Barney Hoskyns

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5 maja 1959 (67 years)
Barney Hoskyns (born 5 May 1959) is a British music critic and editorial director of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages.

Hoskyns graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class degree in English. He began writing about music for Melody Maker and New Musical Express, quitting his job as staff writer at NME to research a book about soul music. The result was Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted (1987). He went on to write more than fifteen books on musicians and music history.

Hoskyns has written regularly on pop culture and the arts for British Vogue, where for five years he was a contributing editor, and for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer and Arena magazine. He has also contributed to Harper's Bazaar, Interview magazine, Spin magazine and Rolling Stone, as well as to Amazon.com and CDNOW. Between 1993 and 1999, Hoskyns worked as associate editor and then U.S. editor of Mojo magazine.

Hoskyns' book Glam! Bowie, Bolan & The Glitter Rock Revolution was published in 1998, tying in with Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine. Haynes provided an introduction.

In 2000, Hoskyns became senior editor of CDNOW in London. He left to co-found Rock's Backpages, an online library of classic rock journalism that launched in September 2001

Hoskyns has been a regular broadcaster and pundit on both radio and television in the UK, appearing on the Top Ten series (Channel 4), the I Love The 80s/90s series (BBC 2), Walk On By (BBC 2), Behind The Music (VH1) and Classic Albums (BBC 2). He was the consultant on the acclaimed 2005 series Soul Deep (BBC 2). A BBC documentary based on his 2005 book Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys In The L.A. Canyons was broadcast in 2007.

Known For

  • Neil Young: Under Review - 1976-2006
    Neil Young: Under Review - 1976-20062007
  • Eagles: Desperado
    Eagles: Desperado2007
  • Neil Young Under Review: 1966-1975
    Neil Young Under Review: 1966-19752007
  • The Rolling Stones: Rough Diamonds
    The Rolling Stones: Rough Diamonds
  • Mick Jagger: A Knight to Remember
    Mick Jagger: A Knight to Remember2019

Filmografia

2024
2019
2019
2018
27: Gone Too Soon · as Self - Author, 'never Enough: A Way Through Addiction'Na Plex
2017
2015
Biggest Band Breakups and Make Ups · as Self - Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages
2015
2012
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1969 - 1982 · as Self - Author, 'waiting For The Sun: A Rock And Roll History Of California'
2012
2012
Sunset Strip · as Self
2011
Troubadours · as Self
2010
2010
Tom Waits: Under the Influence · as Self - Author
2010
2009
Michael Jackson · as Self
2007
2006
Legends · as Self
2006
Kings of Glam · as Self
2006
2001
1998
SexTV · as Self
1997
Classic Albums · as Self - Music Critic

2023
2019
2007
2007
2007
Eagles: Desperado · as CastNa Plex
2007
Eagles: Live · as CastNa Plex
1985
American Masters · as Cast