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British music and sports journalist (born 1947)

For other people named Richard Williams, see Richard Williams (disambiguation).

Richard Williams (born 13 March 1947) is a British music and sports journalist.

As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly music newspaper Melody Maker (MM), he became an influential commentator on the rise of new forms of rock music at the end of the 1960s. Williams and MM, as it was known, helped promote and contextualise the progressive in pop music.

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In particular, Williams wrote several key articles around 1970 that increased UK attention to the (then disintegrating) Velvet Underground. Melody Maker still covered jazz and Williams wrote about the more progressive developments in this field also.

The magazine's serious approach to rock music and culture, under the editorship of Ray Coleman, secured MM a huge circulation by the close of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s. It left New Musical Expres