Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his work at "CREEM" and "Rolling Stone" magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism.

Tony Parsons (b.1955) is a British journalist and author. Parsons grew up on a council estate in Essex and began his career as a music journalist on the "NME", writing about punk music and "taking drugs with the "Sex Pistols". Later, he wrote for "The Daily Telegraph", before going on to write his current column for the "Daily Mirror". Parsons briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called "Big Mouth".

Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared "Dean of American Rock Critics". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as "Xgau".

Todd E. Jones also known as The New Jeru Poet is an American music journalist from Edison, New Jersey and currently living in North Plainfield, New Jersey. Origin He was born on August 21st, 1975 in Rahway, New Jersey. For college, he attended William Paterson University, but eventually graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ in 1999 with a Bachelor's in English.

David Was is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by "The New York Times" in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band" (comparing them to Talking Heads), Was (Not Was) used members of Funkadelic; alongside jazz legends like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; and singers Mel Tormé,and Ozzy Osbourne. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Was fled his native Detroit for California, …

Gerald "Jerry" Wexler (born January 10 1917) is a music journalist turned highly influential music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry players behind 1960s soul music. He was born in the Bronx, New York City, into a Jewish family.

Stephen Davis is an American music journalist and historian. Davis was born in New York City and began his career writing for the " Old Cambridge Phoenix" in 1970. His journalism has appeared in "Rolling Stone Magazine", "The New York Times", the "Boston Globe" and numerous other papers and magazines. Biography *"Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica", with photographies of Peter Simon, …

Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 15, 1966) is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. In the 1980s, at the age of 19, she worked as a journalist for Sounds Magazine. She later went to work for the NME, before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. She got her break in radio at BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr. She then worked at XFM before going to BBC Radio 1. She also presented the show Superbikes 2003 for ITV.

Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman, 25 December 1964, in Horsham, Sussex) is a UK musician, film maker and journalist. He is best known as a member of the pop/dance group Saint Etienne for which he co-writes songs and produces. Live on stage, he normally plays keyboards and xylophone. He has had a long parallel career as a music journalist writing for amongst others NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times.

Chris Helme (born 22 July 1971, York, England) is the former singer of The Seahorses, a band put together by guitarist John Squire, following the demise of his previous group, The Stone Roses. It is rumoured that Helme was spotted, busking outside the department store Woolworths, on York's Coney Street. The band only released one album "Do It Yourself" which proved popular with fans but less so with critics.

Silas House is the author of the novels Clay's Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), and The Coal Tattoo (2004), as well as the play The Hurting Part (2005). House was born in Whitley County, Kentucky, in 1971 and grew up in a working class family.

Ian McFarlane is an Australian music journalist. McFarlane is the author of the renowned "Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop" (Allen & Unwin, 1999; hardback ISBN 1-86508-072-1, softback ISBN 1-86448-768-2). He edits the fanzine "Prehistoric Sounds", about Australian music of the 1970s and 1980s.

César Antonovich Cui (January 6, 1835 (Old Style)-March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, …

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (b. Patricia Kennely March 4, 1946, Brooklyn) is an American author of rock criticism, nonfiction books and science fiction/fantasy novels. Most of her books are part of her series, "The Keltiad". She has also published in anthologies and periodicals. As first a writer and then the editor-in-chief of "Jazz and Pop" magazine in the late sixties, she was one of the first woman rock critics.

Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is an English financial analyst who is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (née Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz). Lord Frederick was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom and has a sister, Lady Gabriella Windsor, born in 1981. He is presently 31st in the line of succession to the British Throne.

Alessandro Baricco (born January 25, 1958) is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. After receiving degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and piano (at the Conservatory), he published essays on music criticism: "Il genio in fuga", 1988), on Gioachino Rossini, and "L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin" ("Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin", 1992), …

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов in Cyrillic; Aleksandr Nikolaevič Serov in transliteration) (11/23 Jan. 1820- 20 Jan./1 Feb. 1871 was a Russian composer and music critic. He was also the father of the painter Valentin Serov. He was not only one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and 1860s, …

Matthijs Vermeulen (born Mat­theus Christia­nus Franciscus van der Meulen, was a Dutch composer and music journalist.

Derek 'Lek' Leckenby (14 May 1943 - 4 June 1994) was an English guitarist, most famous for his work with Herman's Hermits. Leckenby was born in 1943, in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and commenced a civil engineering degree course at Manchester University, before leaving to become a professional musician. An accomplished guitarist and musician, he played the lead guitar for Herman's Hermits.

Anji Bee is a vocalist/lyricist, podcaster, former college radio DJ, and music journalist from Los Angeles.

Jacques de Pierpont is a rock journalist and more, from Belgium.

Edwin C. Allman is an American music journalist and public relations consultant. He has written under a variety of pen names, including Eddy Allman, Christian Allman and R.U. Eddy.

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