Ian MacDonald

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1948 – 2003

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Who was Ian MacDonald?

Ian MacCormick was a British music critic and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his forensic history of The Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. MacDonald was instrumental in popularising Nick Drake during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period during which Drake was largely forgotten.

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Born
Oct 3, 1948
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  • King's College, Cambridge
Died
Aug 20, 2003

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on July 23, 2013

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