Mark Blake @MarkBlake3
Author of Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis, Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd and more… Agent: @MWHamilton markrblake.com London Joined September 2011-
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Had a blast talking to the Yardbirds and @SimonNapierBell for this splendid new @MOJOmagazine @EricClapton @jeffbeckmusic @JimmyPage @ledzeppelin
“An exhilarating read 9/10” @ClassicRockMag ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @MOJOmagazine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️@RecCollMag ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @Telegraph ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @TheSun ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @MailOnline ‘Us & Them’ by @MarkBlake3 is out now in special edition paperback amzn.eu/d/0R4cAka
@MOJOmagazine @PaulMcCartney @Willjhodgkinson "Heroes live forever." Shane MacGowan remembered beautifully by @spiderstacy & Ann Scanlon. @theblackcrowes reunited, by @MarkBlake3. @TheMaryChain reunited, by Ian Harrison. The Blues Brothers by @danieldevise. Jon Anderson's wonderous stories of Yes +++ greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-march-202…
A big congrats to @MarkBlake3 and @rocking_bob and huge thanks to @Pat_Carty and @hotpress. Still time to buy those last minute gifts for the music fan in your life
A big congrats to @MarkBlake3 and @rocking_bob and huge thanks to @Pat_Carty and @hotpress. Still time to buy those last minute gifts for the music fan in your life https://t.co/oMjKqqR22H
Big thanks to @Pat_Carty and @hotpress for picking the “hilarious and scarcely believable” Us & Them as one of their best reads of 2023. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @ledzeppelin @bonnierbooks_uk @PaulMcCartney
Big thanks to @Pat_Carty and @hotpress for picking the “hilarious and scarcely believable” Us & Them as one of their best reads of 2023. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @ledzeppelin @bonnierbooks_uk @PaulMcCartney
The magnificent Hipgnosis film ‘Squaring the Circle’ is streaming on @netflix. Watch the documentary then buy the book - ‘Us and Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis’ by @MarkBlake3 is out now amzn.eu/d/4C02xaW #pinkfloyd #petergabriel #ledzeppelin #PaulMcCartney
Remembering @ledzeppelin’s manager Peter Grant, who died on this day in 1995. Here he is on TV with Sid James in December 1960.
Thrilled to get a mention for Hipgnosis and 70s prog rock into the @FT Flares are back, but I won’t be wearing them ft.com/content/6ab81e… via @FT @genesis_band
Delighted to have words with @JustinHawkins of @thedarkness in the new @ClassicRockMag - also featuring the mighty Quo!
Delighted to have words with @itspetergabriel in the latest @MOJOmagazine which also has the best @RollingStones interview I’ve read in aeons.
I made a short Denmark Street playlist for my talk tonight with Mark Blake and Travis Elborough at the Century Club, Soho. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Kuiu…
Stories will be told. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @PaulMcCartney @ledzeppelin
Stories will be told. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @PaulMcCartney @ledzeppelin
Discovered this in one of the chests. My school art project from 1988 aged 14 on -deal with it, hipsters- Genesis album sleeves. Hipgnosis loom large. 35 years later and ‘Us & Them’ by @MarkBlake3 is the inevitable publishing conclusion of a very long journey
Delighted to be talking at this event. Please come along..
Delighted to be talking at this event. Please come along..
