David Hepworth

David Hepworth
Hepworth in 2014.
Hepworth in 2014.
Born (1950-07-27) July 27, 1950 (age 74)
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Occupation
  • Music journalist
  • essayist
  • television presenter
Alma materMiddlesex Polytechnic
Period1979–present
Website
davidhepworth.com

David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a British music journalist, writer, television presenter, and publishing industry analyst. He was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Along with the journalist, editor and broadcaster Mark Ellen, he turned the pop magazine Smash Hits into one of the most popular UK music magazines of the 1980s. A presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test in the 1980s, he co-presented the BBC broadcast of Live Aid in 1985.[1]

  1. ^ Dylan, Jones. "The Eighties: One Day, One Decade". Random House, 6 June 2013