, the new book on the rock press by Paul Gorman. I picked it up and found myself rather depressed - a lot of hearty tale-telling, a bit of snipey score-settling, starstruck reports of encounters with rock stars, my favourite periods of rockcrit passed over or dismissed and the first time anyone mentions the readers is 4/5 of the way through when the founder editors of Q decide that they don't want to read anything too clever. To quote an, ahem "ILM Gold" thread - "Has the UK Music Press EVER Been Good?" - you wouldn't know it from this book, if so.
― Tom, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link