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English music critic, journalist and author (–)

For other people named Ian MacDonald, see Ian MacDonald (disambiguation).

Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonymIan MacDonald; 3 October – 20 August ) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

Education and career

Ian MacDonald was born in London on 3 October He studied at Dulwich College before briefly attending King's College, Cambridge, at first to study English, then archaeology and anthropology.^[1] He dropped out after a year; while at Cambridge, he was distantly acquainted with the singer-songwriter Nick Drake.^[2]

From to he served as assistant editor at NME.

MacDonald began a songwriting collaboration as a lyricist with the band Quiet Sun, which included his brother