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If anyone has a detailed account of The Sweet's career in the seventies, look no further than Jan Frewer. Jan had been the bassist and vocalist for sixties band Wainwright's Gentleman, who for a while included lead vocalist Ian Gillan. Gillan was replaced by Brian Connolly, who along with the band's drummer Mick Tucker went on to form The Sweet. As Jan explains, "I have written a daily diary since I was given my first one on Christmas Day 1959. It is now 2022 and I have never missed doing my bedtime diary in all that time - not a single day." Jan kept in contact with his former bandmates and before too long he found himself with a new career as The Sweet's sound engineer. Compiled from Jan's diaries this book is a fly on the wall record of The Sweet during those heady days on the 1970s. A time when The Sweet was never far from everyone's consciousness with regular TV appearances and their hit records constantly on the radio. This unique book is a delight for Sweet fans around the world with treasured information direct from the source - from a man who was there along the journey with Brian, Mick, Steve and Andy as The Sweet became seventies' superstars.

The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in 1956, only seven countries participated. In 2022 forty-one countries took part making it the biggest song competition in the world today. Over 161 million people tuned into watch the 2022 competition. This book isn't about the song contest as a whole, it solely concentrates on the United Kingdom entries from the first artist, Patricia Bredin in 1957, up to the last, Sam Ryder, who represented the United Kingdom in 2022. The statistics of each year, referencing the artists, compositions, venues and final placings, from the highs of winning to the lows of last place and even zero points make interesting reading. This book is a must for any die-hard Eurovision fan to add to their collection.¿

Wild Mood Swings: Disintegrating The Cure Album by Album, Martin Popoff's innovative new project on iconic post-punk pioneers The Cure, celebrates 50 years now since key actor of the band Robert Smith got hold of his first guitar. And the form this celebration takes is a critical analysis of the band's 13 studio albums, utilising a panel of thoughtful and engaging music critics culled from the author's and Marco D'Auria's video channel, The Contrarians. Presented in easy-to-read Q&A format, Martin gathers these wise music swamis into small teams with an aim toward deconstructing and reassembling each album, hopefully generating myriad new ways for the reader and Cure fan to appreciate the band's seminal records, beginning with Three Imaginary Boys in 1979 and ending with 4:13 Dream in 2008. As bonus to the discussion, Popoff has created a detailed timeline linked to each album, echoing the format used for his many celebrated visual biographies issued through Wymer Publishing in recent years. The end result presents a fresh methodology with which to consider a band's catalogue, with the hope being that the mix of hard chronological reference material and freewheeling opinion, review and analysis makes for a lively celebration of-and subsequent richer appreciation for-everything Robert Smith has done for millions of Cure fans around the world, much of it therapeutic, redemptive and in so many inspiring instances, urgently life-saving.

By nearly any metric, Genesis is one of the most successful, influential, and enduring rock bands of all time. Naturally, the band's fifty plus year career has also given rise to all kinds of related literature: some critical, some biographical, and some purely informational. That's all well and good, but what if these didn't have to be separate ideas? What if one book could somehow do it all? Play Me My Song is a blurring of the traditional boundaries of musical literature, approaching the music and history of Genesis from a multitude of angles in order to become something that is at once both truly unique and deeply comprehensive. Whatever kind of book you want to read about Genesis, this one is it. Comprised of extensive essays in varying styles about every single song and album in the entire Genesis catalogue, Play Me My Song blends song histories, musical analysis, critical reviews, autobiographical tales, the fun of countdowns, and a dash of pure silliness to create something extraordinary. It is, in essence, a book that sounds like Genesis. And the biggest book ever published on Genesis. Featuring: * All the songs: Coverage of all 197 songs and 15 studio albums Genesis ever produced, plus more! * In the band's own words: A treasure trove of exhaustively researched quotes from the band members, conveniently aggregated into one place! * Counted down: Presented in worst-to-first order, you never know which song will pop up next!

By the end of 1973, Deep Purple Mk2 was no more. Ian Gillan had been replaced by David Coverdale on vocals whilst Roger Glover had been replaced by Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals. It left the nucleus of Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice to take Deep Purple in a new direction, which eventually came to a halt with the Mk4 line-up in 1976. With Deep Purple In Rock (1970), Fireball (1971), Machine Head (1972) and Who Do We Think We Are (1973) to Mk2's credit, many fans lived in hope that one day, the band would get back together - with the music press occasionally courting the odd rumour that it would happen! Finally, in April 1984, the reunion of Deep Purple Mk2 was announced. Fans had got their wish. Or had they? With the landscape of rock and pop music having changed since the band's success in the seventies, and with each member of Deep Purple Mk2 having nurtured very different careers as individuals by that point, a reunion was never going to be plain sailing! In this this book, Laura Shenton MA LLCM DipRSL examines the merits and challenges of what it was for Deep Purple Mk2 to get back together in the eighties. Included is a critical analysis of Mk2's second round of albums: Perfect Strangers (1984), The House Of Blue Light (1987) and The Battle Rages On... (1993).

Deep Purple In Rock is a landmark in rock music. A watershed moment for the band - a different direction from their first three albums. Exploring the roots of the album, placing it into its proper context to consider how it was produced as well as why it was produced. This book is essential reading for any Deep Purple fan.

From the early days of the band and their iconic performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970, to Love Beach and beyond, this book documents the amazing journey of a band whose legacy not only continues to attract a loyal following, but who are still held in high regard by their peers.

The Damned are forever in the history books as the first UK punk band to get an album out: Damned Damned Damned with "New Rose" and "Neat Neat Neat,", shocking punk anthems that defined the golden era of the new wave. Popoff analyses every damned Damned song across all the albums and every EP and single in minute detail.

In 1974, Alice Cooper shocked the rock world, scooped up his makeup kit and went solo. Get on board and get a sense of how each and every one of Alice's 21 solo albums work, along with an understanding of how absolutely and insanely jam-packed life has been for Alice since.

The story of Angel is of a band out of time. Despite tons of promotion they racked up a million dollars of debt without the record sales to justify the crazy spending. Then it was all over by 1981. Punky Meadows and Frank DiMino stormed back with solo albums. And then, appearing outta nowhere, Angel returned with a new album in 2019.

The Original Alice Cooper Group story in meticulous chronological detail. Corroborating the sequence of events are stories from the band themselves, who explain how they went from politely ignored pariahs in L.A to international Public Enemies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 and why Alice Cooper was the most feared & revered act in all of rock 'n' roll.