Stevie Godson, who started her writing career as a journalist in England (East Kent Mercury, Motor Trade Gazette, Folkestone Herald and Hythe Gazette), turned her focus to entertainment on arriving in South Africa, joining Cinema and TV magazine as an entertainment reporter, and going on to edit several entertainment magazines (Top Twenty, Starbeat and the more serious music industry publication Music Africa).
Soothing tortured souls
She spent two years as a critic and columnist for the now-defunct and long-lamented Rand Daily Mail before moving out of journalism for a while, crossing over to the “dark side” as entertainment publicist for Sun City Entertainment, where she worked with such music stars as Queen, Elton John and Rod Stewart (writing about them, staging press conferences and doing whatever else it took to promote them – that’s when she wasn’t running around after them or trying to soothe their tortured souls).