International Musician and Recording World
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International Musician and Recording World was a magazine in production from 1974 to 1991. It was jointly created by Ray Hammond
Ray Hammond
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and Richard Desmond
Richard Desmond
Richard Clive Desmond is an English publisher and businessman. He is the owner of Express Newspapers and founder in 1974 of Northern & Shell, which publishes various celebrity magazines, such as OK! and New!, and British national newspapers Daily Star and Daily Express...
and published by Northern & Shell. As it expanded, separate editions were created for the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. The magazine eventually folded due to lack of advertising funds.
Cover Publications
In 1974 Ray Hammond founded Cover Publications Ltd in London, UK and launched a monthly magazine International Musician and Recording World. With an additional partner, Malcolm Green, the trio expanded the magazine's coverage to include both American and German editions, opening offices in New York, New York and Frankfurt, Germany. The American edition was established in 1975 with U.S. offices based at the Gulf & Western Building, in New York City. The initial General Manager of the U.S. Edition, during the mid-to-late 1970s was Julius Graifman. Gary S. Graifman served as the initial United States Editor of the magazine during the period 1975-1979. Thereafter, Steven Dupler, a highly regarded director, writer and producer of documentary films, and former Senior Editor of Billboard magazine, served as Editor-in-Chief of the U.S. edition of IM&RW for three years in the 1980s, overseeing a complete graphic and editorial redesign of the magazine as well as a 25% increase in its circulation during his tenure. During the 1970s, the Magazine contained extensive interviews with well-known recording artists, such as George Harrison, George Benson, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa and a host of others. Interviews focused on the recording techniques, recording equipment and instrumentation favored by the artists interviewed.Advertising
As the business developed, Ray Hammond and Richard Desmond diversified into advertising and founded The Advertising Practice, a full service advertising agency based in London and New York.Partnership dissolves
In 1980 Ray sold his entire shareholdings in the British, German and American magazines and in the advertising agency to Richard Desmond, his partner. Cover Publications also acquired the Daily ExpressDaily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...
newspaper group and OK! magazine.