Billy Bragg: A People’s History (Spenwood Books)
Musicians aren’t necessarily good writers or particularly clear minded enough to capture social history under a bigger lens than that of their own history,...
Iain Matthews: A People’s History by Richard Houghton
Spenwood Books
Mention Iain Matthews’ name to most music fans and, if the answer isn’t "who?", then it’s likely to be "oh, isn’t he the...
Derek Shulman – Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey
From Stage Lights to Executive Heights
Derek Shulman has indeed been on an improbable journey, from being one of six children in a Glascow tenement...
A Playground Of Broken Hearts – Andrew Wild
A Playground Of Broken Hearts, authored by Andrew Wild and published by Kingmaker Publications, serves as the follow-up to A Mirror Of Dreams, set...
Remembering Bernie Marsden (Rufus: Rock n Roll Publishing)
It could all have been so very different. In the mid-seventies, just after his stint in PAL (Paice Ashton & Lord) Bernie Marsden was...
The Clash – A Photographic Monograph
Chris Salewicz opens this book by declaring that The Clash were "the garage band who grew to stadium size," and in doing so, they...
Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love: A People’s History
Led Zeppelin, a name attributed to Keith Moon—who reportedly remarked that Jimmy Page's new band would crash like a "Lead Zeppelin"—never attained the level...
Dave Barbarossa novel ‘Mute’ – A story about rock’n’roll, and the lies we tell...
It’s 1999 and Daniel Earl is 25 and now famous. He’s the keyboard maestro in a band which’s become successful, with his bandmates Dave...
Melody Maker: Seven years in the 1970’s
It’s December 1963 and a 15 year old Yorkshire boy is asked by his mother, "The Beatles are in Bradford soon, do you want...
Fleetwood Mac Everywhere by Mike Evans
A coffee table book with the usual plethora of familiar-ish Rumours-related photographs but more obscure prints too, giving visual context to the less well-publicised...
