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8:32am, 21 Jul 2020
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SarahWoo
I've never heard of it either, ar.
Jul 2020
8:35am, 21 Jul 2020
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Eynsham Red
I never read Q, but had periods when I read the other three. Sounds became my regular. Although a bit lightweight the other two I found a tad too serious for their own good especially with the NME trying to be a sort of subversive younger brother to the MM (in the late seventies anyway).
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GregP
I read NME because it was cool and edgy (or at least that's how it wanted to be viewed). MM covered bands I actually liked. Sounds sort of fell through the gap in the middle for me, but each to their own.
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8:40am, 21 Jul 2020
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McGoohan
Q was a magazine I would buy occasionally in a train station WHSmiths if I was about to go on a reasonably long journey and I knew I was going to get a bit bored with my book.
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8:42am, 21 Jul 2020
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Sharkie
Many of the early writers on Q actually came from the superb (and totally NON pompous) Smash Hits. Fact.

I bought everything - for years - starting with Rave, Fab208 and Melody Maker in the 60s (and Rolling Stone, It, etc natch)
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8:43am, 21 Jul 2020
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GregP
GQ fills that role for me these days for the most part. I do occasionally buy Gramophone but that's a very different animal.
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8:44am, 21 Jul 2020
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Nicholls595
Was it a "Jazz Mag"?
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8:44am, 21 Jul 2020
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GregP
Wowsers! I've been trying to like Rolling Stone on and off for half a century. Could never get on with it.
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8:45am, 21 Jul 2020
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GregP
Gramophone has a jazz section, nico, yes. moon
Jul 2020
8:46am, 21 Jul 2020
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GregP
And I'm listening to this as I type, which is making me very happy.

https://youtu.be/mXQbkv0-wCc

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