Nick Logan

Nick Logan is an English journalist and magazine editor born in Lincoln in 1947.

Biography

Leaving Leyton Sixth Form College at the age of 15 due to family displacement, Logan started his journalistic career in the 1960s as a reporter on the Guardian/Gazette series of local papers in East London/Essex before joining the NME as one of five staff writers. The NME had enjoyed huge success on the back of the Beatles/Stones et al., and subsequently via The Monkees, but was soon to start struggling as singles acts gave way to albums acts and rock became the major draw. Stuck in a Tin Pan Alley mindset, subservient to the music biz, "NME rapidly lost ground to "Melody Maker". IPC, publisher of both titles, eventually saw the light and turned to younger members of staff to take over. By 1971 Logan, under promoted new editor Alan Smith, was assistant editor and a new team started to change the paper into a hipper and more questioning product. The writers Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent and the photographer Pennie Smith joined the paper at this time.