NME Magazine 24 March 1979 Iggy Pop Stranglers The Ruts Tom Robinson The Fall

NME Magazine 24 March 1979

Mr Iggy and Mr Pop by Nick Kent. The Stranglers. Blood in Brisbane. Rock against racism Collective. The Ruts - ruts backflips and pogoing Pakistanis. Tom Robinson band - the greening of TRB across our grey and troubled land. The Fall Live at the Witch Trials review and full page adverts include Lene Lovich, Ashra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Roxy Music, Graham Parker.

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.