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John Abbey
John Abbey founded Blues & Soul magazine in 1967 and was its editor into the 1980s
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Kit Aiken A pseudonym for Chris Ingham.
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Kevin Allen Kevin Allen is a pseudonym for Roger St. Pierre
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Keith Altham Keith Altham worked during the ‘60s as a journalist for IPC magazines before joining the NME in 1964 and left as features editor in l969 after which he freelanced for Melody Maker, Record Mirror, Disc, Sounds, Fusion, Rave The Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror and The Guardian prior to becoming England’s most successful independent rock music PR of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
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Ted Alvy 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. The website www.tedalvy.com is being used for his book titled 60's L.A. Underground Radio: I Was A Teenage Disc Jockey.
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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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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 coming a writer and editor with Melody Maker.
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Martin Aston Martin Aston has written for Sounds, Q, Mojo, The Times and many publications. He is the author of books on Bjork and other artists.
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Mike Atherton Click here for more about Mike Atherton and a full list of Mike's articles in our library
Michael Azerrad Michael Azerrad is the acclaimed author of the Nirvana biography Come As You Are and of Our Band Could Be Your Life. He has written for Spin, the Village Voice and countless other publications.
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Danny Baker Danny Baker started his career writing for seminal punk zine Sniffin' Glue before becoming a receptionist at the New Musical Express. He championed disco and soul and wrote the funniest singles columns in the paper's history. Danny now hosts the breakfast show on BBC London.
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Michael Baker Michael Baker lives in New Jersey and contributes regularly to the Perfect Sound Forever website, as well as to other publications on- and offline.
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Lester Bangs Lester Bangs, who died in 1982, is the most celebrated of the original "Noise Boys" of rock journalism. Some of his greatest pieces - most of them from Detroit's Creem magazine - were collected by Greil Marcus in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. A new anthology, Mainlines, Blood Feasts & Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, has been compiled by RBP contributor John Morthland and has been published in the summer of 2003. Lester is as yet the only rock critic to have a biography written of him - Jim DeRogatis' excellent Let It Blurt (2000).
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Lynden Barber Lynden Barber wrote for Melody Maker for many years. He now lives and works in Australia.
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Louis Barfe Click here for more about Louis Barfe and a full list of Louis's articles in our library
Ken Barnes A contributor to Bomp, Phonograph Record and other music magazines in their heyday, Barnes is currently a staff writer at USA Today
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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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Angus Batey Click here for more about Angus Batey and a full list of Angus's articles in our library
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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Max Bell Max was one of the best NME writers of the '70s and early '80s. He currently contributes to Uncut, the Evening Standard and other publications.
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Charles Bermant Charles Bermant has treated rock journalism as a "serious hobby" during his regular career as a community journalist, investigative reporter and technology writer.
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Alan Betrock The late Alan Betrock wrote for a number of rock magazines before launching the much-missed New York Rocker in 1977. He was also the author of Girl Groups: the Story of a Sound.
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David Biasotti David Biasotti is an assistant editor at Ugly Things and runs the Kaleidoscope homepage, Pulsating Dream. A former member of the dreadfully obscure Maxfield Parrish, he makes his home in Yokohama, Japan.
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Ian Birch Ian Birch wrote for Melody Maker, Smash Hits and other magazines before becoming something high-up at EMAP.
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Johnny Black Mainstay of Q, MOJO and other magazines, Black is one of the most assiduous scholars of rock history and minutiae. Drawing on his vast archives, he has helped to compile numerous Time Machines, Eyewitnesses etc for those magazines. Based in Wiltshire, he also hosts his own local radio show.
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Bill Black Bill Black, real name Bill Prince, wrote for SOUNDS, and also for NME as Bobby Surf. Bill is currentlly deputy editor of British GQ.
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Adam Blake Adam Blake has been a pro music journalist - writing for Music Week the UK Music Industry trade paper - and a session bassist for Natacha Atlas, the pseudo-Arabic diva. He is interested in politics, acting, literature, cartoons but above all music, so long as it's truthful, with heart and humanity.
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Victor Bockris The author of acclaimed books on Lou Reed, Keith Richards and Patti Smith, as well as of the bestselling Uptight (about the Velvet Underground), Bockris lives and works in New York City.
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Chris Bohn Chris Bohn wrote for Melody Maker and NME in the late '70s and '80s. For the past 20 years he has written under the name 'Biba Kopf', and is currently the editor of The Wire.
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Hank Bordowitz Hank Bordowitz has written extensively on music for many publications. He has written books on artists such as Creedence Clearwater and U2, and has recently edited a new Bob Marley reader for Da Capo Press.
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Caroline Boucher Caroline Boucher is currently the deputy editor of Observer Food Monthly and Observer Woman. She left Disc and Music Echo in the early '70s to work as an in-house PR for Elton John at Rocket Records (replacing Penny Valentine who became head of A&R). She is married to music business lawyer Robert Lee (Virginia Plain).
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Chris Bourke Chris Bourke is a New Zealand journalist who started a fanzine called Seltaeb. Bourke has been a staff writer and arts & books editor at the New Zealand Listener and editor of the country's two music magazines, Rip It Up and Real Groove. In 1997 Pan Macmillan Australia published his biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong. He is currently a producer and documentary maker for Radio New Zealand.
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Rob Bowman Rob Bowman is the Toronto-based author of countless liner notes, as well as of Soulsville, a history of Stax Records.
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Lloyd Bradley One of the major British writers on black music from funk to reggae, Bradley began contributing to NME in the ’80s and then wrote for Q, MOJO and countless other publications. His recent BASS CULTURE, a history of reggae, was widely hailed as one of the best music books of 2000.
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Stephen M H Braitman Click here for more about Stephen M H Braitman and a full list of Stephen M H 's articles in our library
Bill Brewster Bill Brewster is the co-author with Frank Broughton on Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and How To DJ (Properly).
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Chris Briggs Chris Briggs wrote for Zigzag and other magazines before becoming a highly-respected A&R man with A&M Records and other companies.
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Harold Bronson Although best known for co-founding the Rhino Records record company, Harold Bronson cut his teeth writing about rock for the UCLA Daily Bruin (where he attended college), Rolling Stone, Rock Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, L. A. Free Press, and others. He has written/edited a handful of books, most notably Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees. He heads up the Rhino Films production company, and has produced Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, among other titles.
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Frank Broughton The co-author with Bill Brewster of the acclaimed Last Night A DJ Saved My Life and How to DJ (Properly), Frank is a writer and DJ who lives in Elephant & Castle, London.
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John Broven Renowned expert on blues and vintage R&B, Broven has written for BLUES UNLIMITED, JUKE BLUES and many other magazines. He is the author of two definitive books, WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS and SOUTH TO LOUISIANA.
