• John Abbey

  John Abbey founded Blues & Soul magazine in 1967 and was its editor into the 1980s.

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• Nick Adams

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• Kit Aiken

  A pseudonym for Chris Ingham.

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• John Aizlewood

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• Kate Allen

  Kate Allen is a former editorial assistant at Rock's Backpages.

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• Kevin Allen

  Kevin Allen is a pseudonym for Roger St. Pierre

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• Scotty Almany

  A life-long disciple of Rock & Roll, Scotty Almany began writing in independently published zines as a teenager and was first officially published in ARC Magazine in his early twenties. As of Spring 2018, he is Digital Resources Manager at the Smithsonian-affiliated Birthplace of Country Music Museum, a role that allows him to combine his education, experience, and love of music and popular culture.
  

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• Loraine Alterman

  Loraine Alterman was for a period the New York bureau chief of Rolling Stone, as well as corresponding from the US for Melody Maker. She has also written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair and many other publications. Loraine Alterman Boyle lives in New York City.

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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 1969 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

  Ted Alvy was the producer of the late B. Mitchel Reed's show on KFWB, subsequently hosting shows on KVFM-FM and KPPC-FM. He worked at KMET-FM with Reed until June 1976. Ted died in March 2012.

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• Colman Andrews

  Colman Andrews (pictured in L.A. in April 1972) wrote extensively for Phonograph Record in the early-to-mid-'70s, as well as for Creem and other publications.
  

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• Johnny Angel

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• 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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• Don Armstrong

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• Al Aronowitz

  Al Aronowitz was often described as "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.

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• Jim Arundel

  Jim Arundel, aka Jim Irvin, was the leader and singer with Furniture before becoming a writer and editor with Melody Maker.

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• Martin Aston

  Martin Aston has written for Mojo, Q, The Guardian, The Times, Attitude, BBC Music and many other publications, over the last 30+ years. He is also the author of books on Pulp (Pulp, 1995), Bjork (Björkgraphy, 1996), a biography of 4AD Records (Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD, 2013) and Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out (2017), the first history of the queer pioneers of popular music.

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• Mike Atherton

  Mike Atherton's first foray into the not-yet-printed word was at grammar school with 'Private Ear', a scurrilous handwritten broadsheet based on a well-known satirical magazine but without the finesse. Atherton went on to contribute to The Daily Telegraph, Record Collector, Blues & Rhythm, Blues & Soul and The Wire. He has also had over 100 sets of LP and CD liner notes published.

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• Jamie Atkins

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• Jacoba Atlas

  Jacoba Atlas wrote for Melody Maker in the UK and also for Circus, the Los Angeles Free Press and KRLA Beat in the US. She is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer and producer, with extensive experience as a broadcast executive, at NBC News, Turner Broadcasting, CNN and PBS.

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• Kevin Avery

  Kevin Avery is the author (and editor) of Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson.

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• 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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• Eve Babitz

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• Frank Bach

  Frank Bach was lead singer with Detroit band the Up, and wrote extensively for underground paper the Ann Arbor Sun. He has also written for Creem and the Detroit Free Press.

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• Andrew Bailey

  Andrew Bailey has spent most of his working life in media-related industries. He was a journalist for 15 years, working as the UK Editor of Rolling Stone magazine for 5 years and as a columnist and critic on the Evening Standard for two years. During this time, he also worked as a TV presenter. Following a short (and largely unsuccessful) career in the music business, his next move was into advertising, where he worked for many years as a copywriter/creative consultant for a range of agencies.

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• Stuart Bailie

  Stuart Bailie is a music writer and broadcaster, based in Belfast. He has been a music industry professional for over 30 years, writing for NME, Mojo, Uncut, Q, Vox, The Times, The Irish Times, Classic Rock and Hot Press. Former Assistant Editor at NME, 1992-96. He was a co-founder the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast and was its CEO from 2008-16.

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• Danny Baker

  Danny Baker started his career working 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. Going to Sea in a Sieve, Danny's autobiography, was published in late 2012.

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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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• Robin Banks

  Robin Banks wrote for ZigZag in the late 1970s.

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• Lynden Barber

  Lynden Barber wrote for Melody Maker for many years. He is now a Sydney-based freelance journalist specialising in film and music.

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• Louis Barfe

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• 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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• Mike Barnes

  Mike has been a contributor to The Wire and to MOJO.

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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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• Tony Barrow

  Tony Barrow was the Beatles' press officer from 1962 to 1968. He also wrote extensively for the Liverpool Echo and KRLA Beat in Los Angeles.

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• Geoff Barton

  Geoff Barton is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal mag Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds. He currently works for Classic Rock.

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• Laura Barton

  Laura Barton (born 1977) is an English writer and journalist. She writes mainly for The Guardian, and published her first novel, Twenty-One Locks, in 2010.

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• Jack Basher

  Jack Basher is a pseudonym for Howie Klein

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• Angus Batey

  Angus Batey has been writing professionally since 1988, sometimes as a member of staff, but since 2000 as a full-time freelance. He has written for a wide range of magazines, including NME. His writing about music is extensive, with a particular focus on hip hop.

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• Olly Beck

  Olly Beck is an artist, writer and co-director of the independent artists run space Francis Hair Fashions Gallery in South London. He is widely published and is a regular contributor to the art periodical Garageland Magazine and he co-edits the art zine The Critical Friend.

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• Andy Beckett

   

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• Max Bell

  One of the great NME writers of the '70s and early '80s, Max Bell has also contributed to Classic Rock, GQ, Uncut and many other titles.

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• Phil Bell

  Phil Bell wrote for Sounds, Kerrang! and International Musician between 1981 and 1984.

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• David Bennun

  David Bennun began writing at Melody Maker in the early '90s, moving on to The Guardian and then to the Mail On Sunday Review, where he is a regular pop critic. Additionally, his work has featured in GQ, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Quietus.

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• Bill Bentley

  Bill Bentley began writing about music in Austin, Texas during the 1970s. He is now director of A&R for Vanguard Records and writes the weekly column "Bentley's Bandstand" for online site The Morton Report, and drummer in ex-Moby Grape Peter Lewis' band the Lucky Brothers.

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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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• Edwin J. Bernard

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• Adele Bertei

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• Maud Berthomier

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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 1976. 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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• Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

  Dr. Jennifer Otter Bickerdike is a media and music academic, specializing in fandom, vinyl records, the cult of dead celebrity, pop culture and music, specifically Joy Division, post-punk, soft rock and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. She has written and presented extensively on fandom and media.

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• Ian Birch

  Ian Birch wrote for Melody Maker, Smash Hits and other magazines before becoming Editorial Director at EMAP and editing TV Guide in America. He is currently Director of Editorial Development & Special Projects at Hearst Magazines.

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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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• Carla DeSantis Black

  Carla DeSantis was the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of ROCKRGRL (1994-2005).

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• Johnny Black

  Frequent contributor to 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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• 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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• Anthony Blampied

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• Pat Blashill

  Pat Blashill wrote about rock and pop music for US magazines like Rolling Stone, SPIN and Details from 1987 to 2003. He grew up in Texas, consuming a steady diet of Butthole Surfers records and Ed Wood movies. He now lives in Vienna, Austria, and still writes about stuff for the Munich newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

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• Mark Bliesener

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• Steve Bloom

  Steve has been a music journalist since 1978. Articles published in Rolling Stone, USA Today, New York Daily News, Newsday, Soho Weekly News, Village Voice, Musician, Down Beat, Record, High Times, Relix and more.

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• Eddie Blower

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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-in-Chief of The Wire.

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• Derek Boltwood

  Derek Boltwood wrote for Record Mirror in the late '60s before managing the Pretty Things. He lives in the south of France.

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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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• Paul Bradshaw

  Writer, publisher of Straight No Chaser magazine, and cultural evangelist, Paul Bradshaw has been active on the London music scene since the early '70s.

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• Stephen M H Braitman

  Stephen M.H. Braitman is a former writer for The Los Angeles Times and other publications, and a music appraiser who works with companies such as Gracenote.

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• Robin Bresnark

  Robin Bresnark wrote for Melody Maker in the '90s, interviewing and breaking Coldplay, Travis, Muse and Embrace along the way.

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• Bill Brewster

  Bill Brewster is the co-author with Frank Broughton of 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, vintage R&B and rock ‘n’ roll, Broven has written for BLUES UNLIMITED, JUKE BLUES, NOW DIG THIS and many other magazines. He is the author of three definitive books, WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS (aka RHYTHM & BLUES IN NEW ORLEANS ), SOUTH TO LOUISIANA and RECORD MAKERS AND BREAKERS.

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• James Brown

  James was on the staff of NME in the late '80s and later launched Loaded and Jack magazines and the website Sabotage Times.

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• Len Brown

  Len Brown wrote for NME, Vox and other publications in the '80s and '90s. Since 1994 he has produced over 40 music, arts and sports documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four.

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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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• Peter Stone Brown

  Peter Stone Brown is a singer-songwriter and freelance writer. He was music editor for a Philadelphia alternative weekly, and hosted radio shows. He currently writes for CounterPunch and Muddy Waters Magazine and has contributed to Gadfly and Bobdylan.com.
  

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• Tony Brown

  Tony Brown wrote extensively about pop for the Melody Maker in the 1950s. If anyone knows of Tony's or Toiny's family's whereabouts, please let us know.

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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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• David Buckley

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• Steve Burgess

  The late Steve Burgess founded and edited the legendary fanzine Dark Star.

  If any of you know how to put us in touch with his estate, get in touch.

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• David Burke

  David Burke began writing about music as a staffer on local newspapers in his native Ireland, before decamping to London in 1990. He is a regular contributor to R2 (formerly Rock’n’Reel) and Vintage Rock.

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• Tony Burke

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• Todd L. Burns

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• Calvin Bush

  Calvin Bush wrote extensively for Muzik and other dance magazines.

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• Garry Bushell

  Garry Bushell is an English newspaper columnist, television presenter, author and political activist. He wrote most famously for Sounds in the '70s and '80s. Bushell also sings in the Oi! band The Gonads and manages the New York City Oi! band Maninblack. Although his TV column Bushell On The Box still appears weekly in the Daily Star Sunday, Bushell is semi-retired and currently focuses on his band and novels.

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• Richard Cabut

  Richard Cabut wrote for the NME and music monthlies Offbeat and Siren under the pen name Richard North, and as Richard Kick for Zig Zag and Alf Martin’s national glossy Punk Lives.

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• Barry Cain

  Barry Cain wrote extensively for Record Mirror in the late '70s.

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• Francesco Calazzo

  Francesco Calazzo writes for Italy's leading rock magazine Buscadero

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• John Calvert

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• Jeff Calvin

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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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• Tarquin Campbell

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• Chris Campion

  A long-term contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Observer, Chris Campion is also the author of the notorious 2010 anti-biography Walking on the Moon: the Untold Story of the Police and the rise of New Wave Rock.

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• Geoffrey Cannon

  Geoffrey Cannon was the first ever regular rock critic for a UK daily national newspaper, The Guardian, for whom he wrote between 1968 and 1972. Subsequently he wrote for New Society, The Listener, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, Creem, Rock et Folk, Melody Maker, Time Out and many other publications. He has lived in Brazil since 2000.

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• Joe Carducci

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• Richard Carlin

  Richard Carlin is the Executive Editor of Music and at Oxford University Press in the U.S. and the author of Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy (U Press of Mississippi, 2016).

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• Jean Carol

  Jean Carol is a pseudonym for June Harris

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• Bill Carpenter

  Bill Carpenter has been a contributing writer to the Washington Post (1991-1994) and People magazine (1993-1997). He wrote dozens of stories for publications such as Goldmine and Living Blues. During this season, he wrote over 300 articles on performers such as Johnny Mathis, Joan Baez and Sisqo of Dru Hill.

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• Roy Carr

  Roy Carr was for many years a staff writer at NME and then Vox. He is the co-author of The Hip and other books.

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• Cath Carroll

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• Ryan Carse

  Ryan Carse is in his third and final year studying BA (Hons) Journalism at the University of Chester. He is the winner of the First Annual Wilko Johnson Writing Prize, presented at the Louder Than Words festival in Manchester in November 2013.

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• Brian Case

  Brian Case wrote extensively about jazz for rock'n'roll bible the New Musical Express from the mid-'70s, later moving to Melody Maker.

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• David Cavanagh

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• Marty Cerf

  Marty Cerf was involved in World Countdown magazine, and was publisher of Phonograph Record Magazine.

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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. His biography of Syd Barrett was published by Faber in 2010.

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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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• Nicky Charlish

  Nicky is a freelance journalist with a special interest in the arts and current affairs. Favourite things are books, booze, clothes and clubs. His freelance journalism includes work for Record Mirror, Melody Maker, London International, Midweek, Ms London, Girl-About-Town, Nine-to-Five. Currently contribute to Pen Pusher magazine.

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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

  Stevie Chick has contributed to such titles as MOJO, The Guardian, Plan B, London Lite, Kerrang!, Arena, Melody Maker, Careless Talk Costs Lives, NME and Sleazenation.

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• 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.

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• Steffan Chirazi

  Having started rock'n'roll writing at the age of 15, 46-year old ex-pat Steffan Chirazi's career could almost look like an old Batman cartoon speech bubble! SOUNDS, KERRANG!, RIP, BAM and SPIN are just a few of the publications he has contributed to over the years, and for the last 14 years he has been the editor of Metallica's own in-house publication, So What! magazine. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his family.

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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 thirteen languages, and Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. He has written for Wired, Spin, and Norway's kult churchburning bible, Slayer Mag.

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• Johnny Cigarettes

  Johnny Cigarettes is a pseudonym for Johnny Sharp

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• Patrick Clarke

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• Alan Clayson

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• Maureen Cleave

  Maureen Cleave wrote about pop music and culture for the London Evening Standard in the 1960s.

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• Carol Clerk

  Carol Clerk wrote extensively for MELODY MAKER in the '80s and '90s, and more recently for UNCUT. She was the author of books about Madonna, the Pogues, Hawkind and others. She died in March 2010.

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• 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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• Rob Cochrane

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• Jason Cohen

  Jason Cohen is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. He has written for Option, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and other publications.

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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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• Bethan Cole

  Bethan Cole, b.1971, has written about music, fashion, beauty and the arts for the NME, The Big Issue, i-D, Vogue and The Sunday Times.

