During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

" Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in the 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.

McLean told Melody Maker magazine in 1973 that Tapestry was an album by someone previously concerned with external situations.

In February 1980, Melody Maker qualified the same band as " masters of this gothic gloom ".

Surfer Rosa gained the Pixies acclaim in Europe ; both Melody Maker and Sounds gave Surfer Rosa their " Album of the Year " award.

Biblical violence is a theme of Doolittles " Dead " and " Gouge Away "; Francis told a Melody Maker interviewer, " It's all those characters in the Old Testament.

This album got the band some attention from the press ( namely NME, Sounds and Melody Maker ), and dropped most of their reliance upon the Theory of Obscurity.

Perfect received a Melody Maker award for female vocalist in both 1969 and 1970.

This scene was dubbed " The Scene That Celebrates Itself " by Melody Maker.

The music press viewed the scene around Camden Town as a musical centre ; frequented by Britpop groups like Blur, Elastica, and Menswear, Melody Maker declared " Camden is to 1995 what Seattle was to 1992, what Manchester was to 1989, and what Mr Blobby was to 1993.

It achieved the rare feat of both NME and Melody Maker " Single Of The Week " status in the same week.

Rave reviews in English press such as NME and Melody Maker, plus overseas record sales persuaded Psyche that it might be worth their while to try their luck in Europe.

Grunge attracted media attention in the United Kingdom after Pavitt and Poneman asked journalist Everett True from the British magazine Melody Maker to write an article on the local music scene.

Haley continued to tour for the next year with a succession of new sax players, but his popularity was waning again and his 1976 performance in London was critically lambasted by music media such as Melody Maker.

As Jonh Wilde summarised in Melody Maker in 1989: " At the end of a strange year for pop music, Marillion appeared in November 1982 with " Market Square Heroes ".

In December 1982, Smith remarked to Melody Maker, " Do The Cure really exist any more?

Smith was ecstatic about Gallup's return and declared to Melody Maker, " It's a group again.

Wakeman appeared on the front page of Melody Maker soon after, which called him " Tomorrow's Superstar ", and composed the theme music to the television show Ask Aspel.

Melody Maker made " O. U " a single of the week alongside " The Drowners " by Suede, another prominent new band.

The NME described Cocker's actions as a " great publicity stunt " which was " creative, subversive and very, very funny ", while Melody Maker described Cocker as, " arguably the Fifth Most Famous Man In Britain " and suggested he should be knighted.

* HawkFanFare – Melody Maker review, 19 May 1973

" When asked to explain her intentions in a 1991 Melody Maker interview, Sadier responded that " Basically I want to change the world.

Melody Maker: 26-27.

Jim Walker, a Canadian student newly arrived in the UK, was recruited on drums, after answering an ad placed in Melody Maker.

When he turned 75 in 1957 the magazine Melody Maker praised his pioneering work: " Everyone who has written, produced or compered a gramophone programme should salute the founder of his trade.

When it was released in October 1987, it broke in to the top 100 and was praised by The Smiths ' frontman Morrissey in the music magazine Melody Maker, but attracted little notice.

At the " Filmi Melody: Song and Dance in Indian Cinema " archive presentation at UCLA, filmi was praised as a generally more fitting term for the tradition than ' Bombay melody ' " to suggest that the exuberant music and melodrama so closely identified with the Hindi commercial cinema produced in Bombay ( Mumbai ) are truly pan-Indian.

Their first single " Showgirl " was praised by the United Kingdom music magazine, Melody Maker, and led to the band gaining a recording contract with Hut.

Then in 1987 he recorded a children's album, Little Hands, which was released on the small independent American Melody label.

Heard and his wife Janet moved to Glendale, California in 1977 to begin work on his Appalachian Melody album for the label, but would also maintain a close relationship with the people at the L ' Abri for years.

* On May 28th, 2012, Grammy-nominated jazz singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Melody Gardot released her third studio album, " The Absence ".

* R & B singer Raheem DeVaughan used the " love " meaning in his song " Four Letter Word " on his 2008 album Love Behind The Melody.

She also performed at the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund Benefit Concert on February 12, 1997 and went on to release a haunting cover version of Unchained Melody created as part of her support for Peltier and later included on the album Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2.

She released her first album, Melody in 2000.

Melody has switched to another discography and has made a new album different from the others named " Mucho Camino Por Andar ", where she expresses another side of herself.

In 1991, Marley and the Melody Makers contributed the song " Give A Little Love " to the Disney album, For Our Children.

He and his Melody Makers made a guest appearance on the popular kids television show Sesame Street in the 1991-92 season, and sang a Sesame Street version of " Small People " from their 1991 album Jahmekya

Some reviewers were highly critical, yet writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as " quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year ".

In addition, he wrote his own articles, starting a regular monthly column in Melody Maker, and contributing to Rolling Stone with an article on his guru Meher Baba and a review of The Who's album Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy.

Melody Maker had said months in advance of the album, " If there's one band that promises to return rock to us, it's Radiohead ".

Critics and fans alike had panned the album ( although the first single off the album, " Black Nite Crash ", was awarded " single of the week " by weekly music magazine Melody Maker ).

At the same time, Belew had been tapped by both Talking Heads and their producer Brian Eno to add guitar solos to several tracks on their new album Melody Attack ( eventually renamed Remain in Light ).

The album was mostly a collection of covers of songs by artists like the Beach Boys, 10cc and David Bowie, receiving positive reviews from Melody Maker: " The album portrays Frida as a very strong and emotive singer and shows the true value of the music, that if sung properly and with enough feeling it transcends all language barriers ".

Melody Maker ranked the album number 25 on its year-end best albums for 1992.

Several music magazines placed the album in their end-of-year lists for 1996, including NME, Melody Maker, Q, Select and Kerrang.

It is said that the album sound concept is inspired by the sound of Serge Gainsbourg's album Histoire de Melody Nelson.

Melody Maker placed the album at number six on their list of " Albums of the Year for 1993 " calling it " a fantastic debut ".