Music Books: Any recommended reading?

[Kinkhurt]

Gothic Rock is probably better than the Black book, you can get them both
here

http://www.fetchbook.co.uk/search_Mick_ ... uthor.html

you want to go for Mick Mercys Goth Rock book - its out of print but you might be able to get a copy on ebay (stay away from the hex files though its the 'comedy' edition) - also the Heartland Fan mags were good efforts for the time - you can sometimes get them cheap on ebay.

[bhoywonder]

For pop culture, I would recommend the Faber Book of Pop, edited by Hanif Kureshi and Jon Savage. It's just a collection of piles of articles going back over the last 50 years or so, some on pop starts, some on fashion, some just on culture. Fantastic coffee table book.

In a similar vein, Nick Kent's collection the Dark Stuff contains fantastic articles from Kent's career as a top music journalist.

[NancyL21st]

Gothic Rock is probably better than the Black book, you can get them both
here

http://www.fetchbook.co.uk/search_Mick_ ... uthor.html

Many thanks,mate!

[Deebank]

Currently reading The return Of The Last Gang In Town by Marcus Grey. An excellent Clash biog. They were a fucking shower of smelly hippies before they re-wrote their history, a disclosure on a par with Lennon killing Stu Sutcliffe to some I spose