Nick Logan
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Nick Logan is an English journalist and magazine editor born in Lincoln in 1947.
[edit] Biography
Logan started his journalistic career in the 1960s writing reviews and articles for the NME. By 1971 Logan had become assistant editor of the magazine and had started to change the paper into a more hipper and cynical magazine from its previously reverential approach to music.
In 1973 Logan became editor and carried this on but by 1976 the paper was seen as being out of touch with the arrival of Punk Rock. Logan advertised for two "hip young gunslingers" in an attempt to find writers who could cover this new musical genre. This resulted in Logan hiring Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill. The pair turned the image of the paper round and helped make the mid-1970s one of the most successful of the NMEs history.
By 1978 Logan moved on to successfully launch Smash Hits, a weekly pop magazine aimed at the teenage market. In 1980 he also launched The Face, a hugely influential magazine for much of the 1980s. Logan became a major figure in publishing at this time, launching other magazines such as Arena.
During the 1990s, The Face began to lose its influence in a crowded market and was cancelled in May 2004. Smash Hits also closed in February 2006.
