British music paper Sounds appeared in 1970 with a weekly colour centrefold and robust rock music coverage.
Sounds came early to the punk scene thanks to John Ingham and Giovanni Diadomo.
Other significant contributors included Garry Bushell, Sandy Robertson, Mick Middles, Phil Sutcliffe, Mick Sinclair, Alan Moore (aka “Curt Vile”), John Peel, Edwin Pouncey (aka “Savage Pencil”), Jon Savage, Penny Valentine, Mat Snow, Andy Ross (who wrote as “Andy Hurt”), and Steve Lamacq.
The magazine folded in 1991 after the parent company, United Newspapers, decided to concentrate on trade papers like Music Week and sold most of their consumer magazine titles – including Sounds and its sister music magazine Record Mirror – to EMAP Metro.
