Charles Shaar Murray

According to Rock’sBackPages

<http://www.rocksbackpages.com/writer.html?WriterID=murray> , ‘Charles Shaar

Murray, “the rock critic’s rock critic” (Q Magazine), “front-line cultural

warrior” and “original gunslinger” (Independent on Sunday), is the Ralph J.

Gleason Music Book Award-winning author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix

And Post-war Pop (Faber & Faber), and Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee

Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (Viking/Penguin), later

short-listed for the same award. The first two decades of his journalism,

criticism and vulgar abuse have been collected in Shots From The Hip

(Penguin). He’s been appearing regularly in print for four decades, and has

long been recognised as one of the most admired stylists in British

pop-cultural journalism.’

He was a staff writer, eventually becoming Associate Editor, on NME for most

of the 1970s. He also subsequently contributed to a variety of newspapers

and magazines including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent,

Independent On Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The [London] Evening

Standard, New Statesman, Literary Review, Prospect, Rolling Stone, Vogue,

The Face, Arena, Q, Mojo (as a founding contributor to both of the last

two), The Word, The Big Issue, MacUser, Guitarist, Guitar Player, Guitar

World, Classic Rock … and the Encyclopedia Britannica.

He’s also written and presented BBC radio shows on Lenny Bruce, Frank Zappa,

Jaco Pastorius, Moondog and the history of jazz guitar; worked both in front

of and behind the camera for the Dancing In The Streets and Seven Ages Of

Rock TV series, and supplied quality punditry to innumerable radio and TV

shows, including frequent appearances on Channel 4 News, BBC2 Newsnight and

BBC World Service radio and TV.

His first novel, The Hellhound Sample, is due for publication by HeadPress

<http://www.headpress.com/> in late 2010.

charles_shaar_murray_biopic According to Rock’sBackPages, ‘Charles ShaarMurray, “the rock critic’s rock critic” (Q Magazine), “front-line cultural warrior” and “original gunslinger” (Independent on Sunday), is the Ralph Gleason Music Book Award-winning author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Postwar Pop (Faber & Faber), and Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker In The American Twentieth Century (Viking/Penguin), later short-listed for the same award. The first two decades of his journalism, criticism and vulgar abuse have been collected in Shots From The Hip (Penguin). He’s been appearing regularly in print for four decades, and has long been recognised as one of the most admired stylists in British pop-cultural journalism.’

He was a staff writer, eventually becoming Associate Editor, on NME for most of the 1970s. He also subsequently contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Independent On Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The [London] Evening Standard, New Statesman, Literary Review, Prospect, Rolling Stone, Vogue, The Face, Arena, Q, Mojo (as a founding contributor to both of the last two), The Word, The Big Issue, MacUser, Guitarist, Guitar Player, Guitar World, Classic Rock … and the Encyclopedia Britannica.

He’s also written and presented BBC radio shows on Lenny Bruce, Frank Zappa, Jaco Pastorius, Moondog and the history of jazz guitar; worked both in front of and behind the camera for the Dancing In The Streets and Seven Ages Of Rock TV series, and supplied quality punditry to innumerable radio and TVshows, including frequent appearances on Channel 4 News, BBC2 Newsnight and BBC World Service radio and TV.

His whirlwind of a first novel, The Hellhound Sample, is now available from HeadPress. It's a fantastic read which is unsurprising considering its authors credentials.. Go read the first Chapter for FREE below

Finally Storm Books presents Charles Shaar Murray's The Hothouse Project, an eight-week course of journalism as creative writing. Check the Hothouse course Page!

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