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DARCEY EDKINS

Periodical Content Strategist and Engineer

By Shauna Brown

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Do you have a piece of work that you are proudest of?

I was incredibly fortunate to work at Top of the Pops magazine during the nineties in the midst of the Oasis versus Blur and Spice Girls mania – for any trivia fans, we invented the Spice Girls nicknames. At the studios, there were no PRs in sight, and we had almost unfettered access to pop stars who got dangerously bored when confned to their dressing rooms. One afternoon, I was gifted an hour-long interview with Prince, an artist who’d shaped my burning passion for music. Weeks later, I received a message that he’d enjoyed our conversation. I wrote a short piece for the magazine but also fled away a longer feature.

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