Richard Williams (journalist)

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Richard Williams (born 13 March 1947) is a British music and sports journalist.

As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly music newspaper

Velvet Underground. Melody Maker still covered jazz
and Williams wrote about the more progressive developments in this field also.

The magazine's serious approach to rock music and culture, under the editorship of

New Musical Express, a more pop-orientated weekly, in its wake as MM caught the mood of rock followers at a time when the music had transcended its Top 40 roots to become a powerful symbol of social and cultural change. Williams was a vocal and influential supporter of Bob Marley
during the early seventies. He wrote several key features at Melody Maker which resulted in Marley's first important cover stories.

Williams moved on to new challenges in the early 1970s. Beginning in May 1970 he contributed to The Times and continued to write for that paper until October 1989. He also wrote regularly for Radio Times. He left journalism to join Island Records' A&R department in 1973, becoming department head. For two years, he signed and developed artists including Pete Wingfield, Stone Delight, Bryn Haworth and John Cale.

The first presenter of the

Time Out and returned to MM as editor from 1978 to 1980.[1]

After a period as features editor at

Independent on Sunday's Sunday Review. His music journalism has been gathered in the volume Long Distance Call: Writings on Music and biographies of Bob Dylan (A Man Called Alias), Miles Davis (The Man in the Green Shirt), and Phil Spector
(Out of His Head) are among his list of other publications.

Williams remains an active journalist and is the former chief sports writer of The Guardian, covering a full array of sports. He has written several books on Formula One, including The Death of Ayrton Senna, Racers (an analysis of the main participants of the 1996 F1 season), Enzo Ferrari: A Life, and The Last Road Race (a study of the changing balance in Formula One between British and Italian teams, using the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix as the backdrop).

Williams' comments about music and related film, photography and art topics are published in the form of his blog, The Blue Moment.[2]

References

  1. Bob Harris
    speaking before Track 3.
  2. ^ Williams, Richard. "The Blue Moment". Retrieved 25 May 2015.

External links

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