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). Wikipedia
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If you've read the rock press during the last twenty years, chances are the name of Barney Hoskyns will ring a bell. In the '80s he wrote for Melody Maker and New Musical Express, then for UK newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, T www.cloudsandclocks.net/interviews/BHoskyns_interview.html
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