I was recently made aware that the Melody Maker archive was now on line (at the NME website). So far I've been accessing scans of pages, but there's no OCR text, I think, which might be available later maybe.
Go to the archive here: http://www.historyofrockandroll.co.uk/
Do 'Browse issues ' and look for the link to Melody Maker and you'll see they've scanned them all back to the start, 1926.
In Melody Maker early jazz and dance bands were well catered for in the 1920's-1940's, record reviews under pseudonym 'Mike' were by Spike Hughes.
All the jazz scenes were well-catered for in 1950s-1960's before pop took over.
I figured out how to read one magazine from page 1 to the end. Click on a decade, scroll down to find the links to magazines for each year. And then when you open up a magazine you use your mouse to swipe across (horizontally) to the next pages.
Better search results for bands and artistes are obtained if a full name is put in inverted commas (DOUBLE quotation marks) like "freddy gardner"
As for printing, if they aren't providing OCR text from the scans then printing a page makes too small an image, so you can double click on the paragraph you want and save a screenshot Ctrl-Alt-PrtScn (on some computers) and paste that into a jpeg, then print that. Photos and advertisements can be 'saved' that way.
Let me know how you get on at the site, there may be other tricks to learn.
Good reading all!
PS a classis rock cover for Xmas 1968:
Go to the archive here: http://www.historyofrockandroll.co.uk/
Do 'Browse issues ' and look for the link to Melody Maker and you'll see they've scanned them all back to the start, 1926.
In Melody Maker early jazz and dance bands were well catered for in the 1920's-1940's, record reviews under pseudonym 'Mike' were by Spike Hughes.
All the jazz scenes were well-catered for in 1950s-1960's before pop took over.
I figured out how to read one magazine from page 1 to the end. Click on a decade, scroll down to find the links to magazines for each year. And then when you open up a magazine you use your mouse to swipe across (horizontally) to the next pages.
Better search results for bands and artistes are obtained if a full name is put in inverted commas (DOUBLE quotation marks) like "freddy gardner"
As for printing, if they aren't providing OCR text from the scans then printing a page makes too small an image, so you can double click on the paragraph you want and save a screenshot Ctrl-Alt-PrtScn (on some computers) and paste that into a jpeg, then print that. Photos and advertisements can be 'saved' that way.
Let me know how you get on at the site, there may be other tricks to learn.
Good reading all!
PS a classis rock cover for Xmas 1968:
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