This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is Danny Kelly. Ahead of our chat Danny wished us luck getting his CV straight...so here goes. He is a former editor of New Musical Express (NME) and then earned further acclaim as editor of Q.
He moved into sport as editor of the monthly Total Sport and then founded the 365 Corporation, the kernel of which was Football365, which remains extremely popular to this day.
He has also written a range of books with his long-time radio collaborator Danny Baker, and he can now be heard on TalkSPORT.
He’s had a pretty amazing career and we skimmed through some of it, including his formative experience in the NME’s glory days, trying to explain rock and roll to Hugh McIlvanney and defending the print media by literally eating paper and drinking ink.
There’s lots more there besides, including great insight into his dual Irish/British identity and how Brian Clough inspired working class kids in Britain.
His picks were: NME in the 1970s; Down with Skool by Geoffrey Williams and Ronald Searle; and The work of Hugh McIlvanney
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