles such as MELODY MAKER and NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS (NME). It was well known for giving away posters in the centre of the paper (initially black and white, but colour from late 1971) and later for covering heavy metal (especially the new wave of British heavy metal -NWOBHM-) and Oi! music in its late 1970s-early 1980s heyday.

15 May 1971	12 June 1971	18 September 1971
4 December 1971	8 January 1972	15 January 1972
13 May 1972	5 August 1973	15 December 1973
6 April 1974	23 November 1974

             
     30 November 1974, included a Dylan poster inside, part of "The Sound Collection" series.

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