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Mick Brown Mick Brown is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has written on music and other cultural affairs for a wide variety of publications including the SUNDAY TIMES, ROLLING STONE and CRAWDADDY. He is now a regular contributor to the TELEGRAPH magazine and the DAILY TELEGRAPH newspaper in London.
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Len Brown Len Brown wrote for NME, Vox and other publications in the '80s and '90s. Since 1994 he has produced over 40 music, arts and sports documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four.
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David Browne David Browne is a music critic with Entertainment Weekly and the author of the dual Tim/Jeff Buckley biography Dream Brother. He lives and works in New York City.
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Steve Burgess The late Steve Burgess founded and edited the legendary fanzine Dark Star.
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Garry Bushell Click here for more about Garry Bushell and a full list of Garry's articles in our library
Francesco Calazzo Francesco Calazzo writes for Italy's leading rock magazine Buscadero
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Keith Cameron Keith Cameron began writing for Sounds in 1988. He has subsequently contributed to NME, Vox, Q, Kerrang!, The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times and Scotland On Sunday.
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David Cavanagh David Cavanagh was a feature writer for Select and Q, and is the author of the acclaimed My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For the Prize, a history of Alan McGee's Creation Records.
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Rob Chapman Author of many epic pieces for MOJO and other publications, Chapman’s work is an invaluable addition to the Rock’s Backpages archive. He has recently completed a biography of syd barrett, due to be 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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Barbara Charone Barbara Charone wrote for Sounds, NME and Creem among other publications before becoming one of the most respected publicists in the music industry.
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Stevie Chick Click here for more about Stevie Chick and a full list of Stevie's articles in our library
Andy Childs Andy Childs was editor of Zigzag in the early 70s. He then worked for a number of reord labels, and is now an international marketing and catalogue consultant which he continues to develop to this day.
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Ian Christe Ian Christe is the author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, available internationally in five languages. He has written for Wired, Spin, and Norway's kult churchburning bible, Slayer Mag.
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Carol Clerk Click here for more about Carol Clerk and a full list of Carol's articles in our library
Tim Clifford Tim Clifford has been a sub-editor with IPC and the Daily Express, as well as a contributor to Rock's Backpages for the past three years. He lives in Stockwell, London.
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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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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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Martin Colyer Martin Colyer is a co-founder of Rock's Backpages, and the site's Design Director. He is Executive Art Director of Readers Digest Europe.
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Susan Compo L.A.-based culture vulture and novelist who has written for SPIN, MOJO, OPTION and many other publications. She is the author of LIFE AFTER DEATH, MALINGERING and PRETTY THINGS, and of WARREN OATES: A WILD LIFE (University of Kentucky).
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Richard Cook Richard Cook was one of the major feature writers for NME in the early and mid-'80s, and the co-author of The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD. In 2001 he published Blue Note: The Biography. Tragically, Richard's life was cut short by cancer in August 2007.
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Caroline Coon Artist, legendary founder of RELEASE and author of the seminal 1988: The Punk Rock Explosion, Caroline was a regular contributor to MELODY MAKER and SOUNDS in the heyday of ’70s rock. In 2001 her punk pictures formed part of the No Future?: Punk 2001 conference in Wolverhampton, England.
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Carol Cooper Hugely-respected American writer on black music of the past three decades, New York-based Cooper has written on soul, R&B and hip hop for SPIN, ROLLING STONE, the NEW YORK TIMES, the VILLAGE VOICE and other publications.
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Mark Cooper The producer of BBC 2's lauded LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND, Cooper was for many years a prominent feature writer for SOUNDS, Q, MOJO and other publications.
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Alvaro Costa Alvaro is a Porto-based writer and broadcaster on rock music and film. For some years he covered the LA scene for Portuguese media. He is an avid supporter of Porto F.C.
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Tom Cox After briefly being employed by New Musical Express, Tom Cox has since writen extensively for The Sunday Times, The Times, Esquire, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Uncut, Mojo, The Mail On Sunday and Word.
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Wayne Coyne Wayne Coyne is the lead singer of Flaming Lips.
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Kandia Crazy Horse 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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Toby Creswell Toby Creswell has written for RAM, the Sydney Morning Herald, Time, The Age, Roadrunner, Spin, Billboard and a variety of other publications. In 1985 he became Music Editor of the Australian edition of Rolling Stone and two years later was in a partnership which took over the franchise. He has written a biography of Australian singer Jimmy Barnes (Too Much Ain't Enough, Random House) and more recently co-authored (with Martin Fabinyi) a history of Australian rock & roll - The Real Thing (Random House). He lives in Sydney with his girlfriend Samantha Trenoweth, an author and journalist, and their daughter Alice.
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Richard Cromelin A veteran of the LA rock-crit fraternity, Cromelin wrote for Creem, Phonograph Record and many other publications. He is currently on staff at the Los Angeles Times.
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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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Karl Dallas Karl Dallas was a contributor to Melody Maker from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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David Dalton Key ROLLING STONE writer of the ’60s and ’70s and author of such bestsellers as Piece of My Heart (about Janis Joplin), The Mutant King (bio of James Dean), Saint Vicious (about Sid V.) and, with Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull, winner of a Ralph J. Gleason Best Music Book Award 1994. His novel Been Here and Gone came out in 2000. David is currently a regular contributor to MOJO and Gadflyonline.com.
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Stephen Dalton One of the best of the '90s crop of NME/VOX writers, Dalton continues to cover pop for NME and other magazines, as well as for THE TIMES.
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Anthony DeCurtis Anthony DeCurtis is a highly-respected contributor to Rolling Stone and other American magazines. His collection Rocking My Life Away is published by Duke University Press.
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Fred Dellar One of the great scholars of popular music, Dellar has compiled hundreds of archival pieces for NME, VOX, Q and MOJO over the years, as well as authoring many books on rock movies, country music etc. He is the author of THE NME GUIDE TO ROCK CINEMA and co-author with Richard Wootton of THE COUNTRY MUSIC BOOK OF LISTS.
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Bill DeMain Bill DeMain has written for publications including MOJO, Classic Rock, Musician, Entertainment Weekly, Mental Floss and Performing Songwriter.
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Felix Dennis Felix Dennis was one of the founders of Oz magazine. He is now the mega-successful publisher of Maxim, Stuff and other titles. As well as being a poet, of course.
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Ernesto De Pascale Ernesto De Pascale is a Florence-based writer and broadcaster on blues and other music.
