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Paul Gorman

Paul Gorman is a British writer and curator.

Gorman's journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers; his books include The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren, The Story Of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture, Straight with Boy George, Nine Lives with Goldie and Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall of The Music Press.

Gorman has also staged art, design and pop culture exhibitions in the UK, Denmark, France and the US.

From 1978, Gorman worked on weekly news for trade publications and in 1983 won the Periodical Publishers Association award for campaigning journalism for a series of investigative food industry articles. In 1990 he was appointed west coast bureau chief of Screen International, based in Los Angeles.

Between 1993 and 1998, Gorman was contributing editor at Music Week, reporting on executives and artists such as Madonna's manager Freddy DeMann, Creation Records founder Alan McGee and U2 manager Paul McGuinness. Between 1994 and 1999, Gorman was contributing editor at Music Business International. During this time he contributed regularly to magazines such as Mojo and conducted the first published interview with the Spice Girls.

Having contributed to magazines and newspapers including GQ, The Daily Telegraph, Mojo and Vice, Gorman is a contributing editor at designer Jermaine Gallacher's interiors magazine TON.

In 1993 Gorman was recruited to a think tank run by Anthea Norman Taylor and her partner Brian Eno to create fund-raising ideas for the charity War Child. The think tank was made up of a handful of people included the late prominent music business PR Rob Partridge and produced a series of events which attracted much media attention and raised money and profile for the charity.

These included 'Little Pieces From Big Stars', an exhibition and auction held at London's Flowers East gallery in October 1994 featuring works of art by musicians such as Billy Bragg, Charlie Watts, Paul McCartney, Billy Childish, Boy George and Shane MacGowan, and 'Pagan FunWear', a fashion catwalk show and auction held in June 1995 at the Saatchi Gallery featuring contributions from Bono, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker and many others.

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