Record Mirror
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Record Mirror was a British
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...

 weekly pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 newspaper, founded by Isadore Green and featured, news articles, interviews, record charts, record reviews, concert reviews, letters from readers and photographs. The paper became respected by both mainstream pop music fans and serious record collectors. It was the most progressive of the four competing pop weeklies of its day, which included Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...

, New Musical Express
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

, Record Mirror and Disc
Disc (magazine)
Disc was a weekly British popular music magazine, published between 1958 and 1975, when it was incorporated into Record Mirror. It was also known for periods as Disc Weekly and Disc and Music Echo ....

magazine.

Launched two years after the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

- with its first issue on 17 June 1954 - Record Mirror attained lower circulation than its high-profiled rival, but during the 1960s and early 1970s it did achieve a good circulation based on its reputation. The first ever UK album chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

 was published in Record Mirror in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the UK singles
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 and UK albums
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

 charts used by the BBC for Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

and Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

.

The descendant publication of Record Mirror ceased being printed in April 1991

The title rights to Record Mirror were purchased in 2010 by Giovanni Di Stefano for an undisclosed sum and a relaunch is planned for early 2011.

History

Between 1953 and 1958 the paper was run by Isadore Green, who was a former newspaper sports editor and encouraged the same combative form of journalism as New Musical Express
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

. Staff writers included Dick Tatham, Peter Jones and later Ian Dove. But Green had a strong interest in show business
Show business
Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz, is a vernacular term for all aspects of entertainment. The word applies to all aspects of the entertainment industry from the business side to the creative element ....

 and he changed the paper's format, placing an emphasis on the British music hall
Music hall
Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...

, a tradition which was rapidly dying out at that time. He also published articles and interviews connected with theatre and musical personalities. His publication's interest in gossip from TV, radio, stage and screen at home and abroad was not well received.

For two months in 1959, Record Mirror failed to appear due to a national printing strike. On its return, Green had renamed it Record and Show Mirror with the majority of space being devoted to traditional show business. By the end of 1960 the circulation had fallen to only eighteen thousand copies and Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

, the main shareholder of Record and Show Mirror, became uneasy with their investment. They had been buying shares for years in order to support Record and Show Mirror, but they did not do so to influence editorial content. Nevertheless their involvement precluded much advertising from their main rival EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

.

In March 1961, Decca replaced Green with their own editor, Jimmy Watson
Jimmy Watson
James Charles "Jimmy" Watson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...

, a former Decca
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 group press officer. Watson changed the title to New Record Mirror and streamlined the paper and eliminated the show business element. Watson oversaw a rapid circulation rise, aided by an editorial team of Peter Jones, Ian Dove and Norman Jopling. He also brought in freelance
Freelancer
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

 columnists James Asman, Benny Green and DJ David Gell
David Gell
David Gell was a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, and later on the BBC Light Programme, Radio One, and Radio Two.Born in Canada on 23 August 1929, he worked for radio station CFAC in Calgary before relocating to Europe....

, to implement an innovative chart coverage including jazz, Country and pop music
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

. This eventually included the official UK Top 50 singles
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

, Top 30 LPs
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 and Top 10 EPs
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, as compiled by Record Retailer
Record Retailer
Record Retailer was a trade newspaper for the UK record industry. It was founded in August 1959 as a monthly newspaper covering both labels and dealers. Its founding editor was Roy Parker...

. The paper also listed the USA Top 50
Top 50
The Top 50 refers to a list of weekly hit singles, or albums. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the same but similar to the top 40, but with 10 extra places....

 singles, as compiled by Cash Box. The inclusion of charts such as the Top 20 five years ago, for singles and R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 releases, gave a far broader coverage than any other Pop
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 weekly.

