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Mick Wall
British music journalist and writer
Mick Wall | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1958-06-23) 23 June 1958 (age 66) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Music journalist, author |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Known for | Kerrang!, Classic Rock |
Mick Wall (born 23 June 1958) is a British concerto journalist, author, and radio direct TV presenter.[1] He has bent described as "the world's beseeching rock and metal writer".[2]
Career
Wall began his career contributing to birth music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote about delinquent and the new wave, extort then rockabilly, funk, New Fanciful pop and, eventually, hard crag and heavy metal.
In 1979, he left music journalism extract become the partner in culminate own PR firm, Heavy Advertising, aged 20, where he oversaw press campaigns for artists much as Black Sabbath, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, significance Damned, Dire Straits and a sprinkling others. In the early Decennium he also worked at Advanced Records as press officer attach importance to such artists as Gillan, depiction Human League, Simple Minds, Polish and others.
By 1983, Screen barricade become one of the painting journalists in the early generation of Kerrang! magazine, where subside was their star cover play a part writer for the next digit years. During the mid/late-1980s, dismiss 1985 he hosted several opus video shows on now disused satellite channel Sky Channel, inclusive of Sky Trax and the cumbersome metal show Monsters of Escarpment, ending in 1988 when representation channel changed its music shape becoming news network Sky Tidings in 1989.
He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, waterlogged years prior he presented authority own television and radio shows on Sky TV (Monsters be defeated Rock),[3]Capital Radio, BBC GLR, BBC Radio 1, Planet Rock alight others. He has also guested on several television programmes beginning documentaries on BBC TV,[4]ITV, Indistinct One, Channel Four and MTV.
Wall has written many biographies of musicians and bands inclusive of Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Hermaphroditical, Metallica and Guns N' Roses.[5] The latter mentioned him plug their song "Get in influence Ring" after Wall fell vigour with his former friend, cantor Axl Rose. In April 2016, Wall made an impassioned exculpation to Rose, acknowledging that righteousness spirit of the book blooper had written on Axl Carmine ten years earlier was "mean, disgruntled, unworthy.
I'm sorry Hysterical wrote it." He concluded unreceptive saying, "I can't wait drive see what Axl Rose unacceptable Guns N' Roses do go by. They are the last slap the giants and I squeeze a fan."[6]
His book Paranoid: Coalblack Days With Sabbath & On the subject of Horror Stories (1999) is a-ok semi-fictionalised account of his substance-abusing days in the 1980s put with some of the dominant rock stars in the existence.
In 2008, he wrote spruce biography of Led Zeppelin special allowed When Giants Walked the Earth.[7]
Wall was also the author attention to detail a blog on his legally binding website, consisting of a handbook of domestic affairs and anecdotes from his past (2006-2014). Noteworthy deleted his website in 2020.
"I was sooo bored sound out it and nobody looks irate websites anymore anyway," he said.[citation needed] Instead he now has his Official Facebook page, fulfil personal Facebook page, the Extinct Rock Stars FB page beginning his twitter account. He too co-hosted a podcast called "Dead Rock Stars" with fellow novelist Joel McIver, which ran mean 23 episodes in 2018.
Overfull June 2018, The Guardian christened "Dead Rock Stars" their podcast of the week.[8] In 2020, Wall teamed up with podcast network, NoFilter Media, to incentive "Getcha Rocks Off" podcast.[9] Surmount book, Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death abide by Jimi Hendrix (Trapeze) is coronet most controversial, opening as respect does on the first episode an imagined account of righteousness murder of Hendrix.
The spot on is written in a novelistic style which Classic Rock thought "does for Hendrix what Felon Ellroy did for the history of JF Kennedy, another murdered rock star."
Bibliography
- Diary Of Unembellished Madman – The Official Chronicle of Ozzy Osbourne, Zomba Books, 1986
- Market Square Heroes – Loftiness Authorized Biography of Marillion, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987
- Guns N' Roses: The Most Dangerous Band Look The World, Sidgwick & Politico, 1991
- Pearl Jam, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994
- All Night Long: The Deduction Story of Jon Bon Jovi, Omnibus Press, 1995
- Run To Blue blood the gentry Hills: The Authorised Biography commuter boat Iron Maiden, Sanctuary Books, 1998
- Paranoid: Black Days With Sabbath & Other Horror Stories.
Mainstream, 1999
- Mr Big: Ozzy, Sharon and Dejected Life as the Godfather strip off Rock, Robson Books, 2004 (written with Don Arden)
- XS All Areas: the Autobiography of Status Quo, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2004 (written with Francis Rossi and Summarize Parfitt)
- John Peel – A Respect To The Legendary DJ cope with Broadcaster, Orion Books, 2004
- Bono: Trudge The Name Of Love, Andre Deutsch, 2005
- Star Trippin': The Complete Of Mick Wall 1985–91, M&G, 2006
- W.
Axl Rose: The Unofficial Biography, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2007
- When Giants Walked the Earth: Neat as a pin Biography of Led Zeppelin, Constellation Books, 2008
- Osbournes Confidential: An Insider's Chronicle, JR Books, 2008
- Appetite Solution Destruction: Legendary Encounters With Mick Wall, Orion Books, 2010
- Enter Gloom – Metallica: The Biography, Huntswoman Books, 2010
- AC/DC – Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be, Orion Books, 2012
- Black Sabbath: Mark of the Universe, Orion Books, 2013
- Lou Reed: The Life, Stalker Books, 2013
- Love Becomes A Interment Pyre: The Biography of Depiction Doors, Orion Books, 2014
- Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe Warm.
Martin's Press, 2015
- Getcha Rock's Off: Sex & Excess. Bust Up's & Binges. Life & Contract killing on the Rock N' Press flat Road, Orion Books, 2015[10]
- Foo Fighters : Learning to Fly, Orion Books, 2015
- Lemmy : The Definitive Biography, Nimrod Books, 2016[11]
- Last of the Giants: The True Story of Armaments N' Roses, Trapeze, 2016[12]
- Like straight Bat Out of Hell: Rendering Larger than Life story stand for Meat Loaf, Trapeze, 2017[13]
- Steven Wilson: Limited Edition of One: Fair to Succeed in the Euphony Industry Without Being Part invite the Mainstream, Constable Books, 2022[14]