Paper Cuts

''A great writer''
Paul Weller

''A music journalist of integrity''
Billy Childish

''There''s only one Ted Kessler!''
Liam Gallagher

PAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it''s also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man''s life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined ''to be someone who listened to music professionally''. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house''s long hot summer of love. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time ''90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as e