# Mick Middles

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{{Short description|British music journalist}}
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'''Mick Middles''' is a British [music journalist](/source/music_journalist). He has written for many newspapers and magazines and is the author of many books about music, several relating to [Factory Records](/source/Factory_Records), [Tony Wilson](/source/Tony_Wilson), [Joy Division](/source/Joy_Division) and [Ian Curtis](/source/Ian_Curtis), and he is the authorised biographer of [Frank Sidebottom](/source/Frank_Sidebottom).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Sidebottom: Out of His Head - The Authorised biography of Chris Sievey Story by Mick Middles |url=https://www.empire-uk.com/frank.html |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=www.empire-uk.com}}</ref>

== Life and career ==
In the 1970s and 1980s he was the Manchester correspondent for ''[Sounds](/source/Sounds_(magazine))''. He has also written for [''The Face''](/source/The_Face_(magazine)), ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'', ''[Daily Telegraph](/source/Daily_Telegraph)'', ''[Mail on Sunday](/source/Mail_on_Sunday)'' and ''[Daily Express](/source/Daily_Express)''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Articles, interviews and reviews from Mick Middles: Rock's Backpages. |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/mick-middles |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=rocksbackpages.com}}</ref> As well as music biographies, he has written books about comedians [Les Dawson](/source/Les_Dawson)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Middles |first=Mick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m29YPQAACAAJ |title=When You're Smiling: The Illustrated Biography of Les Dawson |date=1999 |publisher=Chameleon Books |isbn=978-0-233-99668-4 |language=en}}</ref> and [Frankie Howerd](/source/Frankie_Howerd).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Middles |first=Mick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugRyzgEACAAJ |title=FRANKIE HOWERD: The Illustrated Biography |date=2025 |publisher=HEADLINE Book Publishing |isbn=978-0-7472-3962-8 |language=en}}</ref> He lives in [Flixton](/source/Flixton%2C_Greater_Manchester) with his wife, Vicky.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Britton |first=Paul |date=2014-10-24 |title=New book gets inside the head of Frank Sidebottom |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-book-gets-inside-head-7988881 |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Manchester Evening News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-11 |title=The 'Madchester' indie band maelstrom – Middles was the man in the middle |website=TheBusinessDesk.com |url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2007932-meet-man-middles |access-date=2024-07-23 |language=en}}</ref>

== Books ==
Middles's work includes:
*''The Fall'' (2003), co-written with Mark E. Smith
* ''Torn Apart'' (2006), co-written with Lindsay Reade
*''Factory: The Story of the Record Label'' (2009)
*''Frank Sidebottom Out of His Head: The Authorised Biography of Chris Sievey'' (2014)

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