Geoff Barton
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British music journalist and editor (b. July 1955). Geoff Barton is best known as the founder of Kerrang! Magazine and the deputy editor of England's leading music newspaper, Sounds, who first used and popularized the term "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (NWOBHM) in the press. According to Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, quoted in Esquire's April 2014 article: "NWOBHM was a fiction, really, an invention of Geoff Barton and Sounds [...] cunning ruse to boost circulation [but it did] represent a lot of bands that were utterly ignored by the mainstream media." Barton has been working as Classic Rock "editor-at-large" since 2004.