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Very important british jazz monthly which has now broadened to include various shades of contemporary musics from dance music to experimental rock. Level of writing is constantly high both in features & reviews. Not to be missed. (rojaro)
Founded by Anthony Wood around 1983 as a jazz magazine, by 1992 The Wire had entered the adventurous and messy crossroads of avant-garde and pop.(...) It's giddy tone peaked in the mid-90s. (...) But then it got boring, focusing more rigidly on experimental music. (fastnbulbous)
 

1994 February
Issue 120

Hail And Farewell
Ben Watson, 4 pp


Last October Frank Zappa summoned Ben Watson to Hollywood to read sections of his forthcoming Zappa book to the man himself. This was one of the last encounters the rock legend had with the press he loved to hate – Watson describes a visit both moving and intriguing.