DEREK & DAVE PHILPOTT – DEAR MR. POP STAR UNBOUND – SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The premise for this book is brilliant – a father somewhere in Britain keeps complaining to his son about the linguistic and [...]
Dave Thompson – The Ultimate Guide To Vinyl And More: All You Need To Know About Collecting Essential Music, From Cylinders And CDs To LPs And Tapes Backbeat Books September 1, 2018 Dave Thompson knows his music and collecting. He has [...]
Martin Popoff – Led Zeppelin: All The Albums, All The Songs – Expanded Edition Voyageur Press August 21, 2018 As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s debut, music journalist and author extraordinaire Martin Popoff [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – PINK FLOYD: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – JUNE 26, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his latest release in what is truly an expansive collection of music driven literature, Martin Popoff has turned his attention [...]
Françoise Hardy (translated into English by Jon E. Graham)- The Despair Of Monkeys And Other Trifles: A Memoir Feral House Publishers May 15, 2018 Françoise Hardy has had quite a career. She rose to fame as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s. She [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – THE CLASH: ALL THE ALBUMS, ALL THE SONGS VOYAGEUR PRESS – MAY 15, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY This is the kind of book about musicians that I love. Martin Popoff has written a book about the studio output of The [...]
SUSAN SHUMSKY – MAHARISHI & ME: SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT WITH THE BEATLES’ GURU SKYHORSE PUBLISHING With the success of the recent reissue of The Beatles (The White Album), this book will be of interest to Beatle fans who are interested [...]
Quintron – Europa My Mirror Goner Records – December 1, 2017 ISBN – 978-0-999-5400-0-8 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Europa My Mirror is a memoir about a tour through Europe, written by Quintron, a [...]
AARON TANNER – FACE TO FACE: 25 YEARS OF SOCAL PUNK, THE VISUAL HISTORY Melodic Virtue – December 1, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0692786819 Book Review By Gerrod Harris Face To Face and their SoCal Punk Legacy. Having released their [...]
Wanda Jackson and Scott B. Bomar – Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame BMG Publishing – November 14, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-947-0260-18 Book Review By Aaron Badgley This book [...]
Anthony DeCurtis – Lou Reed: A Life Little, Brown and Company October 5, 2017 Book Review By Ryan Sagadore Where does one begin when writing a biography about Lou Reed? How can you compact a life so grand into 500 pages? The legendary [...]
AXL ROSENBERG AND CHRIS KROVATIN – HELLRAISERS: A COMPLETE VISUAL HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL MAYHEM Race Point Publishing – October 2, 2017 ISBN-10: 1631064304 ISBN-13: 978-1631064302 Book Review By Gerrod Harris Coffee table books have [...]
DANIEL K. LONGMAN – THE BEATLES’ LANDMARKS IN LIVERPOOL Amberley Publishing – October 1, 2017 ISBN-10: 1445652331 ISBN-13: 978-1445652337 Book Review By Aaron Badgley A very short but very interesting and crucial book to add to [...]
David McPherson – The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History Dundurn Press – September 23, 2017 ISBN – 10:1459734947 ISBN – 13:9781459734944 Book Review By Gabrielle Bossy The Horseshoe Tavern has been a dive bar [...]
Kenneth Womack – Maximum Volume: The Life Of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1962-1966 Chicago Review Press – September 1, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-613-7318-95 Book Review By Aaron Badgley George Martin is one of the [...]
Anthony Hogan – The Beat Makers: The Unsung Heroes Of The Mersey Sound Amberley Publishing – August 15, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-4456-7208-43 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Anthony Hogan is a very talented writer. He has written several [...]
JERRY HAMMACK – THE BEATLES RECORDING REFERENCE MANUAL: VOLUME 1: MY BONNIE THROUGH BEATLES FOR SALE (1961-1964) Createspace Independent Publishing Platform – July 7, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-548-0239-35 Book Review By Aaron Badgley [...]
Julie Chadwick – The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, And The Making Of An American Icon Dundurn Books – May 27, 2017 ISBN – 978-1459737235 Book Review By Elizabeth Andrews In his book Chronicles, Vol. One, Bob Dylan [...]
Billy Vera – Harlem To Hollywood Backbeat Books – April 25, 2017 ISBN – 978-1617136627 Book Review By Aaron Badgley I learned a great deal reading Harlem to Hollywood by Billy Vera. The first thing I learned is that Billy Vera [...]
Peter Cooper – Johnny’s Cash And Charley’s Pride: Lasting Legends And Untold Adventures In Country Music Spring House Press – April 25, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-940-61170-9 Book Review By Elizabeth Andrews In his foreword to Johnny’s Cash [...]
RICH WEIDMAN – GUNS N’ ROSES FAQ: ALL THAT’S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BAD BOYS OF SUNSET STRIP Backbeat Books – April 21, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-4950-2588-4 Book Review By Aaron Badgley The FAQ is an excellent book series. [...]
John Oates – Change Of Seasons: A Memoir (With Chris Epting) St. Martin’s Press – April 4, 2017 ISBN – 978-1250082657 Book Review By Gerry Young In John Oates’ riveting new memoir Change of Seasons, one half of the [...]
Andrew Golub – The Music Between Us – Concert Ads of Duran Duran Durandy Productions – March 3, 2017 ISBN – 978-0-692-63482-0 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Duran Duran represent the ‘80s. I think there can be no argument [...]
Mick Thomas – These Are The Days: Stories And Songs Melbourne Books – March 3, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-925-55605-6 Book Review By Aaron Badgley To be very honest, this book is long overdue. One of Mick Thomas’s many talents is his [...]
