A complete run of New Musical Express (NME) music papers from 1970 to 1979. New Musical Express was one of the most authoritative UK music papers of the sixties and seventies. It contained interviews with, and features about, all of the important artists and bands of the sixties and seventies plus news, record and concert reviews and great pictures.

The issues of NME from the early seventies consisted of between 12 and 20 pages. However, after that the number of pages were between 32 and 48 pages plus. There are 503 issues in total.

1970 – There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 3rd January and ends on the 26th December.

1971 – There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 2nd January and ends on the 25th December.

1972 – There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 1st January and ends on the 20th December.

1973 – There are 45 issues in total The run begins on the 6th January and ends with the 10th November. No issues were printed after this date.

1974 – There are 50 issues in total. The run begins on the 19th January and ends on the 28th December.

1975 – There are 49 issues in total. The run begins on the 4th January and ends on the 27th December.

1976 – There are 49 issues in total. The run begins on the 3rd January and ends on the 25th December.

1977 – There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 1st January and ends with a double issue on the 24th/31st December.

1978 – There are 52 issues in total. The run begins on the 7th January and ends with a double issue on the 23rd/30th December.

1979 – There are 51 issues in total. The run begins on the 6th January and ends with a double issue on the 22nd/29th December.

The following issues of NME weren’t printed because of strikes by the paper’s printers: 9th September 1972; 17th and 24th November and all issues from December 1973; 5th and 12th January 1974; 10th May and 5th July 1975; 13th March, 28th August and 4th September 1976.

The paper measures 33.5cm x 41cm (13 inches x 16 inches). Several issues from each year have either the owner’s name and/or first line of their address written on the front or back cover, normally on the white border. The condition is as follows:

1970 – 1 issue is very good minus, a third of the issues are very good and the remaining issues are very good plus.

1971 – half of the issues are very good and half are very good plus.

1972 – 10 issues are very good and the remaining issues are very good plus.

1973 – 1 issue is good, 6 issues are very good and the remaining issues are very good plus.

1974 – a quarter of the issues are very good minus and the remaining issues are very good.

1975 – 4 issues are very good minus, a quarter of the issues are very good and the remaining issues are very good plus.

1976 – 1 issue is good, 3 issues are very good minus, of the remaining issues half are very good and half are very good plus.

1977 – 7 issues are very good minus, of the remaining issues three quarters are very good and a quarter are very good plus.

1978 – 2 issues are very good minus, of the remaining issues three quarters are very good and a quarter are very good plus.

1979 – 7 issues are very good minus and the remaining issues are very good.