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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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Carla DeSantis Click here for more about Carla DeSantis and a full list of Carla's articles in our library
Chas de Whalley Chas de Whalley has been, among other things, Head of UK A&R for CBS Epic (now Sony) Records, he produced the first two singles by fledgling Irish supergroup U2. Among the titles to which he has contributed as a journalist are NME, Sounds, Record Mirror, International Musician, Vox, Rock CD , Time Out, Mojo, Record Collector and Music Week.
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Bill DeYoung Based in Savannah, Ga, Bill DeYoung has been a music journalist since the late 1970s.
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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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Dave DiMartino Dave DiMartino was once the editor of Creem. He now works for launch.com in LA, and is the author of Singer-Songwriters: Pop Music's Performer-Composers, from A to Zevon.
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Ed Doheny Ed Doheny lives in the Los Feliz neighbourhood of Los Angeles, within sniffing distance of the coyotes who roam Griffith Park. He is waiting for his son.
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Harry Doherty Harry Doherty wrote extensively for Melody Maker from 1975 through to the early ‘80s.
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Nick Doherty Nick Doherty has written for Jockey Slut, Sleazenation and other publications and does press for London's legendary Fabric club.
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Tom Donahue Tom Donahue was an important DJ and pop promoter on the San Francisco scene of the '60s. He co-founded Autumn Records.
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John Doran ohn Doran has been a music journalist since 2003 writing for Record Collector, Plan B, Metal Hammer, Playlouder, Drowned In Sound, Loose Lips Sink Ships, BANG, Stool Pigeon, Classic Rock, Disorder and others.
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Ted Drozdowski Ted Drozdowski is a freelance journalist and musician living in Boston, Massachusetts. He writes about popular culture, specializing in music. His work has appeared internationally in a wide variety of publications including Tracks, Rolling Stone and Musician.
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Daryl Easlea Former deputy editor of Record Collector, Daryl Easlea writes for Mojo, bbc.co.uk and other publications. His first book Everybody Dance: Chic & The Politics Of Disco was published by Helter Skelter in December 2004. His second, The Supremes, an extended essay to accompany the Supremes exhibition at the V & A is published by V & A Publishing in May 2008.
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D. Ebdus D. Ebdus is a subtle distinguisher. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Chuck Eddy Click here for more about Chuck Eddy and a full list of Chuck's articles in our library
Ben Edmonds Former Editor of CREEM and longtime contributor to ROLLING STONE and other U.S. publications, Edmonds is currently U.S. correspondent of MOJO.
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Robin Eggar After a stint as the Daily Mirror’s rock and pop writer, Robin Eggar went freelance working for national and international newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, Esquire, You Magazine, Marie Claire, the Times, the Daily Mail, Us magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Face, Time Out, the NME, the Observer, the Word, the Sunday Mirror Magazine and Rolling Stone.
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Richard English Richard English is a writer who is based in Maida Vale, London. He is the author of Living With Hepatitis C and is working on a novel, 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 Click here for more about Kodwo Eshun and a full list of Kodwo's articles in our library
Jim Esposito Jim Esposito wrote for Creem, Circus, Rock Magazine, Zoo World and Oui.
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Dele Fadele Dele Fadele wrote regularly for NME in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Andy Farquarson Andy Farquarson has written on folk and world music for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent and Get Rhythm.
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Mick Farren NME legend of the’70s, now a U.S.-based author of great repute and TV Critic for LA City Beat.
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Bob Fisher Bob Fisher has written extensively on Black Music since the 1960s. He co-founded Acrobat Records, for whom he produced reissues until 2008.
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Kathryn Flett Click here for more about Kathryn Flett and a full list of Kathryn's articles in our library
Tony Fletcher Tony Fletcher was the editor of Jamming! magazine, and is the author of the bestselling Keith Moon biography Dear Boy.
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Ben Fong-Torres Ben Fong-Torres is one of the legendary names of rock writing. One of the first writers and editors at Rolling Stone, Ben worked for the magazine for many years, writing seminal profiles of the leading rock figures of the late '60s and '70s. He is the author of the Gram Parsons biography Hickory Wind and of The Hits Just Keep On Coming, a history of Top 40 Radio in America.
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Tim Footman Tim Footman has written for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Careless Talk Costs Lives and many other publications.
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Ian Fortnam Writer for NME, VOX, KERRANG and other publications, Ian has covered the recent alternative and hard-rock scenes extensively.
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Kim Fowley The greatest hustler in the history of rock'n'roll, Fowley is an Angeleno who has been involved with thousands of artists from B. Bumble & the Stingers to the Runaways.
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The Rev. Al Friston The Reverend Al ekes out a living on the outer peripheries of London. He is almost blind and very angry.
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Simon Frith Chairman of the Mercury Music Prize Committee, Simon was a key contributor to MELODY MAKER, LET IT ROCK, CREEM, THE OBSERVER, the VILLAGE VOICE et al in the ’70s, and is the author of such revered books as Sound Effects and Performing Rites and is now Professor of Film and Media at the University of Stirling.
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Deborah Frost Deborah Frost has contributed to Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Creem, The Boston Phoenix, and countless daily, weekly and monthly publications to which she could not say no until she started up the Brain Surgeons with Blue Öyster Cult founder Albert Bouchard, released a bunch of CDs, toured the world’s shitholes and re-discovered her passion.
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Matthew Frost Click here for more about Matthew Frost and a full list of Matthew's articles in our library
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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Antonella Gambotto An Australian who wrote controversial features and reviews for NME, SOUNDS, and ZIGZAG in the ’80s, since when she has published two anthologies of her pieces, LUNCH OF BLOOD and AN INSTINCT FOR THE KILL, and a novel, THE PURE WEIGHT OF THE HEART (1998).
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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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Jerry Gilbert Author of countless '70s pieces for MELODY MAKER, SOUNDS and ZIGZAG, Jerry also produced regular bylined columns for the DAILY MIRROR and MIDWEEK. He still writes widely on folk and other genres, and has recently been commissioned to undertake a book about the history and evolution of show technology.
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Andy Gill Andy Gill has written for NME, Q, Mojo, The Independent and numerous other publications. He is the author of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: Bob Dylan, the Early Years (Carlton).
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Charlie Gillett Author of THE SOUND OF THE CITY, the first major study of rock’s history, and MAKING TRACKS: THE STORY OF ATLANTIC RECORDS, Gillett is a renowned BBC broadcaster and world music pioneer. Contributor to NME, LET IT ROCK, MOJO et al and founder of Oval Records.
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Ian Gittins Ian has written about music since the mid-'80s, for publications as various as MELODY MAKER, TIME OUT, IKON, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and THE NEW YORK TIMES. He now pens articles for Q and THE GUARDIAN and is involved in publishing music biographies.
