This was October 1964, and ‘Melody Maker’ was pretty much a jazz paper, so they wanted a younger writer to write about pop and R’N’B. On my first day, I went out for a drink with one of the older guys on the paper and he was a bit sourfaced and negative and said, “Oh, [...]
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Chris Welch’s Memories, Part 1
17 April, 2009 – 2:39 pm
Chris Welch was one of the star writers on music magazine ‘Melody Maker’ in the Sixties and as such, was right at the heart of Swinging London, meeting all the leading bands of the day. Read about how he first became a music journalist below:
I left school when I was 16 and I always wanted [...]