# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:40.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-macdonald"
name: "Ian MacDonald"
slug: "ian-macdonald"
description: "Ian MacCormick 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."
tagline: "English classical and rock music critic (1948–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Ian_MacDonald.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-10-03"
deathDate: "2003-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.38978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump