- Steve Turner (writer)
Steve Turner (born 1949) is an English
music journalist ,biographer andpoet . His first published article was in the "Beatles Monthly" in 1969. He was features editor of "Beat Instrumental" 1971-1973 and subsequently freelanced for music papers including "NME", "Melody Maker" and "Rolling Stone". During the 1980s he wrote extensively for British newspapers and magazines on a range of subjects as well as producing his study of the relationship between rock music and religion, "Hungry For Heaven", and co-authoring "U2: Rattle & Hum", the book of the film. In the 1990s he began devoting himself to full-length books, the first being a best selling biography of British music star Cliff Richard, which stayed in the "Sunday Times" bestseller list for six weeks. At the same time he has written a number of poetry books for both adults and children. The first of his books for children, "The Day I Fell Down The Toilet", has now sold over 120,000 copies.His published poetry books for adults are "Tonight We Will Fake Love", "Nice and Nasty", "Up To Date", "The King of Twist" and "Poems". His published poetry collections for children are "The Day I Fell Down The Toilet", "Dad, You're Not Funny", "The Moon Has Got His Pants On", "I Was Only Asking" and "Don't Take Your Elephant To School".
He now combines his book writing and journalism with poetry readings, lecture tours of America and Europe and consultancies. He lives in London.
Books
*"Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts" (2001)
*"The Gospel According to the Beatles" (2006)
*"The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend" (2004)Johnny Cash "
*"Trouble Man: The Life and Death ofMarvin Gaye " (1998)
*"A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind EveryBeatles ' Song" (1994; updated in 1999 and 2005)
*"Hungry for Heaven:Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption" (1988)
*"Jack Kerouac : AngelheadedHipster " (1996)
*"Van Morrison : Too Late to Stop Now" (1993)External links
*http://www.rejesus.co.uk/expressions/steve_turner/index.html
* [http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=10031 Profile at Harper Academic] , which provided much of the source material for this Wikipedia article*worldcat id|lccn-n77-7921
Poems
*http://www.poemhunter.com/steve-turner/poet-6839/
*http://www.rejesus.co.uk/expressions/steve_turner/poemindex.html
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