Mark Beech

Mark Beech, author of "All You Need Is Rock" (Thistle, 2014), has spent a decade as rock critic and arts editor for Bloomberg News and TV.

He became known for "The A-Z of Names in Rock" (Robson paperback, 1998) and the illustrated "The Dictionary of Rock and Pop Names" (Pen & Sword/ Remember When, 2009.)

He is also the author of a poetry collection, "Passionfruit," published in 1979 as part of the Outposts Modern Poetry Series edited by Howard Sergeant MBE, and two plays, "Happy/Sad" and "Freaks Come Out at Night," performed at London's Soho Theatre in 2001 and 2005 respectively. The second was one of the winners of the 2005 Westminster Prize.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Beech_(writer)

Website: http://markbeech.net/

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Mark Beech's writing for Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/muse/mark-beech/