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{{Short description|English music critic, journalist and author (1948β2003)}} {{other people}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Ian MacDonald | image = File:Ian MacDonald.jpeg | image_size = 240px | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Ian MacCormick | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1948|10|3}} | birth_place = [[London]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2003|8|20|1948|10|3}} | death_place = [[Wotton-under-Edge]], [[Gloucestershire]], England | other_names = | notable_works = {{Plainlist| * ''[[Revolution in the Head]]'' * ''The New Shostakovich'' }} | relatives = [[Bill MacCormick]] (brother) | education = {{Plainlist| * [[Dulwich College]] * [[King's College, Cambridge]] }} | occupation = {{hlist|Music critic|journalist|author}} | years active = 1972β2003 }} '''Ian MacCormick''' (known by the [[pseudonym]] '''Ian MacDonald'''; 3 October 1948 β 20 August 2003) was an English [[music critic]], journalist and author, best known for both ''[[Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties|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]].
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