Claude Bessy's review of "Totale's Turns" from New Music News #2, 17 May 1980

In 1980, a strike involving IPC titles *New Musical Express* and *Melody Maker* shut down those magazines for several weeks (meaning they missed the death of Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis and had to report it retrospectively when they resumed publication).

Publisher Felix Dennis tried to capitalise on the gap in the market by quickly launching *New Music News*. It didn't survive for long. I've been gradually building up a collection.

Issue 2 of *NMN*, dated week-ending 17 May 1980, includes a review of The Fall's *Totale's Turns* by friend-of-the-group Claude Bessy. I don't think it's been seen since it was first published - at any rate it's not in The Fall Online Bibliography and until now hasn't been posted online so far as I know .