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• Nick Coleman

  Nick wrote for NME for a year during the mid-80s before becoming Music Editor of the London listings magazine, Time Out, in 1987. From 1994 until 2006 he was Arts and then Features Editor at the Independent and Independent on Sunday.

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• Byron Coley

  American music critic who wrote prominently for Forced Exposure magazine in the '80s. Coley was a contributing writer to Spin in the 1980s and '90s, and currently writes for The Wire and Arthur

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• Martin Colyer

  Martin Colyer is a co-founder of Rock's Backpages, and the site's Design Director. He is a freelance designer, living in London.

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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, and of WARREN OATES: A WILD LIFE (University of Kentucky).

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• J.D. Considine

  J. D. Considine has written for Rolling Stone, Musician, The Baltimore Sun, Revolver Magazine and Toronto's The Globe and Mail.

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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

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• Tim Cooper

  Tim Cooper has written for most national newspapers and many magazines on subjects from politics to pop culture, film, food and sport. His first published work was in his own punk fanzine, Cliché in 1976, followed by freelance stints writing reviews and features for Sounds, Record Mirror, Pop Star Weekly and Hot Press.

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• Susan Corrigan

  Susan has written extensively for, among others, i-D, Request, The Face, NME, Guardian, Observer, Volume, the Times and Frank.

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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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• Kandia Crazy Horse

  Kandia Crazy Horse is a Manhattan-based rock critic, and the editor of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock & Roll (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She has written for Village Voice and many other publications.

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• Martin Creasy

  Martin Creasy is a general reporter on the Surrey Advertiser, published in Guildford . He lives in Fleet, Hampshire.

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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. 

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• Louise Criscione

  Louise Criscione wrote for and edited KRLA Beat in Los Angeles from 1965 and 1968. She interviewed Sonny & Cher, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and Marianne Faithful, to name a few. She left journalism when Beat Publications closed in 1968.

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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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• Andy Crysell

  Andy Crysell covered dance music, electronic and hip-hop for titles like NME, The Face, DJ and Muzik throughout the 90s, with occasional forays into indie and guitar. Later, he worked on dotcom start-ups and for advertising agencies, before launching his own insight and innovation agency, Crowd DNA.

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• Tony Cummings

  Tony Cummings was staff writer then editor of Black Music in the mid '70s.

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• Elaine Cusack

  In the 1990s Elaine was both a staff and freelance music writer for Rock CD, The Guitar Magazine, Mojo, Select, Volume and The Times.

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• Giovanni Dadomo

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• Karl Dallas

  Karl Dallas was a contributor to Melody Maker from the 1950s to the 1970s. He passed away in June 2016.

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• David Dalton

  David Dalton is a New York Times bestselling author, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, recipient of the Columbia School of Journalism Award, and winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Best Rock Book of the Year award for Faithfull. He has written twenty-four books, including biographies of James Dean, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious, the Rolling Stones, and, in 2010, a critically acclaimed biography of Andy Warhol, Pop. Dalton is the co-author (with Jonathon Cott) of Get Back, the only book ever commissioned by the Beatles, and the screenwriter for an upcoming Janis Joplin biopic. He lives with his family in upstate New York.

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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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• Steven Daly

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• Ivor Davis

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• Camille Davis Russo

  Born in Chicago, Camille Davis Russo grew up in the world of music as the daughter of jazz composer William Russo and the step-daughter of Maurice Lathouwers, Vice President of Capitol Records. She was the liaison between the Chicago bluesmen (Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon) and British rock royalty (Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones).

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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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• 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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• Carol Deck

  Carol Deck wrote extensively for the KRLA Beat from 1965 to 1967, then for Soul, an American biweekly rhythm and blues newspaper. From 1967 to 1973 she was responsible for all west coast coverage for Flip, a national teen magazine. She was also a ghost writer for several celebrity columns for British teen magazine Mirabelle.

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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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• Adrian Deevoy

  Adrian Deevoy has written since 1978 for a variety of publications including Trouser Press, International Musician, Penthouse, Cosmopolitian, Q Magazine, GQ, The London Times, The LA Times, The Sunday Times, Blender, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Times Of India and The Observer.

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• Jim Delehant

  Jim Delehant was the editor of Hit Parader, Rhythm and Blues, Country Song Roundup, Song Hits, and wrote for Cavalier, Downbeat and Jazz Journal.

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• Fred Dellar

  One of the great scholars of popular music, Dellar 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 was 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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• Stephen Demorest

  Stephen Demorest wrote for Circus, Creem, Phonograph Record and Rolling Stone in the 1970s. He later worked on soap operas such as Guiding Light, All My Children and General Hospital.

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• Felix Dennis

  Felix Dennis was one of the founders of Oz magazine. He then became the mega-successful publisher of Blender, Maxim, Stuff and other titles.

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• Mark Dery

  Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He writes about new media, visual culture, emerging trends, subcultural style, and fringe thought.

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• Bruce Dessau

  Bruce Dessau wrote for the New Musical Express in the 1980s and was Music Editor of City Limits before going on to write about music for The Guardian, Observer, The Independent and other national newspapers. He is the author of George Michael: The Making of a Superstar. Today he mainly covers the comedy waterfront, but still writes about music occasionally for theartsdesk.com.

   

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• Bill DeYoung

  Based in Savannah, Ga, Bill DeYoung has been a music journalist since the late 1970s.

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• Alan di Perna

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• Kris DiLorenzo

  Kris was one of the first few female rock journalists; she started writing about rock in 1972 for NY area publications; by now, she has been published in more than 60 worldwide, as columnist, feature writer, interviewer, reviewer, staff writer and regular contributor.

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• Henry Diltz

  Henry Diltz is perhaps best known for his photographs of the Los Angeles music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the official photographer for the Woodstock festival in 1969.

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• Dave DiMartino

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• Mike Diver

  Mike Diver writes about music between feeding his cats and seeing his football team of choice capitulate in the final throes of any given game. He is the former editor of DrownedinSound.com, was editor of Clash magazine’s website, and has contributed to titles including NME, Rock Sound, Plan B and The Fly. He is now Senior Editor at Waypoint, formerly Vice Gaming.

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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

  The late 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

  John 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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• Ian Dove

  Ian Dove was a former contributor to New Musical Express who has spent most of his career in the US. He has written for Billboard, the New York Times and other publications.

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• Tom Doyle

  Tom Doyle is an acclaimed music journalist, author, and long-standing contributor to Mojo and Q. He is the author of The Glamour Chase: The Maverick Life of Billy MacKenzie. and Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s.

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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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• Robert Duncan

  Robert Duncan was managing editor, at 22, of Creem. He's contributed to Rolling Stone, Circus and Life and is author of four books, including The Noise. He's anthologized in Springsteen on Springsteen, appears in the Ticket to Write doc, and upcoming Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem, his poems have been published in the dada journal Maintenant, and he's been singer, songwriter, producer for half-a-dozen obscure records. He grew up in a Southern family in NY and lives outside SF with the artist and photographer Roni Hoffman.

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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. Talent Is An Asset: The Story Of Sparks was published by Omnibus Press in April 2010 and Without Frontiers: The Life And Music Of Peter Gabriel was published in October 2013.

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• D. Ebdus

  D. Ebdus is a subtle distinguisher. He lives in Brooklyn.

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• Chuck Eddy

  Chuck Eddy has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and other national and local publications. He was Music Editor of the Village Voice and is the author of several books, including Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism.

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• Eden

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• Ben Edmonds

  Former Editor of Creem and longtime contributor to Rolling Stone and other U.S. publications, Edmonds was the co-author with Al Kooper of Backstage Passes and a former US correspondent for MOJO. Ben passed away in March 2016.

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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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• Royston Eldridge

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• Lita Eliscu

  Lita Eliscu wrote extensively for Crawdaddy, the East Village Other, Phonograph Record and other publications. She also worked in publicity for Atlantic Records.

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• Barbara Ellen

  Barbara Ellen wrote extensively for NME and Vox. She now writes a regular column for The Observer.

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• Paul Elliott

  Paul Elliott writes for Classic Rock and MOJO. He started writing about rock in 1985 as a contributor to Sounds, and has since worked for Kerrang!, Q, Vox, Heat, Total Sport, Blender (US), Metal Hammer and various other titles. 

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• Philip Elwood

  Philip Elwood was a DJ on Berkeley's KPFA from 1952 to 1996. He became an entertainment critic for the San Francisco Examiner from 1965 to 2000.

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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, Sunrise with Sea Monsters.

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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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• Kodwo Eshun

  Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer and filmmaker.

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• Jim Esposito

  Jim Esposito wrote for Creem, Circus, Rock Magazine, Zoo World and Oui.

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• Todd Everett

  Todd Everett has written for Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Cash Box), edited magazines (Record Review, KIIS - The Newspaper and Ampersand) and for several years was the entire pop music staff of Los Angeles's second-largest circulation newspaper.

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• Michel Faber

  Michel Faber is the highly-acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White, The Hundred and Ninety Nine Steps and The Book of Strange New Things. Undying: A Love Story, a sequence of poems about his late wife Eva, was published in 2016.

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• Dele Fadele

  Dele Fadele wrote regularly for NME in the late '80s and early '90s, focusing on hip-hop, acid house, shoegazing and grunge.

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• Jim Farber

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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, author of great repute and former TV Critic for LA City Beat. Elvis Died for Somebody's Sins But Not Mine, a collection of his writings, was published by HeadPress in 2013. Mick died of a heart attack in London in July 2013.

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• Rachel Felder

  Rachel Felder is a New York based writer and expert on style, trends, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications including People, Rolling Stone, The Financial Times, Travel and Leisure, New York and many more. She is author of Manic Pop Thrill, a book examining the connection between music and style,

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• Hugh Fielder

  Hugh Fielder wrote for Sounds between 1976 and 1989. He also edited Tower Records' TOP magazine from 1992 to 2001 and now writes regularly for Classic Rock.

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• Danny Fields

  In the '60s, Danny Fields wrote for 16 magazine, Hullabaloo and other titles. As a music industry executive in the '60s, '70s and '80s, he was one of the most influential figures in the history of punk rock. He managed Iggy and the Stooges, as well as the Ramones, as has worked in various roles with Jim Morrison, the MC5, and the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers. Fields has been described as "one of the godfathers of punk".

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• Bob Fisher

  Bob Fisher has written extensively on Black Music since the 1960s. He co-founded Acrobat Records, for whom he produced reissues until 2008.

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• Laura Fissinger

  Laura Fissinger has written for Rolling Stone, Record, Spin, Musician and many other music publications.

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• Helen Fitzgerald

  Helen FitzGerald wrote about Dublin's punk scene for VOX fanzine, then moved to London in the early '80s to freelance for Sounds and for Masterbag. In 1983 she joined Melody Maker as a staff journalist, writing for MM from 1983 until 1989.

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• Rob Fitzpatrick

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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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• Kathryn Flett

  Kathryn Flett began her journalism career as a staff writer for i-D in 1985. She went on to work for The Face as features editor and fashion editor in 1987. Kathryn served as the editor of Arena before joining The Observer in 1995 as associate editor of Observer Life, later becoming a features writer and TV critic on the newspaper.

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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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• James Fox

  James Fox is the bestselling author of White Mischief and a former staff writer for the Sunday Times magazine and other publications. He worked with Keith Richards on the Stone's autobiography Life.

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• Ray Fox-Cumming

  Ray Fox-Cumming wrote for Disc & Music Echo and subsequently for Record Mirror in the 1970s. He subsequently wrote for The Observer, and is now a hotelier and restauranteur.

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• Miller Francis Jr.

  Miller Francis grew up in Anniston, Alabama. After moving to Atlanta in 1967 he wrote extensively on music and film for underground paper The Great Speckled Bird. His work has also appeared in Creem and Rolling Stone.

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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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• Matthew Frost

  Matthew Frost is a freelance music journalist who has had articles published in specialist music titles such as Guitar Buyer, Sound On Sound, Tape Op, Record Collector, Blues Matters, Music Mart and Performing Musician.

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• Jill Furmanovsky

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• Gillian G. Gaar

  Gillian G. Gaar has written for Mojo, Rolling Stone, Record Collector, Goldmine and other magazines, and is the author of a number of rock music books.

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• Paul Gabriel

  Paul Gabriel was a pseudonym for Steve Roeser

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• Paul Gambaccini

  Paul Gambaccini is a legendary British-American broadcaster and journalist. He wrote for, among other publications, Rolling Stone.

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• David Gans

  Known far and wide as the light behind the widely syndicated Grateful Dead Hour radio program, several books on the Dead and a number of intriguing CDs relating to the band and its music, David Gans has been a musician, writer, radio producer, and photographer for more than 40 years.

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• Simon Garfield

  Simon Garfield wrote for Time Out magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989. He has written for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, and The Observer, and is the author of several books including Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry.

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• Sheryl Garratt

  Freelance writer New Musical Express 1980-83, music ed City Limits 1983-86; freelance writer 1986-88: The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, Honey, New York Rocker, The Face, News on Sunday, Looks; ed The Face 1989-95 (music/prodn ed 1988-89, winner Int Magazine of the Year PPA Awards 1994); freelance writer 1995-98: The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Red, Elle and New Statesman; ed The Observer Life magazine 1998-2000, sr writer The Observer 2000-02; currently freelance for The Telegraph, The Times, Elle, Red, Grazia, Vanity Fair and GQ.

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• Rex Garvin

  Rex Garvin is Robin Gibson under another name.

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• 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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• Dan Gennoe

  Dan Gennoe is a London-based freelance journalist & author. He's written features, interviews and reviews for the likes of Esquire, GQ, Arena, FHM, Q Magazine, Mojo, Red, Time Out, The Independent and The Mail On Sunday. Dan also writes books, both fiction and non-fiction, and has ghost written the odd celebrity biography.

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• Holly George-Warren

  Holly George-Warren is an award-winning writer, editor, book packager, producer, and music consultant.

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• Vernon Gibbs

  Vernon Gibbs wrote, primarily about black music, for Zoo World, Creem and Crawdaddy in the early '70s.

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• Robin Gibson

  Robin wrote extensively for Sounds between 1982 and 1991.

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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 wrote for NME, Q, Mojo and numerous other publications. He was chief pop reviewer at The Independent and the author of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: Bob Dylan, the Early Years (Carlton). Andy passed away in June 2019.

