rock and roll journalism, with a British rock journalist that I suspect almost no Americans know at all, except for the music-obsessed. Chris Welch is his name. He has been arguably Britain’s most influential rock journalist since his start at Fleet Street back in the 1960s at the impossibly young age of 16. A rave review from Welch offered a major boost to emerging artists, not to mention their album sales. And you name any rock icon from the last 50 years, and Welch knows them.