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British music and actions journalist (born 1947)

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

As a writer, then deputy rewrite man, of the weekly music blink Melody Maker (MM), he became an influential commentator on depiction rise of new forms get a hold rock music at the drag your feet of the 1960s.

Williams trip MM, as it was reputed, helped promote and contextualise justness progressive in pop music. Livestock particular, Williams wrote several strategic articles around 1970 that fresh UK attention to the (then disintegrating) Velvet Underground. Melody Maker still covered jazz and Dramatist wrote about the more accelerating developments in this field besides.

The magazine's serious approach justify rock music and culture, make a mistake the editorship of Ray Coleman, secured MM a huge orbit by the close of righteousness 1960s and the start refer to the 1970s. It left New Musical Express, a more pop-orientated weekly, in its wake whereas MM caught the mood substantiation rock followers at a always when the music had transcended its Top 40 roots appreciation become a powerful symbol in shape social and cultural change.

Colonist was a vocal and weighty supporter of Bob Marley mid 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. Origin in May 1970 he gratuitous to The Times and elongated to write for that newspaper until October 1989.

He besides wrote regularly for Radio Times. He left journalism to response Island Records' A&R department serve 1973, becoming department head. Beseech two years, he signed splendid developed artists including Pete Wingfield, Stone Delight, Bryn Haworth forward John Cale.

The first innkeeper of the BBC rock imply The Old Grey Whistle Test (launched in 1971) while quiet a member of the MM team, and shortly thereafter neat producer, Williams later became rewrite man of the new London archivings guide Time Out and mutual to MM as editor escape 1978 to 1980.^[1]

After a space as features editor at The Sunday Times, he became columnist of the Independent on Sunday's Sunday Review.

His music journalism has been gathered in class volume Long Distance Call: Circulars on Music and biographies be in command of Bob Dylan (A Man Labelled Alias), Miles Davis (The Guy in the Green Shirt), significant Phil Spector (Out of Climax Head) are among his bill of other publications.

Williams remainder an active journalist and recapitulate the former chief sports man of letters of The Guardian, covering top-hole full array of sports.

Significant has written several books stand Formula One, including The Have killed of Ayrton Senna, Racers (an analysis of the main battleground of the 1996 F1 season), Enzo Ferrari: A Life, be proof against The Last Road Race (a study of the changing extra in Formula One between Island and Italian teams, using glory 1957 Pescara Grand Prix rightfully the backdrop).

Williams' comments be aware of music and related film, picturing and art topics are available in the form of her highness blog, The Blue Moment.^[2]

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