could often make or break a new band, pointing to an NME article in which Mr. Wells simply wrote the word NO in capital letters and repeated it 387 times. Raised in Bradford, a city in northern England, Mr. Wells went to work at NME after a brief career as a "punk poet" in London in the 1970s.
As a performer, he used the names Seething Wells and Swells, and his poetry was built around rants against injustice and racism, said his wife.
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Wells,49, journalist
also The Guardian: Music Blog: RIP Swells: seething no more
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