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Holly Gleason Holly Gleason is a Nashville-based writer and publicist who has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Musician, Tower Pulse, Request, Rockbill, Bam, The Illinois Entertainer, Interview, Rock & Soul and Graffiti (Canada). She specializes in songwriters, roots music, country, some r&b and very early rap.
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Beverley Glick Beverley Glick is the real name of Betty Page who first started writing for Sounds in 1979 and went on to make her name as the music journalist who championed the New Romantic movement, doing the first major interviews with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode in the early Eighties. She subsequently became editor of Record Mirror, and is now a commissioning editor at The Sunday Express.
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Jeremy Gluck Former lead singer with retro-garage band the Barracudas; cult author and, as 'Ralph Traitor', a contributor to Sounds, The Guardian, and Mojo.
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Dave Godin Until his death in 2004, Dave Godin was the doyen of deep soul, a veteran contributor to umpteen magazines and fanzines and the compiler of the magnificent Deep Soul Treasures series for Ace.
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Mick Gold Writer for LET IT ROCK and CREEM in the’70s, Gold is now a respected TV producer and director. His ENDGAME IN IRELAND aired in Britain in summer 2001.
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Gary Pig Gold The founder-publisher of Canada's first-ever music fanzine, Gary today runs a virtual record company from high atop the Heights of Jersey City, USA. His infamous socio-musical "Pigshit" column recently passed its first quarter-century mark of faithful service.
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Noe Gold Click here for more about Noe Gold and a full list of Noe's articles in our library
Michael Goldberg Michael Goldberg is founder and editor in chief of NEUMU (neumu.net), a pop culture magazine. In 1994 Goldberg founded ADDICTED TO NOISE (ATN), a highly influential music Web site. Prior to starting ATN, Goldberg was an associate editor and senior writer at ROLLING STONE for 10 years. His writing has also appeared in WIRED, ESQUIRE, VIBE, DETAILS, DOWNBEAT, NME and numerous other publications.
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Vivien Goldman Now based in New York, Vivien has written for SOUNDS, NME, INTERVIEW, the VILLAGE VOICE, ROLLING STONE, and HARPER'S BAZAAR.
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Robert Gordon Robert is the author of It Came from Memphis, Elvis on the Road, and Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Winner of a Deems Taylor ASCAP writing award, he has contributed to SPIN, DETAILS, Q, MOJO and many other publications.
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Paul Gorman Former MUSIC WEEK reporter who freelances for MOJO and other publications and is the author of THE LOOK, about music and fashion, an IN THEIR OWN WRITE, an oral history of rock journalism excerpted on Rock's Backpages.
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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 Click here for more about Richard Grabel and a full list of Richard's articles in our library
Mike Grant Mike Grant is a somewhat thinly disguised Keith Altham
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Tom Graves Tom Graves was the editor of Rock & Roll Disc magazine. He has written music and other articles for Rolling Stone, Musician, The Oxford American, American History, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He is also the author of Pullers, a novel about the sport of arm wrestling.
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Michael Gray Michael Gray is a critic, writer & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and is an expert on rock’n’roll history and the blues, with a special interest in pre-war blues. His work has been published in many newspapers and magazines in the USA and UK.
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Jim Green Jim Green wrote extensively for Trouser Press, and many other US and UK magazines
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Robert Greenfield Robert Greenfield is the author of the seminal STP: Rolling Stones Touring Party, recently reissued by Helter Skelter in London as A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones. A key contributor to Rolling Stone, Fusion and other publications in their late '60s/early '70s heydays, he lives in California.
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Pete Grendysa One of the leading American scholars and historians of R&B and rock’n’roll, Grendysa’s archives provides a bedrock of deep content for ROCK’S BACKPAGES.
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Sid Griffin Sid Griffin led the Long Ryders in the '80s, and has subsequently written for Q, Mojo and other publications. He is the author of a study of Gram Parsons.
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Michael Gross Michael Gross, who began his career contributing to Circus, Rock and other music publications, is the author of the new Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren and the New York Times bestseller Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. He is also a Contributing Writer at Radar and a Contributing Editor at Travel & Leisure and has written for The New York Times, Talk, George, New York, GQ, Esquire, and Vanity Fair.
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Jason Gross Jason Gross is a freelance writer in New York City who's contributed to All Music Guide, Blender, Creative Loafing, Harp, Film Comment, MOJO, No Depression, Spin, Time Out, Tracks, Village Voice and the Wire among others. He is the editor/founder of one of the first online music magazines, Perfect Sound Forever (perfectsoundforever.com, since 1993).
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Loyd Grossman Before he looked through the keyhole and decided to make sauces himself, Boston-born Grossman was a rock writer for Fusion, Rolling Stone and other papers. Whether he still listens to Stone The Crows these days remains unconfirmed.
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Blake Gumprecht Blake Gumprecht was 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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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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Matt Hanks Matt Hanks, who has worked in Memphis and New York as a publicist for labels such as Flydaddy, has also contributed to such publications as No Depression and The Memphis Flyer.
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Cleothus Hardcastle Cleothus lives in Streatham Vale, south London, and writes widely on black music. For his sins he supports Crystal Palace FC.
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Heather Harris Heather Harris is primarily a photographer, and has snapped everyone from the Buffalo Springfield to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. She lives in the San Fernando Valley.
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Mary Harron Contributor in the ’70s and’80s to MELODY MAKER, the VILLAGE VOICE, the GUARDIAN and the NEW STATESMAN, Mary has subsequently become an acclaimed film director (I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho). She is currently working on a film about the CBGBs punk scene she covered in the mid-'70s.
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Nick Hasted Nick Hasted has written for The Independent, the Guardian and Uncut. He is the author of The Dark Story of Eminem (Omnibus, 2003).
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Martin Hawkins Martin Hawkins is the author of A Shot in the Dark – Making Records in Nashville 1945-1955, co-author of Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll, and the writer of some four hundred magazine articles, LP sleeve notes and CD booklets stretching back to 1971.
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Anthony Heilbut Anthony Heilbut is a record producer and the author of several books, including The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Albums he has produced have won the Grammy Award and the Grand Prix du Disque and have been included by the Library of Congress among the first 50 entries in its registry of American sound recordings.
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Edward Helmore New York-based contributor to THE GUARDIAN and THE OBSERVER, as well as to MOJO, DETAILS, INTERVIEW, and VANITY FAIR, Helmore is one of the best and most prolific writers on pop culture and the media business.
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Martin Herron Martin Herron has written for Melody Maker, City Limits and Get Rhythm. He is currently working 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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Tom Hibbert Brilliantly funny contributor to Q, SMASH HITS, MOJO and other publications, Hibbert was the irreverent brain behind Q’s "Who the Hell..." series.
