It's a music journalist's time to stand up and counted: the biggest pop icon of your time has died, and all of your colleagues are watching a secret East 17 set at Glastonbury. That's how former features James McMahon found himself being interviewed alongside Uri Geller, splitting his trousers before an ITV News appearance and dreaming about BubblesVARIOUS, VARIOUS - JUNE 25: Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1986. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)This weekend marks ten-years since the passing of a true legend of pop. I talk, of course, about the death of hyper acerbic, none-more-iconoclastic, legendary NME journalist Steven Wells. Swells, as he was better known, was the NME writer that made me want to write for the NME. When he championed Asian Dub Foundation, Napalm […]The post Remembering the day Michael Jackson died when the entire NME team was at Glastonbury – except me appeared first on NME.