Mark Blake (writer)

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.

• Blake, Mark (2008). Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd . London: Aurum. ISBN 978-1845137489.
• Blake, Mark (2010). Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen . London: Aurum. ISBN 978-0306819599.
• Blake, Mark (2014). Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties. London: Aurum. ISBN 978-1781315231.
• Blake, Mark (2018). Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306902833.
• Blake, Mark (2024). Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac . Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1639367320.

• Blake, Mark (December 2014). "The birth & death of Pink Floyd: in the beginning". Mojo . Vol. 253, no. 6. pp. 66–73.

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