NME Magazine 18 July 1981 Motorhead Race Riots Iggy Pop Terry Gillingham Exploited

NME Magazine 18 July 1981

News/Articles/Features: Race Riots, ABC, Iggy Pop, Terry Gilliam, Sly & Robbie, The Exploited, Anti Pasti.

Adverts: Monsters Of Rock Festival (AC/DC Whitesnake Blue Oyster Cult) Reading Rock Festival Def Leppard The Undertones, Motorhead, Ozzy Osborne, Echo and The Bunnymen, Stevie Nicks, Foreigner, B-52s, Icehouse.

Record Reviews: Miles Davis, Kim Wilde, Sly & Robbie, Devo, Vivian Stanshall, Doctor Feelgood, Angelic Upstarts.

Gig Reviews: Duran Duran, Joe Jackson, Black Uhuru, Modern Romance, Alexei Sayle, Iggy Pop.

New Musical Express magazine (later shortened to NME) was first published in 1952 and ran for 66 years. NME magazine covered most musical genre's from 1950s Jazz to Rocknroll, 1960's Beat and Folk,1970's glam, progressive rock, heavy rock, punk, new wave, acid house, grunge, britpop etc eventually ceasing publication in March 2018 when it moved to an online subscription only. Vintage back issues of NME make great gifts or as music collectibles they make an interesting archive of music history.