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Topic: Resist the NME

19th Sep 2015, 3:41 PM
	carey jeggs I am acerbic.You are snarky.He is a troll Member since Jul 2014 67 Points	djgger wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: zabadak wrote: TopPopper wrote: That means it's now wholly funded by advertisers, ie other businesses selling product to kids. Rock n roll, man! Kids? Does that mean I'm not allowed to read it? Speaking of music magazines, EMI used to plug "The Record Mail" on their 45rpm covers. Is this mag still in print or has it long ago joined that long line of defunct publications? Record Mail has long gone. Record Mail was an EMI promotional tool. Available free (or maybe a nominal price at one time of a few pennies) from record shops and advertising only EMI records and information on EMI artists. Therefore you would not find a mention of any Decca or Pye or Philips group records or artists, for example. It was issued monthly and contained details of the new releases. Its cover price was one old penny but it was usually given away and I think it ceased in 1967.I liked it and it didn't bother me that it was just EMI promoting their own products as they had so many interesting labels.Their jazz reviewer Nevil Skrimshire was scrupulously independent.He favoured traditional and mainstream jazz so when confronted by newly recorded and increasingly abrasive Coltrane albums from ABC Paramount(which would appear on HMV),rather than review them,he would simply point out that those who enjoyed his work would know where they could obtain it.