Paul Trynka is a Britishrock journalist and author. He was the editor of the music magazineMojo[1] from 1999 to 2003, and has also worked as editorial director ofQ and editor ofInternational Musician.[2] In 2004, he edited publisherDorling Kindersley's compilation of theMojo Special Limited Edition issues onthe Beatles.[2] He has also written forThe Independent[3] andClassic Rock magazine,[4] and contributed articles on music, fashion, design or travel forThe Guardian,Elle andBlueprint, among other publications.[2] Before turning to journalism, he worked as a professional musician with the bandNyam Nyam, recording albums for theBeggars Banquet andFactory Benelux record labels.[2]
Trynka has written or co-written the booksElectric Guitar (1993),Portrait of the Blues (1996) andDenim (2001).[2] In 2005, Trynka publishedIggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed, a biography ofIggy Pop. A review inThe Guardian describes the book as "piecing together the chaotic life story of this often unhinged performer in thorough and scrupulously non-judgmental detail".[5] In 2011, he publishedStarman: David Bowie, a biography of English musicianDavid Bowie.[6] Writing inThe New York Times,Dwight Garner described it as "a better-than-average rock biography, but just barely".[7]
Trynka wroteSympathy for the Devil: The Birth of the Rolling Stones and the Death of Brian Jones, a 2014 biography ofRolling Stones guitaristBrian Jones.[8] The book was published in the United States asBrian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones.[8] In his review forThe New York Times,Larry Rohter said the book "challenges the standard version of events" by recognising Jones' importance on a par withMick Jagger andKeith Richards, and added: "Though Mr. Trynka sometimes overstates Jones’s long-term cultural impact, his is revisionist history of the best kind – scrupulously researched and cogently argued – and should be unfailingly interesting to any Stones fan."[8]
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