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William Higham RBP's Marketing Director is a consultant specialising in both marketing and research for on- and off-line music and lifestyle brands. He has over ten years experience in marketing and press departments of Sony, Virgin and Polydor Records. William likes Power Pop, dairy-free food and Italian suits and girls.
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Geoffrey Himes The full-time music critic for the WASHINGTON POST, Himes has also written for CRAWDADDY!, MUSICIAN, ROLLING STONE, DOWNBEAT and many other publications for the last 25 years.
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Erik Himmelsbach A native of the San Fernando Valley, Himmelsbach grew up to be Managing Editor at the L.A. READER and SPIN, and is a contributor to BLENDER, REVOLVER, ROLLING STONE and other publications.
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Bill Holdship L.A.-based Holdship is a former editor of CREEM and BAM, and a longtime contributor to publications such as SPIN, MUSICIAN, and MOJO.
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Danny Holloway After growing up and playing in bands around LA, Danny moved to London in 1970. He wrote for Sounds and NME before a long stint with Island Records. He currently contributes to Wax Poetics magazine.
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Nick Hornby Nick has written about music for THE INDEPENDENT, MOJO and THE NEW YORKER. The film of About a Boy, with a soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy, was released in 2002. His 31 Songs was recently published by Viking.
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Barney Hoskyns RBP’s own Editorial Director was a major feature writer for NME in the ’80s, as well for VOGUE, MOJO and other publications in the ’90s. His books include ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE, about The Band, and WAITING FOR THE SUN, about L.A. His latest, HOTEL CALIFORNIA: SINGER-SONGWRITERS & COCAINE COWBOYS IN THE L.A. CANYONS, is published in the UK by Fourth Estate and in the US by John Wiley & Sons. An accompanying CD, BACK TO CALIFORNIA, is available on Rhino.
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Mick Houghton Mick Houghton wrote for a variety of music publications, including Circus, Mojo and Let It Rock, before becoming a much-respected publicist for bands. He formed Brassneck PR in the early '90s.
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Zoë Street Howe Click here for more about Zoë Street Howe and a full list of Zoë Street's articles in our library
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 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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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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Ludovic Hunter-Tilney Ludovic is the rock music correpondent for the Financial TImes
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Lindsay Hutton Lindsay Hutton is the founder and editor of the legendary fanzine The Next Big Thing, along with its Cramps-devoted sister publication Rockin' Bones. He has also written for Sounds, Mojo and other magazines.
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Joss Hutton Joss edited BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS for four years and was a regular contributor to THE GUARDIAN's weekly Guide section. He has recently written for KERRANG!, THE FACE, PerfectSoundForever.com and X-RAY.
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Chrissie Hynde Before she formed the Pretenders and became one of rock's definitive female icons, Chrissie wrote for NME and other music mags of the '70s.
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Chris Ingham An excellent feature writer for MOJO and other publications whose recent work includes major pieces on Paul Simon, Steely Dan and XTC, Ingham is also a highly-respected jazz musician.
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Jonh Ingham Jonh Ingham was one of the key writers on rock and punk in the mid-to-late '70s. His pieces on the Sex Pistols and others for Sounds introduced countless readers to the emerging punk scene. He currently works for Genie Internet.
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Jim Irvin Irvin was reviews editor and feature writer at Melody Maker, then becoming founding features editor of MOJO. He lives in London, continuing to write regularly for MOJO, Word and The Times and works as a lyricist and composer.
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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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Mike Jahn Mike Jahn was the first official "rock critic" employed by The New York Times. He has also written many works of detective fiction.
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Cliff Jones Cliff Jones wrote for Mojo and other publications before forming Gay Dad in the mid-'90s.
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Sally Margaret Joy Sally Margaret Joy wrote for Melody Maker and other publications in the early '90s.
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Lenny Kaye A living legend, both as a writer and as a musician/producer, Kaye wrote widely in the ’60s for FUSION, ROLLING STONE, CRAWDADDY and other publications. Kaye compiled the seminal Nuggets anthology of garage punk and has long been the guitarist in Patti Smith’s band.
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Annene Kaye Annene Kaye was a contributor to New York Rocker and other magazines in the '80s. Under various pseudonyms she wrote potboiler bios of such seminal stars as Rick Springfield. She now works for Satan (aka Fox Television) in Los Angeles.
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Elmo Keep Elmo Keep is an Australian freelance writer covering film, television and music.
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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.
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Howie Klein Covered countless punk and new wave bands for NEW YORK ROCKER et al in late ’70s before forming 415 Records in San Francisco. Until recently President of Reprise Records in Los Angeles, Klein is now back on the East Coast.
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Clare Kleinedler Clare Kleinedler started her writing career at the groundbreaking online 'zine, Addicted to Noise in the mid-'90s. She went on to serve as the music editor for WIRED magazine in early 2000. Her work has been published in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, BAM, Paper and XLR8R among others.
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Biba Kopf The scribe formerly known as Chris Bohn, Kopf was leading feature writer on NME in the early ’80s and subsequently a pioneering explorer of European and Japanese avant-garde music for THE WIRE, where he is currently Reviews Editor.
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Debbie Kruger A staff writer for showbiz bible VARIETY for four years, Debbie's freelance writing has been published in Australia's leading newspapers, as well as GOLDMINE, PERFORMING SONGWRITER and various other international magazines.
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Harvey Kubernik Sometime L.A. correspondent for MELODY MAKER and contributor to CRAWDADDY and other publications in the ’70s, Kubernik has produced acclaimed spoken-word albums like ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. He contributes to MOJO, GOLDMINE and other magazines.
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Steve LaBate Steve LaBate is assistant editor of Paste magazine.
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Dave Laing (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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Dave Laing Dave Laing was one of the principal writers for Let It Rock.
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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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Lulu Le Vay Lulu Le Vay started out as deputy editor of mouthy fanzine Sleazenation in the mid-90s which propelled to her to become a freelance feature writer for publications such as The Face, i-D, Jockey Slut and Xray through to the Guardian Guide, The Independent on Sunday, The Evening Standard and the Observer.
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Mark Leviton Los Angeles native Mark Leviton had his first national publication in Rolling Stone while still in high school (a vicious pan of David Peel’s American Revolution album that he now feels was a bit harsh) and has written on music, film and books for over three decades, with hundreds of credits in Fusion, Phonograph Record Magazine, UCLA Daily Bruin, L.A. Weekly, BAM Magazine, Music Connection, New Musical Express, Let It Rock, Cream, The Los Angeles Times, Mojo and many other fly-by-night publications.
