David Stubbs

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David Stubbs (born 13 September 1962 in London) is a British music journalist. He grew up in Leeds and in the early 1980s was a student at the University of Oxford where he was a close friend of fellow journalist Simon Reynolds. The two were part of the Oxford-based collective that in 1984 launched the pop journal Monitor and then in 1986 both joined Melody Maker as staff writers.

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Stubbs remained at Melody Maker for a dozen years. He combined his serious writing career with writing the humorous "Talk Talk Talk" section, which featured the character of 'Mr Agreeable.' [1]

Career

Stubbs has written for Vox magazine, the NME (late 1990s and early 2000s), and as editor of The Wire , [2] Uncut , The Guardian , The Times and the football magazines Goal and When Saturday Comes , where in the guise of the "Wing Commander", Stubbs covered England's ill-fated World Cup campaign, followed by their failure to qualify for Euro 2008; the reports were sufficiently popular for Stubbs to augment them with further characters. [1] He has also contributed to many of the themed special editions of Uncut. He has written about musicians such as Jimi Hendrix [3] and Eminem in the Stories Behind Every Song series.[ citation needed ]

In 2009, his book on 20th century avant-garde music was published, entitled Fear of Music: Why people get Rothko but don't get Stockhausen (Zero Books, Winchester: UK, 2009), [4] which was the subject of an evening of lectures at the Tate Britain. [1] The title may have been taken from the third studio album by Talking Heads, Fear of Music . He was among 42 who contributed essays to the bestselling The Atheist's Guide To Christmas , which also featured Richard Dawkins, Derren Brown, David Baddiel and Charlie Brooker. [1]

In 2014, Stubbs published a comprehensive critical history of German krautrock of the 1970s, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany. This was followed in 2018 by a similarly large-scale study of electronic music, Mars by 1980. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "David Stubbs Author Profile". Zero Books. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Live 8: ¿fiesta o compromiso?". BBC News (in Spanish). BBC Mundo. 2 July 2005. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Jimi Hendrix". Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Stubbs, David (2009). Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen. John Hunt Publishing. p. 135. ISBN   978-1-8469-4179-5. Archived from the original on 30 January 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Mars By 1980 book to chart evolution of electronic music". www.soundonsound.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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