# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-larkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:18.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-larkin"
name: "Colin Larkin"
slug: "colin-larkin"
description: "Colin Larkin is a British music writer. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Along with the ten-volume encyclopedia, Larkin also wrote the book All Time Top 1000 Albums, and edited the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz, the Guinness Who's Who of Blues, and the Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock. He has more than 650,000 copies in print."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Larkin_3_JR.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.642804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://colinlarkin.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Ларкин, Колин"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Larkin (escriptor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Larkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Larkin (escritor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Larkin"
    title: "Colin Larkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Larkin"
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    title: "კოლინ ლარკინი (მწერალი)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump