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and indeed it does, here Mike Hurst who was once a Springfield and then a very successful record producer, tells the story of popular music from the days of the minstrels through to pop. A good read and quite enlightening too.

Next up was a book where Barney Hoskyns tells the life story of the band’s epic rise and fall, through the words of those who were there. Nearly 200 interviewees in their own words, undertaken by him or drawn from the amazing Rock’s Backpages archives of the music press.

Just read an excellent new book, this work of deep research and dedication, is the story of the man who arguably kick started the British pop and rock scene and remains one of the most important and influential figures in British musical history. It is the first full-length biography of the skiffle king and godfather of British…

Now that we have our first three double CDs available (click on the CD series tab), we are racing on with a new book version compiled from the last eight years of interviews, to be published in the New Year. Exciting but scary at the same time. In fact we will have not one, but two new books…

Seeing as we are around the 50th anniversary of the single, lets hear it for the man who taught John to play the harmonica part

Just to mark the passing of Colin Brown, a man who we have worked with for probably over twenty years now. I first met him when he was at Decca Records and we were licencing music for our See For Miles Records label. He was an absolute font of knowledge and a huge fan of…

If you are wondering where some of the older clips have gone – sorry !! We updated our operating system and one of the by-products was that all our clips changed shape. So we are having to re-export them all over again. Still its nice to be busy

More weather surviving fun this week as we splashed our way through some delightful interviews. Two ex-journalists in the form of Patrick Humphries and Chris Welch relived their experiences at the non-stop 52 days a week life in those ’60s and ’70s top selling weekly music papers. A relentless publishing machine creating and reporting all…