Ian MacDonald

Ian MacCormick (3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003), who wrote under the pseudonym Ian MacDonald, was a British music critic and author, best known for his detailed history of The Beatles and The New Shostakovich, a controversial study of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He briefly attended King's College, Cambridge, at first studying English, but soon transferring to Archeology and Anthropology. He dropped out after a year. While at Cambri... more

Date of birth:

  • Oct 3, 1948

Date of death:

  • Aug 20, 2003 (age 54 years)
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