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Kit Aiken Click here for more about Andrew Mueller and a full list of Andrew's articles in our library
Peter Murphy
A pseudonym for Chris Ingham.
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Keith Altham Keith Altham worked during the ‘60s as a journalist for IPC magazines before joining the NME in 1964 and left as features editor in l969 after which he freelanced for Melody Maker, Record Mirror, Disc, Sounds, Fusion, Rave The Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror and The Guardian prior to becoming England’s most successful independent rock music PR of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
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Ted Alvy Click here for more about Ted Alvy and a full list of Ted's articles in our library
Nina Antonia Nina Antonia is the author of books on Johnny Thunders, the New York Dolls, Peter Perrett and other artists.
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Jeff Apter Jeff Apter has been writing about music and popular culture for almost 20 years, five of which he spent as Music Editor for Australian Rolling Stone. His books include Tomorrow Never Knows: The Silverchair Story, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story and Never Enough: The Story of the Cure. He recently published a biography of Dave Grohl.
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Al Aronowitz Al Aronowitz has often been called "the godfather of rock journalism". His POP SCENE column in the NEW YORK POST turned him into one of the most powerful rock journalists in the world. He has collected some of his unpublished manuscripts in THE BLACKLISTED MASTERPIECES OF AL ARONOWITZ. Some of them can now be found in his monthly e-zine THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST
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Jim Arundel Jim Arundel, aka Jim Irvin, was the leader and singer with Furniture before coming a writer and editor with Melody Maker.
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Martin Aston Martin Aston has written for Sounds, Q, Mojo, The Times and many publications. He is the author of books on Bjork and other artists.
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Mike Atherton Click here for more about Mike Atherton and a full list of Mike's articles in our library
Michael Azerrad Michael Azerrad is the acclaimed author of the Nirvana biography Come As You Are and of Our Band Could Be Your Life. He has written for Spin, the Village Voice and countless other publications.
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Danny Baker Danny Baker started his career writing for seminal punk zine Sniffin' Glue before becoming a receptionist at the New Musical Express. He championed disco and soul and wrote the funniest singles columns in the paper's history. Danny now hosts the breakfast show on BBC London.
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Michael Baker Michael Baker lives in New Jersey and contributes regularly to the Perfect Sound Forever website, as well as to other publications on- and offline.
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Lester Bangs Lester Bangs, who died in 1982, is the most celebrated of the original "Noise Boys" of rock journalism. Some of his greatest pieces - most of them from Detroit's Creem magazine - were collected by Greil Marcus in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. A new anthology, Mainlines, Blood Feasts & Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, has been compiled by RBP contributor John Morthland and has been published in the summer of 2003. Lester is as yet the only rock critic to have a biography written of him - Jim DeRogatis' excellent Let It Blurt (2000).
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Lynden Barber Lynden Barber wrote for Melody Maker for many years. He now lives and works in Australia.
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Louis Barfe Click here for more about Louis Barfe and a full list of Louis's articles in our library
Ken Barnes A contributor to Bomp, Phonograph Record and other music magazines in their heyday, Barnes is currently a staff writer at USA Today
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Jack Barron Between 1982 until 1996, Jack Barron wrote for Sounds, Zig Zag, NME, the Guardian and Volume. In 1998 he wrote features and reviews for Melody Maker.
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Max Bell Max was one of the best NME writers of the '70s and early '80s. He currently contributes to Uncut, the Evening Standard and other publications.
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Charles Bermant Charles Bermant has treated rock journalism as a "serious hobby" during his regular career as a community journalist, investigative reporter and technology writer.
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Alan Betrock The late Alan Betrock wrote for a number of rock magazines before launching the much-missed New York Rocker in 1977. He was also the author of Girl Groups: the Story of a Sound.
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David Biasotti David Biasotti is an assistant editor at Ugly Things and runs the Kaleidoscope homepage, Pulsating Dream. A former member of the dreadfully obscure Maxfield Parrish, he makes his home in Yokohama, Japan.
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Ian Birch Ian Birch wrote for Melody Maker, Smash Hits and other magazines before becoming something high-up at EMAP.
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Johnny Black Mainstay of Q, MOJO and other magazines, Black is one of the most assiduous scholars of rock history and minutiae. Drawing on his vast archives, he has helped to compile numerous Time Machines, Eyewitnesses etc for those magazines. Based in Wiltshire, he also hosts his own local radio show.
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Bill Black Bill Black, real name Bill Prince, wrote for SOUNDS, and also for NME as Bobby Surf. Bill is currentlly deputy editor of British GQ.
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Adam Blake Adam Blake has been a pro music journalist - writing for Music Week the UK Music Industry trade paper - and a session bassist for Natacha Atlas, the pseudo-Arabic diva. He is interested in politics, acting, literature, cartoons but above all music, so long as it's truthful, with heart and humanity.
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Victor Bockris The author of acclaimed books on Lou Reed, Keith Richards and Patti Smith, as well as of the bestselling Uptight (about the Velvet Underground), Bockris lives and works in New York City.
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Chris Bohn Chris Bohn wrote for Melody Maker and NME in the late '70s and '80s. For the past 20 years he has written under the name 'Biba Kopf', and is currently the editor of The Wire.
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Hank Bordowitz Hank Bordowitz has written extensively on music for many publications. He has written books on artists such as Creedence Clearwater and U2, and has recently edited a new Bob Marley reader for Da Capo Press.
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Caroline Boucher Caroline Boucher is currently the deputy editor of Observer Food Monthly and Observer Woman. She left Disc and Music Echo in the early '70s to work as an in-house PR for Elton John at Rocket Records (replacing Penny Valentine who became head of A&R). She is married to music business lawyer Robert Lee (Virginia Plain).
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Chris Bourke Chris Bourke is a New Zealand journalist who started a fanzine called Seltaeb. Bourke has been a staff writer and arts & books editor at the New Zealand Listener and editor of the country's two music magazines, Rip It Up and Real Groove. In 1997 Pan Macmillan Australia published his biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong. He is currently a producer and documentary maker for Radio New Zealand.
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Rob Bowman Rob Bowman is the Toronto-based author of countless liner notes, as well as of Soulsville, a history of Stax Records.
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Lloyd Bradley One of the major British writers on black music from funk to reggae, Bradley began contributing to NME in the ’80s and then wrote for Q, MOJO and countless other publications. His recent BASS CULTURE, a history of reggae, was widely hailed as one of the best music books of 2000.
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Stephen M H Braitman Click here for more about Stephen M H Braitman and a full list of Stephen M H 's articles in our library
Bill Brewster Bill Brewster is the co-author with Frank Broughton on Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and How To DJ (Properly).
