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25 unusual facts about Melody Maker


Adem K

Kerimofski has recently been seen playing a 1967 Gibson SG Melody Maker since 2012.

Alun Morgan

Morgan began to write on jazz from the early 1950 for Melody Maker, Jazz Journal, Jazz Monthly and Gramophone (and for 20 years from 1969 a weekly jazz column in a local Kent newspaper).

Anthony Coote

He was recruited to Ruby Blue in 1988 following an advertisement in the Melody Maker magazine and was present on their best known album recording "Down from Above" (1989).

Beverly Breckenridge

This album includes the song "All Women Are Bitches", which was reviewed by Everett True and named 'Single of the Week' by the British music paper Melody Maker.

Big Joe Turner

He won the Esquire magazine award for male vocalist during 1945, the Melody Maker award for best 'new' vocalist during 1956, and the British Jazz Journal award as top male singer during 1965.

Campaign for Free Education

The Music Industry got further behind the CFE when music magazines NME and Melody Maker revealed that members of the NUS wrote to the various artists asking them not to support the CFE in this way.

Chris Charlesworth

Having started his career as a journalist on the Bradford Telegraph, Charlesworth wrote for Melody Maker from 1970 to 1977, being variously their News Editor and US Editor.

Clive Parker

Kingfishers Catch Fire played support to Deacon Blue, and toured the UK college circuit after a favourable showing in Melody Maker, by writer Helen Fitzgerald.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

The album also contains a 62-page booklet of liner notes, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Malkmus and guitarist Scott Kannberg (aka "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for Melody Maker about each of the songs on the original album.

Dave U. Hall

They were also written up in the British magazine publication "Melody Maker" by reviewer Steve Lake.

Douglas Muggeridge

In 1971, he appointed Rodney Collins - known as a supporter of pirate radio through his weekly music newspaper columns - as Publicity Officer for the two networks in an attempt to gain more coverage for Radio 1 in music papers such as the NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.

Flat Eric

Flat Eric has also been featured in many magazines, including Arena, Cosmopolitan, Heat, Melody Maker, Ministry, Mixmag, Muzik, NME and The Face.

Frank Worrall

In the 1980s he was renowned for his music journalism - and is credited with helping break several groundbreaking northern bands in his capacity as North of England editor of Melody Maker.

Glenn Phillips

The highly influential British DJ John Peel played the LP - then only available there on import - regularly on the BBC; it subsequently came second in a reader's poll held by Britain's leading music paper Melody Maker.

Jan Persson

Persson has supplied photos to Down Beat since 1962, Jazz Special (DK), Musica Jazz (IT), Melody Maker (UK) and Danish newspapers Politiken, Berlingske Tidende and Ekstra Bladet.

Jody Porter

Although the band created a buzz for itself overseas, including Melody Maker and NME singles of the week and top chart positions, their major label debut Popdropper sold marginally.

John Lombardo

Melody Maker called Lombardo "one of the very great tunesmiths and guitarists of our age", and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that he is "a fine songwriter whose adeptness at illustrating quiet desperation and rustic spirituality becomes more apparent with each listen".

Joy Press

In the late 80s she wrote music criticism for American magazines and for the English weekly music paper Melody Maker.

Laurent Brancowitz

Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo became interested with electronic music soon afterward, used the quote from the Melody Maker magazine as a moniker, and composed music under the name Daft Punk.

Lenny Kaye

As a free-lance writer, he would write for a wide range of periodicals, including Melody Maker, Creem, and edit such publications as Rock Scene and Hit Parader throughout the seventies.

Mervyn Conn

He also directed the Melody Maker Pop Shows held at Wembley Arena in the 1960s, before launching the annual International Festivals of Country Music held at the same venue between 1969 and 1991.

Mik Kaminski

After those albums Kaminski applied for the vacant post as ELO's violinist because of an advertisement in Melody Maker.

Rick Davies

Davies decided to form a new band and returned home from Switzerland to place an ad in the music magazine Melody Maker in August 1969.

Serge Clerc

In the early 1980s Clerc's work regularly appeared in the British music magazines NME and Melody Maker.

Two Minds Crack

They recorded a demo tape reviewed by Steve Sutherland of Melody Maker and it was released in October 1981, as the first recorded version of "The Sense That Never Sleeps".


Al Gregg

After leaving school at sixteen he played guitar and sang in various punk bands including the Wall, (produced by both Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols and Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69), and appeared in music magazines like Melody Maker, and recorded on the Wall's Day Tripper 12" and EP.

Bad Shave

"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." - Melody Maker

Beki Bondage

She featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME, Smash Hits and Sounds.

Blab Happy

After two EPs released on their own Wisdom label won airplay on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, and enthusiastic reviews in New Musical Express, Sounds and Melody Maker, they were signed by Demon Records offshoot F-Beat, for whom they released 2 albums, 1991's Boat and 1993's Smothered.

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Despite the group's longevity, they became for a time a favourite target for mockery from the British music press, especially Melody Maker, where their name was often invoked as the epitome of failure in the music business in the humorous section "Talk Talk Talk" written by David Stubbs.

Love Buzz

In a 1989 review for British music magazine Melody Maker, Everett True wrote, "Nirvana are beauty incarnate. A relentless two-chord garage beat which lays down some serious foundations for a sheer monster of a guitar to howl over. The volume control ain't been built yet which can do justice to this three-piece!"

The Badgeman

A single, "Crystals", and album, Kings of the Desert, were released in January 1990 to favourable reviews and articles from such journalists as Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil) and Phil McMullen in NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Ptolemaic Terrascope, and the first issue of Select magazine (which awarded the album 4 out of 5).