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Charles M Young: Rolling Stone writer who was the first to write about the British punk movement for an American audience

Chris Salewicz, The Independent, 14 October 2014

AT THE 1979 Christmas party thrown by Rolling Stone magazine, Charles M. Young, one of the publication's star writers, who in a long 1977 article had introduced an American audience to the Sex Pistols, was seriously drunk.

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