The following link will take you to the 'Inky Fingers - The NME Story' - Inky Fingers - The NME Story
The 'New Musical Express' is a famous music magazine which is known as 'NME', this was created by a man names Theodore Symthson and was first published in March 1952. It was originally a music newspaper but then after some time was changed to a magazine format in the year 1980.
As the NME entered the 70s they found themselves no longer dominating the musical media market due to their rivals the Melody Maker overtaking them. This was because of the NME not being able to keep up with the pace of rock music. Alan Smith was made editor and was given a short period of time by IPC to turn things around quickly or face closure. It was changed around extremely fast as they started to develop a new type of music magazine that allows journalists and fans / readers to express their feelings honestly without any criticism towards themselves.
The start of 1990 made a change in the paper in the thick of the Manchester scene, and covering the new British indie bands and shoegazers.
By the end of 1990, the Manchester scene was dying off, and NME had started to report on new bands coming from the US, mainly from Seattle. These bands would form a new movement called Grunge and by far the most popular bands were Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
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