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. 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. 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, Barbara Charone, Caroline Coon, Antonella Gambotto, Jerry Gilbert, Vivien Goldman, Jonh (sic) Ingham, Alan Moore (aka "Curt Vile"), Jon Newey, John Peel, Edwin Pouncey (aka "Savage Pencil"), Penny Reel, Jon Savage, Peter Silverton, Sylvie Simmons, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mat Snow, Andrew Courtney, Phil Sutcliffe and Penny Valentine.

Nostalgic fact; The newsprint easily rubbed off, ensuring your hands were covered with ink long before finishing reading.

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