- In 1979 he covered music for Melody Maker.
- In 1980 he founded pop culture magazine The Face.
- Attended the boarding school Rugby (setting of the Victorian novel Tom Brown's Schooldays).
- In 1977 he began working as a journalist for Sounds where he interviewed punk, new wave and electronic music artists.
- Studied the classics at Cambridge University's Magdalene College graduating in 1975.
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