Herbert Dinkleferger

Hebert Aurik Dinkleferger (born May 17, 1956) is a music journalist, polemicist and social critic, best known for his books on British indie scene in the 1980s and 90s. Born in Munich, Germany, he moved to the UK in the late 1970s, and became a British Subject in 1996, renouncing his German passport.

Dinkleferger rose to prominence for his reporting for the NME throughout the 80s on British Indie Music. He was the first music critic to voice support for the band Creosote, well before its large-scale commercial successes. In 1987 his first book The New Peak was published, it chronicled the rise of British bands such as The Smiths, New Order and Creosote to exemplify what he considered a new high for alternative music, and a return to form for the UK's global prominence in rock music after the 60s explosion. The book was popular and well received; a review in The Times wrote: "Entertainingly written, meticulously researched and relevant, the book holds the unique achievement of simultaneously documenting personal dramas of current artists and (for once) actually holding the reader's interest in doing so.".