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Category Archives: Now Reading
Silhouettes and Shadows | Adam Steiner
Now Reading: Silhouettes and Shadows | The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Witten by Adam Steiner and published in 2023 by Backbeat Books, Silhouettes and Shadows | The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters … Continue reading
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You Must Get Them All | Steve Pringle
Now Reading: Comprehensively immortalised in print by author Steve Pringle, You Must Get Them All is the first book to cover the entire catalogue of Britain’s post-punk colossus The Fall. The Fall produced a huge volume of high-quality work between … Continue reading
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The Unstable Boys | Nick Kent
Now Reading: legendary rock journalist Nick Kent pens his first novel The Unstable Boys, a darkly comic caper about the strange afterlife of a briefly famous 60s rock group of the same name. Author of two of the best rock … Continue reading
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Beeswing | Richard Thompson
Now Reading: Beeswing | Losing My Way and Finding My Voice: 1967-1975, written by the great Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg, published in 2021. This long awaited memoir by master British guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson is compelling and regularly … Continue reading
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The Big Midweek | Life Inside The Fall
Written by former bassist of seminal post-punk group The Fall, Steve Hanley (& his partner Olivia Piekarski) and published in 2014 to widespread critical acclaim for its intelligent, engaging, conversational style, revealing insights, and dry, stoical humour, The Big Midweek … Continue reading
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Phil Collins’ Mystery Session
Opportunity knocked for a nineteen year old pre-Genesis Phil Collins in May 1970. At this point in his stop-start, still embryonic music career, he was getting ready to have a bath and watch Top of the Pops on telly with … Continue reading
The Doors: Madison Square Garden – 24 January 1969
New York, January 23, 1969 The day before Madison Square Garden. It would be our first really big concert in New York. Sal Bonafette, our manager, had described our career as a big wave about … Continue reading
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
Author: Ian Macdonald (1994) A book to keep you company for the rest of your life. Even if you don’t always agree with the late great Ian MacDonald’s (The People’s Music) assessments of the Beatles’ songs (I thought paperbak classic When … Continue reading
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All the Songs
Author: Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, Preface by Patti Smith (2013) Every album and every song ever released by the Beatles—from “Please Please Me” (U.S. 1963) to “The Long and Winding Road” (U.S. 1970)—is dissected, discussed, and analyzed by two music historians in this … Continue reading
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Inherent Vice
Author: Thomas Pynchon (2009) Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with … Continue reading
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