NME and founded Kerrang! magazine among other roles in a storied publishing career, has died aged 76, prompting tributes from across the music press.Danny Kelly, who succeeded Lewis as NME editor in the late 1980s, shared the news on Twitter yesterday (June 25), remembering him as “A quiet chap, but wickedly funny, no man better knew his way round a magazine flatplan or a public bar.
My heart aches. Thank you for everything Alan.”Terrible news. My predecessor as @nme editor, my mentor, Alan Lewis has died.
He was also editor of Sounds in it's heyday. A quiet chap, but wickedly funny, no man better knew his way round a magazine flatplan or a public bar.
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