Mick Brown

Mick Brown is a 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 latest book, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound , is a biography of legendary record producer Phil Spector. His interview with Spector, published in the Telegraph, was the first in 25 years and took place only days before Lana Clarkson was found dead in his ‘castle’ in Los Angeles. He’s currently senior writer on the Telegraph magazine.

Mick’s other 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 astonishing saga of unholy intrigue and arcane back-stabbing … Brown affords us regular glimpses of Buddhism’s deeper, and abiding, humanism.”
– The Independent

www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/mick-brown/