Barbara Charone

Barbara Charone is a UK-based American public relations officer for musical artists. Formerly a journalist and music critic, she wrote regularly for the Chicago Sun-Times, the NME and Rolling Stone while still a university student in the early 1970s. After relocating to England in 1974, she worked as a staff writer for Sounds magazine, where she subsequently rose to the position of deputy editor. During the 1970s, she also contributed feature articles and reviews to publications such as Crawdaddy!, Creem and Circus.

Charone commenced her career in public relations at WEA in 1981. She left in 2000, having become the company's press director, to co-found the agency MBC PR. Her clients at MBC have included Madonna, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Robert Plant, Pearl Jam, Rod Stewart and Christina Aguilera. Charone is also the author of an authorized biography of Keith Richards, published in 1979.

Barbara Charone was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote a pop music column for her high school newspaper before going on to study English at Northwestern University. In 1971, at the end of her first year of university, she visited England with her parents, an occasion that initiated a lifelong attachment to the UK. She recalls seeing the Who perform on the BBC television show Top of the Pops and thinking, "What a great country."

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