Beat Instrumental was a UK monthly pop and rock magazine. Founded by Sean O'Mahony (aka Johnny Dean) and first published in May 1963 as Beat Monthly , it became Beat Instrumental Monthly with issue 18 and Beat Instrumental from issue 37. Like the weekly Melody Maker , it was aimed at musicians, emphasising instruments, production and equipment in its interviews and moving easily to progressive rock in the late 1960s. The magazine ceased publication in 1980.
3-512: Kevin Swift was among Beat Instrumental ' s reporters in 1966. During the 1970s, the features editor was Steve Turner , and Adam Sweeting also wrote for the magazine. This British magazine or academic journal–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Steve Turner (writer) Steve Turner
6-560: Is an English music journalist , biographer , and poet , who grew up in Daventry, Northamptonshire , England. Turner's first published article was in the Beatles Monthly in 1969. His career as a journalist began as features editor of Beat Instrumental , where he interviewed many of the prominent rock musicians of the 1970s. He subsequently freelanced for music magazines such as Melody Maker , NME and Rolling Stone . During
9-470: The 1980s, he wrote extensively for British newspapers and magazines on a range of subjects as well as produced his study of the relationship between rock music and religion, Hungry For Heaven , and co-authored U2: Rattle & Hum , the book of the eponymous 1988 film . In the 1990s, he began devoting himself to full-length books. The first was a best-selling biography of British music star Cliff Richard , Cliff Richard: The Biography (1993), which stayed on
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