In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press"Death, drugs, drink, divorce, infidelity, jail, sex, celebrity, fame, obsession, jealousy, nervous breakdowns, industrial action, one or two fist-fights, typewriters flying through windows, back-biting, bitching and score-setting - oh, and Nick Kent's pink underpants - the real history of the music press is much more than just a dust-dry account of publishing launches and circulation fluctuations." "In Their Own Write is an oral history celebrating five decades of the "champs, chumps and charlatans" - as Charles Shaar Murray describes them in his foreword - who populated this most fertile of media breeding grounds. Featuring the inside take on Rolling Stone, Q, Melody Maker, Spin, NME, Creem, Mojo, Zigzag, Blender and Smash Hits from the likes of former music hacks Cameron Crowe, Tony Parsons, Julie Burchill and Chrissie Hynde, it leaves no page unturned."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
Foreword by Charles Shaar Murray | 9 |
You Can Only Do That For So Long | 27 |
Dont Try To OutHip Me Be As Hip As Me | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Lewis album ALLAN JONES bands BARNEY HOSKYNS Beatles became called Cameron Crowe CAROLINE COON CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY CHARLIE GILLETT CHAS DE WHALLEY CHRIS SALEWICZ CHRIS WELCH cover Creem DANNY FIELDS Dave Marsh DAVID HEPWORTH editor Elvis fanzine freelance fucking going GREG SHAW IAN MACDONALD Iggy interview issue jazz JON SAVAGE JONATHON GREEN journalist JULIE BURCHILL kids knew launch LENNY KAYE Lester Bangs LISA ROBINSON look loved magazine MAURICE KINN Melody Maker MICK FARREN Mojo music press NEIL SPENCER never Nick Kent NICK LOGAN PAOLO HEWITT paper Paul person PETE SILVERTON PETER YORK piece punk record companies remember RICHARD MELTZER RICHARD WILLIAMS Rolling Stone scene Sex Pistols Smash Hits Sounds started Steve story stuff talk thing thought TONY PARSONS TONY TYLER took VIVIEN GOLDMAN wanted week writing wrote