Michael Cragg
@MichaelCragg
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Journalist and author. Also run @maxopedia10. Email: mcraggfreelance at gmail dot com. My book, Reach For The Stars, just won the Penderyn Music Book Prize!
London, England
Joined February 2009
I’m writing another book, and this one’s about Kylie! It’s coming out via Faber in 2026 and it’s all very exciting. I’ve been obsessed with her since Charlene, and via all her glorious pop iterations. But who is the ‘real’ Kylie? And does it matter? I’m going to try and find out
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I finished this today. Feels so weird. But I’m really proud of it. It’s out next year at some point. For now I’m going to bathe in some Kylie wine.
I’m writing another book, and this one’s about Kylie! It’s coming out via Faber in 2026 and it’s all very exciting. I’ve been obsessed with her since Charlene, and via all her glorious pop iterations. But who is the ‘real’ Kylie? And does it matter? I’m going to try and find out
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RT @shura: a little about the world in which the album was made in, a lovely conversation with the lovelier @MichaelCragg, round the corner….
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Brandy as well please and thank you.
Jennifer Love Hewitt will officially return in the new ‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER’ movie. In theaters on July 18, 2025.
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Ahem, this is genuine Kylie book research; there’s a ‘special interest’ film in which one young man, wanting to woo another, reads out the spoken word lyrics to Shocked. Does anyone know its name? Here’s a still #kylieminogue #shocked
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Had so much fun chatting about the I Drink Wine hitmaker Adele, focusing on 25 and 30 and a bit about what she might do next.
👋New Pop Pantheon👋. For Pt. 2 of our series on the Potty-Mouthed Grande Dame of Pop, Adele, @MichaelCragg is here to talk "Hello", flip phones, Greg Kurstin, giving the middle finger at the Brits, pop sabbaticals, that IG video of "To Be Loved" & more!.
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I am also in it! I think. I haven’t seen it. But I was definitely interviewed for it, just before Andi Peters.
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Boybands Forever starts on BBC Two tonight at 9:15pm. If you’re watching it and think ‘blimey I wish there was an award-winning book with a chapter or two on boybands out there somewhere’ then may I recommend this one?
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Thank you @joshwiddicombe and Darren for giving Reach For The Stars a shoutout on The Wheel! Feels very surreal
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Home after a month in Japan and Australia and it’s now painfully clear where all my money went… on obsolete music formats!
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I can’t express enough how much I need this Pet Shop Boys fine bone china tea set
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This is such sad news. Pete was so passionate about Reach For The Stars, and it was such a pleasure to work with everyone at Nine Eight. A real loss to the world of music books.
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I’m currently in Melbourne, living the life of Kylie, so please do fill out my little survey about the I Was Gonna Cancel hitmaker. The results could well appear in my book!.
HELLO! I've created a silly little survey about Kylie that I am going to maybe use in my book. It's only 9 questions (you had to pay for 10), and I would love it if you'd perhaps fill it in maybe? #KylieMinogue #survey #padam
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‘Rita Ora says she partied with a bag of vineger around her foot to try and get the venom of a sea urchin out after she stepped on one in Jamaica’.
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