Obituaries
Not Fade Away
Fondly remembered this month…
Man among mentors: Alan Lewis in the early 1970s
ALAN LEWIS
Editor and publisher (1945-2021)
ALAN LEWIS was already a publishing legend when he oversaw the launch of Uncut in 1997. His career in music journalism started when he joined Melody Maker in 1969 as Production Editor. He also wrote authoritatively about soul music and in 1973 launched Black Music, a pioneering monthly dedicated to soul, R&B and reggae. Subsequently, as editor of Sounds, Alan was alert to punk’s first stirrings, famously changing the paper’s direction overnight when he replaced a scheduled Rod Stewart cover story with brash upstarts The Damned, a typical masterstroke.