For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Pop Music

April 2024 Issue

Jon Savage

Year the Music Died

Pulp’s This is Hardcore

By Jane Savidge

Alwyn Turner

Tripping Down Tin Pan Alley

Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop

By Bob Stanley

April 2021 Issue

David Keenan

The Truth it is a-Changin’

The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Volume 1, 1941–1966 – A Restless, Hungry Feeling

By Clinton Heylin

April 2020 Issue

Dominic Green

Here, There & Everywhere

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

November 1989 Issue

Mark Cooper

Star-Angled Banter

Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop

By Charles Shaar Murray

November 1989 Issue

Charles Miller

The Big Trip

The Real Frank Zappa Book

By Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso

February 1989 Issue

Charles Miller

Not Verbally Comfortable

Prince: A Pop Life

By Dave Hill

March 2003 Issue

Tristan Quinn

You Gotta Move

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

October 2003 Issue

Christopher Bray

In Praise of His Bobness

Dylan's Vision of Sin

December 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

She Had the Measure of His Manhood

Kate Remembered

By A Scott Berg

Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra

By George Jacobs, William Stadiem

October 2012 Issue

Charles Shaar Murray

Purple Reign

Prince

By Matt Thorne