Record

NME - c.1975-1988 - New Musical Express (NME)

Reference Number (Click this to reveal full catalogue structure)	NME
Title	New Musical Express (NME)
Date	c.1975-1988
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Extent	19 boxes
Description	The New Musical Express collection consists of original copies of the New Musical Express (NME) Magazine. The collection also includes two issues of Sounds magazine. Although this dedicated collection only contains maazines from 1981-1988, LJMU SCA also holds a selection of New Musical Express issues from 1975-1992 within the England's Dreaming (ED) collection for their relationship to punk, as well as a few additional issues within the John McCready Situationist International papers (JMS).
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AdminHistory	New Musical Express is a British indie and pop music magazine, published every week from March 1952. It was the first British magazine to introduce a singles chart.
CustodialHistory	The collection was transferred to LJMU Special Collections & Archives in August 2015 from the University of Reading. The publications in this collection originally belonged to Colin Masters Dredd (also known as Colin Dredd), the bass player for the Newtown Neurotics, who hoped that the publications could be left somewhere they would be consulted.
Related Material	For a list of the New Musical Express issues held within England's Dreaming (ED), 1975-1992, please see: https://archives.ljmu.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=ED%2f1%2f1 LJMU Special Collections & Archives also holds the papers of Barney Bubbles, the artist who redesigned the NME logo in 1979 and heralded the name change from New Musical Express to just NME. This can be found under reference BB. Other collections which may be of interest to users studying popular culture and counterculture include: ED, the England's Dreaming collection of research materials used by Jon Savage within his publications on the history of punk music; EPF, the papers of the Liverpool-based underground Eric's Club and Pete Fulwell; IT, the International Times underground newspaper; FSXS, the Falcon Suart and X-Ray Spex papers related to Stuart's career as a music manager of the punk band among other artists; JN, Jeff Nuttall's My Own Mag magazine collection; OZ for the archive material related to the Oz Trial of 1971 concerning obscenity in the Oz underground Australian magazine; JMS for the John McCready Situationist International papers; and PMBM for Barry Miles's Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now writers reference library for his authorised biography of Paul McCartney.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	Please note that this collection is currently uncatalogued, but you can still browse a provisional box list of physical items attached within the Multimedia field. Be aware that access to some of these records may be closed or restricted because they contain personal data which identifies people who may be alive in accordance with data protection legislation, or for intellectual property and other sensitivity reasons. Please contact archives@ljmu.ac.uk for all appointments and enquiries.
Language	English
Creator	Christopher Olive, Assistant Archivist 2024