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Review: ‘Melody Makers’ feels clipped in its portrait of influential British rock publication

Melody Makers - The Bible of Rock n' Roll

Via: latimes.com

Though it was founded in the 1920s, the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker didn’t become a cultural force until the mid-1960s, when it stopped being a trade publication for working jazz musicians and started competing with the rival New Musical Express to become the most trusted voice in rock criticism. From the heyday of the Who to the dawn of punk, Melody Maker helped determine what mattered to music buffs in the U.K.

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Melody Makers - The Bible of Rock n' Roll