I had a terrific reaction from Twitter to my article about Bob Stanley’s history of popular music, “Yeah Yeah Yeah” back in May 2014… Like a nervous boy asking out the prettiest girl in school to the disco, I enquired as to… Read More ›
Yeah Yeah Yeah
A New Way To Read The Best Music Book of 2013: “Yeah Yeah Yeah” by Bob Stanley
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the best music book of 2013 was Bob Stanley’s “Yeah Yeah Yeah” – A History of Modern Pop Music. (I haven’t yet read the main contender to that title, Mark Lewisohn’s Beatles epic, but then part two… Read More ›
The Beatles: “If Brian Hadn’t Come Along They Were About To Break Up”
Two major books on the story of pop music are released this month. They are like buses. Not because you wait for ages and then two come along at once. No, these two resemble buses in size alone. The books… Read More ›
Every record tells a story 