Kill Your Friends
John Niven
A scabrous, darkly humorous satire of the music industry, by a former A&R man.
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Lovesick Blues
Paul Hemphill
'The absorbing biography of "the hillbilly Shakespeare"'
Daily Express
Revolution in the Head
Ian Macdonald
The story behind every single Beatles song ever recorded.
Shakey
Jimmy McDonough
'One of the most penetrative studies of a rock icon ever
written'
Sunday Times
Across the Great Divide
Barney Hoskyns
'The best band in the history of the universe'
George Harrison
And a recommendation for the New Year
Essential Spring Reads
Rock On by Julia Blackburn
Dan Kennedy
Handel: The Man & His Music by Jonathan Keates
Jonathan Keates
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934 - 1971 by Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh
Can't be Satisfied by Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon
Van Morrison by Johnny Rogan
Johnny Rogan
And a recommendation from the past...
The Bridge
Julia Blackburn
