Harry Doherty

Harry Doherty has worked as a music journalist since the early 1970s, when he joined Melody Maker as a staff writer. In the course of his time with MM, he covered a range of top bands, and wrote major features on many artists including Queen, wit whom he developed a close relationship. Subsequently, Doherty went on to be founding editor of Metal Hammer in the UK and then became editor-in-chief on the world's first hard rock video-magazine, Hard 'n' Heavy.