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November 18, 2022
John Semley
What Was the Music Critic?
A new book exalts the heyday of music magazines, when electric prose reigned and egos collided.
March 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
NME and Me: A Brief History of the Best Music Mag of the 20th Century
Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.

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