«Turner started his career in the ’70s, writing for the Los Angeles proto-punk fanzine Back Door Man, moved on to the storied Creem magazine for more than a decade.»
«Born in San Francisco in 1945, Marcus has spent nearly his entire life in the Frisco/Berkley/Oakland area, though he would write and edit for New York-centric publications Creem, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice.»
Vicious circle of punk, in Daily Mail (London), 27 ottobre 2011. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 2013 (archiviato dall'url originale il 24 settembre 2015).
«Indeed the phrase 'punk rock' got its first outing in Dave Marsh's Looney Tunes column in the May 1971 issue of Creem, the same issue that introduced the term 'heavy metal' as a genre name.»