Sounds (magazine)
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Sounds was a British music magazine, published weekly from October 10, 1970 – April 6, 1991. It was well known initially 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. Sounds was the first and best music paper in its coverage of punk and in the late eighties was maintaining its reputation for getting there first when John Robb covered Manchester and Nirvana before anyone else. One of the trinity of British music weeklies along with the New Musical Express (NME) and the Melody Maker it finally folded in 1991 due to falling circulation- although, ironicaly its circulation was beginning to rise again in the last few months of its life A legacy of Sounds however, was the creation of the Heavy Metal/Rock magazine Kerrang!, which was originally issued as a supplement before being spun-off as a separate publication, which continues to this day.
Contributors included Keith Altham, Garry Bushell, Geoff Barton, Barbara Charone, Caroline Coon, Andrew Courtney, Antonella Gambotto, Jerry Gilbert, Vivien Goldman, Jonh (sic) Ingham, Alan Moore (aka "Curt Vile"), Jon Newey, John Robb, John Peel, Edwin Pouncey (aka "Savage Pencil"), Penny Reel, Jon Savage, Peter Silverton, Sylvie Simmons, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mat Snow, Jane Suck (nee Jackman), Phil Sutcliffe along with photographers Penny Valentine and Gus Stewart.
Nostalgic fact; The newsprint easily rubbed off, ensuring your hands were covered with ink long before finishing reading.
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