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Martin Aston
Author & Journalist
LGBTQ+


Klaus Nomi: Cold Song - for World AIDS Day, 2017
On World AIDS Day 2017, this is for Patrick Cowley, Klaus Nomi and Michael Callen, three pioneers of queer popular music who were lost...


Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy - BBC Radio 4 documentary
Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy is not only a brilliant pop song (matched by its fearless video - watch that here ) but a key factor in the...


Orville Peck: Smalltown Boy cover
One of the most essential, beautiful and moving songs in queer music history revamped by one of today's great queer voices in suitably...


R.E.M.'s Monster, MOJO 2019
It's only taken me 35 years to interview Michael Stipe, but finally, for a MOJO (Eyewitness) feature (December 2019 issue) on the story...


Pansy Division on Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache: How Music Came Out, 2019
Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division posted some lovely words on my book here


Jimmy Somerville: The Smalltown Boy, Attitude, 2014
I interviewed Jimmy Somerville for Attitude's July 2014 issue, on the 30th anniversary of Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy," one of British...

David Bowie - Goodbye Spaceboy, The Vinyl Factory, January 2016
The day Bowie died... A tribute. It wasn't intended as such, but The Vinyl Factory considered it a paean to queer revolution ("Now we...


Breaking Down The Walls…. 4 star review MOJO, Nov 2016
Lead review in MOJO for Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache: How Music Came Out, by Victoria Segal. "Mighty...Real" indeed
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