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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 was a renowned BBC broadcaster and world music pioneer. Contributor to NME, LET IT ROCK, MOJO et al and founder of Oval Records. He died in March 2010.

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• J.T. Gipson

  J.T. Gipson was the lead entertainment writer for black L.A. weekly the California Eagle in the 1940s, covering all the major R&B and Jazz acts visiting the city. He died in 1952.

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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 who has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Musician, Paste, 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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• Jay Glennie

   

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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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• Lon Goddard

  During a long and fascinating career, Ohio-born Lon Goddard moved to England via Sacramento and Los Angeles, and wrote extensively for Record Mirror at the height of the '60s rock revolution. He also wrote for Cream and Beat Instrumental, among other publications.

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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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• 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 fifth decade of faithful service.

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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.

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• Noe Gold

  Noe Gold has been a features editor at the Hollywood Reporter, an editor and contributor to Variety, the editor-in-chief of Movies USA, Bikini and Guitar World, and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. He has also worked as Managing Editor of VH1 and a writer/producer for Turner Broadcasting.

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• Danny Goldberg

  Danny Goldberg began his career in 1969 as a music journalist having written for Rolling Stone, Circus, Crawdaddy, Record World, Billboard and The Village Voice. Later he wrote about culture for The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Tikkun. He subsequently became Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and is now President of Gold Village Entertainment, which manages the affairs of numerous artists.
  

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• Michael Goldberg

  Michael Goldberg is a novelist, rock critic, blogger and animal rights activist with Direct Action Everywhere. He has published two rock 'n' roll coming-of-age novels, True Love Scars and The Flowers Lied, which are part of his Freak Scene Dream Trilogy. He blogs at Days of the Crazy-Wild (www.daysofthecrazy-wild.com), a pop culture blog.

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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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• Richard Goldstein

  Widely regarded as America's first real "pop critic", Richard Goldstein wrote for the Village Voice from June 1966 until 2004, eventually becoming the paper's executive editor. He specializes in gay and lesbian issues, music, and counterculture topics, and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Another Little Piece of My Heart (2015).

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• Toby Goldstein

  Toby Goldstein wrote extensively for Creem, Hit Parader, Rolling Stone and many other US music publications.

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• Michael A. Gonzales

  Michael A. Gonzales has written features for Wax Poetics, One More Robot, Vibe, The Source, XXL, Spin, The Village Voice, Complex and others. His music writing has been reprinted in Best African-American Essays 2009 and cited by the Best Music Writing series three times. The co-author of Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture (1991).

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• Fred Goodman

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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

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• Mike Gormley

  Before an illustrious career in the music business, Mike was a rock writer on the Ottawa Journal and the Detroit Free Press.

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• Van Gosse

  In the early 1980s, while attending Columbia University, Van Gosse wrote for the Village Voice and other music publications, and was a club DJ. Earlier, he played guitar in a group called Crowd, which had the dubious distinction of being called "Pennsylvania’s first New Wave band".

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• Richard Grabel

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• Bill Graham

  Bill Graham (January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash.

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• Derek Grant

  Derek Grant wrote for Rolling Stone, Melody Maker and New Musical Express between 1968 and 1970, and from 1971 to 1973 was the editor of Beat Instrumental.

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• Mike Grant

  Mike Grant is a somewhat thinly disguised Keith Altham

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• Randall Grass

  As a journalist, Randall Grass has written about music, especially reggae music, R & B, world music and jazz for such publications as the Village Voice, Spin Magazine, The Beat, Musician, Downbeat, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many more; he was also a contributor to the books Reggae International, The Rolling Stone Record Guide, The Alternative Papers and Reggae, Rasta & Revolution.

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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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• Jim Green

  Jim Green wrote extensively for Trouser Press, and many other US and UK magazines

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• Jonathon Green

  From 1969 to 1974 Jonathon Green was involved in the London counter-culture, notably as a writer for its 'underground press' and worked successively for Rolling Stone (UK), Friends, Time Out, INK, Oz (which he co-edited after the celebrated trial of 1971) and finally IT.

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• Richard Green

  Richard wrote extensively for the NME in the late '60s and early '70s.

  Richard died some years ago. If anyone knows of the whereabouts of his family or executors of his estate, please contact us.

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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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• David Griffiths

  David Griffiths began his journalistic career as cub reporter on the Hendon & Finchley Times, then joined TV Times on its launch in 1955. As a freelance during the '60s, he worked at the BBC as a writer at Radio Times and broadcaster for the Light Programme and then Radio One. He was also news editor and feature writer at Record Mirror. During the '70s he edited several specialist publications including the health monthly Prevention and the glam monthly Fiesta.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Gene Guerrero

  Active in the Civil Rights, Labour and Anti-War movements since the mid-'60s, Gene Guerrero co-founded Atlanta's Great Speckled Bird, for whom he wrote extensively about country and bluegrass music.

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• Blake Gumprecht

  Blake Gumprecht was the first paid employee at legendary Minneapolis indie label Twin/Tone, sometime home to the Replacements, Soul Asylum, Curtiss A, the Mekons, and Charlie Pickett. He coproduced the first Soul Asylum album with Bob Mould. Blake is now Associate Professor of Geography at the University of New Hampshire.

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• Ronnie Gurr

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• Matthew Hamilton

  Matthew "Speedwagon" Hamilton is an agent with Aitken Alexander in London. He was formerly an editor at Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. He has not stopped believin'.

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• David Hancock

  A features writer and news editor on Record Mirror before being poached by an upstart magazine called National RockStar, Hancock was hired by the London Evening News to join the first celebrity gossip column in the country. He had a stint on The Sun’s pop column "Bizarre" before joining the Daily Mirror. He has written two books about South London gangsters and the world’s first book about medical tourism, The Complete Medical Tourist.

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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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• Phil Hardy

  Phil Hardy was a freelance music and screenwriter who wrote for Time Out, Variety and other publications while at the same time acting as a consultant on music business issues. His account of the last 20 or so years of the record industry, Download!: How Digital Destroyed the Record Industry, was published in 2013 in the UK and US by Ombibus Press. Phil died very unexpectedly in April 2104.

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• Colin Harper

  Colin Harper is a Belfast-based writer on folk and other genres who has written regularly for the Irish News, Irish Times, The Independent, Q, Mojo and Folk Roots.

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• Richard Harrington

  Richard Harrington wrote for Washington D.C. underground papers Unicorn Times and Quicksilver Times. He went on to freelance for the Washington Post, before joining its staff as pop correspondent.

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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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• John Harris

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• June Harris

  June Harris moved to New York in 1964 to report on pop for the Mirror Group. She subsequently wrote for NME, Disc and Music Echo, Hit Parader and many other publications.

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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).

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• Bill Harry

  Bill Harry founded the legendary Mersey Beat and later worked as a press officer for acts such as Led Zeppelin.

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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) and continues to write for The Independent and Uncut, as well as Classic Rock, Jazzwise and The Arts Desk.

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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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• Martin Hayman

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• Chris Heath

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• Sophie Heawood

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• Jane Heil

  Jane Heil Usyk has been a freelance writer and editor for many years.  Her articles have appeared in Hit Parader, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, Vogue, Glamour, Playgirl and many others.  She worked on staff at Vogue, Fitness, and New Woman magazines. She taught at New York City colleges for fifteen years.  

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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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• David Hemingway

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• Julian Henry

  Julian Henry worked as a freelance writer for Melody Maker, Music Week, Underground and NME in the 1980s. In 2007 he joined Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment as global Head of Communication.

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• David Hepworth

  David Hepworth's career in journalism began with contributions to NME and Sounds. He joined the newly-launched Smash Hits  in 1979, and two years later – after turning it around financially – became its editor. In 1983 Hepworth launched Just Seventeen, a perennially popular magazine for teenage girls, and in 1984 Looks. He subsequently launched several other magazines, including Q (1986), More (1987), Empire (1988), Mojo (1993), Heat (1999) and The Word (2003).

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• Will Hermes

  A senior critic for Rolling Stone and a longtime contributor to National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered", Will Hermes writes for the The New York Times and is the author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Faber & Faber, 2011), an acclaimed history of the New York City music scene in the 1970s.

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• Martin Herron

  Martin Herron has written for Melody Maker, City Limits and Get Rhythm. He is currently working on 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

  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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• Clinton Heylin

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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. He died after a long illness in September 2011.

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• William Higham

  William Higham is a consultant specialising in both marketing and research for on- and off-line music and lifestyle brands. He has over 20 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

  Holdship is a former editor of CREEM, BAM, HITS, and Daily Variety, among others, and a longtime contributor to such publications as the early SPIN, Musician, MOJO, and damn near every "alternative" newspaper and magazine Los Angeles ever produced.

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• Roy Hollingworth

  Roy Hollingworth was a regular reviewer and writer for Melody Maker in the '70s. He later relocated to New York and began a parallel life as a singer, later leading the band Roy & the Rams. Roy died in London in March 2002.

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• Danny Holloway

  Danny contributed to Sounds, Time Out and International Times before joining NME’s staff in 1972. He lasted less than two years at the NME. Having met Chris Blackwell, he joined Island and remained there until 1996. Holloway is back living in Los Angeles and occasionally contributes to Wax Poetics.

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• Nick Hornby

  Nick Hornby 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 published by Viking.

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• Barney Hoskyns

  RBP’s 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. HOTEL CALIFORNIA: SINGER-SONGWRITERS & COCAINE COWBOYS IN THE L.A. CANYONS, is published in 2006 in the UK by Fourth Estate and in the US by John Wiley & Sons. An accompanying CD, BACK TO CALIFORNIA, was released by Rhino. His acclaimed biography of Tom Waits, LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD (2009), was published by Faber in the UK and Broadway in the US. TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT: THE POWER & EXCESS OF LED ZEPPELIN is published by Faber in September 2012.

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• Mick Houghton

  Mick Houghton wrote for a variety of music publications during the ‘70s, including Circus, Zigzag, Let It Rock, Sounds and Time Out before stumbling into a job in the Warner Bros. press office in 1979. He never saw this as a permanent career move but within a year he had set up the independent Brassneck Publicity where he’s looked after an extraordinary array of people ever since. He began writing again in 2001, first for Mojo and later for Uncut.

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• Zoë Street Howe

  Zoe Street Howe managed to interview all four original members of The Slits – Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt and Paloma 'Palmolive' Romero – for her biography of the band.

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• Richard Howell

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• Mark Hudson

  Mark Hudson is the world music critic of the Daily Telegraph, but also writes for the Observer Music Monthly, the Guardian and many other publications. His books include Our Grandmothers' Drums, Coming back Brockens and The Music in my Head, endorsed by Heat magazine as one of the great rock'n'roll novels.

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• David Hughes

  David Hughes, MBE, wrote for Disc and Music Echo from 1967 to 1972, and then worked for EMI, ending his career there as head of Corporate Public Relations.

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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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• Dave Hull

  Dave Hull, aka "The Hullabalooer", is a Los Angeles radio personality voted one of the top ten LA radio personalities of all time. He also contributed to KRLA Beat

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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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• Ken Hunt

  Ken Hunt is a freelance music critic, obituarist (The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald and The Times) and "occasional lyricist". He is also contributor to numerous music reference works ranging from The Rough Guide to World Music (Europe, Asia & Pacific) (2009) to The Album – A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations (2012). 

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• James Hunter

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• Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

  Ludovic is the rock music correpondent for the Financial Times.

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• John Hutchinson

  John Hutchinson (pictured in 1983) wrote his first music article on Eric Clapton; it was followed a year or so later by an interview with him. Other pieces followed, and in the early 1980s he became a Contributing Editor to Musician magazine in New York, as well as to the short-lived Record magazine, which was owned by Rolling Stone.

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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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• 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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• Chrissie Hynde

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• Chris Ingham

  A highly-respected jazz musician, Chris lectures at Anglia Ruskin University and is the author of The Rough Guide To Frank Sinatra and The Rough Guide To The Beatles.

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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.

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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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• Colin Irwin

  Colin Irwin joined Melody Maker in the mid-1970s. He was to spend over 12 years there, writing the folk pages throughout that time, but also graduating to become Features Editor and Assistant Editor. He now contributes to fROOTS, Mojo, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Observer Music Monthly.

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• Larry Jaffee

  Larry Jaffee is a freelance writer living in New York. His writing, much of which has been music-related, has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vibe and Record Collector.

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• Juliette Jagger

  Juliette Jagger is a Canadian music journalist. Her byline has appeared in such media outlets as The Huffington Post, Noisey and This Week In Palestine. She currently is associate editor at CelebrityAccess, and editor of the National Music Centre’s online platform Amplify. She is also the creator of ongoing interview series Origin Stories, which uncovers the stories behind hit songs.

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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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• Billy James

  Billy James is a publicist and talent scout who worked with Bob Dylan, the Byrds and others at Columbia Records in the 1960s. He lives in Redwood City,California.

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• Dawn James

  Dawn wrote extensively about pop for Rave and Mirabelle in the 1960s.

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• Hugh Jarse

  Hugh Jarse is a pseudonym for Kris Needs

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• Jean-Marie

  Jean-Marie is a pseudonym of Dawn James

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• Nicholas Jennings

  Nicholas Jennings is one of Canada’s most respected music journalists. He was the music critic and feature writer for Maclean's magazine from 1980 to 2000 and is the author of Before the Gold Rush: Flashbacks to the Dawn of the Canadian Sound (Penguin).

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• Tamara Jermott

  Tamara Jermott is Robin Katz in disguise

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• Howard Johnson

  Howard Johnson (pictured left, with Anvil frontman Lips) began his love affair with classic rock when he saw Motörhead at Manchester's Free Trade Hall back in '78. Less than a year later, "HoJo" was producing his own metal fanzine, Phoenix, flogging it in local shops and outside gigs. He began writing for Kerrang! in 1981 and – after a 10-year spell there – went on to edit Metal Hammer and RAW. He has since worked with Iron Maiden's management team, and has also written a book on AC/DC, Get Your Jumbo Jet Out Of My Airport. Howard is the co-founder of Rock Candy magazine, dedicated to classic '70s and '80s hard rock.

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• James Johnson

  James Johnson wrote for the NME between 1970 and 1974. He then worked as the Evening Standard's music writer for six years and later contributed to other newspapers including the Daily Mirror and Daily Express. He now enjoys peace and quiet in the English countryside where he is converting and living in an 18th century former ginger beer factory.

