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 Eighties was a student at the University of Oxford where he was a close friend of 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.

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

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

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]

Publications

References

  1. ^
    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. 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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