Patrick Humphries

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About About How to be simultaneously modest about one’s achievements without blowing your own trumpet. For me, it was that switch from Civil Servant to NME freelance, 1976 (hard to believe I was a “hip young gunslinger”). Then on to Melody Maker staff writer (1980/82). For 40 years I’ve been doing the freelance boogie – Evening Standard , Guardian , The Observer , Heat , staff at Vox , The Times , Mojo , Record Collector … Books came courtesy of my old friend Peter Hogan who commissioned me to write my first title, a History Of Fairport Convention back in 1982. How different things were back then; at the Eel Pie Christmas party another publisher asked if I was working on anything else, I sai

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