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• Pete Johnson

  Pete Johnson was one of the main pop writers on The Los Angeles Times from 1965 to 1969.

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• Maura Johnston

  Maura Johnston has written for the New York Times, Time, The Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone, among others. In 2013 she founded the culture periodical Maura Magazine. She was the founding editor of music blog Idolator and served as the music editor at the Village Voice.

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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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• Ed Jones

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• Max Jones

  Max Jones co-founded the magazine Jazz Music in 1942. After 1944, he had had a full-time job writing features for the Melody Maker in the column "Collectors' Corner". In the following years he gained more and more high recognition as a proven expert of New Orleans Jazz, swing, and mainstream jazz. He was the first jazz musician to become a professional journalist and was a model and a mentor for a younger generation of rock critics and authors. Max died in August 1993.
  

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• Nick Jones

  Nick Jones, son of legendary jazz journalist Max Jones, wrote for the Melody Maker from 1964 to the end of 1967, before turning on, tuning in and dropping out. He now runs a music and arts charity on England's South Coast.

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• Peter Jones

  Peter Jones was Record Mirror's editor and chief writer during the 1960s. He died in 2015.

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• Norman Jopling

  Norman Jopling began writing for Record Mirror in 1961 at the age of 17, interviewing and profiling the era’s pop stars, and instigating a pioneering coverage of the hitherto-neglected area of American rhythm & blues. In 1988 he rejoined the music industry, and has since originated a large number of reissue albums for many record companies. He lives in North London, and is currently completing a book about his early career as a music reporter.

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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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• David Kamp

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• Robin Katz

  Robin Katz is best known for her weekly Jackson Five (J5) page in Record Mirror. Over four decades she has written for Disc, Sounds, Record Mirror, NME, Black Echoes and Let It Rock. She toured with Springsteen for Street Life and landed a cover story on Patti Smith in Sounds. Robin now lives in New Jersey.
  

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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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• 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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• Elmo Keep

  Elmo Keep is an Australian freelance writer covering film, television and music.

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• David A. Keeps

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• Mark Kemp

  Mark has written new and features, columns, essays and reviews since the late 1980s for Option, Rolling Stone, THe New York Times, The Charlotte Observer, Harp, Paste, Business North Carolina and many other publications. He has served as music editor of Rolling Stone and vice president of music editorial for MTV Networks.

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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, and Apathy for the Devil, a memoir of the '70s published by Faber.

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• Peter Kent

  Peter Kent was an alias used by New Musical Express soul and R&B specialist Roger St. Pierre.

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• Gary Kenton

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• Andy Kershaw

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• Ted Kessler

  Ted Kessler has written for NME, Q, The Observer and many other publications.

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• Richard Kick

  Richard Kick is a pseudonym for Richard Cabut

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• Penny Kiley

  Penny Kiley began her freelance career as the Melody Maker's token punk rocker (and Liverpool correspondent) in the late 1970s and also wrote for Smash Hits during the early '80s. She was also pop columnist for the Liverpool Echo for several years.

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• Jason King

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• Michele Kirsch

  Michele Kirsch wrote extensively for NME and City Limits.

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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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• Al Kooper

  Al Kooper began his career in 1958 at age 14 playing guitar in the Royal Teens. In 1965 he played the catchy organ part on Dylan’s "Like A Rolling Stone" and continued his sound on the albums Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, helping Dylan cement his new sound in place.His enduring autobiography Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards is in its third printing and selling better than ever.

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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.

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• J. Kordosh

  J. Kordosh was born in 1950, in Detroit, Michigan.  He began writing for Creem magazine in 1980. He also wrote for Musician and BAM. He died in October 2017.
  

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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. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

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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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• Neil Kulkarni

  Neil Kulkarni has been writing about pop since 1994 in a career characterised by an unerring determination to make his writing the very best on the planet. Starting at Melody Maker in 1994, he has subsequently written for DJ, Bizarre, Uncut, Terrorizer, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Bang, Plan B, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Loose Lips Sink Ships and the Quietus website.

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• Iman Lababedi

  Iman Lababedi was a freelance rock critic in the 1980s, took a break of 20 years, and has been writing and editing the music blog rocknyc.live since 2009. He considers this to be in many ways a golden age for pop music and hopes you are enjoying it too.

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• Steve LaBate

  Steve LaBate was an associate editor of Paste magazine between 2003 and 2010

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• Wesley Laine

  Wesley Laine is a pseudonym for Norman Jopling

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• Dave Laing

  Dave Laing was one of the principal writers for Let It Rock.

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• Dave Laing (Australia)

  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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• Pippa Lang

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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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• Larry LeBlanc

  Canadian music journalist, and recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, Larry LeBlanc has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, the Globe & Mail, and Maclean's. He is currently senior writer of the weekly U.S. entertainment trade CelebrityAccess.
  

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• The Legend!

  The Legend! is Everett True under another name.

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• Spencer Leigh

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• Tony Leigh

  Tony Leigh wrote for KRLA Beat in the mid-'60s.

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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 help launch Uncut. Paul composes the Guardian's daily Critics' Picks and has introduced more than 530 new acts via his Guardian online New Band Of The Day feature.

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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, Creem, The Los Angeles Times, Mojo and many other fly-by-night publications.

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• Arthur Levy

  Arthur Levy founded and edited Zoo World, a bi-weekly music magazine published between 1972 and 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and nationally circulated in the USA. Subsequently he has worked for Capitol-EMI, Arista and the Island Def Jam group.

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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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• John Lewis

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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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• Nancy Lewis

  Nancy Lewis wrote for Fabulous in the early '60s, and then wrote for Record Mirror. She also was press officer for Track Records. Nancy died in December 2019.

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• Alan Light

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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

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• Miriam Linna

  Miriam Linna was the original drummer for the Cramps. She has run the Brooklyn-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986 with her husband, the producer and singer-songwriter Billy Miller.

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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 Oxford American.

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• Carl Loben

  Carl Loben has been a music journalist for 20 years. He wrote for the weekly music paper Melody Maker for most of the 1990s, and was on the staff at DJ magazine for most of the noughties. He’s currently a freelance journalist, based in Brighton.

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• Nick Logan

  Nick Logan was the editor of the New Musical Express - a.k.a. the NME - in its '70s heyday. He later founded The Face and Arena.

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• Pat Long

  Pat Long was Assistant Editor of the NME and, later, Head Of News Development at The Times and Sunday Times. His book The History of the NME was published in 2012 by Portico Books. Pat passed away after brain cancer in August 2018.

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• Jeff Lorez

  Jeff "Lorez" Vasishta started his writing career at the UK based Blues & Soul Magazine in 1987. He has also written for Billboard, Vibe, Arena and many others. He is currently a columnist for the daily newspaper AM New York.

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• Tim Lott

  Before becoming a well-known novelist and cultural commentator, Tim Lott spent the mid-'70s writing about rock'n'roll for Record Mirror and other publications.

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• Gary Lucas

  A world-class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer, Gary Lucas is an international recording artist with over 20 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television. He wrote for Zoo World and other publications in the '70s.

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• Robert Dean Lurie

  Robert Dean Lurie is a writer and musician based in Tempe, Arizona. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and is the author of No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church (Verse Chorus Press, 2009) and We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie (Liberty Island Media, 2016). His essays on arts and culture have appeared in National Review, Blurt Magazine, The American Conservative, Crux Literary Journal, Front Porch Republic, and Chronicles.

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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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• Dorian Lynskey

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• Val Mabbs

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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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• Stuart Maconie

  In his career as a writer and journalist, broadcaster and author Maconie has written for Q, Word Magazine, Elle, The Times, The Guardian, the Evening Standard, Daily Express, Select, Mojo, Country Walking, Deluxe and was an assistant editor for the NME.

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• Pete Makowski

  Pete Makowski wrote for Sounds in the 1970s and 1980s, and has also written for Kerrang, Metal Hammer and other magazines.

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• Bruce Malamut

  Bruce Malamut has written for magazines such as Crawdaddy, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Circus, Penthouse, and Creem.

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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 Mamis

  As a music journalist, among Toby's writing and editorial credits include regular stints with Performance Magazine, Zoo World, Kal Rudman's Friday Morning Quarterback, and CREEM Magazine; and freelance contributions to, among others, Circus, Crawdaddy, Hit Parader, Melody Maker, New Musical Express, Oui, Penthouse, Rolling Stone, Scholastic Magazine and Sounds.

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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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• Julian Marszalek

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• Cary J Martin

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• Gavin Martin

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• Steve Mascord

  Steve Mascord parachuted into rock writing at the height of late-'80s hard rock excess and departed as soon as Kurt Cobain purchased his first cardigan.

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• Neil Mason

  Neil Mason cut his teeth as a sub editor on dance magazine Muzik before joining Melody Maker as Albums Editor, becoming Reviews Editor during the death-rattle period. Neil founded and edits Electronic Sound magazine.

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• Joe Matera

  Joe Matera has contributed extensively 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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• Paul Mathur

  Paul Mathur wrote for Melody Maker, Blitz, Spin and other magazines.

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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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• Steve Matteo

  Steve Matteo is the author of Let It Be (Bloomsbury), published in 2004, part of the 33 1/3 series of books on individual albums. It was one of the featured books on the Abbey Road studios store website in 2020 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Let It Be album and film. He is also the author of Dylan (Sterling), published in 1996. In addition, he contributed to The Beatles in Context, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Publications he has written for include The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, Time Out New York, Rolling Stone, Spin, Interview, Elle and Salon.

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• Keith Matthews

  Keith Matthews began his career in music journalism reporting for Record Mirror in the 1960s before moving into financial services. He was school chums with Tony Jackson of The Searchers and narrowly missed out on a job with Brian Epstein's management agency.

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• James Maycock

  James has written features for The Independent, Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Times — and magazines like Mojo, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Observer Music Monthly, amongst others. He has also directed and produced radio programmes and films for the BBC.

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• Jamie McCluskey III

  Jamie McCluskey is one of the many pseudonyms for KRLA Beat's Eden.

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• Ed McCormack

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• John McCready

  John McCready has written for NME, The Face, MOJO, The Word and many more publications, and has produced music documentaries for the BBC and ITV. He was also a resident DJ at the Hacienda in Manchester for five years. He is now a lecturer at Manchester School of Sound Recording.

   

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• Dave McCullough

  Dave McCullough wrote extensively for Sounds in the late '70s and early '80s.

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• Evelyn McDonnell

  Evelyn McDonnell has been head-banging against the glass ceiling of music criticism for a really long time. She has written or coedited five books and counting, including Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop and Rap and Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock’n’Roll. When she’s not writing for the LA Times and elsewhere, she’s trying to help Loyola Marymount University students figure out journalism and new media. 

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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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• Alan McGee

  Alan McGee is the legendary founder of Creation Records, home of superstars from Oasis to Primal Scream.

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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. Now retired, Rick contributes features, as well as music, book and movie reviews, for a media analysis website called culturecourt.com. In 2013 Rick started up THE TERMINAL PRESS, and currently publishes books about the writer J.G. Ballard, as well as fiction and cultural analysis.

   

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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. He currently runs the French-music site Rockfort.

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• Craig McLean

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• Scott McLennan

  Scott McLennan is an Adelaide-based writer whose many interviews have appeared in Rip It Up (2002–2013), Onion (2005), Attitude (2004–2005), and mX (2013–2015), a free daily commuter newspaper published in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

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• Phil McMullen

  Phil McMullen was the founding editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine.

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• Tom McWilliams

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• Helen Mead

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• Tim Meade

  Tim Meade lives in Hong Kong and is still not sure what a ‘False Barnyard’ is.

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• Dick Meadows

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• Andrew Means

  Andrew Means wrote extensively for Melody Maker between 1970 and 1973, with primary responsibility for folk coverage. He has subsequently written for Sing Out!, Billboard and many other publications.

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• James Medd

  James Medd is a freelance writer who grew up on Radio 1, Smash Hits and a "100 Greatest Albums" special issue of Rolling Stone. Formerly Associate Editor of Esquire, he has written for The Word, Q, MOJO, The Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman and more.

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• Bob Mehr

  Bob Mehr has been a reporter and critic covering music for The Commercial Appeal since 2006. Mehr’s byline has also appeared in numerous national and international music magazines including SPIN, MOJO in the U.K. and German Rolling Stone, and his essays are regularly featured as part of CD reissues for labels like Rhino Records.

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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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• Ben Merlis

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• Bob Merlis

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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 worked 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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• Caitlin Moran

  Caitlin Moran began her career as a journalist for Melody Maker at the age of 16. She is the author of the bestselling How To Be A Woman. She is a broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".

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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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• Frances Morgan

  Frances Morgan was the editor of Plan B magazine. She has also written for Frieze, NME, Careless Talk Costs Lives, and New Statesman.

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• Jeffrey Morgan

  Jeffrey Morgan is the authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and The Stooges. That and a token will get him into the subway.

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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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• Bonnie J. Morris

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• Simon Morrison

  Simon is a writer, broadcaster and countercultural investigator.  Over the last 18 years he has written for everyone from The Guardian to Loaded magazine, presented television for Rapture TV and hosted radio programs for the likes of Galaxy. 

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• John Morthland

  A hugely-respected contributor to countless American publications from ROLLING STONE and CREEM to SPIN and the NEW YORK ROCKER, Austin-based Morthland was the author of THE BEST OF COUNTRY MUSIC and worked as a contributing editor at TEXAS MONTHLY. He died in March 2016.

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• Ann Moses

  Ann Moses was the editor of US pop monthly Tiger Beat and was also the West Coast correspondent for NME between 1968 and 1971.

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• Kate Mossman

  Kate Mossman is arts editor of the New Statesman, and writes for The Guardian and The Observer. She previously wrote for The Word.

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• Mr. Agreeable

  Mr. Agreeable is David Stubbs' foul-mouthed alter ego.

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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.

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• Jasper Murison-Bowie

  Jasper Murison-Bowie is RBP's Marketing and Communications Manager.

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• Peter Murphy (British)

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• Peter Murphy (Irish)

  Peter Murphy is a writer and journalist based in Dublin. He is a contributing editor with Dublin's Hot Press magazine, and he's contributed articles to Rolling Stone, Music Week, the Sunday Business Post, and other 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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• James Musker

  James Musker won first prize in the RBP-sponsored Wilko Johnson Writing Awards at Manchester's Louder Than Words festival in November 2015. He studies music journalism at the University of Chester.

