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Kris Needs (born 2 July 1954) is a British journalist and author known for writings on music from the 1970s onwards. He became editor of ZigZag in August 1977 at 23 and wrote biographies of stars including Primal Scream Joe Strummer and Keith Richards. In the late 1970s he fronted a band ‘The Vice Creems’ appearing in John Otway’s Aylesbury Market Square free concert.He started in journalism with the Thame Gazette a weekly newspaper in Oxfordshire.