Ted Kessler

Ted Kessler worked at NME during its Britpop heyday between 1993 and 2002, where he was variously features editor, reviews editor, staff and senior writer. In that time, he wrote dozens of cover stories. He joined the staff at Q magazine in 2004 as reviews editor and was later features editor. 

He was made Q editor in 2016, a position he held until its closure in 2020. Since then he has published three books and co-runs The New Cue.

In 2013 he devised the My Old Man blog, where people shared tales of their fathers, for better or worse. 

In 2016, he edited My Old Man, a critically acclaimed book published by Canongate, featuring contributions from the likes of Tilda Swinton, Rod Stewart, Florence Welch, Paul Weller and the sons and daughters of Leonard Cohen, Roy Castle, Johnny Ball and Roger McGough.

In 2022, he published his memoir, Paper Cuts (White Rabbit), which was a Times Music Book of the Year. In 2023, he authored To Ease My Troubled Mind: the Authorised Unauthorised Biography of Billy Childish (White Rabbit).

In 2025, he co-wrote A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Oasis Song Ever Recorded (PanMac), with Hamish MacBain, which was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller.