Adam Sweeting

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Adam Sweeting
Occupations
  • Writer
  • television critic
  • rock critic
Years active1970s-present
Employer The Arts Desk
Website theartsdesk.com/users/adam-sweeting

Adam Sweeting is a British rock critic and writer. Graeme Thomson, writing for The Guardian , deemed him as an "influential journalist" of the 1970s. [1] He currently writes film and television reviews for The Arts Desk .

Biography

Sweeting started writing in 1979 for publications such as Beat Instrumental , [2] [3] Trouser Press , [2] Australian magazine RAM [4] and NME . [2] In 1980, he became a feature editor for Melody Maker [5] and briefly collaborated with Sounds . In 1985, he stopped collaborating with Melody Maker to work for The Guardian and Q . [2] Sweeting has interviewed musicians such as Kate Bush, Neil Young, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell [2] and has written over 800 articles for The Guardian, including hundreds of obituaries. [6] Since the 2000s, he has also published articles and interviews in The Times , The Independent on Sunday , [2] and The Telegraph . [7] His articles have also appeared on I [8] and The Irish Times . [9] He is now a regular contributor for The Arts Desk reviewing television. [10] He is also one of the founding members of The Arts Desk. [11]

Sweeting signed as a partner for VTVC, a TV production company that developed programs broadcast on Channel 4. [2] [12] He is also the author of several books, including Simple Minds published on Sidgwick & Jackson in 1988, [13] and Cover Versions – Singing Other People's Songs published on Pimlico in 2004. [14]

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  13. Sweeting, Adam (1988). Simple Minds. Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN   978-0-283-99581-1.
  14. Sweeting, Adam (2004). Cover Versions: Singing Other People's Songs. Pimlico. ISBN   978-1-84413-544-8.