Danny Kelly remembered – Q & NME editor, broadcast genius, raiser of the sum of human happiness

n honour this week of an old pal, one of the greatest storytellers we ever met. In pursuit of at least two “genuine ripples”, we alight upon …

… his priceless Q coverlines - ‘Kate Bush: booze, fags, blokes and me!’ ‘R.E.M.: boffin bongo weirdy and beardy’

… drinking ink while chewing paper

… why he had 17 copies of Marquee Moon

… the Helmet of Destiny in the Room of Shame!

… the magic of old office life

… his Russian hat and his tribute to Moscow

… to Amsterdam with Danny Baker to learn how to smoke dope

… ‘Love working with you, man. Sorry you didn’t get a chance to speak'

… dictating columns in the Total Sport office

… “I’ll be back and we’ll go for a drive in my Bentley’

… and Football365, talkSPORT and the value of finding everything interesting.

And this is the wonderful podcast with him six years ago when he’d just moved back to Ireland with 20,000 records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXFThuuIiU

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