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BBC Radio 2's PopMaster quiz has been thrilling listeners to the Ken Bruce Show for 20 years. Now you can enjoy the pop quiz in your own time at home, in the pub, or at a party with your family and friends. This new giant quiz-book is packed with over 3800 questions to keep you entertained, amused, and informed for hours. Written by PopMaster’s expert quiz-setters Phil Swern and Neil Myners, this book is a must for pop trivia fans, music lovers and quiz addicts alike! This book is also available to buy from all good book stores.

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WE HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF THE SPECIAL SLIPCASE EDITION LEFT This 12-inch square book features original album art produced by Bill Smith Studio and the stories behind them. It's available as a beautiful hardback edition or exclusively from the publishers and author as a fantastic signed and numbered limited collectors edition of 200 copies each in a slipcase. (Use the drop-down above 'add to cart'.) Across five decades Bill Smith Studio worked with more than 200 bands and artists, creating hundreds of album covers, singles bags, and CD covers. You may not know it, but if you bought records over the past forty years, you’ve probably bought a number of theirs. Bill Smith Studio worked with some of the world’s best photographers, illustrators and painters on covers for, among others, The Jam, The Cure, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, King Crimson, Eric Clapton, Toyah, Johnny Thunders, Genesis, Queen and Mike Oldfield. In Cover Stories you’ll find the stories of 70 plus albums including contributions from the bands, the artists, photographers and painters involved. Cover Stories offers a unique insight into the creation of these iconic sleeves. The book includes 40 album covers at original 12-inch size.

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OUT NOW The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Television, Patti Smith, Wayne County and the others making a name for themselves at CBGBs in New York didn’t start out intending to spearhead a scene – but they did. And in the UK the Sex Pistols certainly didn’t set out to up-end the mid-Seventies music scene. Yet, the excitement they engendered was the catalyst for bands like The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Buzzcocks, Sham 69 and many more. This is their story 448 pages • Paperback • Illustrated throughout

Pocket Guide to Punk

OUT NOW! There were bandwagon pretenders and occasional contenders, but the glam rockers who truly define the genre are Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Slade, Sweet, Gary Glitter, Wizzard, Suzi Quatro and Roxy Music. Many acts feature in the book but these nine are key. Glam rock was male-orientated, psychedelic-infused pop that was sexually charged and otherworldly – and complemented by outrageous fashions. Join us on this amazing trip through the world of glam! 448 pages • Paperback • Illustrated throughout

Pocket Guide to Glam Rock

AVAILABLE NOW A brand new edition of the Bob Dylan Dead Straight Guides. Six years since the previous edition and a lot has happened including in the new album Rough and Rowdy Ways. In 432 pages it includes a full biography, albums, songs, bootlegs, gigs and playlists as well as movies books, lists and more. Printed in full colour throughout. Accessible for the newcomer, detailed enough for the diehard fan.

Dead Straight Guides Bob Dylan

PAPERBACK A book of more than 800 great music locations throughout the UK and Ireland and the stories behind them. Featuring landmark album cover locations, gravestones, plaques, recording locations, statues, and sites of famous and infamous gigs. Rock Atlas features hundreds of stories which deliver fresh new insights into the lives and times of our most famous rock and pop stars. Where were they born? Why does a particular movement inspire them? Rock Atlas has all the answers. This fact-filled look at rock and pop, from an entirely different perspective, throws up many new revelations about our favourite musicians. When you’ve finished reading the stories, you can visit the places.

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