David Stubbs

David Stubbs is a British journalist. He was born on September 13, 1962 in London, but grew up in Leeds. As a student at Oxford University he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds; together they worked on an influential fanzine called Monitor before joining Melody Maker in 1986. Stubbs would remain at Melody Maker for 12 years, where he combined his serious writing career with writing the humorous "Talk Talk Talk" section, which featured the character of "Mr Agreeable" who would insult virtually everything with barrages of swear words (asterisked out to fit within IPC Media regulations).

He has also written for the now-defunct Vox magazine, for the NME (late 1990s and early 2000s), and for The Wire, Uncut, The Guardian, The Times and the football magazines Goal and When Saturday Comes. He is the author of books on Jimi Hendrix and Eminem in the Stories Behind Every Song series; a quote from the Hendrix book found its way into Private Eye's Pseuds' Corner. As an Arsenal supporter, he also wrote a book on Charlie Nicholas.

His website is at http://www.mr-agreeable.net