26 April 1964 – NME’s POLL WINNERS 61 Years Ago Today
26 April 2025
Legendary music weekly NME was founded in 1952 (!!), and is still going strong,
online and twice a year on paper, after all these years. From 1959 on they organized
the NME Poll Winners’ Concerts. An awards event that featured artists voted as most popular by the paper’s readers.
The biggest winners in 1963 were (again) The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
They played at the ‘New Musical Express All Star Concert’ in Wembley, London the
following year, on 26 April.
Some historic footage of the event, below.