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• Ben Myers

  Ben Myers is a former staff writer at Melody Maker and since the mid 90s has written for publications including MOJO, NME, Kerrang!, Time Out, Q, The Quietus, Alternative Press and 3:AM Magazine.

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• 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

  Since arriving in the U.S. in the mid-'70s, David Nathan has established himself as one of the premier music journalists and historians working in the area of black music and culture.

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• Mark Anthony Neal

  Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University. He has written and lectured extensively on black popular culture, black masculinity, sexism and homophobia in Black communities, and the history of popular music.

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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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• Paul Nelson

  Paul Nelson founded The Little Sandy Review and subsequently worked and wrote for Sing Out!, Hullabaloo, Circus and Rolling Stone. Paul died in 2006.

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• Jon Newey

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• Steve Newton

   

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• Kris Nicholson

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• Jacob Paul Nielsen

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• Hugh Nolan

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• Tom Nolan

  Tom Nolan wrote for Cheetah, the LA Times and Rolling Stone in the '60s. He has subsequently written for the Wall Street Journal and been a contributing editor to California and Los Angeles magazines. Nolan's acclaimed biography of crime writer Ross MacDonald was published by Scribner in 1999, and Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw by Norton in 2010. He lives in Glendale, Los Angeles.

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• Dan Nooger

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• Philip Norman

  Philip Norman has an international reputation as a chronicler of popular music and culture.

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• Tony Norman

  Tony Norman is a UK writer and musician who started work in the '60s as the London pop correspondent of teenage magazine Jackie, before contributing to NME and other publications.

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• Richard North

  Richard North is a pseudonym for Richard Cabut

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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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• Michael Oberman

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• Ronnie Oberman

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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. Glenn passed away on April 7, 2017.

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• Lucy O'Brien

  Lucy O'Brien is a writer/academic and broadcaster. She is author of Dusty: The Classic Biography, published in a new anniversary edition in 2019; She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music (now in its 3^rd edition); and Madonna: Like An Icon (2018). She has contributed to Q, Mojo, The Guardian, NME and The Quietus, and numerous anthologies such as Mute Records: Artists, Business, History (2018) and Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (2016). She played in all-girl band the Catholic Girls, and is currently working on a memoir about punk and feminism.

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• Alex Ogg

  Alex has written for several encyclopaedias, dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites, and compiled more than 100 album sleeve-notes.

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• Anthony O'Grady

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• Maureen O'Grady

  Maureen O'Grady wrote for, among other magazines, Boyfriend, Rave and 19 magazine. She then worked with ex-Beatles PR Tony Barrow, and as a Press Officer for Decca Records.

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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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• Tore Øien

  Tore ran a metal pub called Dovregubben's Hall in Stavanger, Norway. Organised the ONE metal concert, headlined by Theatre Of Tragedy. Has worked as a stage hand. Runs The History Of Metal page on Facebook.
  
  

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• Brendan O'Keeffe

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• Luis Oliveira

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• Rick O'Shea

  Rick O'Shea is a pseudonym for Ian Ravendale

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• Frank Owen

  Frank Owen was born in Manchester, England and in the mid 1980s began his career at Melody Maker. In 1987, he moved to New York and became the Music Editor at Spin magazine.  He has subsequently written for Playboy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Vibe, Elle, Miami New Times, Maxim, and many others.

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• Steve Pafford

  Steve Pafford has written about arts and entertainment types since the 1990s. Having trained from the floor up in UK music titles such as Q, MOJO and Record Collector, he's had his work featured in a wide variety of British, American and Australian media including the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, The Independent and the New York Times, as well as lifestyle publications F:S, Gay Times, GuySpy, QX and DNA, and the record-breaking exhibition David Bowie Is.

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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 freelancing at The Sunday Express. In 2011 she qualified as a life coach and is now freelancing at the Telegraph while building a coaching practice.

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• Tim Page

  Tim Page is a writer, editor, music critic, producer and professor. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the Washington Post and other publications, and also the editor and biographer of the American author Dawn Powell.

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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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• Robert Palmer

  The late Robert Palmer was the chief pop music critic for The New York Times and also wrote for such publications as Rolling Stone. His books included Deep Blues and Rock & Roll: An Unruly History. 2009 saw the publication of Blues & Chaos, Anthony DeCurtis' anthology of Palmer pieces.

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• Julie Panebianco

  Julie Panebianco has written for Boston Phoenix,  Musician, Matter, NME, among others.

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• Pete Paphides

  Formerly The Times’ chief rock critic, Pete Paphides has been writing about music ever since 1991. Prior to joining The Times in 2005, Pete wrote for Mojo, Q, The Guardian and Observer Music Monthly.

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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

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• 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 head of press at Island Records in 1977. He founded the Coalition media group in 1996. Rob died in 2008.

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• Maureen Paton

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• Joe Nick Patoski

  Joe Nick Patoski has written about music for many publications including Creem and Phonograph Record.

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• Siân Pattenden

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• Archie Patterson

  The world's leading authority on "Eurock", Archie published the fanzine of that name from 1973 to 1992 which is now on display in the Museum of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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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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• Sylvia Patterson

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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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• Jim Payne

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• Mark Paytress

  Mark Paytress is a journalist, author and broadcaster. A regular contributor to MOJO magazine, his work has also appeared in numerous publications including The Guardian, Radio Times, Q, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, Maxim, La Repubblica and Record Collector.

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• Mal Peachey

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• Deanne Pearson

  Deanne Pearson wrote for NME, Smash Hits and The Face in the late 1970s and early 1980s

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• Rick Pearson

  Rick Pearson is a music critic for the Evening Standard who has written for MOJO and the Royal Society of Arts Journal.

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• Stephen K. Peeples

  Stephen K. Peeples is a features writer and photographer for KHTS Radio News (hometownstation.com) and SCVTV’s  SCVNews.com. He also writes the occasional post for his own website and independently provides Web editorial and social media services for select clients.

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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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• Neil Perry

  Neil Perry wrote for Sounds from 1985 until 1989 before moving on to write for Melody Maker, Select and Kerrang. In 1998 he joined the staff of the fledgling Guardian website, eventually becoming Night Editor on the news desk. He spent almost a decade there before moving to Oslo, Norway, in 2007.

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• Lisa Jane Persky

  An early participant in the CBGB's scene, Lisa Jane Persky was a founding photographer/writer of the New York Rocker. Since then, her work as a journalist, photographer and collage artist has appeared in L.A.Weekly, Mojo, Q, Uncut, and The Los Angeles Times among others.

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• Holger Petersen

  Holger Petersen is a record producer, label owner, broadcaster, author, educator, festival producer and album collector. In 1975 he co-founded Canada's Stony Plain Records. His first book Talking Music: Blues Radio and Roots Music was published in 2011 by Insomniac Press.  

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• Etienne Petit

  Etienne Petit lives and works in Paris.

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• Mark Petracca

  Mark J. Petracca (AKA Dusty Wright) is the owner/co-founder of the CultureCatch.com and former editor-in-chief of Creem and Prince's New Power Generation magazines as well as a writer of films, fiction, and music.

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• Binky Philips

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• Bill Phillips

  Bill Phillips is a pseudonym for Keith Altham

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• Greg Phillips

  Melbourne-based Greg Phillips produces Music in Action, produces and edits Australian Musician, as well as freelancing for other publications such as Guitar and Bass (UK), Music Inc (USA) The Music Network and Australian Guitar magazine.

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• John Pidgeon

  A music journalist for most of the '70s, writing for New Musical Express and, later, Melody Maker, as well as editing the monthly Let It Rock, John Pidgeon (pictured with Ian McLagan) was also a songwriter and radio producer, co-writing a song for Ringo Starr 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, John was approached in 1999 to run BBC Radio Entertainment. After rejoining the real world late in 2005, John produced a Radio 4 feature series presented by Ian Rankin, about music in modern crime fiction.

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• Robin Platts

  Robin Platts worked as a freelance music journalist for most of the 1990s. His work appeared in MOJO, Goldmine, Discoveries, ICE and the Tracking Angle.

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• Mark Plummer

  Mark Plummer (aka Brixton Key) joined Melody Maker as a fulltime staff writer in 1970. After leaving the MM, Plummer worked in PR, promotions, and management. His first novel, Charlie Six, was released to critical acclaim in 2011. His website is www.WhereIsCharlieSix.com.

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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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• Sonia Poulton

  Sonia Poulton wrote for Muzik and other publications between 1987 and 1998. She currently writes for the Daily Mail and other newspapers.

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• Edwin Pouncey

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• Fiona Russell Powell

  Fiona Russell Powell was a major feature writer for The Face magazine in the '80s and '90s.

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• Devon Powers

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• Simon Price

  In an illustrious career as a music journalist, Simon Price has written extensively for Melody Maker, the Independent on Sunday and a huge number of other publications. Simon currently lectures in Music Journalism at the BIMM Institute in Brighton.

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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

  Andrew Purcell is a freelance writer and broadcaster, based in New York, working primarily for BBC radio, the Guardian and the Sunday Herald.

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• Push

  Push worked for Melody Maker from 1985 to 1995, starting out as an occasional reviewer before progressing to writing lead reviews and main features. He was one of the instigators and editors of Stone Free, the paper's first dance music section, and also took charge of Info Freako, answering readers' questions about anything and everything to do with music.

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• 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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• Al Quint

  Al Quint founded the Suburban Voice punk zine in the '80s.

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• Radio Pete

  Radio Pete was an alias for the rock writer/manager/performer Mark Bliesener.

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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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• Mac Randall

  Mac Randall has written for Musician, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Observer and many other publications, and is the author of Exit Music: The Radiohead Story. He is editor-in-chief of Music Alive.

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• Ian Ravendale

  Ian Ravendale wrote extensively for Sounds, Kerrang! and the short-lived Pop Star Weekly.

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• Steven X Rea

  Born in London, England, and raised in New York City, Steven Rea moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. His work as a music journalist - mostly under the byline Steven X. Rea - included contributions (from 1976 to 1982) to Crawdaddy, Music World, Phonograph Record Magazine, High Fidelity, Folk Scene, Los Angeles, New West, Trouser Press, Oui, Chic, Record World, Wax Paper (the innovative Warner Bros. Records in-house publication) and, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

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• Lindsay Reade

  Lindsay Reade was Tony Wilson's first wife and documented their relationship in Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson. She worked at Factory Records, and managed the Stone Roses. She also co-wrote Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis. She lives in Manchester.

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• Steve Redhead

  Steve Redhead was Professor of Sports Media, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. He is author of various books and articles on subculture, popular culture, popular music, sport and media cultures.

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• Rochelle Reed

  Rochelle wrote extensively for KRLA Beat in the late 1960s.

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• Penny Reel

  Penny Reel was 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. Penny passed away in August 2018.

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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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• Simon Reynolds

  The widely-acclaimed author of Blissed Out, The Sex Revolts (with his wife Joy Press) and Generation Ecstacy, London-born but now New York-based Simon started out as a MELODY MAKER staff writer in the late '80s and has since gone on to freelance for SPIN, the VILLAGE VOICE, the NEW YORK TIMES, THE WIRE, and UNCUT.

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• Richard Riegel

  Richard Riegel started his career writing for Lester Bangs at Creem. He has subsequently contributed to The Village Voice, Harp, Launch, Real Groove, The Washington Post, New York, Phonograph Record Magazine, Who Put the Bomp?, and his own Loose Palace fanzine, among other periodicals.

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• Tim Riley

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• Dave Rimmer

  A key SMASH HITS and FACE writer in the early-mid 1980s, Rimmer also authored Like Punk Never Happened, a cult study of '80s pop. He spent the late '80s and '90s in Berlin and Budapest, watching the Wall fall in his second book, Once Upon a Time in the East, and has contributed to dozens of publications in the UK, US and Germany. The Look, Dave's book about the New Romantics, was published in 2003.

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• Josh Rinkoff

  Josh Rinkoff has his own web-site called The Fix. www.thefixonline.com which also e-mails a monthly comedy e-zine to anyone who registers. Josh also DJ's at the Arts Theatre, Soho, London, every Monday (the last Monday of the month being Rock's Backpages-affiliated.) The rest of his time is devoted to making music videos, filming and writing comedy that is yet to be bought by any major TV or film company.

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• John Robb

  Former frontman with the great Membranes, Robb has interviewed everyone from Primal Scream to Nirvana for publications such as SOUNDS. He is the author of THE NINETIES: WHAT THE F**K WAS ALL THAT ABOUT?!, acclaimed biographies on the Charlatans and the Stone Roses, and the new THE NORTH WILL RISE AGAIN... AN ORAL HISTORY OF MANCHESTER MUSIC (Aurum Press).

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• Ira Robbins

  Co-founder and guiding force of the legendary TROUSER PRESS, Robbins was later the pop music editor and chief critic of NEWSDAY. He has also written for ROLLING STONE, SPIN, MOJO, PULSE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORK POST, CREEM, CIRCUS, MUSICIAN, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and many other publications. His invaluable TROUSER PRESS RECORD GUIDE was published in five editions and is now available online at www.trouserpress.com. Robbins, who works as Editorial Director of Premiere Networks in New York, self-published his first novel, KICK IT 'TIL IT BREAKS, in 2009 and is at work on a second.

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• Chris Roberts

  Chris Roberts lives in West London. He has written about music, films and books for many publications and websites including Classic Rock, The Guardian, Prog, Uncut, Melody Maker, NME, Sounds, Elle, Ikon, The Daily Telegraph, Empire, London Lite, Electronic and the eMusic and Quietus sites.

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• Sandy Robertson

  Sandy Robertson was features editor of Sounds, and subsequently associate editor of Penthouse in the UK. He was the first UK writer to interview/pick up on Madonna, REM, Meat Loaf, Kirsty MacColl and Aimee Mann.

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• Wayne Robins

  Wayne Robins has been writing about rock since 1969. In the 1970s he wrote for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, but especially Creem. He subsequently wrote for Newsday and New York Newsday.

