MUSIC JOURNALISTS I ADMIRE...

"the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism"

I think the 'music journalism calling' came a little late for me. I LOVE music. Not in the way people just say it, I'm literally IN love with it. It's why my friends are my friends, and why I am me today. So when I'm flicking through the latest edition of a music mag, I can't help but swoon over a perfectly crafted article or review. I love looking at a piece of writing and thinking 'I wish I could write like that...' with such wit and passion, that's my ultimate goal. 

I think obvious inspiration comes from Lester Bangs "No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly" J. DeRogatis. (2000). Bangs wasn't afraid to delve and dig to to get what he wanted, he had true passion, believed more than anything of what he was writing for. Many see him as a cynical man, only writing the negative, a pessimist perhaps. But isn't that what a music journalist's supposed to be? He lived and breathed music. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J.DeRogatis, (2000) Let it Blurt – the life and times of Lester Bangs, America’s greatest rock critic, Broadway books.