Geoff Barton
Geoff Barton is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine.[1]
He joined Sounds at the age of nineteen after completing a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the New Wave of British Heavy Metal after coining the term in the May 1979 issue of Sounds.[2] In 1981 he edited the first issue of Kerrang!, which was published as a one off. This was successful so it became a fortnightly magazine. He left the magazine in 1995.
He currently works for Classic Rock Magazine.
References
- ^ "Geoff Barton, behind the wheel". RockCritics.com.
- ^ Steve Waksman, This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2009), 173.
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