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• Steve Roeser

  Steve Roeser contributed major features and interviews to Goldmine in the 1990s

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• Jude Rogers

  Jude Rogers began writing about music in the summer of 1994. She co-founded Smoke: A London Peculiar in 2003, a quarterly fanzine-shaped love-letter to the city, and began freelancing for The Word soon after. She has written for The Guardian, The Observer and the New Statesman, and became a Mercury Music Prize judge in 2007

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• Caryn Rose

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• Cynthia Rose

  A frequent contributor to NME in the ’80s, American-born Rose has also edited CITY LIMITS and contributed to U.S. publications like ROLLING STONE, THE NEW STATESMAN, and the HERALD TRIBUNE. She is the author of LIVING IN AMERICA (about James Brown) and DESIGN AFTER DARK (about dancefloor style). Now based in Seattle, where for five years she was a staff reporter for the SEATTLE TIMES, Rose currently works as a freelance web designer and consultant.

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• Steven Rosen

  Steven Rosen has written for dozens of publications, including Guitar Player, Guitar World, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Creem, Circus and Musician. He is the author of such books as Wheels of Confusion: The Story of Black Sabbath, currently in its third printing, and acts as west coast editor for the prestigious Japanese magazine Player.

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• Steven R Rosen

  Steven R. Rosen contributes freelance arts stories from Los Angeles to several publications, including a Cinema column for Harp magazine. He was the Denver Post's movie critic from 1997-2002.

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• Peter Ross

  Peter Ross is an editor at the Sunday Herald in Scotland.

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• Ron Ross

  Ron Ross contributed regularly to Phonograph Record, Circus and other publications in the '70s. He edited Andrew Loog Oldham's autobiography Stoned and is currently working with Oldham on another volume of memoirs.

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• Nicholas Rothwell

  Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for The Australian newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with several works of non-fiction to his name.

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• Mark Rowland

  Mark Rowland spent a decade as executive editor of Musician magazine and wrote narrations for the best-selling multi-media books We Interrupt this Broadcast and And the Crowd Goes Wild. His extensive background in print journalism includes hundreds of articles for publications as diverse as Esquire, American Film, and the Los Angeles Times.

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• Marc Rowlands

  Marc Rowlands is a freelance writer based in Manchester, UK. He was formerly a section editor of that city's now defunct listings magazine City Life and his freelance work has previously appeared in Jockey Slut, Arena, Attitude, Observer Music Monthly and The Guardian. He has written for the Guardian Guide on a weekly basis since 2001.

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• Chris Rowley

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• Lillian Roxon

  Lillian Roxon wrote about pop for the Sydney Morning Herald and the New York Daily & Sunday News

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• Mark Rozzo

   

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• Raphael Rubinstein

  Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based writer and curator whose books include a collection of micronarratives about contemporary art, The Miraculous (Paper Monument/N+1 Books, 2014), the forthcoming Negative Work: The Turn to the Provisional in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023) and several collections of poetry. At the end of the 1970s, he played guitar in The Tenant, a no-wave-related band in New York that left behind one self-produced single, 'Manifestation of Your Sickness'/'T.V. Pharmaceuticals,' which can be heard on YouTube. He is currently Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.

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• Bob Ruggiero

  Bob Ruggiero has been writing about music, interviewing musicians, and reviewing concerts, records, and films for 25+ years. He has been with the alternative newsweekly The Houston Press since 1997.

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• Rosalind Russell

  Rosalind Russell began her career in pop writing on Jackie magazine in Dundee in 1967. After a brief detour round a couple of local papers, she went to work for Disc & Music Echo in Fleet Street in 1970. When Disc merged with Record Mirror in 1975, Russell went with it. Leaving in the mid-1980s to go freelance, Russell worked for the London Evening Standard. She left to go freelance again in 1989, later working for The Independent, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. 

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• Tony Russell

  A music scholar of great repute, Russell has written about blues, country and other American musics for MOJO, THE GUARDIAN, and numerous specialist magazines. He is the author of books such as The Blues: from Robert Johnson to Robert Cray and the seminal Blacks, Whites and Blues. In March 2021, his Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records was published by Oxford University Press.

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• William Russo

  Bill Russo (June 25, 1928 – January 11, 2003) was an American composer, arranger, and musician from Chicago, Illinois.

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• Ngaire Ruth

  Ngaire Ruth was a regular contributor to Melody Maker.

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• Chris Salewicz

  A leading feature writer on NME and THE FACE in the ’70s and ’80s, Salewicz’s books include a sumptuously-illustrated biography of Bob Marley, whom he knew well, and RUDE BOY, about his adventures in Jamaica. 2006 saw the publication of his definitive Joe Strummer biography REDEMPTION SONG.

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• Leyla Sanai

  Leyla Sanai started writing for the NME aged 17 while at school. She freelanced for them through the rest of school and during a year out and then reluctantly left London to study medicine in Edinburgh.

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• Robert Sandall

  For some years the chief rock critic for the London SUNDAY TIMES, Sandall also contributed to Q, MOJO, ROLLING STONE, GQ and WORD. He was also Director of Publicity at Virgin Records in London, and co-host of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 3 show "Mixing It". Tragically, Robert succumbed to cancer in July 2010.

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• Ellen Sander

  Ellen Sander was Saturday Review's rock critic in the mid-late sixties and also wrote on rock for Vogue, The Realist, Cavalier, The L.A. Free Press, the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure section and others.

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• Daryl Sanders

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• Victoria Sandler

  Victoria Sandler has written about music for Mojo and other publications. She now works in television.

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• Gene Santoro

  Gene Santoro is the author of several books, including Highway 61 Revisited, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus.

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• Joe Sasfy

  Joe Sasfy wrote extensively for Washington DC paper Unicorn Times. He also wrote for the Washington Post and the Washington City Paper. He's currently involved with Citizen Vinyl, a pressing plant/cafe/bar/recording studio/record store  in Asheville, North Carolina and owns a pizza parlor there as well.

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• Metal Mike Saunders

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• Jon Savage

  The author of the award-winning social history of the late '70s, ((England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Jon (pictured in 1975) made his name on SOUNDS and later wrote for THE FACE, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, the VILLAGE VOICE, and MOJO. He writes and lives on the island of Anglesey, Wales, where he is working on a history of 20th Century Youth culture.

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• Tony Scherman

  Tony Scherman has been a journalist and non-fiction author since the early 1980s. A former boss, Bill Flanagan, now Executive Vice President of MTV, wrote that "Tony Scherman is one of the best pure writers ever to come out of music journalism". He has written for dozens of magazines, and his two books are Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story (1999) and POP: The Genius of Andy Warhol (2009). His work has been widely anthologized.

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• Karen Schlosberg

  Karen Schlosberg has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Boston Phoenix, Boston Herald, Worcester Telegram, Providence Journal, Boston Globe, Musician and Boston Rock.

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• Fred Schruers

  Fred Schruers' writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Circus, Premiere and Entertainment Weekly. Fred is currently a senior writer for TheWrap.com.

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• Dave Schulps

  Dave Schulps’s 30-plus-year career as a music journalist encompasses the founding of the timeless Trouser Press with fellow RBP contributor Ira Robbins. He has also written over the years for Cashbox, Circus, Gig, Crawdaddy!, Hit Parader, Sounds, Musician, Guitar World, Walrus, BAM, Grindstone, Uncut and The Big Takeover. Dave currently resides in Los Angeles.

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• Andy Schwartz

  Andy Schwartz was the editor of New York Rocker for several years. He has subsequently worked in the music industry in various capacities.

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• Bud Scoppa

  L.A.-based contributor to ROLLING STONE, PHONOGRAPH RECORD et al, and author of books such as THE BYRDS, Scoppa is currently Editor of HITS magazine and a regular sleevenote-writer for Rhino Records.

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• Ken Scrudato

  Ken Scrudato has covered music, travel, hotels, nightlife, art, fashion and penguin breeding for many of the top independent US style and culture publications, including BlackBook, Filter, Flaunt, SOMA, Nylon, and Surface.

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• Gene Sculatti

  A contributor to both Mojo-Navigator and Crawdaddy in their '60s heydays, Gene has subsequently written for Creem, Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times. He's a former Billboard editor and the author of The Catalog of Cool, Too Cool and San Franciscan Nights. As Vic Tripp, he hosts the weekly radio show Atomic Cocktail at www.luxuriamusic.com.

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• Davin Seay

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• Will Self

  The brilliant novelist, short-story writer and broadcaster has also written a number of scabrous, insightful music pieces in the course of the last decade, mostly for THE OBSERVER.

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• Joel Selvin

  Veteran music critic of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE and author of landmark tomes like SUMMER OF LOVE, about the Haight-Ashbury scene, Selvin also contributes regularly to MOJO and other publications.

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• Paul Sexton

  Freelance print and broadcast journalist Paul Sexton has been writing about music and avoiding a proper job since he started with the occasionally-lamented pop weekly Record Mirror while still at school in 1977.

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• Harry Shapiro

  Harry Shapiro is the author of biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton,Alexis Korner, Graham Bond and a book called Waiting for the Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music. He has written for a number of magazines including Mojo, Record Collector and Blues in Britain.

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• Susin Shapiro

  Born at a very early age, Susin Shapiro (now Susin Fair) broke into rock and rolldom at Crawdaddy, went on to the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Circus, Sounds, the Daily News in NYC… and in 1993 began a 20-year stint at the New York Times as S.S. Fair... awesomeness reincarnate! 

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• Johnny Sharp

  Johnny (who wrote mostly as Johnny Cigarettes) wrote for NME from 1992 to 2000, before moving on to contribute to Vox, Loaded, Q, Mojo and The Guardian among others, as he still does today.

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• Greg Shaw

  Co-founder of the legendary MOJO NAVIGATOR R&R NEWS, one of the earliest rock zines, Greg was one of the godfathers of rock writing and chronicling. His Bomp Records label issued (and reissued) countless classics of psych, garage and power pop, and launched many musical careers. Tragically, Greg died from a diabetes-related heart attack in November 2004. He was 55.

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• William Shaw

  After working as an assistant editor at ZigZag, William Shaw wrote extensively for Smash Hits in the 1980s, and has subsequently written for publications including Blitz, Details, Select and many more.

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• Robert Shelton

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• Roger Shepherd

  Roger Shepherd is the founder of New Zealand's legendary Flying Nun label and the author of In Love with These Times, his account of the label's history.

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• Betsy Sherman

  Betsy Sherman wrote regularly for Boston Rock, and later wrote about movies for the Boston Globe.

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• Mark Shipper

  Mark Shipper was the founder and editor of one of the first and most influential rock fanzines, Flash. He later wrote for Phonograph Record Magazine and became editor of Radio & Records. He writes the Shipper Report for radio stations across the U.S.

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• Rahul Shrivastava

  Rahul Shrivastava covers music in the Tyne Tees area for the BBC.

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• Irina Shtreis

   

   

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• Fred Shuster

  Veteran music reporter and critic Fred Shuster has been syndicated in newspapers throughout North America, acted as West Coast editor of Down Beat, and freelanced for the NME, MOJO, and Rolling Stone online.

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• Davitt Sigerson

  One of the best writers on the black music of the late ’70s, Sigerson went to become a recording artist (on Ze Records), a producer (The Bangles, Tori Amos) and an executive (CEO of EMI America and then Island). His work was published in MELODY MAKER, BLACK MUSIC, and the VILLAGE VOICE.

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• Kirk Silsbee

  Kirk Silsbee has long been recognized as a journalist who writes about jazz and culture from a Southern Californian perspective.

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• JoE Silva

  JoE Silva has wriiten for a wide range of magazines in the US and UK, having been the joint founder of QRM, the Southeast's Alternative Music Review.

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• Peter Silverton

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• Michael Simmons

  Michael Simmons is a musician, journalist, filmmaker, and activist. He was dubbed "The Father Of Country Punk" by Creem magazine in the 1970s, edited the National Lampoon in the '80s, and won the LA Press Club Award in the '90s. He's written for the LA Weekly, LA Times, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, High Times, Arthur, Mojo, and The Progressive.

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• Sylvie Simmons

  Sylvie Simmons writes for MOJO magazine and is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Since she first started writing about rock music in 1977, her features and reviews have appeared in countless publications and books worldwide, including Sounds, Creem, Q, Rolling Stone, The Independent, Kerrang! and The Sunday Times. Like her study of Serge Gainsbourg, A Fistful Of Gitanes, Sylvie's 2012 biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, was widely acclaimed.

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• Jose Manuel Simoes

  Jose Manuel Simoes is a Communications teacher, with a PHD on Ethnomusicology. He is the author of biographies of artists such as Cesaria Evora and David Byrne. Currently he freelances for leading Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, and travels widely... frequently without moving.

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• Dave Simpson

  Dave Simpson has written extensively for The Guardian, as well as for Melody Maker, i-D, Uncut and many other publications.

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• Judith Sims

  Judith Sims was the editor of Teen Set. She subsequently wrote for Rolling Stone and many other publications.

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• David Sinclair

  David Sinclair has written for numerous publications, including The Times and Q. He is the author of books on ZZ Top and other subjects.

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• John Sinclair

  John Sinclair was the manager of the MC5 and the leader of Detroit's White Panther Party. He is the author of Guitar Army and was the editor of Blues Access in the late 1990s.

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• Mick Sinclair

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• Jonathan Singer

  Jonathan Singer is a New York writer living in Charlotte, NC. He has written about music (which is like dancing about architecture, according to Laurie Anderson) for the last 25 years. He co-wrote the autobiography of singer Cissy Houston, How Sweet the Sound (Doubleday).

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• Mark Sinker

  Mark Sinker has been a contributor to NME and other publications, and was the editor of The Wire.

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• Jeff Slate

  Jeff Slate is a New York City-based solo singer-songwriter and music journalist. He has interviewed and written intimate portraits of everyone from Led Zeppelin and the Clash to Monty Python and The Kinks. He is an avid collector of rock ‘n’ roll books and bootlegs and has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Dylan and the Beatles.

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• Neil Slaven

  Neil Slaven is a blues scholar who has written for countless publications.

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• Larry Sloman

  Larry "Ratso" Sloman wrote for Rolling Stone during the first half of the '70s, and also for Crawdaddy and Creem in the same era. His Heavy Metal column,"Ratso's Pallazo" ran in 1985. He is also a bestselling author whose work includes On the Road With Bob Dylan, Scar Tissue with Anthony Kiedis, and Private Parts and Miss America with Howard Stern. His book The Secret Life of Houdini inspired Nick Cave to dedicate Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! to him, although Larry claims no relationship to the Larry in that song.

