Mark Paytress has worked for MOJO in various capacities - news editor, bossing MOJO Collections and above all as a long-standing feature-writer and reviewer. Over four decades he’s shared tea with Yoko Ono at the Dakota, spent a wild week in Morocco with the Master Musicians of Joujouka, 16 ear-blasting days reporting on Tokyo’s underground scene and kept Scott Walker company during The MOJO Awards ceremony. He’s also contributed to many radio and TV programmes, including documentaries for BBC Radio 4; has written for a range of publications including Radio Times, ID, The Times and The Guardian; has published more than a dozen books, including biographies of Mark Bolan, David Bowie, Siouxsie & The Banshees and the Rolling Stones; and has been a producer/consultant on numerous reissue projects. His first dip into rock journalism came in as a schoolboy in 1975 with a furtive Captain Beefheart interview backstage at Southampton University. He tweets at @paytress.
