出版社：WhiteRabbit
出版年：2022-11
页数：320
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9781474625531
内容简介
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'A great writer'
Paul Weller
'A music journalist of integrity'
Billy Childish
'There's only one Ted Kessler!'
Liam Gallagher
PAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house's long hot summer of love. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time '90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020.
We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it's like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.
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《Q》最后一任主编ted kessler回望自己的音乐媒体从业经历，也算是变相的英国音乐纸媒和英国音乐人的八卦总集（比如radiohead怎么和nme绝交的），感情分必须加一星，也算是拼上了90年代的最后一张拼图。我一直好奇《Q》的销量在什么样的数量级，原来90年代黄金期能达到25万加，而停刊前的平均销量大致在三万加，其中一万五是订阅用户。NME的造星功能在网络时代被pitchfork所取代，我想…
《Q》最后一任主编ted kessler回望自己的音乐媒体从业经历，也算是变相的英国音乐纸媒和英国音乐人的八卦总集（比如radiohead怎么和nme绝交的），感情分必须加一星，也算是拼上了90年代的最后一张拼图。我一直好奇《Q》的销量在什么样的数量级，原来90年代黄金期能达到25万加，而停刊前的平均销量大致在三万加，其中一万五是订阅用户。NME的造星功能在网络时代被pitchfork所取代，我想…
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