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Chris Hunt | |
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| Born | 1962 or 1963 (age 61–62) |
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Chris Hunt is a British journalist, magazine editor, and author.[1][2]
Hunt has worked in journalism for over thirty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was editor ofMatch from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the Editor of a series of special editions of UK music magazines,Mojo,Q,Uncut andNew Musical Express, producing themed publications on subjects such asThe Beatles,U2,Kurt Cobain,Oasis,punk rock andmod. He was the editor of the series of three special editions ofMojo magazine that told the story of The Beatles one thousands days at a time; the three magazines were eventually published as the bookThe Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World, by Dorling Kindersley, in 2004.
His book,World Cup Stories: The History Of The FIFA World Cup, was published in April 2006 to accompany a BBC television series of the same name. The book was updated in November 2006 and published in a Greek language edition in 2010. His second book about the tournament,The Compact Book Of The World Cup, was published in 2010 in both the UK and North America (in the USA it was titledWorld Cup Of Soccer: The Complete Guide).
The first edition of his football encyclopediaThe Complete Book Of Football was published in 2003 and the second edition has been issued in foreign language editions, including Hungarian, German, Russian, Romanian and Czech. It has also been published in the USA asThe Complete Book Of Soccer.
Between 1988 and 1990 he was the original Editor of rap magazineHip-Hop Connection, a magazine he returned to in 1992. Other national magazines that he has launched includeRage,Solid Rock and sports magazinesMega Sports andSported. In 2016, he became Editor ofElite Soccer, the coaching magazine of theLeague Managers Association, and in 2017 he launchedMatch Football Krazy, a monthly companion magazine ofMatch.
He has also worked in TV and radio, working for BBC Radio 5 show The Mix in the early 1990s. Along with colleagueDavid Houghton, he filmed a video diary of his travels around Japan at the 2002 World Cup for the BBC and this formed part of the television programme "Beckham For Breakfast".
He has been a regular football columnist forIce,Sport First andFootball First. In 2002 he wrote a monthly column forYour Cat magazine, called "My Life With Stalin - An Everyday Tale Of One Bloke And His Cat". He has also been asked to write CD and DVD sleevenotes for many bands, includingThe Charlatans,Secret Affair,Corduroy,Purple Hearts andThe Chords. He has also written the liner notes for a compilation of easy listening cover versions of songs by The Beatles.
He started his career in the early 1980s, publishing afanzine calledShadows & Reflections and he has been involved in band management, most notably withThe Moment andRinaldi Sings.
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