B35904 – Melody Maker 1954 Collection Bob Wooler Estate (UK)

A collection of Melody Maker music papers from 1954. There are 47 issues in total. The run begins on the 2^nd January and ends on the 13^th November. The following issues are missing: 20^th November, 27^th November, 4^th December, 11^th December, 18^th December and 25^th December.

Melody Maker was a British weekly music paper, one of the world’s earliest music weeklies, founded in 1926. By the early 1970s Melody Maker was considered the most serious of the pop music weeklies, a musos paper. Melody Maker covered all of the major trends of the seventies – glam rock, progressive rock, punk rock, reggae, post punk and it was the home of some fabulous reportage on the music scene in Britain and abroad.

The issues measure 33cm x 45cm (13 inches x 17.1 inches). The condition is as follows: 6 issues are good, of the remainder half are very good minus and half are very good.

The papers comes from the collection of Cavern Club compère, Bob Wooler.