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Totally Wired by Paul Gorman is a deft potted history of the music press – but it doesn't tell the whole story

Musicians have long had their careers captured for posterity by the music press. Yet, the spotlight has rarely been turned around to the journalists who write these stories. Totally Wired is a vivid oral history of music journalists in the UK and US.

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"People were very down on us after Syd left. Everyone thought Syd was all the group had": In the wake of the worldwide success of The Dark Side Of The Moon, David Gilmour remembered when Pink Floyd were written off as yesterday's men

Pink Floyd's management weren't the only ones who thought the group were doomed after Syd Barrett's exit

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‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom

With the Wham! documentary showcasing Andrew Ridgeley’s mum’s scrapbooks of their career, readers share their own shrines to Roxy Music, Metallica, David Bowie and more

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“We discovered we had an audience out there and it numbered in millions”: How Focus secured TV music show The Old Grey Whistle Test’s future

Revered music series ran for nearly two decades after Thijs van Leer’s band played two-song set during its first year

Louder

"America is the most satanic country in the world": How Black Sabbath getting huge in the US opened Ozzy Osbourne's eyes to the cut-throat nature of capitalism

"They've found a way of destroying the world by just pushing a button... At times I don't think it would be a bad idea"

Metal Hammer

A German concert promoter once offered Black Sabbath an extra one way plane ticket in case they needed to bring a "sacrificial victim" to their gig

Some people got a little carried away with the mistaken belief that Black Sabbath were a Satan-worshipping occult band

Louder

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Free's Paul Rodgers reviewed Black Sabbath in 1970, and were not at all impressed

In 1970 Melody Maker got Roger Waters and Paul Rodgers to offer their opinions on two Black Sabbath singles

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"I don't think I could hum any of your stuff" - what happened when Led Zeppelin visited the BBC

In 1970 The Beatles abdicated and Led Zeppelin took their crown, so Robert Plant and John Bonham visited the BBC to explain the rock revolution

Louder

Dennis Lotis obituary

Big band crooner of the 1950s who also turned his hand to film and theatre

The Guardian - UK

How Radiohead single Creep became a 90s classic despite being 'deleted' by their label

Creep was a monster that charted around the world and gave a British act a rare hit in the United States. But when the single was first released, the BBC refused to play it and Radiohead's label eventually gave up on it.

ABC News

Colin Irwin obituary

Folk music journalist on Melody Maker, fRoots and Mojo whose books took him on explorations of Ireland and England

The Guardian - UK

John Lennon’s angry letter to ‘my obsessive old pal’ Paul McCartney after Beatles split goes up for auction

Lennon accuses McCartney of trying to ‘s*** all over us in public’ in three-page document

The Independent UK

John Lennon’s angry letter to ‘my obsessive old pal’ Paul McCartney after Beatles split goes up for auction

Lennon accuses McCartney of trying to ‘s*** all over us in public’ in three-page document

The Independent UK

Belfast music journalist who died of cancer honoured with legacy bursary for future talent

Carol Clerk won the PPA Journalist of the Year award for her coverage of Live Aid in 1985

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They got rhythm: the interwar British dance bands who pointed towards pop

Music stars of the 1920s and 1930s, including Spike Hughes and Reginald Foresythe, transformed American jazz to suit British tastes, explains Bob Stanley in an extract from his book charting the birth of pop

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