Former Mirror music critic Gavin Martin has died at the age of 60 while on holiday in Barbados.
Born in Belfast, Gavin grew up in Bangor, County Down, where as a teenager, he put together the punk-era fanzine Alternative Ulster (its title immediately stolen by the band Stiff Little Fingers).
He began writing for the New Musical Express when he was still at school and moved to London in 1980 to become a staff writer for the NME, where he interviewed everyone from Marvin Gaye to the Sex Pistols.
