Unseen Swells: The sacred cows in need of a good bricking

The first of five previously unpublished blogposts from legendary music writer Steven Wells, who died last yearOn 24 June 2009, music journalism lost one of its funniest, angriest and most distinctive voices. Steven Wells – or Swells to his fans – was one of NME's best-known writers, whose furious concoction of pop, punk and politics often seemed louder than the bands he was writing about. His death from cancer last year prompted an outpouring of emotion, not least on guardian.co.uk/music, t...

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