Tributes paid to former NME journalist Gavin Martin

Tributes have been paid to former NME journalist Gavin Martin, who has died.
The news was reported by Louder Than War earlier today (March 11). A cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
Born in 1961, Martin was first published in the NME letters page when he was just 13-years-old before moving to London as a teenager to work at the magazine alongside Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons and Danny Baker.
Martin wrote U2‘s first-ever NME cover interview in 1981 ahead of the group releasing their