Thursday, June 25, 2009
RIP RIP, Music Journalist Steven Wells
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM
English-born music journalist Steven Wells died of cancer June 24; he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphona in 2006. Philadelphia Weekly ran his last column, which has turned into a heartfelt commemoration to the man in the comments.
Love or hate Steven Wells (it was impossible to feel "meh" about his work), his writing projected a strong, gutsy voice that made up in bilious, spit-out-your-drink humor what it lacked in subtlety and, to my mind, good musical taste. Nevertheless, I used to obsessively read his copy in NME and other UK music rags in the '80s and '90s. I disagreed with nearly everything he said, but damn if I didn't read every bloody article with the "Swells" by-line attached to it. He was a rare, poison-penned shit-stirrer in a field dominated by bland lifers terrified of falling off promo lists.
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