Mick Brown
Mick Brown is a journalist, broadcaster and author of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound, the biography of the legendary Phil Spector. He’s returning to Port Eliot to talk about the dark side of the 60s and the movie Performance, which celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year.
Few people know more about Phil Spector than Mick Brown. As Q Magazine says, “Spector’s life and work make an endlessly fascinating subject, and Brown’s massive study does a terrific job. A classic, very American tale of glory, conceit and ruin.”
Born in London in 1950, Mick is a freelance journalist and broadcaster who has written extensively on pop music and culture for a wide variety of British and American publications, interviewing celebrated figures like Salvador Dali, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, Ravi Shankar, and the Dalai Lama.
His books include Richard Branson: The Authorised Biography; The Spiritual Tourist; Bloomsbury Movie Guide to Performance; American Heartbeat: Travels from Woodstock to San Jose by Song Title, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Prize in 1994, and The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa.
An expert on rock culture Mick is the authority on the cult British film Performance, having written the official guide. He’ll be talking about this classic film, which stars James Fox and Mick Jagger.
Mick is currently senior writer on the Telegraph magazine.
“An astonishing saga of unholy intrigue and arcane back-stabbing … Brown affords us regular glimpses of Buddhism’s deeper, and abiding, humanism.”
The Independent
Links:
- Mick Brown’s blog in the Telegraph
- Podcast: Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: Mick Brown on Phil Spector
Audio
Listen to Mick Brown in a radio interview talking about Phil Spector:
The Sound of Young America: Mick Brown on Phil Spector
