My Book

My book will be available in hardcover, softcover and digital versions at Amazon and other online retail outlets in mid to late September 2025.

It's the night before Thanksgiving, 2023 (November 22), and I'm thinking it's time to start my book. 

As I begin, I pull up the first three Legs Diamond albums on CD that have been released through Rock Candy Records. The CDs, Legs Diamond, A Diamond Is a Hard Rock, and Fire Power, arrived earlier in the day. The name Legs Diamond took me back to the fall of 1981. I had to stop and make a note. It only motivated me to get this undertaking going.

This book originally started out as my music-related memories and experiences. The seed was planted after phoning my friend to tell him that we, as in my E and I, just met 

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. No fancy meet-and-greet-just a gamble and a hunch.

He could tell from just talking with me how hyped up I was about the experience. He strongly suggested that I write a book about the things I have experienced over time.

That encounter planted the seed for this book even though it's been over a decade.

The majority of the book will be music experiences that shaped me-events as a photographer, writer, or fan. Many are sports related. Those recollections come from being a photographer in the working media to working in public relations departments for several teams.

I hope that as you read through the book, you will reminisce about a special time in your life.

The main reason for writing this book is to document and leave all these special thoughts behind for E, my daughter; for once I am gone, so, too, are the special moments.

A nine-year old boy’s front row encounter with Elvis Presley in 1974 that resulted in a sweat stained scarf being pulled from the King’s neck planted a passionate music seed that has never stopped growing. That boy was Brian McLean and the encounter was only the beginning of the roads he would follow.

Ten years later at 19, McLean discovered a passion for photography. It was a path he would follow as he attended TCU majoring in Communications and photographing for the university daily newspaper and student magazine.

While at TCU, McLean served as a Staff Photographer, Chief Photographer and Photo Editor for the daily. His work earned him a First Place Award, Division II, Newspaper News Photo 1989 and an Honorable Mention with the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association, Division II 1989.

McLean also contributed to the student produced Image Magazine where he earned Third Place for Best Feature Photo with the Southwestern Journalism Congress in 1988.

After graduating with a Bachelors in Speech Communications from TCU in 1989, McLean worked as a freelance photographer in various capacities in the media covering News, Sports and Entertainment.

He served as team photographer for the Fort Worth Fire Hockey team in their inaugural 1992 / 93 season. The next two years, he photographed the Dallas Stars where his work appeared on hockey trading cards for Topps Finest, Fleer Power Play, Premier Hockey as well as Pro Hockey Magazine, various game programs and a poster in Swedish Hockey Magazine.

Life took McLean in a different direction.  He put his cameras down to concentrate on being a single father raising his daughter from 17-months old.

McLean has now picked up his cameras and is photographing right where he left off covering News, Sports and Entertainment. He shoots for several media outlets including Zuma Press Agency and Wire Service where his work has been featured numerous times in the Zuma Press Best Pictures of the Day.

1989 BS Communications TCU

2015 M. Ed Texas Wesleyan University