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Chris Briggs Chris Briggs wrote for Zigzag and other magazines before becoming a highly-respected A&R man with A&M Records and other companies.
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Harold Bronson Although best known for co-founding the Rhino Records record company, Harold Bronson cut his teeth writing about rock for the UCLA Daily Bruin (where he attended college), Rolling Stone, Rock Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, L. A. Free Press, and others. He has written/edited a handful of books, most notably Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees. He heads up the Rhino Films production company, and has produced Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, among other titles.
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Frank Broughton The co-author with Bill Brewster of the acclaimed Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and How to DJ (Properly), Frank is a writer and DJ who lives in Elephant & Castle, London.
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John Broven Renowned expert on blues and vintage R&B, Broven has written for BLUES UNLIMITED, JUKE BLUES and many other magazines. He is the author of two definitive books, WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS and SOUTH TO LOUISIANA.
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Mick Brown Mick Brown is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has written on music and other cultural affairs for a wide variety of publications including the SUNDAY TIMES, ROLLING STONE and CRAWDADDY. He is now a regular contributor to the TELEGRAPH magazine and the DAILY TELEGRAPH newspaper in London.
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Len Brown Len Brown wrote for NME, Vox and other publications in the '80s and '90s, and is now a producer with the BBC.
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David Browne David Browne is a music critic with Entertainment Weekly and the author of the dual Tim/Jeff Buckley biography Dream Brother. He lives and works in New York City.
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Steve Burgess The late Steve Burgess founded and edited the legendary fanzine Dark Star.
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Garry Bushell Click here for more about Garry Bushell and a full list of Garry's articles in our library
Francesco Calazzo Francesco Calazzo writes for Italy's leading rock magazine Buscadero
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Keith Cameron Keith Cameron began writing for Sounds in 1988. He has subsequently contributed to NME, Vox, Q, Kerrang!, The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times and Scotland On Sunday.
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David Cavanagh David Cavanagh was a feature writer for Select and Q, and is the author of the acclaimed My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For the Prize, a history of Alan McGee's Creation Records.
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Rob Chapman Author of many epic pieces for MOJO and other publications, Chapman’s work is an invaluable addition to the Rock’s Backpages archive. He has recently finished LOOK AT ME, I'M YOU, a screenplay about pop in the '60s.
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Chris Charlesworth A staff writer (and New York correspondent) on MELODY MAKER from 1970 to 1977, leaving to work in the music industry. Since 1983 he has been editor of Omnibus Press, the specialist rock and pop book publishers. In 1995 he co-produced The Who's 4CD box set, 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B.
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Barbara Charone Barbara Charone wrote for Sounds, NME and Creem among other publications before becoming one of the most respected publicists in the music industry.
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Stevie Chick Click here for more about Stevie Chick and a full list of Stevie's articles in our library
Andy Childs Andy Childs was editor of Zigzag in the early 70s. He then worked for a number of reord labels, and is now an international marketing and catalogue consultant which he continues to develop to this day.
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Ian Christe Ian Christe is the author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, available internationally in five languages. He has written for Wired, Spin, and Norway's kult churchburning bible, Slayer Mag.
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Carol Clerk Click here for more about Carol Clerk and a full list of Carol's articles in our library
Tim Clifford Tim Clifford has been a sub-editor with IPC and the Daily Express, as well as a contributor to Rock's Backpages for the past three years. He lives in Stockwell, London.
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Mitchell Cohen Mitchell Cohen wrote widely for publications such as CREEM and CRAWDADDY in the '70s and '80s, later becoming Senior VP of A&R at Columbia Records in New York.
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Martin Colyer Martin Colyer is a co-founder of Rock's Backpages, and the site's Design Director. He is Executive Art Director of Readers Digest Europe.
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Susan Compo L.A.-based culture vulture and novelist who has written for SPIN, MOJO, OPTION and many other publications. She is the author of LIFE AFTER DEATH, MALINGERING and PRETTY THINGS.
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Richard Cook Richard Cook was one of the major feature writers for NME in the early and mid-'80s, and the co-author of The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD. In 2001 he published Blue Note: The Biography. Tragically, Richard's life was cut short by cancer in August 2007.
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Caroline Coon Artist, legendary founder of RELEASE and author of the seminal 1988: The Punk Rock Explosion, Caroline was a regular contributor to MELODY MAKER and SOUNDS in the heyday of ’70s rock. In 2001 her punk pictures formed part of the No Future?: Punk 2001 conference in Wolverhampton, England.
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Carol Cooper Hugely-respected American writer on black music of the past three decades, New York-based Cooper has written on soul, R&B and hip hop for SPIN, ROLLING STONE, the NEW YORK TIMES, the VILLAGE VOICE and other publications.
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Mark Cooper The producer of BBC 2's lauded LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND, Cooper was for many years a prominent feature writer for SOUNDS, Q, MOJO and other publications.
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Alvaro Costa Alvaro is a Porto-based writer and broadcaster on rock music and film. For some years he covered the LA scene for Portuguese media. He is an avid supporter of Porto F.C.
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Tom Cox After briefly being employed by New Musical Express, Tom Cox has since writen extensively for The Sunday Times, The Times, Esquire, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Uncut, Mojo, The Mail On Sunday and Word.
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Wayne Coyne Wayne Coyne is the lead singer of Flaming Lips.
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Kandia Crazy Horse Maverick Anglophile and aficionado of southern boogie, Philly-based Kandia has written for the VILLAGE VOICE, CREATIVE LOAFING and other outlets, both on- and off-line.
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Toby Creswell Toby Creswell has written for RAM, the Sydney Morning Herald, Time, The Age, Roadrunner, Spin, Billboard and a variety of other publications. In 1985 he became Music Editor of the Australian edition of Rolling Stone and two years later was in a partnership which took over the franchise. He has written a biography of Australian singer Jimmy Barnes (Too Much Ain't Enough, Random House) and more recently co-authored (with Martin Fabinyi) a history of Australian rock & roll - The Real Thing (Random House). He lives in Sydney with his girlfriend Samantha Trenoweth, an author and journalist, and their daughter Alice.
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Richard Cromelin A veteran of the LA rock-crit fraternity, Cromelin wrote for Creem, Phonograph Record and many other publications. He is currently on staff at the Los Angeles Times.
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David Dalton Key ROLLING STONE writer of the ’60s and ’70s and author of such bestsellers as Piece of My Heart (about Janis Joplin), The Mutant King (bio of James Dean), Saint Vicious (about Sid V.) and, with Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull, winner of a Ralph J. Gleason Best Music Book Award 1994. His novel Been Here and Gone came out in 2000. David is currently a regular contributor to MOJO and Gadflyonline.com.
