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Neil McCormick (born 31 March 1961) is a British music journalist, author and broadcaster. He has been the chief music critic for The Daily Telegraph since 1996, and presented a music interview show for Vintage TV in the UK, Neil McCormick's Needle Time. McCormick is a close associate of rock band U2.
As a journalist, McCormick worked for Irish music magazine Hot Press from 1978. He returned to journalism in the early nineties after an unsuccessful music career, becoming a contributing editor at British GQ (1991–96). He has been chief rock critic for The Daily Telegraph since 1996, and a regular guest on BBC TV and radio shows as an expert on the music business.
McCormick's memoir of an unsuccessful career in the music business, I Was Bono’s Doppelgänger (retitled Killing Bono in the US) was published in 2004. Elton John called it "the best book I have ever read about trying to make it in the music business." It has been translated into several languages. A 2011 film of Killing Bono starred Ben Barnes as McCormick and Martin McCann as Bono.
McCormick was the ghostwriter of U2 by U2, the band's bestselling 2006 autobiography.
McCormick's first novel, #Zero, was published in 2019. To accompany the book, he released an album of tracks from the book's fictional musicians.
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