The Old Musical Express

🫧 Open on Bubbles A New Musical Express review from late 1983 by Paul Du Noyer of a reissue of Charlie Gillett's 1971 book The Sound of the City - in which Du Noyer notes that " interest in old music has never been higher ", with NME 's own series of cassette compilations of vintage soul, jazz, reggae, etc, given as proof. He says the timely reissue of Gillett's tome can nourish the evident appetite for history out there. 1983 figures here as a lull, a flagging of energy, with a wide range of listeners and