Despite this bright start to his senior career, he was unable to gain any real first team action at Molineux and managed just three (goalless) appearances over three seasons for the club. In 2008, Larkin launched a new website whose original inspiration had come from the All Time Top 1000 Albums, initially called 1000Greatest.com. Colin Larkin (born 27 April 1982 in Dundalk, County Louth) is an Irish professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Sunderland RCA. [1] Larkin was released on 10 May 2012 and joined Lincoln City at the start of the 2012–13 season. The Becontree estate in Dagenham began as a conglomeration of 27,000 "homes for heroes", and had no recognisable town centre. Along with the ten-volume encyclopedia, Larkin also wrote the book All Time Top 1000 Albums,[3] and edited the Guinness Who's Who Of Jazz,[4] the Guinness Who's Who Of Blues,[5] and the Virgin Encyclopedia Of Heavy Rock[6] The compiler of the most extensive database of popular music in Europe and the US, a writer and book designer by trade, Larkin has over 650,000 copies in print to date.

[7] As an authority on popular music, Larkin has often been interviewed on radio, and had a regular slot on BBC GLR for two years in the 1990s. [21], This article is about the writer. Aided by a team of contributors, a fast-growing library of music magazines, books and the music itself, an eventual 3000 vinyl singles, 3500 vinyl albums, 4500 music biographies and 38,000 CDs,[16] Larkin began compiling the Encyclopedia. Colin has linked up once again with David Rush and Anth Smith, this time in a coaching role for Sunderland College coaching the men's category 3 team. He progressed through their youth ranks to make his first team debut on 24 August 1999 in a League Cup exit to Wycombe Wanderers, where he scored within eight minutes of coming off the bench.

Colin Larkin (born 27 April 1982 in Dundalk, County Louth) is an Irish professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Sunderland RCA.. To gain playing time, he was loaned out to the then League 2 side Kidderminster Harriers during the 2001-2002 season where Larkin made a big impact starting 33 games and scoring 7 goals. ), Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock, The, Virgin Books (UK), 1999. [6], On 8 August 2014, Harrogate Town announced that Larkin had re-signed for the club.

In 2018 he was commissioned by BMG to write the detailed essay and sleeve notes for the Rolling Stones' curated project Confessin' the Blues. He is CEO and editor-in-chief of Musopedia Ltd. From 2013 to 2017 he was the main contributor of music biographies and album reviews for Quantone Music [Quantone], an in depth music data company.

In 1992 the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music went into print. He published additional music biographies including those on Graham Bond, R.E.M., Eric Clapton, The Byrds and Frank Zappa,[15] and a further book on Bob Dylan, Oh No, Not Another Bob Dylan Book. Notable music books at this time included Timeless Flight: The Definitive Story of The Byrds[13] and Bob Dylan's Unreleased Recordings.[14]. Larkin began his professional career with Wolverhampton Wanderers.