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David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a British music journalist, writer, television presenter, and publishing industry analyst. He was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Along with the journalist, editor and broadcaster Mark Ellen, he turned the pop magazine Smash Hits into one of the most popular UK music magazines of the 1980s. A presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test in the 1980s, he co-presented the BBC broadcast of Live Aid in 1985. Early life David Hepworth was born in Dewsbury, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and Trent Park College of Education. He studied Drama and Education at Middlesex Polytechnic, graduating in 1972. He worked for HMV and Beserkley Records, before becoming a freelance journalist. Career Hepworth's career in journalism began with contributions to NME and Sounds. He joined the newly launched magazine Smash Hits in 1979, and two years later, after turning it around financially, became its editor. In 1983 he launched Just Seventeen, a perennially popular magazine for teenage girls, and in 1984 Looks. Since then he has launched several other magazines, including Q (1986), More (1987), Empire (1988), Mojo (1993), Heat (1999) and The Word (2003). He is currently director of the publishing company Development Hell. In the 1980s he presented the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test and was one of the presenters covering the 1985 Live Aid concert from Wembley Stadium. On both of these he worked with long-term friend Mark Ellen. Hepworth famously provoked Bob Geldof to repeatedly use the word "fuck" live on air. Hepworth has written for The Guardian and for the UK trade magazine InPublishing. In the 1990s he was a regular presenter on BBC GLR 94.9 – the BBC's Rock station for London. In 2006, Hepworth sold his independent publishing company Development Hell to the EMAP group (today known as Ascential). He now concentrates on publishing books on music nostalgia, his "David Hepworth's blog", and collaborations with Mark Ellen on Word In Your Ear, a series of podcasts and music-themed live events. In 2021, Hepworth's book 1971 – Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year was adapted into the Apple TV+ documentary mini-series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything . In December 2023 Hepworth was a member of the team for Middlesex University which participated in BBC's Christmas University Challenge. The team beat Corpus Christi College, Oxford, by 175 points to 80, in the final. Publications Hope I Get Old Before I Die: How rock’s greatest generation kept going to the end. London: Bantam, 2024. ISBN 978-1787632783 Abbey Road Studios at 90. London: Bantam, 2022. ISBN 978-1787636101 Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America. London: Bantam, 2020. ISBN 978-1787632769 Rock & Roll A Level: The only quiz book you need. London: Bantam, 2020. ISBN 978-1-7876-3439-8 A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives. London: Bantam, 2019. ISBN 978-1-7841-6208-5 Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop. London: Bantam, 2018. ISBN 978-1-7841-6407-2 Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars. London: Bantam, 2017. ISBN 978-0-5930-7762-7 1971 – Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year. London: Bantam, 2016. ISBN 0-5930-7487-4 The Secret History of Entertainment. London: Fourth Estate, 2010. ISBN 0-0071-9011-5 References External links David Hepworth's blog Collection of Hepworth's In Publishing columns. Discover the David Hepworth popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Hepworth books.
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Kurt Cobain
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Corporate Excellence In The Year 2000
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Faster Than A Cannonball
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Selected Journalism 1850-1870
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Paper Tigers
Nicholas ColeridgePaper Tigers is a riveting, authoritative and indepth study of newspaper barons of the world – men and women who wield immense power, and whose everchanging media empires make comp...
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Hunting People
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Like Some Forgotten Dream
Daniel RachelThis is the story of the great lost Beatles album.The end of the Beatles wasn't inevitable. It came through miscommunication, misunderstandings and missed opportunities to reconcil...
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Would The Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up
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Rural Rides
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Get Out of Debt Forever
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Exit Stage Left
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Shell Shock
Ian Cummins & John BeasantRoyal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civi...
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John Denver
John CollisJohn Denver was America's biggestselling solo star of the '70s. In commercial terms he was on a par with Sinatra in the '40s, Elvis in the '50s and the Beatles in the '60s. He expe...
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Just Write
Gabrielle ManderEveryone has a book in them, or so they say. If you lack the skills or the confidence to tell your story then Just Write is for you. This innovative guide from the inspirational Vi...
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A Delicious Slice Of Johnners
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Dirty Tricks
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Sir Thomas Lipton
Dr James MackayThomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a £30,000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner fo...
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Grumpy Old Rock Star
Rick WakemanAround about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, ...
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Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business
Ruth SunderlandThis onestop handbook covers everything you need to know: starting out; making your business special; people; enterprise for beginners; marketing; cash management; finance; innovat...
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Liverpool - Wondrous Place
Paul Du NoyerNo other city in the world is as well known or loved for its vibrant and definitive musical history as Liverpool. In 2002, Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles voted Liverpo...
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Walking Back Home
Ricky Ross'For all these years I've told stories. Sometimes these days I also tell them on the radio. I've met some amazing people and their stories need told too. The first time Deacon...
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Scum Airways
John SugdenFootball is big business and it doesn't come much bigger than Manchester United – commercial giants and the richest club in the world. But in the shadow of Old Trafford a black eco...
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Energise
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How To Make It In Advertising
Mark LeighAdvertising. Is it really 'the greatest art form of the twentieth century' (Marshall McLuhan)? Whatever your views, it is undeniably one of the most popular career choices goingand...
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No Glossing Over It
Gary EdwardsBetween 1964 and 1992, Leeds United won eleven fabulous trophies, but the team were runnersup just as often. They missed out on many more titles and cups, not least club football's...
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Perfect Project Manager
Peter BartramAt some stage in their job or life, everyone is asked to organise a larger scale project it may be running the company's annual sales conference, preparing a launch of a new p...
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Unseen
Reggie YatesFrom Grange Hill to Top of the Pops, Reggie Yates has been on camera nearly all of his life, but it’s as a documentary filmmaker – and a pretty fearless one at that – where he has ...
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Lorna Siggins'All I want is to stay where I am . . . My heart and soul are in this place.'(Willie Corduff, one of The Rossport Five)In a remote, beautiful part of the west of Ireland, a David a...
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Withdrawn Traces
Sara Hawys Roberts & Leon NoakesNew discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archiveOn 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went mis...
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The Bumper Book For The Loo
Mitchell SymonsWhen Mitchell Symons wrote his extraordinary bestsellers This Book, That Book and The Other Book all neatly combined in one sensational volume, The Ultimate Loo Book he was judge...
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The End Of Globalization
Alan RugmanProfessor Alan Rugman is one of the world's leading academics in the field of international business and strategy. In The End of Globalization he argues that we are currently witn...
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Shiny and New
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A Genius for Failure
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Ian Rush - An Autobiography With Ken Gorman
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