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Barney Hoskyns is a British music critic and editor of Rock's Backpages.
He graduated from Oxford with a First Class degree in English. He began writing about music for Melody Maker and New Musical Express, quitting his job as staff writer at NME to research a book about soul music. The result was Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted: Country Soul In The American South (UK: Fontana, 1987; Bloomsbury reissue 1998). Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ...
The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ...
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Hoskyns’ other books include Montgomery Clift: Beautiful Loser (UK: Bloomsbury/ US: Grove, 1992), Across The Great Divide: The Band & America (UK: Viking; US: Hyperion, 1993) and the novel The Lonely Planet Boy: A Pop Romance (UK/US: Serpent’s Tail, 1995).
Waiting For The Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & The Sound Of Los Angeles (UK: Viking/US: St. Martin’s Press, 1996) was nominated for a Ralph J. Gleason award in the U.S.
Aside from his books, Hoskyns has written regularly on pop culture and the arts for British Vogue, where for five years he was a Contributing Editor, and for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer and Arena magazine. He has also contributed to Harper's Bazaar, Interview magazine, Spin magazine and Rolling Stone, as well as to Amazon.com and CDNOW. Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries around the world. ...
The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...
The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...
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Cover of the February 2005 edition of Arena. ...
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Interview is a magazine founded by artist Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969. ...
Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ...
Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics and popular culture. ...
Amazon. ...
Cdnow is a division of Amazon. ...
Between 1993 and 1999, Hoskyns worked as Associate Editor and then U.S. Editor of Mojo magazine. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
In 1998, Faber (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US) published his Glam! Bowie, Bolan & The Glitter Rock Revolution, tying in with Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine. Haynes provided an introduction. 1999 saw the publication of the bestselling The Mullet: Hairstyle Of The Gods, written with Mark Larson and published by Bloomsbury.
He is a regular broadcaster and pundit on both radio and television, appearing on the Top Ten series (CHANNEL 4), the I Love The 80s/90s series (BBC 2), Walk On By (BBC 2), Behind The Music (VH1) and Classic Albums (BBC2). He was the consultant on the acclaimed 2005 series Soul Deep (BBC 2)
In 2000 Barney became Senior Editor of CDNOW in London, leaving to co-found the music site Rock's Backpages, an online library of rock journalism. Barney edited The Sound And The Fury: A Rock’s Backpages Reader (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Ozzy Osbourne: A Rock’s Backpages Reader (Omnibus, 2004). Cdnow is a division of Amazon. ...
Hoskyns’ Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys In The L.A. Canyons (UK: 4th Estate/Harper Collins; US: Wiley), was published in 2005. A BBC documentary based on the book is scheduled for transmission in early 2007.
2006 sees the publication of his study of Led Zeppelin IV in Rodale’s Rock Of Ages series, together with a US reissue of Across The Great Divide (Hal Leonard Books). He is currently working on a biography of Tom Waits.
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