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• Alan Smith

  1970s NME editor Alan Smith, along with his assistant editor Nick Logan, was given the challenge of turning around the fortunes of the music weekly and to overtake the market leader of the time, Melody Maker. Under Smith's editorship, writers of the underground press, such as Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent, were recruited in order to change the writing style of the paper. As Smith's time as editor came to an end, NME was outselling all of its competitors.

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• Andrew Smith

  Andrew Smith has written for Melody Maker, The Face, The Guardian, The Sunday Times (as Chief Pop Critic) and The Observer. He is the author of Moondust: in Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth and Totally Wired: On the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle.

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• Chris Smith

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• Graham K. Smith

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• Richard Smith

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• RJ Smith

  RJ Smith has written for Spin, Details, the Village Voice and Los Angeles magazine. He is the author of the James Brown biography The One, a history of L.A.'s Central Avenue scene (The Great Black Way), and the acclaimed 2022 biography Chuck Berry: An American Life.
  

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• Mat Snow

  Editor of MOJO from 1995-1999, Snow was a regular contributor to NME in the ’80s and a feature writer for SOUNDS, Q and many other publications. Subsequently he became editor of soccer monthly FOUR FOUR TWO and has served as editorial consultant on Rock's Backpages.

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• Don Snowden

  A contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Rocker and other publications, Snowden (currently based in Valencia, Spain) is also the co-author of blues legend Willie Dixon's autobiography, I Am The Blues.

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• Jane Solanas

  Jane Solanas is a pseudonym for Jane Suck

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• Alfred Soto

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• Nick Southall

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• Art Sperl

  Art Sperl is the CEO of Waste Management. He writes about "rock" in his spare time.

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• Gary Sperrazza!

  Gary Sperrazza! was the founder and editor of the great Shakin' Street Gazette. In addition, he has written for Bomp, NME, New York Rocker, Trouser Press and Time Barrier Express. Gary passed away in May 2016.

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• Bob Spitz

  Bob Spitz, a veteran of the music industry, has parlayed his experience and interest in music into his writing. He has authored nonfiction books on topics ranging from the workings of the industry in The Making of Superstars: Artists and Executives of the Rock Music Business, to the famous Woodstock concert in Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. Spitz's biography of Bob Dylan, Dylan: A Biography, which was published in 1989, continues to be viewed as relevant and, as of 2005, remains in print. The Beatles: The Biography, however, is Spitz's most widely reviewed book; it has been called "the definitive Beatles biography" by numerous critics.

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• Roger St. Pierre

  Roger St.Pierre was a PR and promotion man for many great black music acts of the '60s and '70s, and has written extensivley for Blues and Soul, NME, Record MIrror and Sounds. He was the main writer of the NME Book of Rock and the subsequent Rock Handbook – the biggest selling rock music encyclopaedia of all time. He also co-wrote the best-selling The Encyclopaedia of Black Music.

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• Andrew Stafford

  Andrew Stafford is a Australian freelance journalist and the author of Pig City, a musical, political and social history of Brisbane, now in its third edition. His work appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and many more. He is also co-owner and founder of independent Brisbane label Pig City Records

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• Mike Stand

  Mike Stand was an alias for the one and only Phil Sutcliffe - très droll, n'est-ce-pas?

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• Bob Stanley

  Bob Stanley wrote for Melody Maker and Mojo, before going on to form Saint Etienne.

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• Terry Staunton

  Terry Staunton wrote about top flight football for the Sunday tabloids, and the miners' strike for the Daily Telegraph, before switching to full-time music writing. He was a senior editor at NME for ten years, before joining the founding editorial team of Uncut. Currently he writes for The Times, Vox, Jack, Record Collector, Hot Press, Sour Mash, Get Rhythm, Uncut DVD, When Saturday Comes, DVD World, and on the website Music365.

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• Rob Steen

  A sometime contributor to City Limits, Mojo and many other publications, Steen was a runner-up for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year award and now writes chiefly about sport for The Independent and Cricinfo. His first daughter is named after Laura Nyro.

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• Sylvia Stephen

  Sylvia Stephen wrote extensively for Fabulous magazine.

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• Guy Stevens

  Legendary producer Guy Stevens wrote for the Record Mirror in the early '60s, before joining Island Records as a producer. He was heavily involved in the formation and recording of Mott The Hoople. In 1979 he produced the Clash's landmark album London Calling. He died in 1981. 

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• Jon Stewart

  Jon was co-founder, co-songwriter and guitarist for Sleeper, who enjoyed eight UK Top 40 singles and three UK Top 10 albums in the Britpop era. He has written for Guitarist magazine, including a monthly feature column called Rock Climbing, since 2002. He is also the Senior Academic Lecturer at Brighton Institute of Modern Music

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• Tony Stewart

  Tony Stewart has been Deputy Editor of NME and editor of Select, and is currently Assistant Editor of The Daily Mirror, where he is also the Soap Opera critic.

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• Deanne Stillman

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• Wesley Strick

  Wesley Strick began his writing career as a rock critic and journalist, contributing articles and reviews in the late 1970’s to Circus, Creem and Rolling Stone. He has also written award winning screenplays as well as a wide variety of Hollywood films and serving as an advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab since 1995.

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• Yancey Strickler

  New York-based Strickler wrote for Michael Goldberg's site neumu.net and for flakmag.com before co-founding Kickstarter, of which he is CEO.

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• David Stubbs

  David Stubbs began working life at Melody Maker, joining the staff in 1987, where he wrote the Talk Talk Talk column, creating the "Mr Agreeable" character. He subsequently joined NME and Uncut, and later The Wire magazine. His work regularly appears in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, When Saturday Comes and The Quietus. His Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany was published by Faber in 2014. 

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• Jane Suck

  Jane Suck was one of Sounds' main writers on punk rock. She later wrote for the NME under the byline Jane Solanas.

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• Caroline Sullivan

  Caroline Sullivan started at Melody Maker and currently writes for The Guardian. She has also written for The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph and various women's magazines.

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• Jim Sullivan

  Jim Sullivan started writing freelance music reviews and features for the Boston Globe in 1979. He joined the Globe staff in 1988, and has freelanced for the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald, Boston Common, the Christian Science Monitor.

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• Phil Sutcliffe

  One of the principal feature writers for SOUNDS in the late ’70s, and more recently for Q and MOJO, Sutcliffe in his time has interviewed just about every act of note in the history of rock & roll.

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• Sam Sutherland

  SAM SUTHERLAND began his career as a music journalist in the early '70s, joining Billboard's New York offices where he covered record companies, recording studios, and college media by day and reviewed live music by night. He would undertake a subsequent tour of duty at Record World magazine in the late '70s as its west coast editor, rejoining Billboard in 1981 as its west coast bureau chief. As a freelance writer, Sutherland contributed to High Fidelity, Phonograph Record Magazine, Musician, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and The NARAS Journal.

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• Ariel Swartley

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• Adam Sweeting

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• John Swenson

  John Swenson has written for all the major music publications -- Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy!, and, for a brief period of time, Circus.

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• Kevin Swift

  Kevin Swift was a regular contributor to Beat Instrumental in the '60s. If anyone know of Kevin's whereabouts, get in touch.

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• Phil Symes

  Phil Symes wrote for Disc and Music Echo.

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• Jeff Tamarkin

  Jeff Tamarkin is a former editor of Goldmine and the author of Got A Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.

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• Rob Tannenbaum

  Rob Tannenbaum has written for GQ, New York, the New York Times Magazine, Details, Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, the New York Observer, Harper’s Bazaar, George, Premiere, and Playboy. He was the music editor of Blender.

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• Derek Taylor

  The late Derek Taylor made his name as publicist for The Beatles in the '60s. He subsequently lived in Los Angeles and did publicity for the Byrds, the Mamas & the Papas and others. He was among the organisers of the Monterey Pop Festival. Derek's books included As Time Goes By and It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. At the time of his death in 1997 he was still working for Apple.

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• Neil Taylor

  Neil Taylor worked for NME from approximately 1983 to 1987 and is most closely associated with the Indie rock of that period.

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• Neil Tennant

  Neil Tennant worked for Marvel Comics in the 1970s and for Smash Hits in the early 1980s. He retired as a journalist in 1985 to concentrate on being one of the Pet Shop Boys.

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• Jerry Thackray

  Jerry Thackray is also Everett True

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• Craig W. Thomas

  Craig Thomas has written two books on sport: Losing My Religion (2002), a football addiction recovery memoir, and Roads To Redemption: A Guide To Major League Baseball (2005).

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• Tracy Thomas

  Tracy Thomas was one of the NME's US correspondents in the mid-'60s.

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• Ben Thompson

  Thompson has written widely on the more eccentric and marginal acts of ’90s and noughties rock, for THE INDEPENDENT, MOJO and many other publications. He is the author of SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY and WAYS OF HEARING (Orion)

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• Dave Thompson

  Dave Thompson is the author of more than 80 rock books and encyclopaedias, including the first-ever biographies of U2, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Depeche Mode. A regular contributor to Melody Maker through much of the 1980s, Thompson has also contributed to Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone, Goldmine and Alternative Press.

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• Graeme Thomson

  Graeme Thomson has written for every major music publication in Britain. His work regularly appears in The Guardian, The Word, Uncut, The Herald and several other newspapers, magazines and websites. He is the author of Complicated Shadows: The Life & Music of Elvis Costello; Willie Nelson: The Outlaw; I Shot a Man in Reno, a study of twentieth century death music; The Resurrection of Johnny Cash and Under The Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush, published by Omnibus in May 2010 and recently updated in paperback, was described by the Irish Times as ‘the best music biography in perhaps the past decade.'

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• Liz Thomson

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• Jon Tiven

  One of the first U.S. underground rock writers, Tiven founded the NEW HAVEN ROCK PRESS and wrote regularly for ROLLING STONE, FUSION, ZIGZAG, FUSION et al. In recent years he has worked as a producer of albums by R&B legends like Wilson Pickett and Don Covay.

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• John Tobler

  A key chronicler of American music for ZIGZAG, NME, and numerous other magazines, Tobler has also supplied liner notes for countless reissues. He currently runs the Road Goes On Forever label in Tyneside, England.

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• Tim Tooher

  Tim Tooher was one of MOJO's initial team of writers and also worked for a short period for Ultimate Records, before working for Alan McGee again as the content editor of the Poptones Website. He now mainly writes sleeve notes for old soul and rock'n'roll reissues.

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• David Toop

  An experimental composer/musician who has worked with musicians ranging from Brian Eno to Prince Far I, David has written for THE FACE, ARENA, MOJO, THE TIMES and his own early '80s magazine COLLUSION. He is the author of The Rap Attack (now in its third edition).

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• Rod Tootell

  Gardener by day, troubadour by night, Rod Tootell is Wimbledon's biggest Bruce Spingsteen fan.

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• Brian Torff

  Brian Torff is a renowned bassist and composer, and is currently Music Program Director at Fairfield University.

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• Luke Torn

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• Frank Tortorici

  Frank Tortorici is a corporate communications director for a major business research organization who has moonlighted periodically as a music writer. He was a contributing editor to Sonicnet/Vh1.com for more than four years and was also a contributing editor to Addicted to Noise, and he has written for Preamp.com and Katrillion.com.

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• Nick Tosches

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• Ralph Traitor

  Pseudonym used by Jeremy Gluck.

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• Roy Trakin

  Stalwart of the NEW YORK ROCKER in its '70s/80s heyday, and a frequent contributor to MUSICIAN, Roy is currently Senior Editor of HITS magazine. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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• Happy Traum

  Folk legend Happy Traum has played and recorded with Bob Dylan, Chris Smither, Maria Muldaur, Eric Andersen, Rory Block, Jerry Jeff Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and innumerable others. For three years was editor of Sing Out! The Folksong Magazine.

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• Harold Tribune

  Harold Tribune is a pseudonym for Toby Mamis

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• Everett True

  Everett True started life as The Legend!, publishing the fanzine of that name and contributing to NME. Subsequently he wrote for some years for Melody Maker, for whom he wrote seminal pieces about Nirvana and others. He was the co-founder with photographer Steve Gullick of Careless Talk Costs Lives, a deliberately short-lived publication designed to be the antidote to the established UK music magazines.

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• Paul Trynka

  Paul Trynka is probably best-known as editor of MOJO magazine, the international bible of rock’n’roll music: he joined the title as reviews editor in 1996, overseeing it from 1999 to 2003. He has also served as Editorial Director of Q magazine, editor of International Musician magazine, and founding editor of The Guitar Magazine.
  

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• Mike Tuck

  Mike Tuck wrote widely for KRLA Beat in the mid-1960s.

  We have been unable to track Mike down. If you know of his whereabouts, get in touch with us.

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• Luke Turner

  Luke Turner is a co-founder of the online music magazine The Quietus. As a freelance journalist he has also written for the NME, The Guardian, Dazed & Confused and The Stool Pigeon.

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• Steve Turner

  Steve began writing for BEAT INSTRUMENTAL as features editor and has subsequently written for NME, ROLLING STONE, Q and countless newspapers. His books include Conversations with Eric Clapton (1976), Van Morrison: It's Too Late to Stop Now (1993), and Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye (1998).

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• Andrew Tyler

  Andrew Tyler wrote for Disc and Music Echo in the early 1970s and then for New Musical Express from 1973 to 1980. From 1995 until September 2016, Andrew was the director of Animal Aid, Europe's largest animal rights organisation and one of the first in the world. After suffering from Parkinson's, Andrew died at Dignitas in April 2017.

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• Kieron Tyler

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• Jaan Uhelszki

  Jaan Uhelszki was one of the illustrious gang of writers - Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh et al - who made Creem a rock'n'roll household name in the '70s. She has subsequently written for Mojo, Rolling Stone and many other publications.

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• Cathi Unsworth

  Cathi Unsworth is a novelist, writer and editor who lives and works in London. She began her career on the legendary music weekly Sounds at the age of 19 and has worked as a writer and editor for many other music, film and arts magazines since, including Bizarre, Melody Maker, Mojo, Uncut, Volume and Deadline.

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• Richie Unterberger

  Richie Unterberger has been writing about rock and popular music of all kinds since the early 1980s.

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• Penny Valentine

  Penny was one of the first British pop writers of note, writing in the ’60s for DISC AND MUSIC ECHO, and then later for SOUNDS, CITY LIMITS and many other publications. She co-wrote (with Vicki Wickham) Dancing With Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield. Penny died in January 2003.

