Mark Blake

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. 

Articles by: Mark Blake

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

The Who perform live on stage in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 17 1970

How the Lifehouse album was almost the death of The Who

By Mark Blake published

Between 1971 and 1973 The Who made two of their best albums, Quadrophenia and Who’s Next, against a background of drink, drugs and fist fights. But it was Lifehouse that nearly broke the band