Over the next few years regular features such as Ian Dove’s "Rhythm & Blues Round Up", Peter Jones's "New Faces" and Norman Jopling’s "Fallen Idols and Great Unknowns", combined with New Record Mirror’s specialist music coverage, helped the circulation rise rapidly to nearly seventy thousand copies a week. An example of this was The Great Unknowns series which included music by Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...

 and Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of Rufus Thomas.-Childhood:...

 and others recording on the Motown, Stax
Stax Records
Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and...

 and Atlantic
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

 record labels. This was at a time when the charts in the USA were largely inaccessible to British radio listeners and Tony Hall's America's Hot 10 on Luxembourg and AFN was the only other similar chart. At this time New Record Mirror was the only music paper which specialised in adult pop music, whereas Melody Maker largely concentrated on jazz and NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

aimed more at a much younger age group.

New Record Mirror became the first national publication to publish an article on The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

, and the first to feature many other groups from the Sixties’ UK beat boom era, including The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

, The Searchers
The Searchers (band)
The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....

, The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

, and The Kinks
The Kinks
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...

. Bill Harry
Bill Harry
Bill Harry is the creator of Mersey Beat, an important newspaper of the early 1960s, which focused on the Liverpool music scene...

, founder and editor of the Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 publication Mersey Beat
Mersey Beat
Mersey Beat was a music publication in Liverpool, England in the early 1960s. It was founded by Bill Harry, who was one of John Lennon's classmates at Liverpool Art College...

, was employed to write a column on the Liverpool music scene. Other local columnists reported on the burgeoning interest in beat music
Beat music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul...

 in other major cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle. New Record Mirror took an interest in black American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 R&B artists, becoming a valuable reference source for UK R&B fans. The paper also maintained a regular flow of articles on old style rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

.

During 1963 Decca Records’ chairman Edward Lewis
Edward Lewis (Decca)
Sir Edward Roberts Lewis was an English businessman, best known for leading the Decca recording and technology group for five decades from 1929. He built the company up from nothing to one of the major record labels of the world.A financier by profession, Lewis was professionally engaged by the...

 sold a substantial share of Decca's interest in Record Mirror to John Junor
John Junor
Sir John Donald Brown Junor was a Scottish journalist and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Express, having previously worked as a columnist there. He then moved to the Mail on Sunday....

, editor of the Sunday Express. Junor had been intrigued by a new printing method being developed by Woodrow Wyatt
Woodrow Wyatt
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford , was a British politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother, Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch...

. This was a four-colour printing process being used at Wyatt's print works in Banbury
Banbury
Banbury is a market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire. It is northwest of London, southeast of Birmingham, south of Coventry and north northwest of the county town of Oxford...

. Junor subsequently began looking for an association to run a trial for this printing process, prior to printing the Sunday Express in colour. He chose New Record Mirror to run trials on the new colour printing methods.

Junor temporarily moved in his own Sunday Express production team to Shaftesbury Avenue and the New Record Mirror became more mainstream. In November 1963, the paper returned to the name Record Mirror, and featured a colour picture of the Beatles on the front cover, becoming the first music paper to be printed in full colour. Although the entire first print run of 120,000 sold, the following issue saw the circulation fall to about sixty thousand. Junor swiftly sacked editor Jimmy Watson and replaced him by promoting Peter Jones.

Jones worked to maintain the paper’s popular newer image and kept Jones's specialist articles, to satisfy more committed readers. The circulation recovered and he hired former NME journalist Richard Green
Richard Green
Richard Green may refer to:*Richard Green , American actor*Richard J. Green , American chemist*Richard Green , English cricketer*Richard K...

. The paper successfully continued with the same editorial format throughout the Sixties. Following the acquisition in 1962 of NME by the publishers Odhams, Record Mirror was the only independent popular music newspaper; its offices became a haven for those in the pop business.

During 1969 Record Mirror was acquired by Record Retailer
Record Retailer
Record Retailer was a trade newspaper for the UK record industry. It was founded in August 1959 as a monthly newspaper covering both labels and dealers. Its founding editor was Roy Parker...

and was incorporated into the larger Record Retailer offices in Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in London, United Kingdom, located in the Soho district, near Oxford Street and Regent Street. It is home to numerous fashion and lifestyle retailers, including a large number of independent fashion boutiques...

