I didn't realise he'd written the Tolkien companion, which I loved dearly.
I was always a Sounds man, rather than the NME - it seemed like an ideological choice, to be on the side of punk, Alan Moore and the New Wave of Brittish Heavy Metal against, well, Julie Burchill (and seeing where she's writing these days, I was right).
But isn't it sad, given the state of the meeja today, where you can't slip a laminated policy pledge between the Guardian, the Indy and the Torygraph, that in the 70's and 80's we had pop magazines worth having an ideological rift over?
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Date: 2006-10-31 09:39 pm (UTC)I was always a Sounds man, rather than the NME - it seemed like an ideological choice, to be on the side of punk, Alan Moore and the New Wave of Brittish Heavy Metal against, well, Julie Burchill (and seeing where she's writing these days, I was right).
But isn't it sad, given the state of the meeja today, where you can't slip a laminated policy pledge between the Guardian, the Indy and the Torygraph, that in the 70's and 80's we had pop magazines worth having an ideological rift over?
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