Paul Morley
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Paul Morley (born 26 March 1957 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful and relatively notorious periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications. He pioneered a distinctive style of post-punk, post-modernist music writing which drew on the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, the gonzo style of Hunter S Thompson, the cultural theories of Roland Barthes and the adventurous rock writing of Lester Bangs. While his style divided the NME readership of the time (an early, confrontational interview with Jerry Garcia was judged to have lost the paper several thousand regular readers),Template:Fact he is recognised as an influence on almost every significant British music writer to have emerged since. British Alternative band The Cure played a version of their song 'Grinding Halt' with new lyrics parodying Morley's writing style after an unfavourable review of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys.
