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Founded in 1926 , it was initially aimed squarely at Musician s, and soon developed a focus on Jazz . In the 1950s , it was slow to cover Rock And Roll , and increasingly took second place to the '' New Musical Express '' (NME). Nonetheless, its circulation continued to increase, and by the 1970s it was selling 250,000 copies a week. The magazine continued to feature Rock and Indie Music , at the expense of covering emerging Dance Music , and included reviews of musical equipment and reader-submitted demo tapes, two things which set it apart from the otherwise very similar NME. It lost sales, and by the late 1990s was relaunched as a glossy Magazine . It closed in 2000 , officially merging with the NME (long published by the same company, IPC Media ), which took on some of its Journalist s and its popular features on musicianship. The name of the French band Daft Punk was inspired from a lukewarm Melody Maker review, branding their first efforts under the name Darlin' "a bunch of daft punk". |
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