Mick Wall

Mick Wall (born June 23, 1958 ) is a British music journalist and author who has worked for the magazines Sounds , Kerrang! , Raw and Metal Hammer and now works for Classic Rock Magazine .

Wall began his career starting in 1977 when he wrote articles for the British weekly music magazine Sounds and wrote articles on the subjects of punk and new wave . Later he expanded his spectrum and took rockabilly , funk , new romantic , then also hard rock and heavy metal into his repertoire.

In 1979 he turned away from writing and founded his own PR agency "Heavy Publicity". He organized press campaigns for Black Sabbath , Journey , REO Speedwagon , Thin Lizzy , Ultravox , The Damned , Dire Straits and other groups. In the early 1980s he worked for Virgin Records, where he oversaw press work for Ian Gillan , The Human League , Simple Minds and others.

In 1983 he became one of the main contributors to the British hard rock and heavy metal magazine Kerrang! for which he worked for the next nine years. He is on the album Use Your Illusion of Guns N 'Roses name in the song Get in the ring mentioned ; The occasion was an article that he published in Kerrang! On April 21, 1990! No. 286/287 about an interview with Guns-N'-Roses singer Axl Rose . As a result, the band refused to ever play for Kerrang again ! to be available if Wall does not solve the problem. This led to Wall becoming the Kerrang! Had to leave the editorial office at the end of 1991.

He got a job at the British magazine Metal Hammer in 1992 , but quit in 1993 and switched to Raw, a British heavy metal magazine. In 1995 and 1996 he worked again for a PR agency ( Rock Hard or Hard Work ) before he became editor-in-chief of Classic Rock Magazine in 1998 and made his own television and radio shows, including for the stations Sky TV , Capital Radio and BBC Radio 1 presented. In 2004 he switched to Mojo magazine ; since 2006 he has been writing again for Classic Rock Magazine .

As an author, Wall wrote biographies about musicians such as Ozzy Osbourne (1986), Guns n 'Roses (1991), Iron Maiden (1998), Status Quo (2004), Bono (2005), Metallica (2010) and Prince (2016).

Wall lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and children .

bibliography

Original editions

• Diary of a Madman - The Official Biography of Ozzy Osbourne , Zomba Books, 1986
• Market Square Heroes - The Authorized Biography of Marillion , Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987
• Guns n 'Roses - The Most Dangerous Band in the World , Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991
• Pearl Jam , Sidgwick & Jackson , 1994
• All Night Long - The True Story of Jon Bon Jovi , Omnibus Press, 1995
• Run to the Hills - The Authorized Biography of Iron Maiden , Sanctuary Books, 1998
• Paranoid - Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories . Mainstream, 1999
• Mr Big - Ozzy, Sharon and My Life as the Godfather of Rock , Robson Books, 2004 (written with Don Arden )
• XS All Areas - the Autobiography of Status Quo , Sidgwick & Jackson, 2004 (written with Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt )
• John Peel - A Tribute to the Legendary DJ and Broadcaster , Orion Books, 2004
• Bono - In the Name of Love , Andre Deutsch, 2005
• Star Trippin '- The Best of Mick Wall 1985-91 , M&G, 2006
• Axl Rose - The Unauthorized Biography , Sidgwick & Jackson, 2007
• When Giants Walked the Earth - A Biography of Led Zeppelin , Orion Books, 2008
• Osbournes Confidential - An Insider's Chronicle , JR Books, 2008
• Appetite for Destruction - Legendary Encounters with Mick Wall , Orion Books, 2010
• Enter Night - Metallica - The Biography , Orion Books, 2010
• Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe , Orion Books, 2014
• Prince - Purple Reign , Orion Books, 2016

Translations (selection)

• Guns n 'Roses ; Hannibal, KOCH publishing group (1992); ISBN 978-3854450719 .
• Pearl Jam. Alive ; Hannibal, KOCH publishing group (1995); ISBN 978-3854451013 .
• Star portraits: Bon Jovi. The complete chronicle from 1962 to today ; Heel Verlag GmbH (May 1999); ISBN 978-3893655267 .
• Run to the Hills: The Official Biography of Iron Maiden ; IP Verlag Jeske / Mader (2005); ISBN 978-3931624293 .
• Robert Plant: Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page - The Solo Years ; Hannibal (2009); ISBN 978-3854453000 .
• Rick Parfitt, Francis Rossi, and Mick Wall: The Status Quo Autobiography . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2011, ISBN 978-3-85445-365-9
• AC / DC : Hell ain't a bad place to be. The band biography. Edel, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8419-0259-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mick Wall: Star Trippin '- The Best of Mick Wall 1985-91, pages 171-188; M&G Publishing Ltd., 2006; ISBN 0-9552780-0-7
2. ↑ Mick Wall Timeline on his homepage (English) ( memento of the original from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.