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Editor, Word Magazine. Mark Ellen wrote tirelessly enthusiastic pieces for Record Mirror, NME and Time Out before signing up as Features Editor of Smash Hits in 1981. He became editor in 1983, then edited the first 52 issues of Q Magazine from 1986, the first 15 editions of the revamped Select, and was then the launch managing editor of MOJO. He went on to become the Editor-In-Chief at EMAP Metro overseeing 14 music, film, men's and entertainment titles before moving into the fashion, homes and film markets at EMAP Elan. His national awards include the PPA's Magazine Of The Year for Q in 1987. He was beaten to their Writer Of The Year award in 2004 by AA Gill (and still hasn’t quite got over it). He won the British Society Of Magazine Editors' Mark Boxer Award in 2003 and their Editor's Editor Award in both 2005 and 2011 (only one other person has ever won it twice).

His broadcast experience includes long periods long periods as writer/presenter at BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test and VH1's Talk Music and he's now a contributor to Radios 2 and 4. He was one of the presenters of Live Aid in 1985. His journalism can be found in Marie Claire, Saga, the Financial Times, The Observer, GQ, Radio Times, The Oldie, Elle, Private Eye and the New Statesman. He writes about cycling for The Telegraph and scuba diving for Diver Magazine. He supports the hopeless Queen's Park Rangers and is bass guitarist in The Love Trousers whose sole claim to fame to date is "they've been going twice as long as The Beatles".

I was born

In the 1950s

Beatles or Stones

Beatles

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