Peter McCabe was an English author, who wrote in a variety of genres. He was an editor at Rolling Stone and Oui magazine, and is former editor-in-chief of Country Music magazine and a nationally syndicated country music columnist. His first book was the 1972 Apple to the core: the unmaking of the Beatles, a book about the Beatles' breakup. It was also translated into Japanese as ??????????? / B?toruzu no fushigina tabi and Dutch as "Apple" tot op het klokhuis ; wat er met de Beatles gebeurde He also published in 1984 a work with interviews of John Lennon, John Lennon : for the record, and in 1975 Honkytonk heroes : a photo album of country music His most widely known work, with 600 copies in US libraries, is his 1987 Bad news at Black Rock : the sell-out of CBS News He has also published several novels: Cities of Lies in 1993; Wasteland in 1994 

November 7th, 1945 in (Age 79)