Strongly urging all friends of the Hell Gate to take a view of this video & then also read the Ian Burrell article  here on Rock’s Back Pages’

As a former music magazine writer (anyone remember Smug?) I have no issue looking back fondly on the kind of publications I wrote for. I have the same fondness for the photographers we worked with back then too. (well, some of them)

There was a time where our music writing was less transient, less professional PR driven & based around intelligent writing. The same goes for the respect for & quality of the photography that accompanied this.

Just getting a sense of the academic traction that this work is securing through RBP just underlines again how all this matters. What these artists said & continue to say matters, what they did has impacted life and our culture today. Rock criticism informed & inspired & served as an education. What a artist says & how we respond to that matters.

Again, the same goes for the photography. What somebody also saw in a Melody Maker or an NME also stayed with them. It also carries weight & significance. A younger generation of photographers have told me so.

The photography matters too.

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