Record mirror

Record Mirror is a British music weekly founded by Isadore Green in 1953, one year after the opening of New Musical Express . Record Mirror did not come close to the leading British rock publications in terms of circulation and level of authority, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a stable audience, which included not only pop music lovers, but also serious collectors of records. It was also believed that RM was the most unpredictable of the competing weekly magazines ( Melody Maker , NME , Sounds , Disc and Music Echo ) ^[1] .

Record mirror
Specialization	music magazine
Periodicity	monthly
Tongue	English
A country	Great Britain
Edition History	1953 - 1991
Established

The very first British album hit parade was published in Record Mirror in 1956. It was here that in the early 1960s the first reports about The Beatles , Rolling Stones , The Searchers , The Who , The Kinks appeared . Bill Harry, the founder and chief editor of the influential Liverpool newspaper Mersey Beat , was invited to Record Mirror to lead a column dedicated to the local scene, after which similar reports from Birmingham , Manchester , Newcastle , Sheffield and other music centers in Britain began to appear here. Record Mirror , in addition, actively supported black American rhythm and blues , and also regularly published articles on rock and roll classics.

Among the famous music journalists who published here in the 60s were Graham Andrews, Derek Bolwood, Terry Chappell, Lon Goddard, David Griffiths, Tony Hall, Valerie Mabbs, Barry May, Alan Stinton. The photo department was run by Dezo Hoffmann, with whom Bill Williams, Eileen Mallory, Alan Masser, and others collaborated.

In the 1980s, the weekly was the only British music publication to publish official charts - both album and single. In 1982, Record Mirror changed the format to glossy (becoming a kind of Smash Hits understudy), but ceased to exist in April 1991 - the same week as Sounds . In the last years of its existence, the weekly tried to move away from the traditional pop format in the direction of the emerging rave - and acid scene. For a while, Record Mirror continued to be released as a 4-page application for Music Week : its main content was charts, mostly dance ones - later they completely transferred to Music Week .