Barney Hoskyns
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Barney Hoskyns (born 5 May 1959) is a British music critic and editorial director of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages.
Biography
Hoskyns graduated from
Hoskyns has written regularly on pop culture and the arts for British
Hoskyns' book Glam! Bowie, Bolan & The Glitter Rock Revolution was published in 1998, tying in with Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine. Haynes provided an introduction.
In 2000, Hoskyns became Senior Editor of
Hoskyns has been a regular broadcaster and pundit on both radio and television in the UK, appearing on the Top Ten series (CHANNEL 4), the I Love The 80s/90s series (BBC 2), Walk On By (BBC 2), Behind The Music (VH1) and Classic Albums (BBC2). He was the consultant on the acclaimed 2005 series Soul Deep (BBC 2). A BBC documentary based on his 2005 book Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys In The L.A. Canyons was broadcast in 2007.
Hoskyns is married to interior designer and former actor Natalie Forbes. He has three sons from his first marriage to Victoria Sandler and two stepsons from his marriage to Forbes.
Bibliography
Hoyskyns' 1996 book Waiting For The Sun was nominated for a Ralph J. Gleason award in the US. Kirkus Reviews called it "a caustic, gossipy, refreshingly idiosyncratic history of the music business in Los Angeles."[2]
MOJO reviewer Jim Farber gave Hoyskyns' Small Town Talk (spring 2016) four stars and described it as "a pitch-perfect East Coast corollary to his Laurel Canyon classic Hotel California".
In 2017, Hoskyns published Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction, an autobiographical account of how he became a heroin addict a few days after graduating from Oxford University, and how he finally overcame his addiction at the age of 23. The Guardian wrote: "It’s an ambitious, intelligent book that seeks to explain the appeal of drugs and drug culture, as well as the existential angst that drove Hoskyns to find oblivion at the end of a needle."[3]
Nonfiction
- Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted: Country Soul In The American South (UK: Fontana, 1987; Bloomsbury reissue 1998)
- Montgomery Clift: Beautiful Loser (UK: Bloomsbury/ US: Grove, 1992)
- Across The Great Divide: The Band and America (UK: Viking; US: Hyperion, 1993; Hal Leonard Books US reissue, 2006)
- Waiting For The Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & The Sound Of Los Angeles (UK: Viking/US: St. Martin's Press, 1996)
- Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970 (UK: Bloomsbury; US: Simon & Schuster,1997)
- Glam! Bowie, Bolan & The Glitter Rock Revolution (UK: Faber; US: Simon & Schuster, 1998)
- The Mullet: Hairstyle Of The Gods (Bloomsbury, 1999), with Mark Larson
- The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism: A Rock’s Backpages Reader (Bloomsbury, 2003), editor
- Ozzy Osbourne: A Rock’s Backpages Reader (Omnibus, 2004), editor
- Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys In The L.A. Canyons (UK: 4th Estate/HarperCollins; US: Wiley, 2005)
- Led Zeppelin IV (Rock of Ages series) (Rodale Books, 2006)
- Lowside of the Road: A Life of Faber and Faber, 2008)
- Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin (UK: Faber, 2012); published in the US as Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band (Wiley, 2012)
- Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock (UK: Faber; US: Da Capo, 2016)
- Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction (Constable, 2017)
- Joni: The Anthology (Picador, 2017)
Fiction
- The Lonely Planet Boy: A Pop Romance (UK/US: Serpent's Tail, 1995)
References
- ^ Simon Warner (10 April 2005). "Interview with Barney Hoskyns". Chapter & Verse. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "WAITING FOR THE SUN | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ Andrew Anthony (30 January 2017). "Never Enough by Barney Hoskyns; The Ice Age by Luke Williams; A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2017.