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johnfowles · 05-09-2006, 12:24 PM

Just as Walter (broderstone) is hung up his Billboard chart positions,so was I in my later schooldays obsessed with the UK hit parade,Our favo(u)rite source of information in those days was the

no not the "enemy" but the "New Musical Express" a weekly Black and White tabloid
publication described by answers.com as:-
"The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952."
I still have a few cuttings especially from 1959 with details of that year's plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa that took the life of my then musical hero Buddy Holly.Fast forward to 1971 I was then back in the UK, having become a Lighthead in a big way, and had of course bought the IYCRMM LP, but news of Gord was to put it mildly scant. All the more interesting therefore to be reminded that in 1971 the NME actually had an article on Gord in an issue I sadly missed but possibly Bruna has squirelled away??
This has just come up on ebay again at:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem

John Fowles
I recently found that the NME had itself been the subject of an American University
"Class Project" see Contents listing for 1953-1969 at:-
http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...NME/index.html
Now Skidmore University is in Saratoga Springs, New York home of the Caffe Lena and two great GL tribute band concerts see:-
http://mageenet.org/LightfootTributeBand/home.shtml

of note is this that I found on
http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...E/nme6512.html
where I read a note from December 1965:-
"American folk stars on February tour [The Ian Campbell Folk Group headlines a tour with Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia.]"
1971 is of course ouside the timeframe of 1953-1969 that the above referenced page covers

[ May 10, 2006, 08:32: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

05-09-2006, 12:24 PM	#33
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Just as Walter (broderstone) is hung up his Billboard chart positions,so was I in my later schooldays obsessed with the UK hit parade,Our favo(u)rite source of information in those days was the no not the "enemy" but the "New Musical Express" a weekly Black and White tabloid publication described by answers.com as:- "The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952." I still have a few cuttings especially from 1959 with details of that year's plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa that took the life of my then musical hero Buddy Holly.Fast forward to 1971 I was then back in the UK, having become a Lighthead in a big way, and had of course bought the IYCRMM LP, but news of Gord was to put it mildly scant. All the more interesting therefore to be reminded that in 1971 the NME actually had an article on Gord in an issue I sadly missed but possibly Bruna has squirelled away?? This has just come up on ebay again at:- http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem John Fowles I recently found that the NME had itself been the subject of an American University "Class Project" see Contents listing for 1953-1969 at:- http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...NME/index.html Now Skidmore University is in Saratoga Springs, New York home of the Caffe Lena and two great GL tribute band concerts see:- http://mageenet.org/LightfootTributeBand/home.shtml of note is this that I found on http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...E/nme6512.html where I read a note from December 1965:- "American folk stars on February tour [The Ian Campbell Folk Group headlines a tour with Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia.]" 1971 is of course ouside the timeframe of 1953-1969 that the above referenced page covers [ May 10, 2006, 08:32: Message edited by: johnfowles ]