Barbara Charone is an American publicist for musicians residing in the United Kingdom.

She worked as a journalist and music critic in the early 1970s for the Chicago Sun-Times, NME, and Rolling Stone while still a university student.

She worked as a staff writer for Sounds magazine after migrating to England in 1974, eventually rising to deputy editor. She wrote feature stories and reviews for magazines like Crawdaddy!, Creem, and Circus in the 1970s.

 

In 1981, Charone began her public relations career at WEA. She co-founded MBC PR in 2000 after becoming the company’s press director.

Madonna, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Robert Plant, Pearl Jam, Rod Stewart, and Christina Aguilera are among the clientele she has worked with at MBC.

Keith Richards’ authorized biography was published in 1979, and Charone is the author of it.

Barbara Charone grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where she was born and raised. Before attending Northwestern University to study English, she published a pop music column for her high school newspaper.

She visited England with her parents towards the end of her first year of university in 1971, which sparked a lifetime love affair with the United Kingdom. “What a great country,” she remembers thinking after seeing the Who play on BBC television’s Top of the Pops.

Charone was a music writer for the Chicago Sun-Times during her second year at Northwestern.

She then spent a year as a student exchange student in England, where she studied creative writing with a Time Out magazine film critic and began writing for the New Musical Express.

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