. The acquisition of Record Mirror by Record Retailer, owned by Billboard at that time, also saw Record Mirror change printers, drop full colour pin-ups and increase its size to a larger tabloid format. Peter Jones continued as editor, supported by Valerie Mabbs, Rob Partridge, Bill McAllister, the first music journalist to herald the burgeoning talents of soon-to-be superstars Elton John and Rod Stewart, and broadcast specialist Rodney Collins, who had moved over from the sister publication Record Retailer. Collins's links with pirate radio
Pirate radio
Pirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. The term is most commonly used to describe illegal broadcasting for entertainment or political purposes, but is also sometimes used for illegal two-way radio operation...

 gave Record Mirror a healthy continental circulation and a Dutch supplement was frequently included. Terry Chappell resumed as production editor and Bob Houston supervised the change in layout format. Group editorial manager Mike Hennessey also contributed many outstanding articles including the first interview with Beatle John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

, in the "Who wrote what" column. The Record Mirror photographic studio became independent, remaining under the control of Dezo Hoffmann
Dezo Hoffmann
Dezider Hoffmann was a Slovak photographer, photojournalist and cameraman from Czechoslovakia...

, who continued to supply photographs to the paper.

By 1977 Record Retailer had become Music Week and Record Mirror was included in a sale by Billboard Magazine to the Morgan Grampian Group. Both offices moved to Covent Garden
Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...

. The Grampion Group then moved to Greater London House, North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...

 in 1981. In an effort to boost sales during 1982, the paper changed to a Smash Hits
Smash Hits
Smash Hits was a pop music based magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time...

-styled glossy magazine. During the next nine years the paper became an imitation of Smash Hits, working to gain credibility as the magazine of record for the emerging rave
Rave music
Rave music may either refer the late 1980s genre or any genre of electronic dance music that may be played at an electronic dance party such as a rave. Very rarely, the term is used to refer to less electronic related genres glam, powerpop, psychedelic rock and dub music parties...

 and acid music scenes.

Commercial pressures eventually brought the paper to a final closure in April 1991, when the final cover featured the alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Transvision Vamp
Transvision Vamp
Transvision Vamp were a British alternative rock group. Formed in 1986 by Nick Christian Sayer and Wendy James the band enjoyed chart success in the late 1980s...

. Record Mirror was continued as a four-page supplement in Music Week
Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...

, driven by the chart section. In later years the supplement concentrated solely on dance music. These dance charts were later incorporated into Music Week.

Associated features

Chart coverage
  • Vintage Chart
  • USA Billboard Singles
    Billboard charts
    The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

  • USA Billboard Albums
  • USA Billboard Black Singles
  • Music Video
  • UK Top 100 Singles
  • UK Top 100 Albums
  • UKTop 75 Albums and Compilations
  • Twelve Inch Top 20
  • Compact Disc Top 20
  • This Week's Chart and Chart File - chart facts by Alan Jones
  • Reggae (dropped in 1987)
  • Great Pop Things
    Great Pop Things
    Great Pop Things was a comic strip by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death . It first appeared in Record Mirror in 1987, transferred to the New Musical Express in 1991, and was also published in LA Weekly.The strip was a satirical faux-history of rock and pop music...

    . A comic strip by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death
    Jon Langford
    Jon Langford born October 11, 1957, Newport, Monmouthshire is a Welsh-born musician and artist who is presently based in Chicago. He is the younger brother of science-fiction author and critic David Langford...

  • J Edward Oliver's cartoon page


DJ Directory
Also known as BPM in earlier editions and edited by James Hamilton
  • Beats and Pieces - dance gossip
  • Hot Vinyl - Track listings of new records
  • Remixes
  • Pop Dance
    Dance-pop
    Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

     Chart
  • Hi-NRG
    Hi-NRG
    Hi-NRG describes a form of high-tempo disco music as well as a genre of electronic dance music originating in the United States during the late 1970s...

