British music writer (born 1949)
Colin Larkin |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75)
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Occupations | - Writer
- entrepreneur
- publisher
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Website | colinlarkin.com |
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Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.[1] Along with the ten-volume encyclopedia, Larkin also wrote the book All Time Top 1000 Albums,[2] and edited the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz,[3] the Guinness Who's Who of Blues,[4] and the Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock.[5] He has over 650,000 copies in print.[6]
- ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th Edition 10 vols) Oxford University Press (UK/US) 2006
- ^ Larkin, Colin, All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd Edition), Virgin Books (UK), 2000.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (2nd Edition), Guinness Publishing (UK), 1995
- ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), the Guinness Who's Who of Blues (2nd Edition), Guinness Publishing (UK), 1995
- ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock, The, Virgin Books (UK), 1999.
- ^ "OUP Online". Archived from the original on 9 July 2007.