Simon Spence is a british music writer. He collaborated with Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham on the classic memoirs Stoned and 2Stoned and is the author of the highly acclaimed 2012 biography The Stone Roses: War And Peace and the recent When The Screaming Stops: The Dark History Of The Bay City Rollers. He has written for NME, Dazed & Confused, The Face, i-D, The Independent, Japan Times, International New York Times, and Q.