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Ian Gittins began writing for Melody Maker in 1985, soon after leaving university, initially as their regional correspondent in Birmingham. After moving to London, he worked at MM in the halcyon late '80s/early '90s period that many regard as the paper's best ever years. In 1992 he took a detour away from music when a love affair led him to Novosibirsk, Siberia, from where he contributed articles to Moscow Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times. He returned to London, and Melody Maker, in 1993 and also wrote for The Independent, Time Out and MTV before being deputy editor of a classy but sadly short-lived arts and lifestyle magazine, Ikon. After a severely misguided spell editing a south-east Asia music industry trade magazine, he became senior music editor at Virgin Books, where he commissioned and edited major biographies of David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, The Charlatans, Bush and Creation Records, and survived a week in the company of Ike Turner. He returned to freelancing in 2000, and now writes features and reviews for The Guardian as well as contributing to a host of national and international magazines and websites. He is the co-author with Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe of the New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (MTV Books, 2007) and also penned Top of the Pops: Mishaps, Miming and Music (BBC Books, 2007), an official yet profoundly flippant history of the long-running TV music show.
List of articles in the library by artist
David Bowie : Bowie In America 1972/73
Retrospective by Ian Gittins, Mojo, January 2007
David Bowie : Bowie in Berlin
Retrospective by Ian Gittins, Mojo, January 2007
Busted : You Are So Busted!
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2003
Darling Buds, The : The Darling Buds: Confetti Junction
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, February 1989
Fall, The : Insprial Carpets and Mark E. Smith: Manchester United
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, February 1994
Fall, The : The Fall: Funfair For The Common Man
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, March 1990
Al Green: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, June 2007
Inspiral Carpets : Insprial Carpets and Mark E. Smith: Manchester United
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, February 1994
Elton John : How Sir Elton Recovered His Cool
Comment by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 2004
Alicia Keys : "I love Chopin... He's my dawg": Alicia Keys
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, November 2001
Mötley Crüe : Ban this Sixx filth!
Report by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, October 2007
Mötley Crüe : Mötley Crüe's Titty-Cam
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2005
My Bloody Valentine: The Excellence of Ecstasy
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, January 1988
Paul Oakenfold
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, June 2002
William Orbit: 'People Will See My Heart And Soul'
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2007
Ozzy Osbourne : Meet the Osbournes
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, June 2002
Pixies, The : The Pixies Facing The Fire Squad
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, November 1990
Queens Of The Stone Age : Monarchs of Rock: Queens of the Stone Age
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, October 2002
Radiohead : The Story Of Tchocky
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, Summer 2003
Shaggy : It Was Him: Shaggy
Profile and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, October 2002
Slipknot : Meet'n'Greet in Glasgow: Slipknot
Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, February 2002
Soft Cell : The Tainted Life of Soft Cell
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, 2004
Spiritualized's Jason Pierce
Profile and Interview by Ian Gittins, The National (UAE), May 2008
Tanita Tikaram: Say Halo Wave Goodbye
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, February 1991
Robbie Williams : Q Icons: Robbie Williams List of genre pieces How To Beat The Difficult Second Album Syndrome
Profile by Ian Gittins, Q, 2004
Comment by Ian Gittins,
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