The paper - called New Musical Express in full - documented the rise of British pop music led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s, punk in the 1970s and Britpop in the 1990s. “The music industry has changed and the NME lasted longer than most.”

The magazine, which launched in 1952, went free in September 2015. The publisher’s parent group Time Inc UK announced today that the weekly publication is “no longer financially viable”, and the brand will now focus its attention solely on its online edition.
British music journalism magazine New Musical Express (NME) issues its final print edition after 66 years, becoming a purely digital medium.