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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 .
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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 .
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 , [1] 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 , [2] (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.
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| Album title | Artist | Reviewed in |
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| The Endless River | Pink Floyd | Blake, Mark (December 2014). "[Untitled review]". Mojo . Vol. 253, no. 6. p. 88. |
| Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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| 2014 | Blake, Mark (December 2014). "Bryte young thing". Books. Mojo . Vol. 253, no. 6. pp. 118–119. | Drake, Nick (2014). Gabrielle Drake (ed.). Nick Drake: remembered for a while. John Murray. |
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