Ian MacDonald
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| Born | Ian MacCormick 3 October 1948 London, England |
| Died | 20 August 2003 (aged 54) Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Years active | 1972−2003 |
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| Relatives | Bill MacCormick (brother) |
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both 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.