Roy Carr (1945 – 1 July 2018)[1] was an English music journalist, covering pop, rock and jazz.
Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, after his family moved there from London during the Second World War,[2] he was the son of jazz musician and composer Tony Carr, a member of Joe Loss's band and writer of "March of the Mods".
[3][4] Roy Carr started his music career as a member of Blackpool-based band The Executives, who also featured Glenn Cornick.
The band supported many leading acts in the mid-1960s, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who, and had several unsuccessful singles issued on the Columbia and CBS labels.
He contributed as reviewer, interviewer and columnist to the magazine's relaunch later in the decade under editors Alan Smith and Nick Logan.