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Alan Lewis (music journalist)

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321: 76:, with Barton as its editor. It later became a regular monthly, and then weekly, magazine. Lewis left journalism for some time to run a pub, but returned to edit 362: 186: 225: 139: 261: 391: 401: 396: 355: 60: 348: 336: 303: 160: 33: 82: 386: 381: 93: 8: 328: 187:
Patrick Clarke, "Tributes paid to former NME editor and Kerrang! founder Alan Lewis",
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He began his career on local newspapers, before starting work as production editor at
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Phil Alexander, "RIP Alan Lewis: Kerrang! founder and British publishing legend",
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magazine in 1973, and in the late 1970s became the editor of
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magazine in 1994. In 1997, Lewis oversaw the launch of
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Index

Melody Maker
Black Music
Sounds
Jon Savage
Sylvie Simmons
Vivien Goldman
Geoff Barton
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Kerrang!
pop music
No.1
NME
James Brown
Stuart Maconie
Steve Lamacq
Vox
Loaded
Uncut
British Society of Magazine Editors
IPC
Record Collector
Buckinghamshire
Parkinson's disease
cancer


Patrick Clarke, "Tributes paid to former NME editor and Kerrang! founder Alan Lewis", NME, 24 June 2021


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