Categories | Music newspaper |
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Frequency | Weekly |
First issue | 10 October 1970 |
Final issue | 6 April 1991 |
Company | Spotlight Publications |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
ISSN | 0144-5774 |
OCLC | 56364019 |
Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991. It was known for giving away posters in the centre of the paper (initially black and white, then colour from late 1971) and later for covering heavy metal (especially the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM))[1] and punk and Oi! music in its late 1970s–early 1980s heyday.[2]
Sounds (...) produced more and more features as the editorial staff realised that metal was one of the main reasons the paper sold