RIP UK music journalist Carol Clerk

Also a couple of late eighties pieces via Archived Music Press.

Carol was a good friend and a valued colleague. We'll be running some sort of tribute next week but suffice to say this has been horrible news.

She did remain her typical self until the end. When I saw her after the last lot of chemo, she hadn't wasted any time in dying her newly regrown crop of hair pillar box red and was pleased with her ability to get into a tighter pair of leather trousers...

She is already sorely missed.

very sad news. as a writer, carol was deservedly a legend, and a really warm and decent person to boot. she rocked, and couldn't help be an inspiration to anyone who met her.

A very underrated UK writer. She was a consistently entertaining read, I don't think she ever got the props she deserved. RIP.

Everett True has a remembrance up:

http://everetttrue2.blogspot.com/2010/03/rip-carol-clerk.html

When did she start with Melody Maker? I used to read it on occasion in the early 80s. I wonder if she was there then?

She was definitely writing for them regularly by the early eighties (check the Rock's Back Pages link up top), as well as for Sounds; I gather her earliest published work was in the seventies.

Meantime there's now a Facebook page for memories of her:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=406898639224&v=info

Thoughts from John Robb:

http://johnrobb77.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/carol-clerk-rip/

And Classic Rock remembers, plus a story from her on AC/DC's 1976 tour:

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/carol-clerk-rip/