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Barney Hoskyns (born 1959) is a British music critic and editorial director of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages. ==Biography== Hoskyns graduated from 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: Country Soul In The American South'' (UK: Fontana, 1987; Bloomsbury reissue 1998). 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''. Faber (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US) published his ''Glam! Bowie, Bolan & The Glitter Rock Revolution'' in 1998, tying in with Todd Haynes’ ''Velvet Goldmine''. Haynes provided an introduction. 1999 saw the publication of the bestselling ''The Mullet: Hairstyle Of The Gods'', written with Mark Larson and published by Bloomsbury. In 2000, Hoskyns became Senior Editor of CDNOW in London, leaving to co-found Rock's Backpages, an online library of classic rock journalism.〔http://www.popmatters.com/chapter/Issue3/hoskynsA.html Interview with Barney Hoskyns in Pop Matters〕 Hoskyns edited ''The Sound and the Fury: A Rock’s Backpages Reader'' (Bloomsbury, 2003) and ''Ozzy Osbourne: A Rock’s Backpages Reader'' (Omnibus, 2004). Hoskyns’ ''Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys In The L.A. Canyons'' (UK: 4th Estate/Harper Collins; US: Wiley), was published in 2005. A BBC documentary based on the book was broadcast in 2007. In 2006, Hoskyns published his study of ''Led Zeppelin IV'' in Rodale’s Rock Of Ages series, together with a US reissue of ''Across The Great Divide'' (Hal Leonard Books). His next book on American music, ''Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits'', was published in March 2009 by Faber and Faber. Hoskyns' oral history of Led Zeppelin was published in 2012 as ''Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin'' in the UK (Faber) and as ''Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band'' in the US (Wiley). 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'' (BBC2). He was the consultant on the acclaimed 2005 series ''Soul Deep'' (BBC 2). Hoskyns’ other books include ''Montgomery Clift: Beautiful Loser'' (UK: Bloomsbury/ US: Grove, 1992), ''Across The Great Divide: The Band & America'' (UK: Viking; US: Hyperion, 1993) and the novel ''The Lonely Planet Boy: A Pop Romance'' (UK/US: Serpent’s Tail, 1995). ''Waiting For The Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & The Sound Of Los Angeles'' (UK: Viking/US: St. Martin’s Press, 1996) was nominated for a Ralph J. Gleason award in the U.S. In 1997 he published ''Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barney Hoskyns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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