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Paul Morley
English music journalist and music executive
Paul Robert Morley (born 26 March 1957) is an English music journalist. He wrote for the NME from 1977 to 1983, and has since written for a wide range of publications and written his own books. He was a co-founder of the record label ZTT Records and was a member of the synth-pop group Art of Noise.
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He has also been a band manager, promoter, and television presenter. Paul Robert Morley was born on 26 March 1957 in Farnham, Surrey, and moved with his family to Reddish, Lancashire, before starting school. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School, at the time a direct grant grammar school. In his later teenage years, he would travel to London "in search of music, and new experience". Morley wrote for three Manchester area magazines in the late 1970s, Penetration, Out There, and Girl Trouble. He then went on to write for NME, where he and colleagues such as Ian Penman developed an innovative style of music criticism that drew on critical theory and other non-musical sources. Whilst working at NME, he lived in North London in between Swiss Cottage and Finchley Road.
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