Mick Wall

Mick Wall (born 23 June 1958) is a British music journalist, radio and TV presenter and author.

Wall began his career contributing to the music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote about punk and the new wave, and then rockabilly, funk, New Romantic pop and, eventually, hard rock and heavy metal. In 1979, he left music journalism to become the partner in his own PR firm, Heavy Publicity, aged 20, where he oversaw press campaigns for artists such as Black Sabbath, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, The Damned, Dire Straits and several others. In the early 1980s he also worked at Virgin Records as press officer for such artists as Gillan, The Human League, Simple Minds, Japan and others.

By 1983, Wall become one of the main journalists in the early days of Kerrang! magazine, where he was their star cover story writer for the next nine years. He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, and presented his own television and radio shows on Sky TV, Capital Radio, BBC GLR, BBC Radio 1, Planet Rock and others. He has also guested on several television programmes and documentaries on BBC TV,ITV, Sky One, Channel Four and MTV.

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Drinking Coke And Eating Ice

by: Mike Cooley

That’s her over in the corner
Drinking coke and eating ice
Twisting her hair over her finger
There’s a memory inside your eyes
The Cigarette machine she’s leaned on
Remembers more than most of us
We hide them both under a blanket
When the health department comes
Four more living in an alley
Separated …
It took walls to drive her crazy
It took space to drive her in
Swimming pools are nice attraction
So are Vicodin and wine
A week-long ocean-front vacation
Feel like a pirate for a time
Every distant destination, never-ending gasoline
Every man it's a simple caller
Every simple girl’s a queen
Giant screens of skies exWloding
Something basic and power chords
We got a preacher if you’re listening




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