MELODY MAKER, UK

     A Classic of the British rock press!
     MELODY MAKER, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS. Originally the MELODY MAKER (MM) concentrated on Jazz, and had Max Jones, one of the leading British prosletysers for that music, on its staff for many years.
    It was slow to cover rock and roll - one editorial describing the music as "a flash in the pan" - and lost ground to the NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS (NME), which had begun in 1952. MM began its MELODY MAKER LP charts in November 1958, two years after the RECORD MIRROR published the first UK Albums Chart.

      
Bob Dylan (DONT LOOK BACK with John Mayall) reading Melody Maker, issue 8 May 1965, and 14 May 1966.

Thank you to Eric Galzi for the improved images.

6 March 1965	27 March 1965	4 April 1965
17 April 1965	1st May 1965	8 May 1965
22 May 1965	11 September 1965	13 November 1965, Colour Section
14 May 1966	4 June 1966	6 January 1968
27 January 1968	27 April 1968	17 August 1968
2 November 1968	26 July 1969	2 August 1969
16 August 1969	23 August 1969	30 August 1969
6 September 1969	20 September 1969	13 June 1970
20 June 1970	17 April 1971	12 June 1971
7 August 1971	27 November 1971	3 February 1973
10 November 1973	29 December 1973	12 January 1974
27 April 1974	10 August 1974	28 June 1975
8 November 1975	10 January 1976	Spring 1976 Special
9 October 1976	16 October 1976	20 August 1977
4 February 1978	11 March 1978, 1/4 page	6 May 1978
17 June 1978, 8 pages	24 June 1978	24 June 1978 8-page special
15 July 1978	22 July 1978, 4 pages	29 July 1978
6 January 1979	17 February 1979	17 November 1979
27 June 1981	4 July 1981	30 September 1989
3 February 1990, 8 pages