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Stephen Dalton One of the best of the '90s crop of NME/VOX writers, Dalton continues to cover pop for NME and other magazines, as well as for THE TIMES.
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Anthony DeCurtis Anthony DeCurtis is a highly-respected contributor to Rolling Stone and other American magazines. His collection Rocking My Life Away is published by Duke University Press.
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Fred Dellar One of the great scholars of popular music, Dellar has compiled hundreds of archival pieces for NME, VOX, Q and MOJO over the years, as well as authoring many books on rock movies, country music etc. He is the author of THE NME GUIDE TO ROCK CINEMA and co-author with Richard Wootton of THE COUNTRY MUSIC BOOK OF LISTS.
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Bill DeMain Bill DeMain has written for publications including MOJO, Classic Rock, Musician, Entertainment Weekly, Mental Floss and Performing Songwriter.
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Felix Dennis Felix Dennis was one of the founders of Oz magazine. He is now the mega-successful publisher of Maxim, Stuff and other titles. As well as being a poet, of course.
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Ernesto De Pascale Ernesto De Pascale is a Florence-based writer and broadcaster on blues and other music.
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Carla DeSantis Click here for more about Carla DeSantis and a full list of Carla's articles in our library
Chas de Whalley Chas de Whalley has been, among other things, Head of UK A&R for CBS Epic (now Sony) Records, he produced the first two singles by fledgling Irish supergroup U2. Among the titles to which he has contributed as a journalist are NME, Sounds, Record Mirror, International Musician, Vox, Rock CD , Time Out, Mojo, Record Collector and Music Week.
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Dave DiMartino Dave DiMartino was once the editor of Creem. He now works for launch.com in LA, and is the author of Singer-Songwriters: Pop Music's Performer-Composers, from A to Zevon.
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Ed Doheny Ed Doheny lives in the Los Feliz neighbourhood of Los Angeles, within sniffing distance of the coyotes who roam Griffith Park. He is waiting for his son.
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Harry Doherty Harry Doherty wrote extensively for Melody Maker from 1975 through to the early ‘80s.
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Nick Doherty Nick Doherty has written for Jockey Slut, Sleazenation and other publications and does press for London's legendary Fabric club.
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Tom Donahue Tom Donahue was an important DJ and pop promoter on the San Francisco scene of the '60s. He co-founded Autumn Records.
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John Doran ohn Doran has been a music journalist since 2003 writing for Record Collector, Plan B, Metal Hammer, Playlouder, Drowned In Sound, Loose Lips Sink Ships, BANG, Stool Pigeon, Classic Rock, Disorder and others.
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Ted Drozdowski Ted Drozdowski is a freelance journalist and musician living in Boston, Massachusetts. He writes about popular culture, specializing in music. His work has appeared internationally in a wide variety of publications including Tracks, Rolling Stone and Musician.
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Daryl Easlea Former deputy editor of Record Collector, Daryl Easlea writes for Mojo, bbc.co.uk and other publications. His first book Everybody Dance: Chic & The Politics Of Disco was published by Helter Skelter in December 2004. His second, The Supremes, an extended essay to accompany the Supremes exhibition at the V & A is published by V & A Publishing in May 2008.
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D. Ebdus D. Ebdus is a subtle distinguisher. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Chuck Eddy Click here for more about Chuck Eddy and a full list of Chuck's articles in our library
Ben Edmonds Former Editor of CREEM and longtime contributor to ROLLING STONE and other U.S. publications, Edmonds is currently U.S. correspondent of MOJO.
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Robin Eggar After a stint as the Daily Mirror’s rock and pop writer, Robin Eggar went freelance working for national and international newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, Esquire, You Magazine, Marie Claire, the Times, the Daily Mail, Us magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Face, Time Out, the NME, the Observer, the Word, the Sunday Mirror Magazine and Rolling Stone.
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Richard English Richard English is a writer who is based in Maida Vale, London. He is the author of Living With Hepatitis C and is working on a novel.
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Colin Escott Colin Escott is the author of several books on American music, including a biography of Hank Williams and the book that accompanies the recent BBC series Lost Highway: The Story Of Country Music.
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Dele Fadele Dele Fadele wrote regularly for NME in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Andy Farquarson Andy Farquarson has written on folk and world music for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent and Get Rhythm.
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Mick Farren NME legend of the’70s, now a U.S.-based author of great repute and TV Critic for LA City Beat.
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Bob Fisher Bob Fisher has written extensively on Black Music since the 1960s. He is now producing reissues for Acrobat Music
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Tony Fletcher Tony Fletcher was the editor of Jamming! magazine, and is the author of the bestselling Keith Moon biography Dear Boy.
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Ben Fong-Torres Ben Fong-Torres is one of the legendary names of rock writing. One of the first writers and editors at Rolling Stone, Ben worked for the magazine for many years, writing seminal profiles of the leading rock figures of the late '60s and '70s. He is the author of the Gram Parsons biography Hickory Wind and of The Hits Just Keep On Coming, a history of Top 40 Radio in America.
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Tim Footman Tim Footman has written for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Careless Talk Costs Lives and many other publications.
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Ian Fortnam Writer for NME, VOX, KERRANG and other publications, Ian has covered the recent alternative and hard-rock scenes extensively.
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Kim Fowley The greatest hustler in the history of rock'n'roll, Fowley is an Angeleno who has been involved with thousands of artists from B. Bumble & the Stingers to the Runaways.
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The Rev. Al Friston The Reverend Al ekes out a living on the outer peripheries of London. He is almost blind and very angry.
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Simon Frith Chairman of the Mercury Music Prize Committee, Simon was a key contributor to MELODY MAKER, LET IT ROCK, CREEM, THE OBSERVER, the VILLAGE VOICE et al in the ’70s, and is the author of such revered books as Sound Effects and Performing Rites and is now Professor of Film and Media at the University of Stirling.
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Deborah Frost Deborah Frost has contributed to Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Creem, The Boston Phoenix, and countless daily, weekly and monthly publications to which she could not say no until she started up the Brain Surgeons with Blue Öyster Cult founder Albert Bouchard, released a bunch of CDs, toured the world’s shitholes and re-discovered her passion.
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Antonella Gambotto An Australian who wrote controversial features and reviews for NME, SOUNDS, and ZIGZAG in the ’80s, since when she has published two anthologies of her pieces, LUNCH OF BLOOD and AN INSTINCT FOR THE KILL, and a novel, THE PURE WEIGHT OF THE HEART (1998).
