John Harris (critic)
John Harris was born in 1969, and raised in Cheshire by two university lecturers. After three years at Queen's College, Oxford, he became a full-time writer at the NME in 1993, where he stayed until the summer of 1995. This was fortuitous timing. John was around for the birth of what became known as 'Britpop', and wrote reams about most of its key players: Suede, Blur, Elastica, Oasis. After a spell with Q, he became Editor of Select magazine in 1996, before deciding to return—two weeks before his 30th birthday—to the life of a freelance writer. Since then, he has written about music for Q, Mojo and Rolling Stone, and contributed articles on a variety of subjects to The Independent, the New Statesman and, less frequently, The Times. John Harris's acclaimed first book, The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock, was published by Fourth Estate in May 2003. His second is So Now Who Do We Vote For?, a slightly old-fashioned look at the 2005 UK general election, best characterised as the view of a 'disgruntled Labourite'. |
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