From Rockcriticsdaily.....
Steven Ward reports...
Metal scribe returns to the pages of rock mag
Geoff Barton, a hard rock and metal writer for the defunct weekly Sounds, first editor of Kerrang!, and the premiere chronicler of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement of the early '80s, is leaving his current News Editor post at Automotive News Europe to work for Classic Rock magazine.
"The whole affair was kick-started by the announcement in March that the London office of Automotive New Europe was being closed and that all activities were being transferred to Oberpfaffenhofen (that's reputedly somewhere near Munich)," Barton told rockcriticsdaily Wednesday.
Barton said he would never consider moving to Germany, David Hasselhoff-mania or not.
An old Kerrang! colleague, Cathy Newson, suggested to Barton that he call Classic Rock Editor-in-Chief Mick Wall (who used to write for Barton back in the early Kerrang! days).
"I finish at Automotive News Europe in August and Mick has asked me to help out in the Classic Rock office once I'm free of my present commitments," Barton said.
Barton has started off his stay at Classic Rock with a new monthly column for the magazine called "Almost Famous." In the column, Barton recalls his old glory days of covering the hard rock and metal beat.
Classic Rock is not online, but can be found at your favourite newsstand. Just look for the July issue with Slippery When Wet-era Jon Bon Jovi on the cover.
(That's right. Jon Bon Jovi. You know you wish you had hair like that.)
[See Steven Ward's interview with Geoff Barton in rockcritics.com.]
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― Steven Ward, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)