Magazines have become a major part of our lives for the last few hundred years, now you can pick up magazines which are about literally anything. The first ever magazine produced was the Gentlemen's Magazine, in 1731, however, it was nothing like the magazines of today. The Gentlemen's Magazine consisted of drawn images, no cameras were used, or anything like we have today, such as photoshop, etc. In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States, the magazine is mainly about fashion and lifestyle, and the magazine continues to be published now. A big change is mazagine's was Nova, a female magazine produced in 1965, the magazine reflected the change in female roles. Men's magazine's remain the same today, they have always had a specific topic, be it fishing, football, cars etc. Arena was a British monthly men's magazine, created in 1986, it always consisted of females on the front, which were never ugly, fat, had spots, etc, and also normaly all women were white. The magazine featured articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, toys, and books.
The NME magazine has been one of the most prolific magazines over the past 50 or so years. NME started as a sort of newspaper however, over the years it gradually turned into magazine during the 1980's. The NME journalists would mainly write about pop, and would be very friendly and positive towards the artists, Morris Kinn, the NME's first editor, created the first ever music singles chart, which featured in the magazine. During the 1960's the NME's sales rocketed, the company was on a real high, and NME had a great reputation with artists and bands, and a great relationship with them too, however, this completely changed during 1969, when the NME's audience had become self aware teenagers, the soft drugs of the early 60's had now become the hard drugs of the early 1970's, the peaceful love days of the 60's had completely changed into violence. The NME knew it would need to change the way they write about artists to ensure that they satisfied there customers, they began to write really harsh write ups about singers, and started to turn unpleasant. The NME went through a rough stage, so they made Alan Smith as an editor, this gave the company a 300,000 circulation by 1973. In 1976 the NME advertised for two new, young hip journalists, Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons joined the NME and completely changed the direction and way the magazine was going, when they reviewed artists they were harsh, and at your throat. Punk wasn't really accepted by many people during the 1970's, you couldn't really find out lots about it, or see it on tv, however, the NME was the only real source which allowed people to find out about punk. Neil Spencer took over as an editor, he redesigned the NME, A lot of the current Journalists were cleared out, as new talent was needed to be brought in. After a certain amount of years the NME magazine became very political and intellectual, they started being very daring and wrote an article on youth suicide, it only appealed to a small audience, but that small audience were very impressed by it. After being there for seven years, Neil Spencer left his position. Morrisey was very popular with the NME's audience, so he appeared on the front cover of the magazine quite frequently, However, after a bad concert, the NME gave him bad publicity and he didn't feature on the magazine until 12 years later, when a new editor persuaded him to return. Overall, NME's survival and the fact it still sells today is all because it has changed over the years with the tastes of audiences.
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