B35908 – Melody Maker 1958 Collection Bob Wooler Estate (UK)

A collection of Melody Maker music papers from 1958. There are 29 issues in total. The run begins on the 4^th January and ends on the 20^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.

Provenance: the papers come from the collection of former Cavern Club DJ, Bob Wooler.

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