Richard williams journalist biography

British music and sports journalist (born )

For other people named Richard Williams, see Richard Williams (disambiguation).

Richard Williams (born 13 March ) is a British music and sports journalist.

As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly music newspaper Melody Maker (MM), he became an influential commentator on the rise of new forms of rock music at the end of the s. Williams and MM, as it was known, helped promote and contextualise the progressive in pop music.

In particular, Williams wrote several key articles around that increased UK attention to the (then disintegrating) Velvet Underground.

Richard Williams studied at Nottingham High School from until , before beginning his journalism career with the Nottingham Evening Post in as a.

Melody Maker still covered jazz and Williams wrote about the more progressive developments in this field also.

The magazine's serious approach to rock music and culture, under the editorship of Ray Coleman, secured MM a huge circulation by the close of the s and the start of the s.

It left New Musical Express, a more pop-orientated