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Dave Lewis Dave Lewis is the founder and editor of the Led Zeppelin fanzine TIGHT BUT LOOSE.
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Miles Marshall Lewis Miles Marshall Lewis is a recognized pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist. He has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Believer, Spin, L.A. Weekly, Essence, and many other publications.
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Gerrie Lim Gerrie Lim has written for numerous publications, including Billboard, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Style, Playboy, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, The Wall Street Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is currently the International Correspondent for the Adult Internet trade magazine AVN Online.
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Amy Linden Widely-respected writer on hip hop and R&B, Brooklyn-based Linden has contributed to VIBE, the NEW YORK TIMES, MOJO and SONICNET.
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Andria Lisle Andria Lisle is a Memphis-based writer on blues, soul and other genres. She has written for Mojo, Raybeat, the Memphis Flyer and The Oxofrd American.
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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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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 Dorian Lynskey started writing about music in 1996. He currently contributes regularly to the Guardian, Word, Q, Empire, and OMM and is the author of The Guardian Book of Playlists.
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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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Peter Makowski Peter Makowski wrote for Sounds in the 1970s and 1980s, and has also written for Kerrang, Metal Hammer and other magazines.
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Gerard Malanga Gerard Malanga was the guy with the whip in Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable. He collaborated with Victor Bockris on Uptight, the definitive Velvet Underground biography.
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Toby Manning Toby Manning is a London-based writer who has contributed to Word, Q, Mojo, Mixmag, Select and NME and is the author of The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd.
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Greil Marcus Greil Marcus is author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music (1975; most recent English language edition from Faber & Faber, 2000) and several other acclaimed books. He has published columns, essays and reviews since 1968 in ROLLING STONE, ARTFORUM, INTERVIEW, SALON.COM, COMMON KNOWLEDGE and other publications.
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Dave Marsh Dave Marsh has written more than a dozen books about rock and popular music, as well as editing several others. He co-founded Creem, the legendary Motor City rock and roll magazine that helped launch heavy metal, glam and punk, among other styles, and spent five years as an associate and contributing editor of Rolling Stone, where he was chief music critic, columnist and feature writer. Marsh's first book, Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story (Doubleday) was published in 1979. His other books include Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who, The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, and Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock'n'Roll Song.
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Gavin Martin Gavin Martin published Alternative Ulster in Ireland’s punk rock summer of 1977, joined NME as a freelancer the following year and has written about music and movies ever since. He now freelances for a wide range of publications and is the Music Critic for The Daily Mirror.
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Joe Matera Joe Matera is a contributor to Australian Musician. His work has appeared in Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer, Rolling Stone, Classic Rock, Kerrang!, Juice and Australian Guitar.
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Dan Matovina Dan Matovina is best-known as the writer of the comprehensive biography Without You: The Tragic Story Of Badfinger. He has also contributed to many Badfinger-related CD releases over the years as a liner-note writer, researcher, consultant, engineer, producer, mastering engineer, compiler, and agent.
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James Maycock James has written features for THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and MOJO, amongst others. He also works as a DJ, television documentary researcher/writer and has compiled 15 soul/funk/Latin boogaloo CD compilations for the London-based Harmless label in the last 3 years.
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John McCready Liverpudlian writer for NME, THE FACE, MOJO and other publications, McCready has been a key commentator on ‘80s/’90s Britpop and rock.
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Joe McEwen Also known as "Mr C", Joe McEwen wrote widely on soul music for Rolling Stone, The Real Paper and other publications before becoming an A&R man at Warner-Reprise in the '80s. He compiled the legendary Lost Soul albums for Epic and is thanked profusely in Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music.
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Rick McGrath Rick McGrath was rock critic of the Vancouver, BC, underground newspaper THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT from 1969 to 1971. He also wrote for CREEM, THE TERMINAL CITY EXPRESS and THE GRAPE before moving on to become an advertising agency creative director.
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Joel McIver Joel McIver writes for national and international magazines such as Classic Rock and Rolling Stone as well as appearing on TV and radio. He has written 14 books, one of which, Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica (Omnibus Press, 2004), was a bestseller in many territories.
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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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Phil McMullen Phil McMullen was the founding editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine.
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John Mendelsohn Peter Buck's favourite rock critic, John Mendelssohn was an early contributor to Rolling Stone, Creem and other rockmags. He was also the leader of the cult LA band Christopher Milk. John currently resides in North London.
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Phil Mershon Phil Mershon is a Phoenix, Arizona, freelancer whose pieces and stories have appeared in Perfect Sound Forever, Nuvein, Howling Wind, and several other magazines.
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Mike Mettler Mike Mettler is Editor-In-Chief of Sound & Vision, a tech-and-music magazine previously known for many a moon as Stereo Review. He spent much of his career as Editor-In-Chief of Car Stereo Review, talking to everyone from Alice Cooper to Dweezil Zappa about what they listened to while they were behind the wheel (or behind the partition). He also wrote for Musician, Guitar Player, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Bass Player, and many other magaziines.
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Mick Middles Mick Middles 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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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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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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John Morthland Hugely-respected contributor to countless American publications from ROLLING STONE and CREEM to SPIN and the NEW YORK ROCKER, Austin-based Morthland is the author of THE BEST OF COUNTRY MUSIC and currently works as a contributing editor at TEXAS MONTHLY.
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Andrew Mueller Andrew Mueller was Reviews Editor at Melody Maker from 1991 to 1993, and a freelance writer for the magazine until 1996. He now contributes more or less regularly to The Independent on Sunday,The Guardian, Uncut and many other publications.
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Peter Murphy 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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Ben Myers Click here for more about Ben Myers and a full list of Ben's articles in our library
Christine Natanael Christine Natanael has written for Creem, Details, Rock Scene, Metal Mania, Reflex, Metal Hammer and other publications.
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David Nathan British-born but L.A.-resident, Nathan was one of the earliest writers on soul and funk for BLUES AND SOUL and BLACK MUSIC. He has subsequently written for BILLBOARD and other American publications and is the author of THE SOULFUL DIVAS.
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Kris Needs Kris was an early contributor to Zigzag, becoming editor in 1977. After its demise he moved to New York, and worked for Creem. Returning to the UK in 1990, he has since made and produced records, DJ'd around the world, and more recently written music books and his own autobiography - Needs Must.
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Melody Nelson Melody Nelson was born in a lounge, somewhere north of Hastings. She is pop crazy!
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Jon Newey Jon Newey wrote for SOUNDS and is the editor of JAZZWISE magazine.
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Philip Norman Philip Norman has an international reputation as a chronicler of popular music and culture.
