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Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

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'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!'
Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher

Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and...