Rock journalist Carol Clerk broke the mould

Former Melody Maker news editor Carol Clerk, who died last week, was a role model for female music writers. She loved old-school rock — and the bands loved her backCarol Clerk wasn't the first female rock journalist, but she was the first one I ever met. It was the late 80s, she was Melody Maker's news editor, and I was a would-be freelancer who'd come to see if they would let me write for them. I'd assumed Melody Maker would be staffed exclusively by men — who else, I figured, wou...

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