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David Gans Click here for more about David Gans and a full list of David's articles in our library
Sheryl Garratt Click here for more about Sheryl Garratt and a full list of Sheryl's articles in our library
Richard Gehr A regular contributor to SPIN, the VILLAGE VOICE, NEW YORK NEWSDAY and a host of other American publications, Gehr is a native of Oregon who relocated to Brooklyn via Los Angeles (where he worked for several years on the LOS ANGELES READER).
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Jerry Gilbert Author of countless '70s pieces for MELODY MAKER, SOUNDS and ZIGZAG, Jerry also produced regular bylined columns for the DAILY MIRROR and MIDWEEK. He still writes widely on folk and other genres, and has recently been commissioned to undertake a book about the history and evolution of show technology.
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Andy Gill Andy Gill has written for NME, Q, Mojo, The Independent and numerous other publications. He is the author of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: Bob Dylan, the Early Years (Carlton).
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Charlie Gillett Author of THE SOUND OF THE CITY, the first major study of rock’s history, and MAKING TRACKS: THE STORY OF ATLANTIC RECORDS, Gillett is a renowned BBC broadcaster and world music pioneer. Contributor to NME, LET IT ROCK, MOJO et al and founder of Oval Records.
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Ian Gittins Ian has written about music since the mid-'80s, for publications as various as MELODY MAKER, TIME OUT, IKON, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and THE NEW YORK TIMES. He now pens articles for Q and THE GUARDIAN and is involved in publishing music biographies.
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Holly Gleason Holly Gleason is a Nashville-based writer and publicist who has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Musician, Tower Pulse, Request, Rockbill, Bam, The Illinois Entertainer, Interview, Rock & Soul and Graffiti (Canada). She specializes in songwriters, roots music, country, some r&b and very early rap.
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Beverley Glick Beverley Glick is the real name of Betty Page who first started writing for Sounds in 1979 and went on to make her name as the music journalist who championed the New Romantic movement, doing the first major interviews with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode in the early Eighties. She subsequently became editor of Record Mirror, and is now a commissioning editor at The Sunday Express.
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Jeremy Gluck Former lead singer with retro-garage band the Barracudas; cult author and, as 'Ralph Traitor', a contributor to Sounds, The Guardian, and Mojo.
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Dave Godin Until his death in 2004, Dave Godin was the doyen of deep soul, a veteran contributor to umpteen magazines and fanzines and the compiler of the magnificent Deep Soul Treasures series for Ace.
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Mick Gold Writer for LET IT ROCK and CREEM in the’70s, Gold is now a respected TV producer and director. His ENDGAME IN IRELAND aired in Britain in summer 2001.
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Gary Pig Gold The founder-publisher of Canada’s first-ever music fanzine, Gary today runs a virtual record company from high atop the Heights of Jersey City, USA. His infamous socio-musical "Pigshit" column recently passed its first quarter-century mark of faithful service.
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Michael Goldberg Michael Goldberg is founder and editor in chief of NEUMU (neumu.net), a pop culture magazine. In 1994 Goldberg founded ADDICTED TO NOISE (ATN), a highly influential music Web site. Prior to starting ATN, Goldberg was an associate editor and senior writer at ROLLING STONE for 10 years. His writing has also appeared in WIRED, ESQUIRE, VIBE, DETAILS, DOWNBEAT, NME and numerous other publications.
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Vivien Goldman Now based in New York, Vivien has written for SOUNDS, NME, INTERVIEW, the VILLAGE VOICE, ROLLING STONE, and HARPER'S BAZAAR.
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Robert Gordon Robert is the author of It Came from Memphis, Elvis on the Road, and Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Winner of a Deems Taylor ASCAP writing award, he has contributed to SPIN, DETAILS, Q, MOJO and many other publications.
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Paul Gorman Former MUSIC WEEK reporter who freelances for MOJO and other publications and is the author of THE LOOK, about music and fashion, an IN THEIR OWN WRITE, an oral history of rock journalism excerpted on Rock's Backpages.
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Mike Grant Mike Grant is a somewhat thinly disguised Keith Altham
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Tom Graves Tom Graves was the editor of Rock & Roll Disc magazine. He has written music and other articles for Rolling Stone, Musician, The Oxford American, American History, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is also the author of Pullers, a novel about the sport of arm wrestling.
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Michael Gray Michael Gray is a critic, writer & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and is an expert on rock’n’roll history and the blues, with a special interest in pre-war blues. His work has been published in many newspapers and magazines in the USA and UK.
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Robert Greenfield Robert Greenfield is the author of the seminal STP: Rolling Stones Touring Party, recently reissued by Helter Skelter in London as A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones. A key contributor to Rolling Stone, Fusion and other publications in their late '60s/early '70s heydays, he lives in California.
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Pete Grendysa One of the leading American scholars and historians of R&B and rock’n’roll, Grendysa’s archives provides a bedrock of deep content for ROCK’S BACKPAGES.
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Sid Griffin Sid Griffin led the Long Ryders in the '80s, and has subsequently written for Q, Mojo and other publications. He is the author of a study of Gram Parsons.
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Michael Gross Michael Gross, who began his career contributing to Circus, Rock and other music publications, is the author of the new Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren and the New York Times bestseller Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. He is also a Contributing Writer at Radar and a Contributing Editor at Travel & Leisure and has written for The New York Times, Talk, George, New York, GQ, Esquire, and Vanity Fair.
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Jason Gross Jason Gross is a freelance writer in New York City who's contributed to All Music Guide, Blender, Creative Loafing, Harp, Film Comment, MOJO, No Depression, Spin, Time Out, Tracks, Village Voice and the Wire among others. He is the editor/founder of one of the first online music magazines, Perfect Sound Forever (perfectsoundforever.com, since 1993).
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Loyd Grossman Before he looked through the keyhole and decided to make sauces himself, Boston-born Grossman was a rock writer for Fusion, Rolling Stone and other papers. Whether he still listens to Stone The Crows these days remains unconfirmed.
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Blake Gumprecht Blake Gumprecht was once a publicist for Twin/Tone Records, sometime Minneapolitan home to Husker Du, the Replacements and others groovy '80s acts. He is now Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of New Hampshire.
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Matt Hanks Matt Hanks, who has worked in Memphis and New York as a publicist for labels such as Flydaddy, has also contributed to such publications as No Depression and The Memphis Flyer.
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Cleothus Hardcastle Cleothus lives in Streatham Vale, south London, and writes widely on black music. For his sins he supports Crystal Palace FC.
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Heather Harris Heather Harris is primarily a photographer, and has snapped everyone from the Buffalo Springfield to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. She lives in the San Fernando Valley.
