John L. Walters

John L. Walters
Birth name	John L. Walters
Occupation(s)	musician, composer, editor
Instruments	keyboard, woodwinds
Years active	1974–present

John L. Walters (born 16 April 1953) is a British editor, musician, critic and composer.

John L. Walters was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK. He attended King's College London and holds a degree in Maths with Physics.

In 1974 John L. Walters was a founding member of the band Landscape with Richard James Burgess (vocals, drums), Christopher Heaton (keyboards), Andy Pask (bass) and Peter Thoms (trombone, keyboards). The band is best known for the 1981 hit "Einstein A Go-Go", which reached number 5 in the UK charts. After the band split in 1984, Walters went into record production. He subsequently produced and arranged records for Swans Way, Kissing the Pink, Twelfth Night, The Mike Gibbs Orchestra and pianist Mark Springer, and worked with other artists from the era including Kate Bush, Hot Gossip and Landscape colleague Richard James Burgess. From 1987 to 1997 Walters was a member of the "electronic jazz orchestra" Zyklus, with Neil Ardley, Warren Greveson and Ian Carr.

In 1992, with Laurence Aston, he co-founded the audio journal Unknown Public. Aston and Walters also founded the SoundCircus label with producer James Mallinson and pianist Joanna MacGregor.

In 1997, after working for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Architectural Review, he joined Eye magazine as managing editor. Walters has been the editor of Eye magazine since the publication of Eye no. 33 in 1999. He became its co-owner (with art director Simon Esterson) after a management buy-out in 2008. Walters also writes about creative music (including jazz, electronica and world music) for The Guardian.

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