Mark Blake is a British music critic and editor. He is the author of the best-selling biography Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd and Is This The Real Life: The Untold Story Of Queen. A former Assistant Editor of the UK’s biggest-selling music magazine Q, his work has also been published in Mojo, The Times, Classic Rock, Daily Telegraph and Billboard. He has interviewed many famous rock stars (Paul McCartney, Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger) and many less famous ones.

Author Mark Blake

Mark has shared peppermint tea with Dave Grohl, a limousine ride with Stevie Nicks and beans on toast with Ozzy Osbourne. He once helped Kate Bush up a flight of stairs, and stopped Keith Richards falling down another. He has an enduring fascination with most rock music, preferably anything involving guitars. Mark is 6ft tall and weighs in at 182lbs. He lives just outside London with his wife and son.