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Mary Harron Contributor in the ’70s and’80s to MELODY MAKER, the VILLAGE VOICE, the GUARDIAN and the NEW STATESMAN, Mary has subsequently become an acclaimed film director (I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho). She is currently working on a film about the CBGBs punk scene she covered in the mid-'70s.
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Nick Hasted Nick Hasted has written for The Independent, the Guardian and Uncut. He is the author of The Dark Story of Eminem (Omnibus, 2003).
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Martin Hawkins Martin Hawkins is the author of A Shot in the Dark – Making Records in Nashville 1945-1955, co-author of Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll, and the writer of some four hundred magazine articles, LP sleeve notes and CD booklets stretching back to 1971.
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Anthony Heilbut Anthony Heilbut is a record producer and the author of several books, including The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Albums he has produced have won the Grammy Award and the Grand Prix du Disque and have been included by the Library of Congress among the first 50 entries in its registry of American sound recordings.
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Edward Helmore New York-based contributor to THE GUARDIAN and THE OBSERVER, as well as to MOJO, DETAILS, INTERVIEW, and VANITY FAIR, Helmore is one of the best and most prolific writers on pop culture and the media business.
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Martin Herron Martin Herron has written for Melody Maker, City Limits and Get Rhythm. He is currently
working the launch of Radar, a new monthly national music magazine and on a
biography of notorious Sheffield burglar Charlie Peace.
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Paolo Hewitt working the launch of Radar, a new monthly national music magazine and on a
biography of notorious Sheffield burglar Charlie Peace.
Paolo Hewitt has been a staff writer for Melody Maker, New Musical Express and many other music publications. He has written books about the Jam, Oasis and the Small Faces, as well as The Looked After Kid, a memoir of life as a child in care.
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Tom Hibbert Brilliantly funny contributor to Q, SMASH HITS, MOJO and other publications, Hibbert was the irreverent brain behind Q’s "Who the Hell..." series.
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William Higham RBP's Marketing Director is a consultant specialising in both marketing and research for on- and off-line music and lifestyle brands. He has over ten years experience in marketing and press departments of Sony, Virgin and Polydor Records. William likes Power Pop, dairy-free food and Italian suits and girls.
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Geoffrey Himes The full-time music critic for the WASHINGTON POST, Himes has also written for CRAWDADDY!, MUSICIAN, ROLLING STONE, DOWNBEAT and many other publications for the last 25 years.
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Erik Himmelsbach A native of the San Fernando Valley, Himmelsbach grew up to be Managing Editor at the L.A. READER and SPIN, and is a contributor to BLENDER, REVOLVER, ROLLING STONE and other publications.
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Bill Holdship L.A.-based Holdship is a former editor of CREEM and BAM, and a longtime contributor to publications such as SPIN, MUSICIAN, and MOJO.
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Nick Hornby Nick has written about music for THE INDEPENDENT, MOJO and THE NEW YORKER. The film of About a Boy, with a soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy, was released in 2002. His 31 Songs was recently published by Viking.
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Barney Hoskyns RBP’s own Editorial Director was a major feature writer for NME in the ’80s, as well for VOGUE, MOJO and other publications in the ’90s. His books include ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE, about The Band, and WAITING FOR THE SUN, about L.A. His latest, HOTEL CALIFORNIA: SINGER-SONGWRITERS & COCAINE COWBOYS IN THE L.A. CANYONS, is published in the UK by Fourth Estate and in the US by John Wiley & Sons. An accompanying CD, BACK TO CALIFORNIA, is available on Rhino.
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Mick Houghton Mick Houghton wrote for a variety of music publications, including Circus, Mojo and Let It Rock, before becoming a much-respected publicist for bands. He formed Brassneck PR in the early '90s.
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Rob Hughes Rob Hughes is a Graphic Designer/Illustrator/Sportswear Designer with no history in music writing whatsoever up until 2000, when he started writing for UNCUT. He has also written for GET RHYTHM. Wacky and improbable fact: Rob designed Aston Villa's kit for the 2000-01 season. We kid you not.
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Robot A. Hull Robot Hull was a regular writer for CREEM during the '70s and '80s, also contributing to every rock rag known to man, from ROLLING STONE to TEENAGE WASTELAND GAZETTE. He was until recently the in-house editor and historian for the ubiquitous direct-marketer, Time-Life Music.
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Lindsay Hutton Lindsay Hutton is the founder and editor of the legendary fanzine The Next Big Thing, along with its Cramps-devoted sister publication Rockin' Bones. He has also written for Sounds, Mojo and other magazines.
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Joss Hutton Joss edited BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS for four years and was a regular contributor to THE GUARDIAN's weekly Guide section. He has recently written for KERRANG!, THE FACE, PerfectSoundForever.com and X-RAY.
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Chrissie Hynde Before she formed the Pretenders and became one of rock's definitive female icons, Chrissie wrote for NME and other music mags of the '70s.
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Chris Ingham An excellent feature writer for MOJO and other publications whose recent work includes major pieces on Paul Simon, Steely Dan and XTC, Ingham is also a highly-respected jazz musician.
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Jonh Ingham Jonh Ingham was one of the key writers on rock and punk in the mid-to-late '70s. His pieces on the Sex Pistols and others for Sounds introduced countless readers to the emerging punk scene. He currently works for Genie Internet.
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Jim Irvin Irvin was reviews editor and feature writer at Melody Maker, then becoming founding features editor of MOJO. He lives in London, continuing to write regularly for MOJO, Word and The Times and works as a lyricist and composer.
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Mike Jahn Mike Jahn was the first official "rock critic" employed by The New York Times. He has also written many works of detective fiction.
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Cliff Jones Cliff Jones wrote for Mojo and other publications before forming Gay Dad in the mid-'90s.
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Sally Margaret Joy Sally Margaret Joy wrote for Melody Maker and other publications in the early '90s.
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Lenny Kaye A living legend, both as a writer and as a musician/producer, Kaye wrote widely in the ’60s for FUSION, ROLLING STONE, CRAWDADDY and other publications. Kaye compiled the seminal Nuggets anthology of garage punk and has long been the guitarist in Patti Smith’s band.
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Annene Kaye Annene Kaye was a contributor to New York Rocker and other magazines in the '80s. Under various pseudonyms she wrote potboiler bios of such seminal stars as Rick Springfield. She now works for Satan (aka Fox Television) in Los Angeles.
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Nick Kent Nick Kent was one of the most important and influential music journalists of the 1970s, and remains a hugely respected commentator to this day. He wrote for New Musical Express and is the author of The Dark Stuff, a collection of his journalism.
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Howie Klein Covered countless punk and new wave bands for NEW YORK ROCKER et al in late ’70s before forming 415 Records in San Francisco. Until recently President of Reprise Records in Los Angeles, Klein is now back on the East Coast.
