Sounds was a British music paper, published weekly from October 10, 1970 – April 6, 1991. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. 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. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM) is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s in Britain, and achieved Oi! is a Working class street-level subgenre of Punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Sounds was the first 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 Keith Cameron wrote about Nirvana before anyone else. John Robb (born in Blackpool, England) is vocalist in the Punk rock band Goldblade. Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen Washington. Sounds was the first UK music paper to put Nirvana on the cover.
One of the trinity of British music weeklies along with New Musical Express (NME) and Melody Maker, it finally folded in 1991 after the parent company United Newspapers, sold all their music titles to EMAP Metro and closed Sounds. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper EMAP is a British media company specializing in the production of B2b magazines and the organization of business events and conferences Ironically its circulation was beginning to rise again significantly in the last few months of its life.
A legacy of Sounds 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. Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. Kerrang! is a weekly rock Magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media in the United Kingdom.
Contributors included Keith Altham, Garry Bushell, Geoff Barton, John Gill, Tommy Udo, Barbara Charone, Caroline Coon, Andrew Courtney, Jonathan Knight, Antonella Gambotto, Jerry Gilbert, Vivien Goldman, Jonh Ingham, Alan Moore (aka "Curt Vile"), Jon Newey,Mick Middles,John Robb, John Peel, Edwin Pouncey (aka "Savage Pencil"), Penny Reel, Cathi Unsworth, Jon Ronson, Robin Gibson, Jon Savage, Peter Silverton, Sylvie Simmons, Steve Sommer, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mat Snow, James Brown, Steve Lamacq, Keith Cameron, Leo Finlay, Steffan Chirazi, Ann Scanlon, Sandy Robertson, Dave McCulloch, Jane Suck (nee Jackman), Phil Sutcliffe, along with photographers Penny Valentine, Janette Beckman, Steve Gullick, Leo Regan, Steve Double and Gus Stewart. Garry Bushell (born May 13, 1955 in Woolwich, South East London) is a Newspaper Columnist Rock music Caroline Coon is a English artist journalist and political activist born in 1945 Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto born 19 September 1965 is an Australian Author and Journalist. Vivien Goldman is a British journalist writer and musician She was born in London the child of two German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 known professionally as John Peel, was an English Disc jockey, radio Savage Pencil (born Leeds, West Yorkshire June 1951 is a Comics artist, and is the nom de plume of English music journalist Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Cardiff -born journalist author Documentary filmmaker and radio presenter Jon Savage (born 1953 real name Jonathon Sage is a Cambridge-educated Writer, broadcaster and Music journalist, best known for his award winning history Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 16 1963 in Garstang, Lancashire, England) is an English DJ and music journalist Steve Lamacq (born 16 October 1965) sometimes known by his Nicknames Lammo (given to him by John Peel) or " The Cat Penny Valentine (February 13 1943 - January 9 2003 was a British music journalist rock critic and occasional television personality probably best known as a regular on [1]
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- Comic strips that were published in Sounds by Alan Moore
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