B40272 – New Musical Express (NME) 1978 Complete Run (UK)

A complete run of New Musical Express from 1978. There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 7th January and ends with a double issue on the 23rd/30th December.

New Musical Express was one of the most authoritative UK music papers of the sixties and seventies. It contained interviews with, and features about, all of the important artists and bands of the sixties and seventies plus news, record and concert reviews and great pictures.

The issues of NME from the early seventies consisted of between 12 and 20 pages. However, after that the number of pages were between 32 and 48 pages plus. The paper measures 33.5cm x 41cm (13 inches x 16 inches). Several issues from each year have either the owner’s name and/or first line of their address written on the front or back cover, normally on the white border. The condition is as follows: two issues are good, ten are very good minus. Of the remainder three quarters are very good and one quarter is very good plus.