“Barrie shot predominately
in black and white,” explained
Coles. “I wanted to stay true to
that and honor that. There were
a lot of color images available to
me, but I chose not to use them.
No one has complained about
the lack of color, but someone in
the industry did say,’ you know,
he did shoot color!’”
My favorite parts involved see-
ing a bunch of music lovers
who had the freedom to write
about artists they had just seen
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the night before in a club. They
didn’t have record labels or pub-
lishers pressuring them to put
the most famous acts on the cov-
er. They could put unknown acts
there if they thought the artist
was worthy. Essentially, Melody
Maker wrote about the artists
they felt people should know
about rather than simply cover
the artists their audience already
knew about. And this practice
helped the magazine break
bands, which brought both cred-
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