Mick Middles
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Mick Middles is a British music journalist. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and is the author of many books about music, several relating to Factory Records, Tony Wilson, Joy Division and Ian Curtis, and he is the authorised biographer of Frank Sidebottom.{{Cite web |title=Frank Sidebottom: Out of His Head - The Authorised biography of Chris Sievey Story by Mick Middles |url=https://www.empire-uk.com/frank.html |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=www.empire-uk.com}}
Life and career
In the 1970s and 1980s he was the Manchester correspondent for Sounds. He has also written for The Face, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and Daily Express.{{Cite web |title=Articles, interviews and reviews from Mick Middles: Rock's Backpages. |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/mick-middles |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=rocksbackpages.com}} As well as music biographies, he has written books about comedians Les Dawson{{Cite book |last=Middles |first=Mick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m29YPQAACAAJ |title=When You're Smiling: The Illustrated Biography of Les Dawson |date=1999 |publisher=Chameleon Books |isbn=978-0-233-99668-4 |language=en}} and Frankie Howerd.{{Cite book |last=Middles |first=Mick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugRyzgEACAAJ |title=FRANKIE HOWERD: The Illustrated Biography |date=2025 |publisher=HEADLINE Book Publishing |isbn=978-0-7472-3962-8 |language=en}} He lives in Flixton with his wife, Vicky.{{Cite web |last=Britton |first=Paul |date=2014-10-24 |title=New book gets inside the head of Frank Sidebottom |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-book-gets-inside-head-7988881 |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Manchester Evening News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2017-08-11 |title=The 'Madchester' indie band maelstrom – Middles was the man in the middle |website=TheBusinessDesk.com |url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2007932-meet-man-middles |access-date=2024-07-23 |language=en}}
Books
Middles's work includes:
- The Fall (2003), co-written with Mark E. Smith
- Torn Apart (2006), co-written with Lindsay Reade
- Factory: The Story of the Record Label (2009)
- Frank Sidebottom Out of His Head: The Authorised Biography of Chris Sievey (2014)
References
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