Melody Maker
Historical British weekly pop/rock music newspaper (1926–2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the music magazine. For the Gibson guitar model, see Gibson Melody Maker.
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.[2] It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians,[3] by Leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright; the first editor was Edgar Jackson.[4][5] In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival"[2] (and IPC Media sister publication) New Musical Express.