R.I.P Charles Cross

Mr. Backstreets has passed. R.I.P.. How I loved that magazine.

Charles, R. Cross was a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock figures, died Friday at age 67.

Cross also founded and for many years edited the Bruce Springsteen magazine Backstreets, possibly the best regarded of all the fanzines devoted to a single artist.

A journalist thag dedicated his life to music.