#dele fadele

[damonalbarn]

The late Dele Fadele from the NME and Damon in the beer tent at Glastonbury 1992, photo by Polly Birkbeck [X]

[norbertschiegl]

'He was a groundbreaker and a visionary': music writer Dele Fadele remembered

He was a rare black journalist on the British music press, whose NME pieces summed up the radicalism of Public Enemy and the dark side of Morrissey. So how did his death go unnoticed for two years?

[rocksbackpages]

Free for a week in the RBP spotlight

BRING THE NOISE — Remembering Dele Fadele: the late NME legend moderates a conversation 'twixt Tricky and Public Enemy's Chuck D (Vox, 1996), meets the Happy Mondays in 1987, and interviews shoegaze's leading lights Slowdive in 1993.

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