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Colin Larkin
Born1949 (age 74–75)
Dagenham, Essex, England
Occupations
  • Writer
  • entrepreneur
  • publisher
Websitecolinlarkin.com

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]

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th Edition 10 vols) Oxford University Press (UK/US) 2006
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin, All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd Edition), Virgin Books (UK), 2000.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (2nd Edition), Guinness Publishing (UK), 1995
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), the Guinness Who's Who of Blues (2nd Edition), Guinness Publishing (UK), 1995
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (ed.), Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock, The, Virgin Books (UK), 1999.
  6. ^ "OUP Online". Archived from the original on 9 July 2007.

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