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''Sounds'' was a long-term UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 – 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications (part of Morgan Grampian), which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left ''Melody Maker'' to start their own company. ''Sounds'' was their first project, a weekly paper devoted to progressive rock and described by Hutton, to those he was attempting to recruit from his former publication, as "a leftwing Melody Maker". ''Sounds'' was intended to be a weekly rival to titles such as ''Melody Maker'' and ''New Musical Express'' (''NME''). It was well known for giving away posters in the centre of the paper (initially black and white, but colour from late 1971) and later for covering heavy metal (especially the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)) and Oi! music in its late 1970s–early 1980s heyday. ''Sounds'' was the first music paper in its coverage of punk; while maintaining its reputation for getting there first, John Robb covered the Manchester music scene for ''Sounds'' and came up with the term "Britpop". The paper's editors realised the importance of its regional audience and had freelancers across the UK contributing gig reviews and articles about up-and-coming local bands. Keith Cameron wrote about Nirvana after Robb carried out the first ever interview with them. One of the "trinity" of British music weeklies, along with ''NME'' and ''Melody Maker'', ''Sounds'' folded in 1991 after the parent company, United Newspapers, sold all their music titles to EMAP Metro. Morgan-Grampian had been acquired by United Business Media – then known as United News and Media – in 1987, first as part of the United Advertising Publications (UAP) division and later as part of the then CMP Information portfolio. A legacy of ''Sounds'' was the creation of the heavy metal/rock magazine ''Kerrang!'', which was originally issued as a supplement before being spun off as a separate publication.〔 Contributors included Garry Bushell, Geoff Barton, Mick Sinclair,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Mick Sinclair Archive )〕 Caroline Coon, Antonella Gambotto, Vivien Goldman, Jonh Ingham, Alan Moore (aka "Curt Vile"), Lizo Mzimba,〔Display Ad ''Awakenings''The Observer; 17 March 1991〕 John Peel, Edwin Pouncey (aka "Savage Pencil"), Cathi Unsworth, Jon Ronson, Ian Ravendale, Jon Savage, Sylvie Simmons, Penny Valentine, Marguerite Van Cook, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mat Snow, James Brown (who went on to form ''Loaded''), Steve Lamacq, Kev F. Sutherland and Russ Carvell's ''UT'' strip, Ross Halfin, Janette Beckman. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sounds (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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