Bit of a Blur

The history of the Britpop era - Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Tony Blair.

A record of a period in the late Twenties when the author lived among the tramps, dregs and plongeurs of London and Paris.

Containing 74 hit songs by such popular artists as The Beatles, Blur, Alanis Morissette, Pulp, The Rolling Stones and Suede, this book provides easy guitar chord diagrams at the start of each song and the full lyrics with the chord changes.

Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Will has a lot to teach him about life.

Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest. He hears for the first time of a secret beach hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning, Richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists.

The first, the definitive, the official story of Suede, from their school days and the initial band formation.

This official biography, written with the full co-operation of the band members and management, charts Suede's 10-year career, and covers the band's formation, the drug and sexual excesses, the love triangle between Brett Anderson, Damon Albarn and Justine Frischman, and the departure of Bernard Butler.

Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of itself. RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is a celebration of what happened next: post-punk bands like PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Fall and The Human League who dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution. The post-punk groups were fervent modernists. Experimenting with ..

Through his musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths , John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. This book, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife, Shiela, presents an intimate portrait of his life, marriage and his family.

With meanings, its hidden depths, and its obvious shallowness, this book gives an explanation and a justification of tracks that might be included on a two-disc discography of seminal moments in pop music history. It decodes the sexily philosophical things crawling through the moist, scratchy undergrowth of rock and roll.