Journalist and author. Also run @maxopedia10. Email: mcraggfreelance at gmail dot com. My new book about Kylie is out in September 2026 - pre-order link below
Joined February 2009
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Feb 12
La La La! You can pre-order my new book, all about Kylie, right NOW. It's out in September and will have a lovely iridescent cover. Obviously I will be banging on about it for a long time, but she's finally here! linktr.ee/cantgetyououtofmyh…
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Michael Cragg retweeted
May 26
Really thoughtful conversation with @MichaelCragg @guardianmusic @guardian in the Saturday mag over the weekend.
Read online: theguardian.com/music/2026/m…
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May 13
Bookshop dot org have kindly popped my Kylie book in their preorder 20% offer thing. Just use this code at checkout:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/can-…
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Michael Cragg retweeted
Feb 12
✨ Over eighty million records sold.
✨ One of the world's most successful pop stars.
✨ A modern day icon.
But who is the real Kylie?
Can't Get You Out of My Head: In Search of Kylie by Michael Cragg is out on 24 September. linktr.ee/cantgetyououtofmyh…
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Michael Cragg retweeted
2 Dec 2025
Love this interview with @russelltovey by @MichaelCragg. Russell was there in the earlier days, when I worked at Stonewall (2007) -always supporting the cause, long before he was in the best TV show ever made @LookingHBO
Sad - Rocky died days after this.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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Michael Cragg retweeted
24 Jul 2025
🚆New Pop Pantheon🚆
We're kicking off a new 4 part series on the Impossible Princess herself, Kylie Minogue!
Kylieologist @MichaelCragg and I are talking Australia, Neighbors, "The Locomotion," the SAW era, SexKylie, "Confide in Me," & so much more...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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1 Jul 2025
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
23 May 2024
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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a little about the world in which the album was made in, a lovely conversation with the lovelier @MichaelCragg, round the corner from where i live because at the time i had to hobble about after taking an arrow in the knee* 🎯
*it was jiu jitsu
theguardian.com/music/2025/m…
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13 Dec 2024
Brandy as well please and thank you
13 Dec 2024
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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10 Dec 2024
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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21 Nov 2024
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
21 Nov 2024
👋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!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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16 Nov 2024
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? amzn.eu/d/2xD6Cd1
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16 Nov 2024
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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2 Nov 2024
Thank you @joshwiddicombe and Darren for giving Reach For The Stars a shoutout on The Wheel! Feels very surreal
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2 Nov 2024
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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30 Oct 2024
I can’t express enough how much I need this Pet Shop Boys fine bone china tea set
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