Kris Needs is a British author, DJ, recording artist, and music journalist. After running Mott The Hoople's fan club for two years, he started writing for seminal fanzine Zigzag in 1975, becoming editor for five years while writing for NME and Sounds. Writing for Creem magazine saw him relocate to New York in the eighties. Back in the UK, Kris became a DJ-producer through the nineties, recording as Secret Knowledge, at the same time writing for dance music publications.