
Mark Blake
Mark Blake is a music journalist and author. His work has appeared in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and the magazines Q, Mojo, Classic Rock, Music Week and Prog. He is the author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, Is This the Real Life: The Untold Story of Queen, Magnifico! The A–Z Of Queen, Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager and Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties.
Latest articles by Mark Blake

Q&A: Tony Banks
By Mark Blake published
Genesis’s keyboard player on classical composing, being married to Mike Rutherford and wearing a snorkel on stage.

First Look: 10cc Live At The Royal Albert Hall
By Mark Blake published
Not yet ratedThe art-rock masters indulge themselves with Sheet Music and a bevy of hits at the RAH.

Live: The Who
By Mark Blake published
Not yet ratedFirst show of their world tour and a rare off-night from Britain’s premier hooligan rockers.

10cc: "I love all our albums, but that one has the edge"
By Mark Blake published
Graham Gouldman of 10cc celebrates the enduring legacy of Sheet Music

Aubrey Powell: A Design For Life
By Mark Blake published
As one half of visionary British design team Hipgnosis, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell changed the face of the album sleeve. Here he digs deep into his archive...

10 classic Queen live performances
By Mark Blake published
Queen are one the greatest live bands ever. Here are ten of their greatest live performances captured on film

Steve Hackett, Live
By Mark Blake published
Not yet ratedSteve Hackett and Mostly Autumn live at Hammersmith Apollo.

Heavy Load: Mikael Akerfeldt
By Mark Blake published
Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on drink, drugs and democracy.

Chris Squire: the hands that built prog
By Mark Blake published
From LSD ‘death’ to CEO of 30-million-selling Yes, former choirboy Chris Squire is the ever-present member who’s kept the music coming out and the money coming in.

Fame: Nick Mason
By Mark Blake published
Floyd's least famous but "most modest" member.

Q&A: Mick Box
By Mark Blake published
The Uriah Heep guitarist remembers fallen friends, taking the denim look to East Germany and the days of sleeping in toilets.

Archive: Ray Manzarek RIP
By Mark Blake published
Ray Manzarek died on May 20, 2013. The commemorate the first anniversary of his death, here's the obituary published in Classic Rock issue 186

Q&A: Storm Corrosion
By Mark Blake published
Prog-rock, prog-metal and death metal make a strange hybrid - but Storm Corrosion make it work.

The Slash Interviews: The Making Of World On Fire
By Mark Blake published
Please be upstanding for Slash. The guitar hero and King Conspirator talks “couch riffs”, not being a dictator and the perils of keeping a guitar in the bedroom.

“Supper’s Ready is still special. That’s my favourite long Genesis piece." Mike Rutherford on the past, present and future
By Mark Blake published
Mike Rutherford celebrates his birthday on October 2. In this 2014 feature from Prog he scans through his life and music so far, and there it might all lead
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