Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of Rock's Backpages, the online library of music journalism. He wrote regularly for NME in the Eighties, and is a former contributing editor at British Vogue and US correspondent for MOJO. He is the author of--among many other books--the bestselling Hotel California (2006), Lowside of the Road (2009), Small Town Talk (2016) and the addiction memoir Never Enough (2017). He has written for The Guardian, Uncut, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, and many other publications. barneyhoskyns.com