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Clare Kleinedler Clare Kleinedler started her writing career at the groundbreaking online 'zine, Addicted to Noise in the mid-'90s. She went on to serve as the music editor for WIRED magazine in early 2000. Her work has been published in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, BAM, Paper and XLR8R among others.
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Biba Kopf The scribe formerly known as Chris Bohn, Kopf was leading feature writer on NME in the early ’80s and subsequently a pioneering explorer of European and Japanese avant-garde music for THE WIRE, where he is currently Reviews Editor.
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Debbie Kruger A staff writer for showbiz bible VARIETY for four years, Debbie's freelance writing has been published in Australia's leading newspapers, as well as GOLDMINE, PERFORMING SONGWRITER and various other international magazines.
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Harvey Kubernik Sometime L.A. correspondent for MELODY MAKER and contributor to CRAWDADDY and other publications in the ’70s, Kubernik has produced acclaimed spoken-word albums like ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. He contributes to MOJO, GOLDMINE and other magazines.
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Steve LaBate Steve LaBate is assistant editor of Paste magazine.
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Dave Laing Melbourne born and bred, Dave's main claim to (non-)fame is his labels Dog Meat and Grown Up Wrong!, which kept the rock'n'roll flame burning in the late 80s and 90s. Dave compiled and annotated the Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-87, which put him in contact with his heroes from Radio Birdman, The Saints, Lipstick Killers etc. He has contributed sparingly over the past 20-odd years to the likes of Next Big Thing, 48 Crash, B-side, Scram and Ugly Things.
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Paul Lester Paul Lester has freelanced for Melody Maker, Sky and The Jewish Chronicle. He was made Features Editor of MM in 1993 before leaving in '97 to launch Uncut, where he is now Deputy Editor. In his spare time he writes for The Guardian.
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Lulu Le Vay Lulu Le Vay started out as deputy editor of mouthy fanzine Sleazenation in the mid-90s which propelled to her to become a freelance feature writer for publications such as The Face, i-D, Jockey Slut and Xray through to the Guardian Guide, The Independent on Sunday, The Evening Standard and the Observer.
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Mark Leviton Los Angeles native Mark Leviton had his first national publication in Rolling Stone while still in high school (a vicious pan of David Peel’s American Revolution album that he now feels was a bit harsh) and has written on music, film and books for over three decades, with hundreds of credits in Fusion, Phonograph Record Magazine, UCLA Daily Bruin, L.A. Weekly, BAM Magazine, Music Connection, New Musical Express, Let It Rock, Cream, The Los Angeles Times, Mojo and many other fly-by-night publications.
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Dave Lewis Dave Lewis is the founder and editor of the Led Zeppelin fanzine TIGHT BUT LOOSE.
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Miles Marshall Lewis Miles Marshall Lewis is a recognized pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist. He has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Believer, Spin, L.A. Weekly, Essence, and many other publications.
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Gerrie Lim Gerrie Lim has written for numerous publications, including Billboard, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Style, Playboy, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, The Wall Street Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is currently the International Correspondent for the Adult Internet trade magazine AVN Online.
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Amy Linden Widely-respected writer on hip hop and R&B, Brooklyn-based Linden has contributed to VIBE, the NEW YORK TIMES, MOJO and SONICNET.
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Andria Lisle Andria Lisle is a Memphis-based writer on blues, soul and other genres. She has written for Mojo, Raybeat, the Memphis Flyer and The Oxofrd American.
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Michael Lydon A ROLLING STONE legend of the late '60s and '70s, Michael's seminal pieces on the Rolling Stones et al have been collected in Rock Folk and Boogie Lightning. Ray Charles: Man and Music, his biography of the Genius, received glowing reviews. He is also a guitarist-singer-songwriter who performs in New York. Brite Records released his CD Love at First Sight.
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Ian MacDonald The author of the acclaimed Beatles book REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD, and of the collection THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC, both published by Pimlico, MacDonald was Assistant Editor of NME in the early '70s and contributed regularly to Uncut. Tragically, Ian took his own life in August 2003.
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Gerard Malanga Gerard Malanga was the guy with the whip in Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable. He collaborated with Victor Bockris on Uptight, the definitive Velvet Underground biography.
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Toby Manning Toby Manning is a London-based writer who has contributed to Word, Q, Mojo, Mixmag, Select and NME and is the author of The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd.
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Greil Marcus Greil Marcus is author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music (1975; most recent English language edition from Faber & Faber, 2000) and several other acclaimed books. He has published columns, essays and reviews since 1968 in ROLLING STONE, ARTFORUM, INTERVIEW, SALON.COM, COMMON KNOWLEDGE and other publications.
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Dave Marsh Dave Marsh has written more than a dozen books about rock and popular music, as well as editing several others. He co-founded Creem, the legendary Motor City rock and roll magazine that helped launch heavy metal, glam and punk, among other styles, and spent five years as an associate and contributing editor of Rolling Stone, where he was chief music critic, columnist and feature writer. Marsh's first book, Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story (Doubleday) was published in 1979. His other books include Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who, The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, and Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock'n'Roll Song.
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Gavin Martin Gavin Martin published Alternative Ulster in Ireland’s punk rock summer of 1977, joined NME as a freelancer the following year and has written about music and movies ever since. He now freelances for a wide range of publications and is the Music Critic for The Daily Mirror.
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Joe Matera Joe Matera is a contributor to Australian Musician. His work has appeared in Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer, Rolling Stone, Classic Rock, Kerrang!, Juice and Australian Guitar.
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Dan Matovina Dan Matovina is best-known as the writer of the comprehensive biography Without You: The Tragic Story Of Badfinger. He has also contributed to many Badfinger-related CD releases over the years as a liner-note writer, researcher, consultant, engineer, producer, mastering engineer, compiler, and agent.
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James Maycock James has written features for THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and MOJO, amongst others. He also works as a DJ, television documentary researcher/writer and has compiled 15 soul/funk/Latin boogaloo CD compilations for the London-based Harmless label in the last 3 years.
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John McCready Liverpudlian writer for NME, THE FACE, MOJO and other publications, McCready has been a key commentator on ‘80s/’90s Britpop and rock.
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Joe McEwen Also known as "Mr C", Joe McEwen wrote widely on soul music for Rolling Stone, The Real Paper and other publications before becoming an A&R man at Warner-Reprise in the '80s. He compiled the legendary Lost Soul albums for Epic and is thanked profusely in Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music.
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Rick McGrath Rick McGrath was rock critic of the Vancouver, BC, underground newspaper THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT from 1969 to 1971. He also wrote for CREEM, THE TERMINAL CITY EXPRESS and THE GRAPE before moving on to become an advertising agency creative director.
