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including Austral ian World Cupwinning rugby captain Michael Lynagh and Pantera bassist Rex Brown, agreed. He has now written 11 books – mainly co- writing autobiographies – with several more in the pipeline. Mark, who caddied for sports legends including Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent at the Dunhill Links Championship in St Andrews, said: “Rex Brown was a member of the heavy metal band Pantera, who were huge in the 90s. Their whole legacy is clouded by the on- stage shooting shootin of their guitar player Dimebag Dimeb Darrell some years after tthey had disbanded. “It wasw one of the biggest mom moments in music and chan changed music security forev forever – the fact that som someone could be shot dead while on stage. “I thought, ‘ Here is a ban band who are huge and non none of the members have do done an autobiography.’ So I contacted bass player Re Rex and he said, ‘ OK. Le Let’s do it.’ “After that, I didn’t w want to be typecast as so someone who could only wr write heavy metal books. “I was always real ly int interested in sport so I con contacted Michael Lynagh, who won the Rugby World Cup with Australia in 1991 and had a major stroke in 2012 and almost died. “I said,s ‘Hey, I’m a huge fan oof yours. I watched you pplaying when I was a kid aat school. There’s a fantas fantastic book here. Do you want to do it?’ “At first he said, ‘I’m not very rock and roll. I’m worried my story wouldn’t be very exciting.’ “But I told him the opposite was true – that he had a really exciting story – and so we did it.” Mark doesn’t have a hitlist of stars whose autobiographies he wants to write but says many of the people he has worked with have been his heroes. His most recent book, Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest, is the