Steve Turner is an English music journalist , biographer , and poet , who grew up in Daventry, Northamptonshire , England. ^{[1] [2]}

Career [ edit ]

Turner's first published article was in the Beatles Monthly in 1969. His career as a journalist began as features editor of Beat Instrumental , where he interviewed many of the prominent rock musicians of the 1970s. ^[3] He subsequently freelanced for music magazines such as Melody Maker , NME and Rolling Stone .

During the 1980s, he wrote extensively for British newspapers and magazines on a range of subjects as well as produced his study of the relationship between rock music and religion, Hungry For Heaven , and co-authored U2: Rattle & Hum , the book of the eponymous 1988 film . In the 1990s, he began devoting himself to full-length books. The first was a best-selling biography of British music star Cliff Richard , Cliff Richard: The Biography (1993), ^[4] which stayed on the Sunday Times bestseller list for six weeks.

He has also written a number of poetry books for both adults and children. The first of his books for children, The Day I Fell Down The Toilet , has sold over 120,000 copies, and total sales for his children's poetry collection exceeds 200,000. ^{[ citation needed ]} His other poetry collections for children are: Dad, You're Not Funny , The Moon Has Got His Pants On , I Was Only Asking and Don't Take Your Elephant To School . His published poetry books for adults are: Tonight We Will Fake Love , Nice and Nasty , Up To Date , The King of Twist and Poems .

He now combines his book writing and journalism with poetry readings, lecture tours of America and Europe, and consultancies. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Personal life [ edit ]

Turner lives in London with his wife and two children. ^[5]

Books [ edit ]

• U2 Rattle and Hum: The Book of the Making of the Movie (1988)
• Hungry for Heaven: Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption (1988)
• Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now (1993)
• Cliff Richard : The Biography (1993)
• A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song (1994; updated in 1999, 2005 and 2009) ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Jack Kerouac : Angelheaded Hipster (1996)
• Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye (1998)
• Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts (2001)
• The Man Called Cash : The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend (2004)
• Amazing Grace: John Newton, Slavery and the World's Most Enduring Song (2005)
• The Gospel According to the Beatles (2006)
• An Illustrated History of Gospel (2010)
• The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic (2011)
• Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment (2013)
• Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year (2016)
• Turn, Turn, Turn - Popular Songs Inspired by the Bible (2017)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Wikiquote has quotations related to Steve Turner (writer) .

• Profile at Harper Academic , which provided much of the source material for this Wikipedia article
• Tony Cummings interview: Grace and Cliff
• Library Thing: Steve Turner

Poems [ edit ]

• Steve Turner: Poems
• Steve Turner's 12 Poems