     Chart
  • The Club Chart (previously known as the Disco chart)


Information Articles
  • News - including release info and tours.
  • Index - New bands and competitions
  • Dance pages - with Cool Cuts Top 20 chart
  • Reviews and new acts plus chart rundown for indie singles and album
  • 33 - Album reviews
  • 45 - Singles reviews
  • Alan Jones' Chartfile

Trivia associated with Record Mirror

  • Johnny Dee wrote star spotting gossip pages, which also featured a number of comedy articles
  • Lip - gossip with Nancy Culp or Lisa Tilson
  • Phil's World Of Wigs - Each week a picture of Phil Collins
    Phil Collins
    Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

     appeared with new novelty haircuts. the art work was created by art director Ian Middleton, in response to reader's suggestions.
  • The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...

     New Line Up - Each week a new photo of a gurning celeb would be added to The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...

     1989 line up, for example Harry Enfield
    Harry Enfield
    Henry Richard "Harry" Enfield is a BAFTA-winning English comedian, actor, writer and director.-Early life:...

     as Loadsamoney
  • Spot The Imposter - photoquiz with a misplaced face in the crowd
  • B's Cheeseboard - Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...

     star Jazzie B
    Jazzie B
    Trevor Beresford Romeo OBE , better known by his stage name Jazzie B, is a British DJ, music producer, and entrepreneur. He is a founding member of Soul II Soul.-Life and career:...

     reviewed various types of cheese
  • Sonia's Best Buys - value for money purchases apparently made by late 80's singer Sonia
  • Star Scene - pop stars answering questions about items in the news
  • Pete's Poems - a weekly poem by record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

     Pete Waterman
    Pete Waterman
    Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an English record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team he wrote and produced many hit singles...

    , as edited by Neil Wilson
  • Tanita and Guy's Psychic Joke Hut - jokes told by The House Of Love
    The House of Love
    The House of Love is an English alternative rock band. Formed in 1986, the band rose to prominence in the UK as a leading indie rock band in 1988 and split up in 1993, eventually reforming a decade later in 2003. The band is best known for its detailed psychedelic guitar sound and for the...

     singer Guy Chadwick
    Guy Chadwick
    Guy Chadwick was the guitarist and vocalist with the British alternative band, The House of Love. He wrote the majority of the band's material....

     and Tanita Tikaram
    Tanita Tikaram
    Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...

  • The Natural Blonde column by Paula Yates
    Paula Yates
    Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer, best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast.-Early life:...

  • In 1984, when British tabloid newspapers started running bingo competitions, Record Mirror became the first music paper to experiment with something similar.
  • In later years the magazine became well known for its idiosyncratic sense of visual humour. The iconic pipe smoking character "Mr Acid Head" was later picked up by a rave
    Rave
    Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties people dance and socialize to dance music played by disc jockeys and occasionally live performers...

     based record label and used as sleeve art.

Employees in 1960s

Journalists
  • Bill McAllister
  • Graeme Andrews
  • Derek Boltwood
  • Roy Burden
  • Terry Chappell
  • Lon Goddard
  • David Griffiths
  • Tony Hall
  • Rodney Collins
  • Valerie Mabbs
  • Barry May
  • Alan Stinton


Photographic department
  • Dezo Hoffmann
  • Bill Williams
  • Eileen Mallory
  • Alan Messer
  • Feri Lukas
  • David Magnus
  • Keith Hammett


Production Editor
  • Colin Brown

Employees in 1970s

Journalists
  • Barry Cain
  • Ronnie Gurr
  • Mike Gardner
  • Tim Lott
    Tim Lott
    Tim Lott is a British author. After running his own magazine publishing business, he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1986....

  • Alf Martin
  • Mike Nicholls
  • John Shearlaw
  • Daniela Soave
  • Chris Westwood
    Chris Westwood (author)
    Christopher Westwood also known as Chris Westwood is an English author and journalist. Born as the son of a coal miner and school teacher, he is best known as the author of young adult fiction and children's books...

  • Rosalind Russell
  • Sheila Prophet


Photographic department
  • Andy Phillips
  • Paul Slattery
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