YES – Every Album, Every Song in the 80’s
The eighties was the decade in which the wheels came off the wagon for Yes. After a glorious decade in the seventies, they’d approached...
An Extraordinary Life – John Wetton
Those coming to this hefty 252-page book devoted to the memory of John Wetton, looking exacting details on his life, and more so minutiae...
Decades: Uriah Heep in the 70s
As a fan of Uriah Heep since Look At Yourself in 1971, I inevitably wondered if a book charting the first decade of the...
Alice Cooper In The 1980s
(Chris Sutton - Sonicbund Publications)
After a previous decade in which Alice Cooper (band) achieved fame and notoriety in equal measures plus a timeless anthemic...
BON JOVI 1984-94, A Photographic History by Ross Halfin
Bon Jovi is the latest book of pictures by photographer to the rock gods, Ross Halfin. It runs to 400 pages and this unique...
Metal Guru – The Life And Music Of Marc Bolan by Paul Roland
Author Paul Roland has written three previous books on Marc Bolan, each taking a different point of view, presumably offering new insights as added...
Curved Air – Every Album, Every Track
Curved Air began life in 1970 when the band Sisyphus joined up with a vocalist who’d been playing the role of Crissy and singing...
The Train Kept A-Rollin by Spencer Vignes — Book Review
Freight railways were the only means of transportation for the bluesmen of yesteryear. The musicians jumped into the back car not just because they...
KISS – Portraits Edition (Rufus Publications)
This book is published in 2023, the year Kiss celebrate their fiftieth anniversary as a viable entity and also the year when after the...
Steve Hackett – Every album, every track
For Steve Hackett’s prodigious output of solo releases since 1975’s Voyage Of The Acolyte, twenty-seven and counting, excluding ‘live’ albums and collaborations - we...