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Mick Wall (born 23 June 1958) is a British music journalist, author, and radio and TV presenter. He has been described as "the world's leading rock and metal writer".

Wall began his career contributing to the music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote about punk and the new wave, and then rockabilly, funk, New Romantic pop and, eventually, hard rock and heavy metal. In 1979, he left music journalism to become the partner in his own PR firm, Heavy Publicity, aged 20, where he oversaw press campaigns for artists such as Black Sabbath, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, The Damned, Dire Straits and several others. In the early 1980s he also worked at Virgin Records as press officer for such artists as Gillan, The Human League, Simple Minds, Japan and others.

By 1983, Wall become one of the main journalists in the early days of Kerrang! magazine, where he was their star cover story writer for the next nine years. He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, and presented his own television and radio shows on Sky TV (Monsters of Rock), Capital Radio, BBC GLR, BBC Radio 1, Planet Rock and others. He has also guested on several television programmes and documentaries on BBC TV, ITV, Sky One, Channel Four and MTV.

Wall has written many biographies of musicians and bands including Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Metallica and Guns N' Roses. The latter mentioned him in their song "Get in the Ring" after Wall fell out with his former friend, singer Axl Rose. In April 2016, Wall made an impassioned apology to Rose, acknowledging that the spirit of the book he had written on Axl Rose ten years earlier was "mean, disgruntled, unworthy. I’m sorry I wrote it." He concluded by saying, "I can’t wait to see what Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses do next. They are the last of the giants and I am a fan."

His book Paranoid: Black Days With Sabbath & Other Horror Stories (1999) is a semi-fictionalised account of his substance-abusing days in the 1980s working with some of the biggest rock stars in the world. In 2008, he wrote a biography of Led Zeppelin entitled When Giants Walked the Earth.

Wall is also the author of a blog on his official website, consisting of a compendium of domestic affairs and anecdotes from his past. He also co-hosts a podcast called "Dead Rock Stars" with fellow writer Joel McIver. In June 2018, The Guardian named "Dead Rock Stars" their podcast of the week.

Lou Reed

Den anmelderroste rockskribent Mick Wall, der tidligere har skrevet bestseller-biografier om blandt andre Metallica, Iron Maiden og Led Zeppelin, udgav biografien 'Lou Reed – The Life' den 9. december 2013, kun få måneder efter Lou Reeds død. Mick Wall har beundret Lou Reed og The Velvet Underground hele sit liv, og Will Hodgkinson, der er førende rockanamelder på 'The Times', siger om biografien: ”Mick Wall skriver lige på og hårdt og helt usentimentalt i en stil, der passer til den mand, han skriver om, og han går bestemt ikke uden om Lou Reeds mere ubehagelige sider.”Lou Reed, der døde den 27. oktober 2013, er blevet kaldt mange ting, lige fra the Godfather of Punk til the High Priest of Glam. Mick Wall mener, at han fortsatte, hvor rocken holdt op – og han skal derfor ikke måles med Beatles og Stones, men med William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr. og Andy Warhol.
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