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Mark Blake is a British music journalist and author. His work has been published since 1989 inThe Times andThe Daily Telegraph, and the music magazinesQ,Mojo,Classic Rock,Music Week andProg.

Blake is the author ofUs And Them: The Authorised Story OfHipgnosis, published by Nine Eight Books in February 2023,Magnifico! The A–Z OfQueen, published by Nine Eight Books in November 2021, andBring It On Home:Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager, published byLittle Brown/Da Capo in the UK and US in 2018, and voted a Music Book Of The Year inThe Sunday Times,The Times,Daily Mail andThe Daily Telegraph.

Blake's previous books include the best-selling 2007 music biographyPigs Might Fly: The Inside Story ofPink Floyd,^[1] published byAurum Press (available under the titleComfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd in the United States);Stone Me: The Wit & Wisdom OfKeith Richards,^[2] (Aurum Press, 2008);Is This The Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen (Aurum Press, 2010), andPretend You're in a War:The Who and The Sixties, published byAurum Press in September 2014,

Blake is a former Assistant Editor ofQ, and previously edited the booksDylan: Visions, Portraits and Back Pages andPunk: The Whole Story (Dorling Kindersley, 2004 & 2005). He has also contributed to official projects for Pink Floyd, includingPink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, the Who, Queen and theJimi Hendrix estate. He is represented by Matthew Hamilton at The Hamilton Agency.

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• Blake, Mark (2008).Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story ofPink Floyd. London: Aurum.ISBN 978-1845137489.
• Blake, Mark (2010).Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story ofQueen. 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 ofFleetwood 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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