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• Jenny Valentish

  Jenny Valentish is the editor of jmag, the monthly magazine of Australia's triple j radio station. She was formerly resident tech-head at Guitar & Bass and the NME.

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• Lisa Verrico

  Lisa Verrico has written extensively on music for Vox, The Guardian, The Observer, the Times and the Sunday Times. Among other publications, Lisa co-authored the autobiography of Noddy Holder.

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• Tom Vickers

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• Tim VonderBrink

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• Clinton Walker

  Clinton Walker is an art school dropout and recovering rock critic, a Sydney writer the Sun-Herald has called "our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture."

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• Jeff Walker

  Jeff wrote for countless music magazines in the 1970s, and has since worked in the music publicity field and most recently as a film marketing consultant.

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• Wyndham Wallace

  Wyndham Wallace is an Englishman who's lived in Berlin, Germany since 2004, after spending the previous eight years running the UK office of Berlin's City Slang Records. His first book, Lee, Myself & I (about his friendship with Lee Hazlewood) was published in May 2015 by Jawbone Press.

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• Don Waller

  Don Waller was the author of The Motown Story (Scribner's, 1985) and a founding member of the semi-legendary Back Door Man fanzine/indie record label. He also wrote for Mojo, USA Today, Billboard, Variety, Radio & Records, L.A. Weekly, L.A. CityBeat and the Los Angeles Times, and was a member of proto-punk outfit the Imperial Dogs. He passed away in November 2016.

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• David G. Walley

  After Walley came to New York City in the late ‘60s and found himself writing about rock and roll for JAZZ AND POP. Shortly thereafter became the music critic/arts editor for New York City's premier underground newspaper, the EAST VILLAGE OTHER. In 1972, he published the first (and only) American biography of Frank Zappa, No Commercial Potential, recently reissued and updated in 1996 by Da Capo. David Walley died after suffering a heart attack in August 2006.

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• Richard C. Walls

  Richard C. Walls wrote regularly for Creem and many other publications until his death in May 2017.

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• Alan Walsh

  Liverpool-born Alan Walsh started his career writing for Disc before moving to Melody Maker in 1964. He subsequently moved into the publishing side of the business.

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• Idris Walters

  Idris Walters wrote for Let It Rock, Black Music, Sounds, Melody Maker and Street Life in the 1970s.

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• John L. Walters

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• Miranda Ward

  Miranda Ward interviewed the Beatles, the Stones and many other leading pop groups of the '60s for various publications of the era. Miranda died in December 2019.

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• Steven Ward

   

   

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• Simon Warner

  Simon Warner is a writer, broadcaster and researcher in popular music at the University of Leeds. A live rock reviewer with The Guardian from 1992-95, he was a featured contributor to the webzine Pop Matters, penning the "Anglo Visions" column from 2001-2006, and makes frequent contributions to BBC radio and online.

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• Emma Warren

  Emma Warren was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at The Face, and spent six years as an editorial mentor at Brixton youth-run Live Mag. She has a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM and runs her own Sweet Machine publishing. Her work has appeared in: The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Fader, Select, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Muzik, DJ Magazine, Downbeat and others. 

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• Bill Wasserzieher

  Bill Wasserzieher is a contributing editor at Blues Revue and the music DVD editor at Ugly Things.Over the last 30 years he has written for the L.A. Weekly, L.A. View, The BOB, Rock & Roll Disc, The Village Voice and Living Blues. He also spent seven years working for one of the big U.S. newspaper chains, Knight-Ridder.

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• Don Watson

  Don Watson wrote for the NME in the '80s and was - with Michael Bracewell and Mark Edwards - part of The Quick End. He is the author of Dancing in the Streets: Tales from World Cup City (1994).

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• Ian Watson

  Ian wrote for the British music weeklies from 1988 to 2003, starting at NME in 1988, then writing for Melody Maker from 1989 to 2000, and then working at NME from 2001 until 2003. Ian retired from music journalism in 2006, and now runs a club night and label called How Does It Feel To Be Loved?, although he still occasionally contributes to The Guardian.

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• Philip Watson

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• Tom Watson

  Tom Watson writes about guitar-centric music and musicians for ezine Modern Guitars.

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• Michael Watts

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• Robert Webb

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• Marc Weingarten

  Marc Weingarten has written for Mojo, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and was an editor at Request in Minneapolis. He is the author of Station to Station: The Secret History of Rock'n'Roll on Television.

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• Eric Weisbard

  Eric Weisbard organizes the annual Pop Conference at Seattle's Experience Music Project, having previously worked as an editor at Spin and The Village Voice.

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• Jeff Weiss

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• Abby Weissman

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• Danny (Shredder) Weizmann

  As both "Shredder" and Danny Weizmann, this former teen scribe was a key writer on the West Coast punk and Paisley Underground scenes of the early '80s, writing for FLIPSIDE, the L.A. WEEKLY, and other magazines.

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• Chris Welch

  One of the key early writers on the emerging British pop scene of the ’60s, Welch interviewed just about every major band for MELODY MAKER. He is also the author of numerous rock books, including a new study of Cream.

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• Sheila Weller

  Sheila Weller is a bestselling author and award-winning magazine journalist. Her books include Dancing at Ciro’s, Marrying The Hangman and Raging Heart. Weller has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Self, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Redbook, Ms., and The New York Times Book Review. She is a contributing editor at Glamour.

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• Paul Wellings

  Paul Wellings is an author, broadcaster, journalist and spoken word artist. He has written for, among others, the NME and Mojo.

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• Steven Wells

  Steven Wells, aka Swells, aka Seething Wells, aka Susan Williams, aka aka aka, was one of the truly great comedians working in rock prose - a sit-down comic if ever there was one. He wrote for NME, Philadelphia Weekly and other rags, and appeared frequently on the telly. Swells died in his adopted Philadelphia in June 2009.

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• Craig Werner

  Craig Werner teaches at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and is the author of the highly acclaimed A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America. He has written for Goldmine among other publications.

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• Jerry Wexler

  Jerry Wexler was the legendary Atlantic Records executive who helped to put Aretha Frankin and Wilson Pickett - and Memphis and Muscle Shoals - on the '60s soul map. His autobiography Rhythm and the Blues, was co-written with David Ritz.

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• Steven P. Wheeler

  Steven P. Wheeler is an award-winning journalist who wrote about the music industry for a variety of publications–both in the offline and online worlds–from 1985 to 2003.

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• Susan Whitall

  Susan Whitall has been writing about music since she joined Creem in 1975. She became editor of Creem in 1978 and left in 1983 to become a feature writer for the Detroit News. Her most recent book is Fever: Little Willie John's Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul (Titan Books, 2011).

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• Cliff White

  For most of the '70s Cliff wrote regularly for NME and Black Music magazine. During the '80s he was product manager for key reissue company Charly Records, on to a year with Demon Records. Meanwhile he spearheaded a prolonged campaign of James Brown reissues for PolyGram/Universal and was awarded a GRAMMY in January 1993 for his contribution to the JB Star Time box set. From the early '90s until 2003 he was with the repertoire research division of the MCPS-PRS Alliance. Cliff died in January 2018.

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• Lesley White

  Lesley White was a leading writer for The Face and Smash Hits in the 1980s. She has since written widely for such publications as The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, Vogue, Elle and Tatler.

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• Vicki Wickham

  Vicki Wickham is a manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter who wrote for Melody Maker and other publications in the '60s.

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• Jon Wilde

  Jon Wilde has written for Sounds, Melody Maker, Blitz, Loaded, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Esquire, GQ and The Independent. Currently writes for Live Magazine (Mail On Sunday), The Guardian and Sabotage Times.

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• Chiara Wilkinson

  Chiara Wilkinson won the 2014 Wilko Johnson Writing Award at the Louder Than Words festival.

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• Roy Wilkinson

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• David A. Williams

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• Mark Williams

  Mark Williams (snapped in 1974) has written for Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, Time Out and numerous other music magazines. He also conceived, launched and/or edited several successful magazines and newspapers which included Strange Days, Bike (still the UK's best selling motorcycle title), Which Bike?, New Music News, Bicycle Buyers Guide and Jalopy.

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• Paul Williams

  The founding father of rock and roll writing, Paul's CRAWDADDY! was the first real publication dedicated to pop music. He has subsequently written many acclaimed books on music, from Outlaw Blues to The 20th Century's Greatest Hits. Paul Williams died in 2013.

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• Pip Williams

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• Precious Williams

  Precious Williams is a New York-based British feature writer who specialises in all genres of black music. She worked as a staff writer at the Independent before embarking on a freelance career during which she wrote extensively for the Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, Marie Claire and The Guardian.

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• Richard Williams

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• Susan Williams

  Susan Williams is a pseudonym for Steven Wells

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• Greg Wilson

  Greg Wilson is a DJ, record producer and sometimes writer on dance music culture, focusing primarily of the 70’s / early 80’s and its influence on subsequent events.

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• Lois Wilson

  Lois Wilson worked in record and book shops and lectured in politics, philosophy and sociology before writing about music for MOJO from 1999. Soon after she became deputy editor on the late MOJO Collections and has also been published in Record Collector, for whom she does their monthly soul column, The Quietus, Planet Rock, Classic Rock Blues and more. Her fiction has been published in the Punk Fiction collection published by Portico. She has compiled CD selections for Motown, Chess and Trojan and overseen Paul Weller’s back catalogue and a series of soul related titles for the Future Noise label. She also heads People Powered concerts and is the founder of the NHS1000Musicians social media campaign. She collects Motown and Trojan 45s and 60s EPs and picture sleeves.

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• Nikki Wine

  Nikki Wine is KRLA Beat's Eden under another (more real) name!

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• Pete Wingfield

  Pete Wingfield wrote about soul music for Let It Rock and other '70s publications before scoring a major hit with the immortal 'Eighteen With A Bullet'. He subsequently became a respected producer, listing the first Dexy's Midnight Runners album among his credits.

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• Ian Winwood

  Ian is a music journalist of almost 30 years' standing. Over the course of an imbalanced career, his work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Kerrang!, Rolling Stone, Q, MOJO, Revolver, The Daily Mirror, NME, and more. He is the author of three books, while his fourth will be published by Faber & Faber in 2022. He lives in Camden Town with his fiancée and their two cats. A proud citizen of the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire, for his sins he supports Barnsley Football Club.

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• Damon Wise

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• Carl Wiser

  Working as a disc jockey in Hartford, Connecticut, Carl compiled a database of song information to help with show prep. In 1999, it went online as Songfacts.com, which focuses on the stories behind the songs.

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• Simon Witter

  A freelance NME writer for much of the 80s, Simon Witter was assistant editor of i-D in 1987 and later a contributing editor at SKY. Since 1994 he has primarily directed arts documentaries for German/French TV.

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• Bob Woffinden

  Bob Woffinden wrote for the NME and was associate editor during the 1970s. From the 1980s onwards, Bob has specialised in investigating miscarriages of justice.

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• Richard Wootton

  Richard Wootton specialized in writing about country and roots music for Melody Maker and other publications. He is now the leading UK publicist for country and Americana acts.

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• Howard Wuelfing

  Howard Wuelfing's career in Public Relations follows in the wake of decades of music journalism contributing to the Washington Post, Creem, Spin, Your Flesh, Forced Exposure, Boston Rock and The Village Voice over the years. 

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• Paul Yamada

  Paul Yamada wrote about music for New York Rocker, the Washington Tribune and other publications before giving it up for more lucrative pursuits. He also published his own fanzine, Terminal Zone.

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• Henry Yates

  Henry Yates is a music journalist, author and copywriter. He has contributed to publications including The Guardian, NME, Classic Rock, The Telegraph, Metal Hammer, Guitarist, Total Guitar, Rhythm, Shortlist, Country Music and The Musician. He is also the author of Rescued from Reality, the official biography of US bluesman Walter Trout.

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• Jim Yoakum

  Jim Yoakum has written for Gadfly, Mean, Cool & Strange, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He wrote with the late Graham Chapman (of Monty Python fame), and is currently the literary executor of his estate.

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• Ritchie Yorke

  Ritchie Yorke was the Canadian correspondent for Rolling Stone for several years. He is the author of, among other books, Led Zeppelin: The Definitive Biography. Ritchie currently lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.

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• Jon Young

  Jon Young has been a regular contributor to such publications as Trouser Press, Crawdaddy, Music and Sound Output, Request, Launch, SonicNet, Creem, Harp, Musician, Blender, Spin, Paste and Mother Jones. His preferred listening includes the Byrds, Billy Fury, Wynonie Harris, Billie Holiday, Howlin’ Wolf, the Kinks, Barbara Lynn, Thelonious Monk, Norma Jean, Charlie Parker, Doug Sahm, Raymond Scott, Del Shannon, Connie Smith, Speedy Ortiz, Dusty Springfield, Toots and the Maytals, Caetano Veloso, and Hank Williams, among others.

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• Rob Young

  Rob Young has worked at THE WIRE since 1993, including four years as editor. He has contributed to UNCUT, SIGHT & SOUND, FRIEZE and ART REVIEW, and is the author of - among other books - Electric Eden. He lives in London.

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• Toby Young

  Toby Young was the editor of The Modern Review and is the author of the bestselling How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.

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• Richard Younger

  New York-based contributor to MOJO and other publications, Younger is the author of the excellent A SHOT OF RHYTHM & BLUES, a biography of the late great Arthur Alexander.

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• Craig Zeller

  Craig Zeller contributed to Creem, Record and New York Rocker. He was also a a contributing editor to The Aquarian Weekly, an alternative weekly in New Jersey.

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• Dave Zimmer

  A music journalist and rock historian since the late '70s, Dave Zimmer is the author of Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography. Since 1990 Dave has worked as a communications director for MCA Records, Universal Studios, Seagram, Vivendi and, most recently, Penguin Group. A native Californian, he currently lives in West Orange , New Jersey with his wife and son.

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• Paul Zollo

  Paul Zollo is the author of Songwriters On Songwriting, Expanded Edition (Da Capo), a collection of 52 in-depth interviews he conducted with many of the world’s greatest songwriters.

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• Jerry Zolten

  Jerry Zolten has been writing freelance about American roots music for the past 35 years with articles in Sing Out!, Living Blues and many others. Zolten's most recent book is Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music (Oxford University Press)

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