Paul Gorman: Totally Wired – The Rise & Fall of the Music Press (Thames & Hudson)
Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, January 2023
THE HOME computer and its promiscuous offspring the internet were wrecking balls, demolishing much that was worth treasuring. Amidst the debris they left behind, the typewriters, fax machines and paper maps, was the UK's once magnificent weekly music press, the history and culture of which is the subject of Totally Wired.
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