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Joel McIver Joel McIver writes for Record Collector, Total Guitar, Kerrang! and Rock Tribune among other magazines as well as compiling CDs and writing sleevenotes. He has written six books, the latest of which, Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica (Omnibus Press, 2004), was hailed as the ultimate book on Metallica by dozens of reviewers.
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David McKenna David McKenna wrote the Popular Music section for Time Out's 2003 Paris Guide. He has written for The Guardian among other publications.
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Phil McMullen Phil McMullen was the founding editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine.
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John Mendelssohn Peter Buck's favourite rock critic, John Mendelssohn was an early contributor to Rolling Stone, Creem and other rockmags. He was also the leader of the cult LA band Christopher Milk. John currently resides in North London.
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Phil Mershon Phil Mershon is a Phoenix, Arizona, freelancer whose pieces and stories have appeared in Perfect Sound Forever, Nuvein, Howling Wind, and several other magazines.
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Mike Mettler Mike Mettler is Editor-In-Chief of Sound & Vision, a tech-and-music magazine previously known for many a moon as Stereo Review. He spent much of his career as Editor-In-Chief of Car Stereo Review, talking to everyone from Alice Cooper to Dweezil Zappa about what they listened to while they were behind the wheel (or behind the partition). He also wrote for Musician, Guitar Player, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Bass Player, and many other magaziines.
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Mick Middles Mick Middles worled as Mancunian correspondent for Sounds during the 70's and 80's. His work also appeared in The Face, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and The Daily Express. He is the author of around 13 books that include biographies on New Order, Mark E Smith, Mick Hucknall and the Stone Roses.
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Miles Miles was the co-founder of Indica Books and Gallery where John Lennon first met Yoko Ono. That same year Miles was co-founder of INTERNATIONAL TIMES (IT), the first European underground newspaper. His bestselling Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now (Holt, NYC, 1997) was written in close collaboration with McCartney.
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Bill Millar The author of books on the Drifters and the Coasters, Bill Millar was also Consultant Editor on Panther's Encyclopedia of Rock (1976) and Orbis' History Of Rock (1981). His "Echoes" column was a feature of RECORD MIRROR, LET IT ROCK and MELODY MAKER. His exhaustive liner notes for Bear Family and other labels are legendary. His Let the Good Times Rock! A Fan's Notes on Post-War American Roots Music was published in 2004 by Music Mentor Books. Bill, who was awarded the MBE in 1996, lives in Dartford, Kent.
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Fred Mills Fred Mills is a freelance music journalist living in Asheville, NC, and has been writing about rock 'n' roll since the late '70s when he published the punk fanzine Biohazard Informae.
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Paul Moody Paul Moody wrote regularly for NME in the early '90s, interviewing everyone from Blur to Radiohead. He left to form the band Regular Fries.
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Anne Moore Anne Moore started writing about the crazies of rock 'n' roll during her first year in college (when that was she refuses to tell us). But it was early enough to see and interview many of the great rockers from the so-called "classic" era and to even spend the "summer of love" in swinging London. During this period Anne wrote for World Countdown, Teen Screen, FaVE, Phonograph Record Magazine, CREEM, LA Image, Fusion, Concert, The Los Angeles Free Press and dozens of other publications.
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Mark Mordue Mark Mordue first made an impact as a writer in the Sydney post-punk music scene of the 1980s before going on to a diverse career. His first book, a collection of integrated travel stories entitled Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip was published in Australia in 2001 and the USA in 2004. He is currently completing a novel.
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Paul Morley A living legend of pop scribery, Morley made his name on the NME of the late '70s and early '80s before becoming a broadcasting staple and the author of Nothing and Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City. Some of his most splendid interviews were collected in Ask, now lamentably out of print.
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John Morthland Hugely-respected contributor to countless American publications from ROLLING STONE and CREEM to SPIN and the NEW YORK ROCKER, Austin-based Morthland is the author of THE BEST OF COUNTRY MUSIC and currently works as a contributing editor at TEXAS MONTHLY.
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Andrew Mueller Andrew Mueller was Reviews Editor at Melody Maker from 1991 to 1993, and a freelance writer for the magazine until 1996. He now contributes more or less regularly to The Independent on Sunday,The Guardian, Uncut and many other publications.
One of Ireland’s foremost music and pop culture writers, Peter Murphy has written over 30 cover stories for the magazine, as well as contributing to numerous international publications.
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Charles Shaar Murray One of the NME’s ’70s superstars and the author of such magnificent books as Crosstown Traffic, about Jimi Hendrix, and Boogie Man, about John Lee Hooker. Charles currently writes for MOJO, the DAILY TELEGRAPH, the GUARDIAN, MOJO, the INDEPENDENT and other publications.
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Ben Myers Click here for more about Ben Myers and a full list of Ben's articles in our library
Christine Natanael Christine Natanael has written for Creem, Details, Rock Scene, Metal Mania, Reflex, Metal Hammer and other publications.
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David Nathan British-born but L.A.-resident, Nathan was one of the earliest writers on soul and funk for BLUES AND SOUL and BLACK MUSIC. He has subsequently written for BILLBOARD and other American publications and is the author of THE SOULFUL DIVAS.
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Kris Needs Kris was an early contributor to Zigzag, becoming editor in 1977. After its demise he moved to New York, and worked for Creem. Returning to the UK in 1990, he has since made and produced records, DJ'd around the world, and more recently written music books and his own autobiography - Needs Must.
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Melody Nelson Melody Nelson was born in a lounge, somewhere north of Hastings. She is pop crazy!
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Jon Newey Jon Newey wrote for SOUNDS and is the editor of JAZZWISE magazine.
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Tim Oakes Tim has written and edited numerous magazines including Guitarist and Metal Hammer. He is currently producer/ presenter for Star Radio, and freelance post-production editor for radio and albums.
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Glenn O'Brien A key observer on the New York pop scene, Glenn was the music writer on Andy Warhol’s INTERVIEW and has written for SPIN, ARTFORUM and countless other publications. His books include the anthology Soapbox.
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Lucy O'Brien O'Brien is the author of the bestsellers Annie Lennox (1991) and Dusty (1989/99). Her groundbreaking She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul has been reissued as She Bop II by Continuum (2002). O'Brien has also contributed to the GUARDIAN, the SUNDAY TIMES, the OBSERVER, MARIE CLAIRE, Q, NME and THE FACE.
