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Tony Fletcher

Tony Fletcher

Tony Fletcher is the author of the best-selling biography Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon. He has also written biographies on R.E.M. and Echo & The Bunnymen, a book on The Clash, and a novel, set in the belly of New York nightlife, called Hedonism. He has written for most of the familiar magazines and newspapers - and some of the less familiar ones too. Fletcher founded Jamming! magazine in 1977, at school in South London; 25 years later, now settled in Brooklyn, NY, with wife and children, he resurrected it on the web. www.ijamming.net features Fletcher's daily musings, archived interviews and wine reviews..

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Alternative TV: The iJamming! Chat: Mark Perry

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.com, January 2001

AS THE FIRST sentence of my mission statement makes clear, Mark Perry was a major factor in my deciding to write about music – though, ...

Fall, The: Mark E. Smith and The Fall, 1979

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.com, 2005

AS SURELY BEFITS The Fall's longevity, my 1979 interview with Mark E. Smith and Marc Riley seems more relevant – and certain more prescient – ...

Killing Joke: An Interview with Jaz and Youth

Interview by Tony Fletcher, Anthony Blampied, Jamming!, 1981

PART 1: YOUTH ...

LCD Soundsystem: Give It Up! Ten Reasons We Loved LCD Soundsystem

Comment by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.com, April 2011

On Saturday April 2, 2011, at Madison Square Garden, LCD Soundsystem gave it up for good. Here are Ten Reasons We Loved Them... ...

Keith Moon, Who, The: Moon Over America

Book Excerpt by Tony Fletcher, Omnibus Books, 1998

An extract from Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon, by Tony Fletcher, first published by Omnibus Press in 1998. (616pp, currently available in the ...

R.E.M.: The New Adventures of R.E.M.

Book Excerpt by Tony Fletcher, Omnibus Books, 2002

An extract from Remarks Remade: The Story of R.E.M. by Tony Fletcher, first published by Omnibus Press in 1989 and in three subsequent editions, the ...

Scritti Politti

Interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, 1982

THE INTRO ...

U2: The Pride of Lions

Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, October 1984

Excepting live albums and video, U2 have been silent, both on record and in the media, for a year and a half. Now back with ...

U2, Negativland: Negativland: A Fistful Of Lawsuits

Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Creem, April 1993

"I don't think there are any record companies right now in the real sense of the word. We're all in the fashion business. You used ...

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Inside The Body Of Techno

Report by Tony Fletcher, Creem, November 1992

In its broadest sense, techno is a form of up-tempo, mainly instrumental electronic dance music, founded in Detroit in the 1980s by producers inspired by ...

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