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Tim Oakes Tim has written and edited numerous magazines including Guitarist and Metal Hammer. He is currently producer/ presenter for Star Radio, and freelance post-production editor for radio and albums.
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Glenn O'Brien A key observer on the New York pop scene, Glenn was the music writer on Andy Warhol’s INTERVIEW and has written for SPIN, ARTFORUM and countless other publications. His books include the anthology Soapbox.
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Lucy O'Brien O'Brien is the author of the bestsellers Annie Lennox (1991) and Dusty (1989/99). Her groundbreaking She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul has been reissued as She Bop II by Continuum (2002). O'Brien has also contributed to the GUARDIAN, the SUNDAY TIMES, the OBSERVER, MARIE CLAIRE, Q, NME and THE FACE.
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Alex Ogg Alex 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 Anthony O’Grady started Rock Australia Magazine (RAM) in 1975. He left RAM in 1981, working in Radio, TV and Film. In 1995 he started Australia’s first music tip sheet, The Music Network. His book Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff, on Australia’s most legendary, enigmatic and enduringly popular rock band was published in 2001.
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Sean O'Hagan Sean O'Hagan started his career on the NME and is an award-winning contributor to THE OBSERVER.
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Betty Page Betty Page, real name Beverley Glick, first started writing for Sounds in 1979 and went on to make her name as the music journalist who championed the New Romantic movement, doing the first major interviews with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode in the early Eighties. She subsequently became editor of Record Mirror, and is now a commissioning editor at The Sunday Express.
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Alec Palao Alec Palao lives in the Bay Area and compiles the Nuggets of the Golden State series for Ace Records. He has written for numerous magazines.
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Carl Magnus Palm Carl Magnus Palm has devoted most of his music writing to the subject of ABBA including Bright Lights, Dark Shadows - The Real Story Of ABBA (2001).
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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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Pete Paphides Currently 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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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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Phast Phreddie Patterson Founded L.A.'s BACK DOOR MAN in 1975, paving the way for the punk rock/new wave scene of the late '70s. Since then he has written for SLASH, the LA WEEKLY, NEW YORK ROCKER, ROCK SCENE and BILLBOARD. He's a poet, a painter, a recovering alcoholic and a connoisseur of fine '60s soul records. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Archie Patterson The world's leading authority on "Eurock", Archie published the fanzine of that name from 1973 to 1992. Many pieces from the fanzine were published in 2002.
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Alan Paul Alan Paul is the editor of guitarworld.com. He has written for many other publications, but doesn’t understand why anyone would care to see a list of them. He is a pretty funny guy, though you would not always guess it from his music writing. In August, 2005, he is moving to Beijing, China, where he will attempt to paint the town brown.
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Mark Paytress Mark Paytress 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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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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Ian Penman Ian Penman wrote for New Musical Express in the late '70s and early '80s and has subsequently written for The Wire and other publications. A collection of his best pieces, Vital Signs, was published by Serpent's Tail in 1998.
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Etienne Petit Etienne Petit lives and works in Paris.
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Binky Philips Click here for more about Binky Philips and a full list of Binky's articles in our library
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 seventies, writing for New Musical Express and, later, Melody Maker, as well as editing the monthly Let It Rock, John has also been a songwriter and radio producer, co-writing a song for one of the Beatles (okay, it was the drummer, but Ringo’s still a Beatle) and pioneering independent production for BBC Radio with Radio 1’s Classic Albums in 1989. Having branched out into comedy and built up his own award-winning production company, he was approached in 1999 to run BBC Radio Entertainment. Since rejoining the real world late in 2005, John has produced a Radio 4 feature series, presented by Ian Rankin, about music in modern crime fiction.
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j. poet A San Francisco-based journalist specializing in American Roots Music, j poet has been writing for close to 30 years. In 1978 he initiated the first nationally-distributed World Music column in the US, for Pulse! Magazine.
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Bruce Pollock Bruce Pollock has written for such publications as The New York Times, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly and Musician. . He is the author of seven books on music, including Working Musicians, The Rock Song Index, Hipper Than Our Kids, and In Their Own Words.
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Edwin Pouncey Maverick writer on everything from roots reggae to Japanese psychedelia, Pouncey wrote for SOUNDS and NME in the ’80s and ’90s and has most recently been a regular feature writer for THE WIRE. He is also well-known as the cartoonist Savage Pencil.
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Bill Prince Bill Prince is Bill Black by any other name
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Mark Pringle RBP's production director is a website designer and internet specialist who has been involved in projects for the BBC and a variety of businesses. He also takes portraits of writers for leading publishers. Prior to moving into design, he was a member of obscure London R&B act Hot House. He was described by NME writer and future Loaded editor James Brown as "the Keith Floyd of British Soul". He took this as a compliment.
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Andrew Purcell 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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David Quantick Longtime contributor to NME, Q, MOJO and SELECT, more recently a writer of comic sketches for programmes like BBC’s THE FAST SHOW and Chris Morris' notorious BRASS EYE series.
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Mike Quigley Mike Quigley contributed regular articles to Vancouver's notorious underground newspaper THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT and its successor THE GRAPE from December 1970 to August 1972. He also wrote numerous freelance articles and reviews of classical and pop music, theatre and films for THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE, one of the city's two daily newspapers from 1969 to 1976.
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Paul Rambali A key feature writer for NME in the punk era and for THE FACE and ARENA (of which he was editor) in the ’80s. Now based in Paris, where he continues to work in the media.
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Linsday Reade Click here for more about Linsday Reade and a full list of Linsday's articles in our library
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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Steve Redhead Steve Redhead is Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton. He is author of various books and articles on subculture, popular culture, popular music, sport and media cultures.
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Penny Reel Penny Reel is one of the UK's reggae foundation writers. His work in the '70s and '80s was and still is a tremendous inspiration. His interviews and articles in publications like Echoes, NME, Sounds and Small Axe gave the readers real insight into a music that was and still is misunderstood. His book Deep Down With Dennis Brown was published in 2001.
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Graham Reid Graham Reid was the senior music writer for the New Zealand Herald for almost 20 years until late 2004.
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David Rensin After more than a decade of writing about rock, David Rensin became a contributing editor of Playboy in 1981.
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James Rexroad Click here for more about James Rexroad and a full list of James's articles in our library
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 Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988); Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage1992); Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992); and the forthcoming Elvis and Tina: Notes on Rock Gender (St. Martin's Press 2004).
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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. Currently based in London, he doubles as travel writer and is working on a book about New Romantics.
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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 also contributed to 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 Radio Networks in New York, is the author of an unpublished novel, THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING.
