
The History Of The NME Awards
A no-holds-barred romp through six decades of rock 'n' roll excess.
1960
In which the nascent rock ‘n’ roll genre took its first great strides down the road of popular culture and NME was there with a bloody great cine camera to record the events for posterity (literally so; this was also the decade that the Awards made their TV debut). Anyone who was anyone in the ‘60s passed through the doors of NME’s Poll Winners’ Concert, as you’re about to find out…







