1973
- 06/01/73 Steeleye Span
- 13/01/73 Neil Young
- 20/01/73 Eric Clapton
- 27/01/73 Maggie Bell
- 03/02/73 Alice Cooper
- 10/02/73 Joan Baez, and Alice Cooper
- 17/02/73 T.Rex
- 24/02/73 Slade
- 03/03/73 Paul Simon, and Neil Young and Crazy Horse
- 10/03/73 Faces
- 17/03/73 David Bowie
- 24/03/73 Neil Young
- 31/03/73 Lindisfarne
- 07/04/73 The Beatles
- 14/04/73 David Bowie
- 21/04/73 Led Zeppelin
- 28/04/73 Slade, The Rolling Stones, and Joan Baez
- 05/05/73 Paul Simon
- 12/05/73 Maggie Bell
- 19/05/73 David Bowie
- 26/05/73 Faces
- 02/06/73 Frank Zappa, and Jimmy McCulloch
- 09/06/73 Edgar Winter
- 16/06/73 Wings
- 23/06/73 Van Morrison
- 30/06/73 Carole King
- 07/07/73 David Bowie
- 14/07/73 David Bowie
- 21/07/73 The Rolling Stones
- 28/07/73 Roxy Music
- 04/08/73 Faces
- 11/08/73 Lou Reed
- 18/08/73 Faces
- 25/08/73 Jethro Tull
- 01/09/73 Roxy Music
- 08/09/73 Ten Years After
- 15/09/73 George Harrison
- 22/09/73 The Rolling Stones
- 29/09/73 The Osmonds
- 06/10/73 Faces
- 13/10/73 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- 20/10/73 James Dean, and Family
- 27/10/73 David Bowie, and Mick Jagger
- 03/11/73 Pink Floyd
- 10/11/73 Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- There were no issues of NME for the next nine weeks, due to a printers' strike
- 17/11/73
- 24/11/73
- 01/12/73
- 08/12/73
- 15/12/73
- 23/12/73
- 29/12/73
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