Sounds

Sounds

Sounds was a British music paper, 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 and Oi! music in its late 1970s-early 1980s heyday. Sounds was influential in its coverage of punk in the 1970s and in the late eighties was maintaining its reputation for catching new trends early when John Robb covered Manchester and Keith Cameron wrote about Nirvana. Sounds was the first UK music paper to put Nirvana on the cover.

One of the trinity of British music weeklies along with New Musical Express (NME) and Melody Maker, it finally folded in 1991 after the parent company United Newspapers, sold all their music titles to EMAP Metro and closed Sounds. Ironically its circulation was beginning to rise again significantly in the last few months of its life.

A legacy of Sounds 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.



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