Mark Blake (writer)
Mark Blake is a music journalist and author. His work has been published since 1989 in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and the music magazines Q, Mojo, and Classic Rock. In May 2017, he was hired as launch editor of Planet Rock magazine and is a contributing editor to the title.
He is the author of the 2007 music biography, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, published by Aurum Press ; Stone Me: The Wit & Wisdom Of Keith Richards, ; Is This The Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen and Pretend You're in a War: The Who and The Sixties, published by Aurum Press in September 2014. His next book, Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager was published by Little Brown/Da Capo in the UK and US in 2018, and was listed as a Music Book Of The Year in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and The Observer.
Blake is a former Assistant Editor of Q, and previously edited the books Dylan: Visions, Portraits and Back Pages and Punk: The Whole Story". He has also contributed to official projects for Pink Floyd, including, The Who, Queen and the Jimi Hendrix estate. He is represented by Matthew Hamilton at The Hamilton Agency.Books
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