June 26, 2021

Alan Lewis, Kerrang! founder and NME editor remembered

"He was focussed on entertaining the audience, relying on the seemingly simple concept of giving people what they want. That ​‘by-fans, for-fans’ ethos informed the launch of Kerrang! – the magazine he founded in the summer of 1981 – and it is still the driving force behind what we do now" - UK metal weekly Kerrang! wrote remembering their former editor Alan Lewis who died this week aged 76. Lewis also served as the top editor at NME, Sounds, Record Collector, among other papaers. Dozens of journalists and editors remember working with Lewis - NME collected those lovely tributes.