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Chris Roberts Chris Roberts was born in North Wales and lives in West London. He has written about music, films and books for a plethora of titles including Melody Maker, Sounds, Elle, Ikon, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Uncut. He was also the editor of Idle Worship (Harper Collins), a collection of writings about the thrill of stardom by the well-known (Bono, Nick Hornby, Thurston Moore, etc) that was hailed in The New York Times as "the most original book about rock 'n' roll ever".
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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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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 now works with EMI Music in New York.
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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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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.
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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 has also contributed to Q, MOJO, ROLLING STONE, GQ and WORD. He was until recently Director of Publicity at Virgin Records in London.
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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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Victoria Sandler Victoria Sandler has written about music for Mojo and other publications. She now works in television.
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Metal Mike Saunders An irreverent and iconoclastic early contributor to ROLLING STONE, CREEM et al, Metal Mike later became lead singer of the infamous Angry Samoans. He continues to write for the VILLAGE VOICE and other publications.
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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 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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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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Gene Sculatti A contributor to both Mojo Navigator and Crawdaddy in their '60s heydays, Gene has subsequently written for Creem, the Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications. Most recently Gene has been appointed Managing Editor of Ice magazine.
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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. Will's latest novel, Dorian, was recently published by Bloomsbury.
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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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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: thestory of drugs and popular music (about to be published in Chinese!). He has written for a number of magazines including Mojo, Record Collector and Blues in Britain.
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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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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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Rahul Shrivastava Rahul Shrivastava covers music in the Tyne Tees area for the BBC.
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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 California point of view
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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 A prolific feature writer for SOUNDS in the ’70s and ’80s and more recently for MOJO, THE GUARDIAN et al, Silverton is the author of books such as ESSENTIAL ELVIS.
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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. Her book on Serge Gainsbourg, A Fistful Of Gitanes, was widely acclaimed and translated. Her fiction debut, Too Weird For Ziggy, 18 short stories, is published in November on Grove Atlantic's cult book imprint, Black Cat.
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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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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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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 the editor of Blues Access.
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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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Mark Sinker Mark Sinker has been a contributor to NME and other publications, and was the editor of The Wire.
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James Slack James Slack specialises in media coverage of rock'n'roll. He lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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Chris Smith Click here for more about Chris Smith and a full list of Chris's articles in our library
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. Formerly editor of soccer monthly FOUR FOUR TWO, he is Editorial Consultant to 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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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.
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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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Roger St. Pierre Roger St.Pierre has been 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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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 now writes chiefly about sport for The Independent. He was a runner-up for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year award. His first daughter is named Nyro after the late Laura.
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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 Click here for more about Tony Stewart and a full list of Tony's articles in our library
Yancey Strickler New York-based Strickler has written for Michael Goldberg's site neumu.net and for flakmag.com.
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David Stubbs Click here for more about David Stubbs and a full list of David's articles in our library
Caroline Sullivan Click here for more about Caroline Sullivan and a full list of Caroline's articles in our library
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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Adam Sweeting Once upon a time, Adam Sweeting was the features editor of Melody Maker, and wrote for Q in its early days. Currently, he writes regularly for The Guardian and Uncut magazine, and other magazines.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Graeme Thomson A regular contributor to The Herald, JACK, FourFourTwo and The Observer Sports Monthly, Graeme has also written for MOJO, The Guardian and Record Collector and is a Contributing Editor at Maxim. His biography of Elvis Costello was published by Canongate in October 2004.
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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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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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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 Michael Herr described Nick Tosches as "about the best writer on rock 'n' roll there is, or ever has been", and the Observer Music Monthly declared Hellfire - Tosches' Jerry Lee Lewis biography - to be the greatest music book ever written. Tosches first found his way into print in the pages of Fusion, Rolling Stone, and Creem, and his first book was the classic Country: The Biggest Music in America (1977). He has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ring magazine, and Vanity Fair, of which he is a contributing editor.
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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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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 is the co-founder with photographer Steve Gullick of Careless Talk Costs Lives.
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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.
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Kieron Tyler Click here for more about Kieron Tyler and a full list of Kieron's articles in our library
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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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. Tragically, Penny lost her battle with cancer 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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Tim VonderBrink Click here for more about Tim VonderBrink and a full list of Tim's articles in our library
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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Don Waller Don Waller is the author of The Motown Story (Scribner's, 1985), a founding member of the semi-legendary Back Door Man fanzine/indie record label, and has written for Mojo, USA Today, Billboard, Variety, Radio & Records, L.A. Weekly, L.A. CityBeat and the Los Angeles Times. Don was also a member of proto-punk outfit the Imperial Dogs.
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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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Idris Walters Idris Walters wrote for Let It Rock in the 1970s
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Steven Ward Steven Ward is a staff writer with The (Baton Rouge) Advocate, where he covers general assignment news in the newspaper's river parishes bureau.
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Simon Warner A writer, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches at the University of Leeds, Simon Warner wrote for The Guardian from 1992-95 and published Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop in 1996. He writes the 'Anglo Visions' column for www.popmatters.com.
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Bill Wasserzieher Bill Wasserzieher is a columnist for ICE magazine and a contributing editor for Blues Revue. 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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Tom Watson Tom Watson writes about guitar-centric music and musicians for ezine Modern Guitars.
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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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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 After starting his journalistic career on the regional press, Paul landed a prestigious freelance job on the pop press with the NME. In the early ‘80s his group the Anti Social Workers released an LP, produced by the legendary reggae producer the Mad Professor (of Massive Attack fame), to rave reviews. He has written five books - This is The Modern Word, East Ending, The Chaps, I'm a Journalist...Get Me out of Here, about his life on the NME and the Daily Mirror, and Spend It Like Beckham - plus the screenplay Thieves. His latest book is Sex,Lines and Videotape, published in 2006.
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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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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 book Women of Motown was published by Avon in 1998.
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Cliff White As well as for NME, during the '70s Cliff wrote regularly for BLACK MUSIC, BLACK ECHOES and SMASH HITS, and during the '80s was product manager for key reissue company Charly Records, then briefly Demon Records. He also 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. In recent years Cliff managed a team of repertoire researchers for the MCPS-PRS Alliance in London.
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Mark Williams Mark Williams 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 are The 20th Century's Greatest Hits. He still publishes CRAWDADDY! now.
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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 Former editor of MELODY MAKER and currently chief sports writer for THE GUARDIAN, Williams is among the most respected music writers of the past 30 years. His latest book is a biography of Enzo Ferrari.
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Greg Wilson Click here for more about Greg Wilson and a full list of Greg's articles in our library
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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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 Click here for more about Bob Woffinden and a full list of Bob's articles in our library
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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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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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 wrote for Trouser Press and other US magazines in the 1970s.
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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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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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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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