Mott the Hoople Icon Ian Hunter Career Captured in Rare Ross Halfin Photo Book
First off, let's get one thing straight: Ian Hunter is a rock 'n' roll legend. His work in making Mott the Hoople the band...
Carl Miller’s Backstage Chronicles: Rock Stars Behaving Badly
Carl Miller has put together Backstage Chronicles, a series of stories and anecdotes about life on the road in the music business, spanning several...
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...
