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Obituary: Steven Wells - The Guardian
Iconoclastic music journalist who went on to write about sport, politics and culture
David Quantick
The Guardian, Monday 29 June 2009
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...But before that, he had spent most of his career officially writing about music. From the awful Morrissey to indie kings Belle and Sebastian, from emo to Bono (who once sent Swells an axe, asking to "bury the hatchet"), if you weren't the spirit of punk, or pop, incarnate, if you weren't the Sex Pistols or Kylie Minogue or Pansy Division, you were worthless. Especially if you were Belle and Sebastian, whom Steven described as "self-loving, knock-kneed, passive aggressive, dressed-up-in-kiddy-clothes, mock-pop-creepiness-peddling, smug, underachieving, real-pop-hating no-talents celebrating their own inadequacy with music so white it's translucent". He invented the word "saddo". He had to; there weren't enough words to castigate the enemy so he needed to invent new ones.
