Mark Blake (writer)
{{Short description|British author and music journalist}}
{{other people|Mark Blake}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2010}}
Mark Blake is a British music journalist and author. His work has been published since 1989 in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and the music magazines Q, Mojo, Classic Rock, Music Week and Prog.
Career
Blake is the author of Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis, published by Nine Eight Books in February 2023, Magnifico! The A–Z Of Queen, published by Nine Eight Books in November 2021, and Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager, published by Little Brown/Da Capo in the UK and US in 2018, and voted a Music Book Of The Year in The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.
Blake's previous books include the best-selling 2007 music biography Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd,{{cite news|url=http://www.metrofrance.com/x/metro/2008/12/11/2Is0n0LBHAp0w/index.xml|title=La musique aussi se lit|date=11 December 2008|work=Metro France|language=fr|access-date=13 September 2010|archive-date=17 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717014346/http://www.metrofrance.com/x/metro/2008/12/11/2Is0n0LBHAp0w/index.xml|url-status=live}} published by Aurum Press (available under the title Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd in the United States); Stone Me: The Wit & Wisdom Of Keith Richards,{{cite news|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Keith-Richards-inspires-rival-tribute-books-/tabid/418/articleID/88770/cat/55/Default.aspx|title=Keith Richards inspires rival tribute books|date=28 January 2009|publisher=3 News|access-date=13 September 2010|archive-date=29 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929002311/http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Keith-Richards-inspires-rival-tribute-books-/tabid/418/articleID/88770/cat/55/Default.aspx|url-status=live}} (Aurum Press, 2008); Is This The Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen (Aurum Press, 2010), and Pretend You're in a War: The Who and The Sixties, published by Aurum Press in September 2014,
Blake is a former Assistant Editor of Q, and previously edited the books Dylan: Visions, Portraits and Back Pages and Punk: The Whole Story (Dorling Kindersley, 2004 & 2005). He has also contributed to official projects for Pink Floyd, including Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, the Who, Queen and the Jimi Hendrix estate. He is represented by Matthew Hamilton at The Hamilton Agency.
Bibliography
{{Incomplete list|date=March 2016}}
=Books=
- {{cite book |author=Blake |first=Mark |title=Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd |location=London |publisher=Aurum |year=2008 |isbn=978-1845137489}}
- {{cite book |author=Blake |first=Mark |title=Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen |location=London |publisher=Aurum |year=2010 |isbn=978-0306819599}}
- {{cite book |author=Blake |first=Mark |title=Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties |location=London |publisher=Aurum |year=2014 |isbn=978-1781315231}}
- {{cite book |author=Blake |first=Mark |title=Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager |location= |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0306902833}}
- {{cite book |author=Blake |first=Mark |title=Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac |location= |publisher=Pegasus Books |year=2024 |isbn=978-1639367320}}
=Articles=
- {{cite magazine |author=Blake, Mark |date=Dec 2014 |title=The birth & death of Pink Floyd: in the beginning |magazine=Mojo |volume=253 |issue=6 |pages=66–73 }}
= Album reviews =
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| width=25%|Album title
!|Artist !|Reviewed in |
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| The Endless River
|Pink Floyd |{{cite magazine |author=Blake, Mark |date=Dec 2014 |title=[Untitled review] |magazine =Mojo |volume=253 |issue=6 |page=88 }} |
=Book reviews=
| class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |
| |Date
!class='unsortable'|Review article !class='unsortable'|Work(s) reviewed |
|---|
| 2014
|{{cite magazine |author=Blake, Mark |date=Dec 2014 |title=Bryte young thing |department=Books |magazine=Mojo |volume=253 |issue=6 |pages=118–119 }} |{{cite book |author=Drake, Nick |editor=Gabrielle Drake |title=Nick Drake: remembered for a while |publisher=John Murray |year=2014}} |
References
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External links
- [http://www.markrblake.com Official site]
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