Sounds (magazine)

The British music magazine Sounds was a weekly magazine for popular music, which appeared in 1970 for the first time. Around 1980 sounds for his reports on hard guitar music ( Rock, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Punk, Oi! ) Was known. In 1981 for the first time the Heavy Metal Supplement Kerrang!, Which became independent as a spin -off and still exists today.

For a long time the magazine next to the Melody Maker and the NME as one of the three most important pop / rock publications in the UK. When sounds had some feathers with prominent today as Gary Bushell and cartoonist Alan Moore. In 1991, the magazine was discontinued due to declining sales.