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16-Mar-2018
The NME and the Accordion Times, London – UKby Rob Howard |
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  The long running popular weekly music magazine ‘New Musical Express’ (NME) has just published its final printed edition after 66 years, and will henceforward be published only in a digital format. This magazine was originally published in October 1946 as the monthly ‘Musical Express, incorporating Accordion Times’ (NME could so easily have been MEAT!), covering the general musical entertainment scene plus some accordion related articles and news. The piano accordion was introduced into Britain in the late 1920s, and the 1930s saw a boom decade for the instrument, with high numbers of instrument sales and accordion clubs and bands being formed in almost every town and city. The likes of Louis Cabrelli, Toralf Tollefsen, and the Primo Scala Accordion Band topped the bill at theatres. In 1935 the first All Britain Championships were held in London, and in the same year the ‘Accordion Times’ was published for the first time, both being sponsored by Hohner. The 1939-45 war years closed both down, and in 1946 the magazine was re-launched in a smaller format as the ‘Musical Express, incorporating Accordion Times’. In 1952 there was a split and the ‘New Musical Express’ was born, with the ‘Accordion Times’ continuing under its own identity, with various owners and editors until it ceased publication in 2005. |