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Alex Ogg Alex Ogg is the author (with David Upshal) of The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap, as well as of Standing On The Edge (about Radiohead) and Def Jam: The Radical Rise of Russell Simmons And Rick Rubin. In 2006 Alex published his new book about the punk years, No More Heroes, through Cherry Red
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Anthony O'Grady Anthony O’Grady started Rock Australia Magazine (RAM) in 1975. He left RAM in 1981, working in Radio, TV and Film. In 1995 he started Australia’s first music tip sheet, The Music Network. His book Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff, on Australia’s most legendary, enigmatic and enduringly popular rock band was published in 2001.
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Sean O'Hagan Sean O'Hagan started his career on the NME and is an award-winning contributor to THE OBSERVER.
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Betty Page Betty Page, real name Beverley Glick, first started writing for Sounds in 1979 and went on to make her name as the music journalist who championed the New Romantic movement, doing the first major interviews with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode in the early Eighties. She subsequently became editor of Record Mirror, and is now a commissioning editor at The Sunday Express.
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Alec Palao Alec Palao lives in the Bay Area and compiles the Nuggets of the Golden State series for Ace Records. He has written for numerous magazines.
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Carl Magnus Palm Carl Magnus Palm has devoted most of his music writing to the subject of ABBA including Bright Lights, Dark Shadows - The Real Story Of ABBA (2001).
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Nicky Parade Nicky Parade grew on Staten Island and divides his time between London and New York City. He owns a pair of Johnny Thunders' old leather pants, complete with original bloodstains.
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Howard Parker Click here for more about Howard Parker and a full list of Howard's articles in our library
Djuna Parnes Djuna Parnes is a self-styled "rock'n'roll bluestocking", weaned on Gothic Rock and Morrissey marginalia. She lives with her cats in a cramped attic in Tufnell Park, London, where she is working on the definitive history of Miserablism.
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Rob Partridge Rob Partridge was a writer for Melody Maker and other publications before becoming a press officer with Island Records. Rob co-founded the Coalition media group in the early '90s.
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Phast Phreddie Patterson Founded L.A.'s BACK DOOR MAN in 1975, paving the way for the punk rock/new wave scene of the late '70s. Since then he has written for SLASH, the LA WEEKLY, NEW YORK ROCKER, ROCK SCENE and BILLBOARD. He's a poet, a painter, a recovering alcoholic and a connoisseur of fine '60s soul records. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Archie Patterson The world's leading authority on "Eurock", Archie published the fanzine of that name from 1973 to 1992. Many pieces from the fanzine were published in 2002.
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Alan Paul Alan Paul is the editor of guitarworld.com. He has written for many other publications, but doesn’t understand why anyone would care to see a list of them. He is a pretty funny guy, though you would not always guess it from his music writing. In August, 2005, he is moving to Beijing, China, where he will attempt to paint the town brown.
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Mark Paytress Mark Paytress has worked for Record Collector, Mojo and other publications. He is the author of Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar (Omnibus).
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Ian Penman Ian Penman wrote for New Musical Express in the late '70s and early '80s and has subsequently written for The Wire and other publications. A collection of his best pieces, Vital Signs, was published by Serpent's Tail in 1998.
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Etienne Petit Etienne Petit lives and works in Paris.
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John Pidgeon A music journalist for most of the seventies, writing for New Musical Express and, later, Melody Maker, as well as editing the monthly Let It Rock, John has also been a songwriter and radio producer, co-writing a song for one of the Beatles (okay, it was the drummer, but Ringo’s still a Beatle) and pioneering independent production for BBC Radio with Radio 1’s Classic Albums in 1989. Having branched out into comedy and built up his own award-winning production company, he was approached in 1999 to run BBC Radio Entertainment. Since rejoining the real world late in 2005, John has produced a Radio 4 feature series, presented by Ian Rankin, about music in modern crime fiction.
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j. poet A San Francisco-based journalist specializing in American Roots Music, j poet has been writing for close to 30 years. In 1978 he initiated the first nationally-distributed World Music column in the US, for Pulse! Magazine.
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Bruce Pollock Bruce Pollock has written for such publications as The New York Times, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly and Musician. . He is the author of seven books on music, including Working Musicians, The Rock Song Index, Hipper Than Our Kids, and In Their Own Words.
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Edwin Pouncey Maverick writer on everything from roots reggae to Japanese psychedelia, Pouncey wrote for SOUNDS and NME in the ’80s and ’90s and has most recently been a regular feature writer for THE WIRE. He is also well-known as the cartoonist Savage Pencil.
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Bill Prince Bill Prince is Bill Black by any other name
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Mark Pringle RBP's production director is a website designer and internet specialist who has been involved in projects for the BBC and a variety of businesses. He also takes portraits of writers for leading publishers. Prior to moving into design, he was a member of obscure London R&B act Hot House. He was described by NME writer and future Loaded editor James Brown as "the Keith Floyd of British Soul". He took this as a compliment.
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Andrew Purcell For four years, Andrew Purcell wrote BBC 6 Music's Gig Guide, earning a handful of admirers and a truckload of abuse for slagging off Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian and The Killers, among others. In 2005 he moved to New York, resolved to do some proper writing again, and now freelances for the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Herald. He has had the privilege of interviewing David Byrne, Johnny Marr, Dion, Arthur Lee, Ian Brown, Jimmy Cliff, Damon Albarn and Debbie Harry and feels very lucky to have done so.
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Push Click here for more about Push and a full list of 's articles in our library
David Quantick Longtime contributor to NME, Q, MOJO and SELECT, more recently a writer of comic sketches for programmes like BBC’s THE FAST SHOW and Chris Morris' notorious BRASS EYE series.
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Mike Quigley Mike Quigley contributed regular articles to Vancouver's notorious underground newspaper THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT and its successor THE GRAPE from December 1970 to August 1972. He also wrote numerous freelance articles and reviews of classical and pop music, theatre and films for THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE, one of the city's two daily newspapers from 1969 to 1976.
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Paul Rambali A key feature writer for NME in the punk era and for THE FACE and ARENA (of which he was editor) in the ’80s. Now based in Paris, where he continues to work in the media.
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Steve Redhead Steve Redhead is Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton. He is author of various books and articles on subculture, popular culture, popular music, sport and media cultures.
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Penny Reel Penny Reel is one of the UK's reggae foundation writers. His work in the '70s and '80s was and still is a tremendous inspiration. His interviews and articles in publications like Echoes, NME, Sounds and Small Axe gave the readers real insight into a music that was and still is misunderstood. His book Deep Down With Dennis Brown was published in 2001.
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Graham Reid Graham Reid was the senior music writer for the New Zealand Herald for almost 20 years until late 2004.
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David Rensin After more than a decade of writing about rock, David Rensin became a contributing editor of Playboy in 1981.
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