Steve Turner (writer)
Steve Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Napton, Warwickshire |
| Citizenship | English |
| Occupations | journalist, biographer, poet |
Steve Turner is an English music journalist, biographer, and poet, who grew up in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.[1][2]
Career
[edit]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.[3] He subsequently freelanced for music magazines such as Melody Maker, NME and Rolling Stone.
During 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),[4] which stayed on the Sunday Times bestseller list for six weeks.
He has also written a number of poetry books for both adults and children. The first of his books for children was The Day I Fell Down The Toilet.[citation needed] His other poetry collections for children are: Dad, You're Not Funny, The Moon Has Got His Pants On, I Was Only Asking and Don't Take Your Elephant To School. His published poetry books for adults are: Tonight We Will Fake Love, Nice and Nasty, Up To Date, The King of Twist and Poems.
Personal life
[edit]Turner lives in London with his wife and two children.[5]
Books
[edit]- U2 Rattle and Hum: The Book of the Making of the Movie (1988)
- Hungry for Heaven: Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption (1988)
- Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now (1993)
- Cliff Richard: The Biography (1993)
- A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song (1994; updated in 1999, 2005 and 2009)[6][7][8]
- Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996)
- Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye (1998)
- Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts (2001)
- The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend (2004)
- Amazing Grace: John Newton, Slavery and the World's Most Enduring Song (2005)
- The Gospel According to the Beatles (2006)
- An Illustrated History of Gospel (2010)
- The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic (2011)
- Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment (2013)
- Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year (2016)
- Turn, Turn, Turn - Popular Songs Inspired by the Bible (2017)
- King Mod - Peter Meaden, The Who, and the creation of a British Subculture (2024)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Beatles' music offers something to believe in". Seattle Times. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ↑ "Steve Turner". greenbelt.org.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ↑ "Bloomsbury Publishing Author Biography: Steve Turner". blomsburycom. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
- ↑ Barber, Lynn (4 April 1993). "Book Review: Cliff Richard: The Biography by Steve Turner". London: independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ↑ "Steve Turner".
- ↑ Ingham, Chris (2009). The Rough Guide to the Beatles. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1848365254.
- ↑ "Kid's Corner". The Telegraph-Herald. 7 January 1996. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ↑ "Rock Bookshelf". The Vindicator. 26 February 1995. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
External links
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- Profile at Harper Academic, which provided much of the source material for this Wikipedia article
- Tony Cummings interview: Grace and Cliff
- Library Thing: Steve Turner
