# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-lebrecht
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:28.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-lebrecht"
name: "Norman Lebrecht"
slug: "norman-lebrecht"
description: "Norman Lebrecht is a British music journalist best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc. His writings have been accused of sensationalism and criticized for their inaccuracies and tendency to gossip, while others have praised them as entertaining. Unlike other writers on music, Lebrecht rarely reviews concerts or recordings, preferring to report on the people and organizations who engage in classical music. He was described by Gilbert Kaplan as \"surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music\"."
tagline: "English author, broadcaster, music critic, cultural commentator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NormanLebrecht.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.866888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/NLebrecht"
    handle:    "NLebrecht"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/norman.lebrecht.5"
    handle:    "norman.lebrecht.5"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.normanlebrecht.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نورمان ليبريتشت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Norman Lebrecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lebrecht"
    title: "Norman Lebrecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lebrecht"
    title: "Norman Lebrecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lebrecht"
    title: "Norman Lebrecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%98"
    title: "נורמן לברכט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EB%A8%BC_%EB%9F%AC%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%89%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "노먼 러브렉트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lebrecht"
    title: "Norman Lebrecht"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "諾曼·莱布雷希特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719046"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump