Talk:Mick Rock

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Biography edits
The biography text was nearly verbatim from Mick Rock's own website. Not only is this a potential copyright violation, it made the article sound too much like a PR piece. I didn't want to undo a lot of the content, so instead I did a quick reorganization. But the rest of it needs work, especially with citing reviews of his exhibitions. Have at it. Halda (talk) 21:38, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

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Year of birth
Surely, Mick Rock's year of birth is 1945, not 1948. (Based on personal knowledge). It's a minor point but worth getting right. Norvo (talk) 21:52, 26 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Reliable sources give his age at death as 72, suggesting birth in 1948/49, and his name as Michael David Rock. However, no-one with that name seems to appear in official civil birth records, and it will be interesting to see if more information emerges in due course.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:46, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Birth name and year
Well, this is interesting....   From this interview: "....  my mother, she had an unhappy marriage and she had an affair with an American airman in the late forties, early fifties. I popped up, you know, whoopee! Here I am! The fuck are you going to do with me? Finally he had to go back to America. My first birth certificate says Michael Edward — Edward was my mother’s first husband — Chester Smith......". And a check through official birth records shows a Michael E C Smith, birth registered in Kensington, London, in the fourth quarter of 1944. Other sources indicate that his birthday was 21 November. Not reliably sourced, yet, of course. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:29, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

...and... another piece of the jigsaw seems to fit. The birth record gives his mother's maiden name as Gibbs. Marriage records show David A Rock marrying Gladys J "Smith or Gibbs" in Kensington in the second quarter of 1947. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

PS: It's odd that, while no-one else has yet caught on to the fact that he was born in 1944, not 1948, the auctioneers Bonhams have. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:35, 21 November 2021 (UTC)