Chris Welch was reviewer and critic with "Melody Maker" during the 1960s and 1970s, reporting on the rise of such bands as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, If, as well as Cream. During that time he also reported on the UK jazz scene. A former local newspaper reporter, Welch joined the Melody Maker in 1964. He was later assistant editor of "Musicians Only" and editor of "Metal Hammer".

Peter Robinson is a British music journalist and creator of the pop music-based blog Popjustice. Recently, he has been hired to create the new Channel 4 music website along with the anonymous author of blog "Holy Moly". Robinson first came to the attention of music fans with his self-published biography/fanzine of The KLF, "Justified and Ancient History". His tongue-in-cheek writing harks back to the style of '80s magazines like Smash Hits, …

Christopher Dawes (born 26 February 1966) is a British journalist and book author. He worked as a music journalist from 1985 to 1998 using the pseudonym Push, writing for the weekly music paper "Melody Maker" for 10 years before becoming the founding editor of the clubbing magazine "Muzik" in 1995. He left "Muzik" in 1998 to become the editor of the male lifestyle title "Mondo".

Allan Jones is a prominent British music journalist. Originally from Wales, he moved to London in the early seventies where he attended art school. Following his graduation he got a job working in the stock room of Hatchard's on Piccadilly. While there he applied for a job writing for the famous rock weekly Melody Maker by writing a letter to the then editor.

David Allan (born in Bury, Lancashire on 7 August 1940, educated at Bury Grammar School) is a British television announcer and radio presenter. After nine years working in theatre as a stage manager, he began broadcasting on the offshore station Radio 390 in 1966, before joining BBC Radio 2 to present country music programmes throughout the late 1960s, 1970s and part of the 1980s. From 1969 to 1994 he also worked as a continuity announcer on BBC Television.

Caitlin Moran (b. 5 April 1975) is a British broadcaster and columnist for "The Times". She is TV critic and current affairs columnist at "The Times". She also writes for "ELLE" magazine, "WORD" magazine, "Period Living", "Times Educational Supplement", "Radio Times" and "The Sunday Times Magazine". She began her career as a journalist on "Melody Maker", the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.

Steven Wells (nicknamed Swells) is a British journalist and author. He began as a punk poet and stand-up similar to John Cooper Clarke. He would appear (sometimes under the names "Seething Wells" or "Susan Williams" - in this last guise, in which he would sometimes wear a dress, he received fan mail from Kathy Acker who saw Susan as a fellow radical female writer) as a support act to various Northern punk bands, such as The Fall, the Mekons, …

Ian Winwood is a British music journalist who has written for several of the country's top alternative music magazines, most notably Kerrang!', the NME, Mojo, Q and Revolver. Since joining Kerrang! in 2000, Winwood has interviewed, among others, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Muse, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Rancid, Velvet Revolver, Nickelback and Fall Out Boy. While his writing style can be said to be occasionally overblown, …

Ben Watson (born 1956) is a British writer on music and culture of Marxist views, known especially for his writings on Frank Zappa. Watson is well-known as a regular contributor to The Wire, as well as the author of numerous books, often entailing studies of popular culture from the perspective of Marxist aesthetics.

Charlie Gillett born Feb 20, 1942 is a British radio presenter and writer, and in recent years has become one of the country's most influential proponents of 'world music'. Gillett began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the "Record Mirror". His 1970 book, "The Sound of the City", was a history of popular music, originally written as his Masters thesis for Columbia University.

Chris Heath is a British writer who was a regular contributor to the popular English music magazine "Smash Hits" in the eighties and early nineties. In the late eighties, he traveled with the Pet Shop Boys on their first ever world tour and the result was the book entitled "Literally", released in 1990. Later, he published "Pet Shop Boys Versus America" (1993) which was written as he accompanied them on a US tour.

Peter Shapiro is a freelance music journalist, who has written for Spin, Urb, Music Week, Uncut, Vibe, The Wire and The Times (London).

David Drew, born 1930, is a British writer on music, particularly known for his work on Kurt Weill. He was editor of the music journal "Tempo" from 1971 to 1982 and Director of Publications for Boosey & Hawkes from 1975 to 1992.