Christopher Dawes (author)
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Christopher Dawes (born 26 February 1961) is a British journalist and author. He works as a
As Push, he wrote for the weekly music paper Melody Maker for 10 years. He was also the editor of the seminal London music magazine The Buzz from 1987 until its demise. He left Melody Maker in 1995 to become the founding editor of the clubbing magazine Muzik, before becoming the editor of the male lifestyle title Mondo in 1999. After several years as a book author, he returned to magazine publishing in 2012 as the editor of the specialist electronic music magazine Electronic Sound.
Dawes was responsible for nurturing and guiding some of the brightest talent of the day, many of whom went on to further success in the music industry. He was one of the first UK music journalists to write about
Dawes's best known book is
List of books
- The Book Of E: All About Ecstasy (Omnibus, 2000, co-written with Mireille Silcott)
- Pussy (Bantam, 2004, co-written with Steven Appleton, Mark Roland and Paul Thompson)
- Bitch (Bantam, 2005, co-written with Steven Appleton, Mark Roland and Paul Thompson)
- Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail(Sceptre, 2005)