I am doing an event with Mark Blake (@MarkBlake3) in Soho to talk about Denmark Street in September. Mark will be talking about his great book on Hipgnosis, Us And Them, while I will be launching my new book, Denmark Street: London's Street Of Sound. Come! centuryclub.co.uk/tin-pan-alley-…
Daughter of music manager Peter Grant puts Led Zeppelin stake up for sale theguardian.com/music/2023/jul…
Last night saw a special screening of the film ‘Squaring The Circle at @BatterseaPwrStn . The film, which looks at design duo Hipgnosis received great review ls and both Po and @MarkBlake3 took part in a Q&A session after the film had finished. Thanks Wiggy for pix. @pinkfloyd
Great night at Battersea Power station for a screening of the new Hipgnosis film, Squaring The Circle, and hosting a Q&A with Aubrey Powell. @Dogwoof @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @BatterseaBooks @ledzeppelin
Lawks! Pop, Prog, Goth, MOR….absolute bargains on some of this years biggest and best music biographies over at #AmazonPrimeDay. Don’t miss out! @MarkBlake3 @MichaelCragg @lucyobrientweet #cathiunsworth
Looking forward to hosting these Q&As on Tuesday and Wednesday - and the film is great. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @ledzeppelin @PaulMcCartney @10ccWorld @genesis_band
Looking forward to hosting these Q&As on Tuesday and Wednesday - and the film is great. @nineeightbooks @pinkfloyd @ledzeppelin @PaulMcCartney @10ccWorld @genesis_band
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The past comes back to haunt me.
17th, April 1976, article on being a roadie for Deep Purple and The Stranglers by Mick Brown. "Tonight Stranglers are playing the Hope and Anchor, a pub in Islington, for they will receive the princely sum of around £35."@StranglersSite @_DeepPurple @mickbrownwriter @HughCornwell
Just uploaded the full uncut 'rushes' of my 2001 interview with Nick Mason + better audio. A favourite interviewee. Unusually informal & the most honest of @pinkfloyd when talking about Syd @nickmasondrums @TheSydBarrett @NMSOSOfficial @neptunepinkfloy youtu.be/Px9BGOd1J_w?si…
@stevie_chick @Buzzcocks @VictoriaSegal @Andr6wMale So much good writing, so many great stories in this issue, I promise, and the CD is a blast. Lots more info here on the @MOJOmagazine website - mojo4music.com/magazine/lates…. "Ooh let me have it" etc etc... 4//
Plus The Minutemen by @stevie_chick. Tangerine Dream. Anita Pallenberg. @Buzzcocks. Nirvana. Mark Mulcahy. Myriam Gendron. Steve Harley. Beth Gibbons by @VictoriaSegal. AC/DC by David Fricke. Cheap Trick. @Andr6wMale's How To Buy Curtis Mayfield. And The Crucial Three! 3/
Elsewhere this month: @MarkBlake3 celebrates 60 years of The Yardbirds - and there's a CD of raw Brit R&B with every copy; Ian Harrison files a revelatory piece on Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter; new interviews with @NeilFinn, @RthompsonMusic, @LeylaMcCalla and @labisiffre. 2/
@ZNathanson @MOJOmagazine @thesidsmith @PhilAlexanderUK @MarkBlake3 Remember that one very well!
Still have this nearly 20 years later. The other one was roughed up, got another one a few years ago. @MOJOmagazine @Paytress @thesidsmith @PhilAlexanderUK @MarkBlake3
Thrilled that Michael Cragg has won the @PenderynPrize for the brilliant Reach For The Stars. Congratulations Michael - and everyone at @nineeightbooks
Very honoured and overwhelmed to have won this music book award for Reach For the Stars! Thank you so much to @PeteSelby1 and @MWHamilton, and to all the popstars who spoke to me for the book 💫
Absolutely delighted to report that @MichaelCragg has won the 10th annual @PenderynPrize for his critically acclaimed and definitive book on UK pop’s last great hurrah, ‘Reach For The Stars’. Huge congrats to Michael and a big thank you to the Penderyn judges x @bonnierbooks_uk
@MichaelCragg won the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2024 for his book, ‘Reach For The Stars.’ @nineeightbooks
I love love love The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion. The new Black Crowes album feels a bit like volume two. Absurdly good fun spectator.co.uk/article/the-bl…
Thank you - yes i love Drama as well!
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Say what you like about Louis Walsh, but I will always be eternally grateful for his support for Michael’s critically acclaimed, multi-Book of the Year, Penderyn Prize nominated Reach For The Stars. A dream interviewee. @MichaelCragg #louiswalsh