February 2010 Issue Christopher Bray Penny Lane You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles By Peter Doggett LR
July 2012 Issue Charles Shaar Murray Sympathy for the Devils The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years By Christopher Sandford LR
December 2012 Issue Pete Clark The Rest is Noise Who I Am By Pete Townshend Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream By Neil Young How Music Works By David Byrne LR
August 2013 Issue Andrew Lycett Honky Tonk Accountant A Prince Among Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures By Rupert Loewenstein LR
December 2013 Issue Charles Shaar Murray Before They Were Famous The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1 – Tune In By Mark Lewisohn LR
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