NME Magazine 29 July 1978 Culture This Heat, Pure Hell, Dire Straits Howard Devoto Suicide Siouxsie

NME Magazine 29 July 1978

This Issue Features: the Runaways interview, Doll by Doll, This Heat, Pure Hell, Dire Straits Mark Knopfler interview, Culture Better living through Roots Reggae 2+ pages, Howard Devoto of Magazine interview, 

Full Page Adverts: Zones, Rolling Stones Some Girls, Gloria Mundi, Bryan Ferry sign of the times, Giant double page advert for Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution, Suicide Cheree, The Who Who are you?

Record Reviews: Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution, Big Star.

Gig Reviews: Junior Wells and Buddy Guy Hammersmith ODEON, Siouxsie and the Banshees Roundhouse, Aswad Mayfair cinema, Culture Edinburgh, Human League Sheffield, Tourists Marquee, Tom Robinson Bristol.

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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.