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      Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

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      The story of Britpop and its aftermath, told through the eyes of music editor Ted Kessler

      ''A great writer'' ''A music journalist of integrity'' ''There''s only one Ted Kessler!''
      Paul Weller ...

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      Product ID:9781474625548
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Paper Cuts
      Subtitle:How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
      Authors:Author: Ted Kessler
      Page Count:320
      Subjects:Music, Music, Music: styles and genres, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, News media and journalism, Music: styles & genres, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs, Press & journalism
      Description:The story of Britpop and its aftermath, told through the eyes of music editor Ted Kessler

      ''A great writer'' ''A music journalist of integrity'' ''There''s only one Ted Kessler!''
      Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher

      Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it''s also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man''s life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined ''to be someone who listened to music professionally''. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time ''90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020.

      We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it''s like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.


      Imprint Name:White Rabbit
      Publisher Name:Orion Publishing Co
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2023-07-20

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      Weight238 g
      Dimensions127 × 198 × 22 mm