Mark Beaumont

London

Music Journalist at Freelance

Rock hack extraordinaire (NME, Independent, Times, Evening Standard, Telegraph, Guardian, Uncut, Classic Rock, etc). Book enquiries: DM me for agent details

Articles

giving his songs a sumptuous sweep

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Mark Beaumont
Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII review: history meets legendary

1 week ago | nme.com | Mark Beaumont

Walking across steaming gravel pits – swathed in floating images of bubbling volcanic mud pools, ancient pillars and terror-stricken gargoyles hewn into the living rock – Pink Floyd arrived at Pompeii in 1971 intent on melting time.
‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII’ review: they don’t make them like this anymore

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Mark Beaumont

I Just Realized Where I Know ‘The Last of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey From—and I'm Shocked I Didn't Catch It SoonerIf you haven’t heard of The Last of Us yet, allow me to introduce your next TV obsession. The HBO hit has taken the world by storm—and no, that’s not …
Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim

1 week ago | loudersound.com | Mark Beaumont

The Band - The BandMy Father's EyesRiver of TearsPilgrimBroken HeartedOne ChanceCircusGoing Down SlowFall Like RainBorn in TimeSick and TiredNeeds His WomanShe's GoneYou Were ThereInside of MeThe nine years since he’d released his previous album of original material, 1989’s superb Journeyman, had been fraught with trauma for Eric Clapton.
Music is sadly now a numbers game – Ed Sheeran’s Persian pop experiment proves he’s too big to fail

1 week ago | msn.com | Mark Beaumont

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‘Azizam’: Ed Sheeran’s Persian pop experiment proves he’s too big to fail

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Mark Beaumont

state of the artsHis adorably beta everyman demeanour has allowed him to duck and dive through styles and genres as culture trends have dictated, argues Mark Beaumont. The success of ‘Azizam’ is merely the latest evidence of a working musician who is too big to failOn first listen, you might think Eurovision has come early.
an exuberant jamboree of sounds and styles

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Mark Beaumont
Wham! en China: Prohibido bailar | A 40 años de una gira histórica

2 weeks ago | pagina12.com.ar | Mark Beaumont

No eran The Beatles en el JFK. "¿Dónde están todos los niños gritones, entonces?" preguntó George Michael, escudriñando la sala de llegadas del aeropuerto internacional de Pekín en abril de 1985 para encontrar el viento silbando a través de la sucursal de Asia oriental del Club Tropicana.
Clem Burke, 1954-2025: Blondie’s adventurous beat-maker who set a new rhythm for pop music

2 weeks ago | nme.com | Mark Beaumont

It wasn’t the tight blazers and skinny ties that made new wave such a blood-buzz. Nor was it the drugs that turned its angular riffs and ricochet melodies so breathless and urgent. No, the whole impetus, energy and momentum of the scene was driven by the beat; that spare, piston-firing charge that set the sound’s often breakneck pace, daring the rest of the band to both keep up with and match its vitality and verve.
When Wham! took Western pop to China

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Mark Beaumont

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