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The Liverbirds: Our Life in Britain's First Female Rock 'n' Roll Band Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders Faber & Faber, 320pp, 20 [pounds sterling] Memory sheds emotion down the years, [...]

Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners Nige Tassell Nine Eight Books, 352pp, 22 [pounds sterling] One starts this book at the back, like a Japanese novel, because the author has tracked [...]

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story Bono Hutchinson Heinemann, 576 pp, 25 [pounds sterling] A book about U2 is quite a hard sell. It's the same four men who met at [...]

Good Pop, Bad Pop Jarvis Cocker Jonathan Cape, 368pp, 20[pounds sterling] Who are those people who throw nothing away? What primal insecurities are they acting out? Rock music has many [...]

The Creative Act: A Way of Being Rick Rubin Canongate, 432pp, 25 [pounds sterling] One complaint, down the years, from some of the bands Rick Rubin has produced is that [...]

Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the'80s Dylan Jones White Rabbit, 320pp, 20 [pounds sterling] One unexpected fixture of the pandemic was the Friday night reruns [...]

Mick Jagger Philip Norman HarperCollins, 640pp, £20 At some point in the late 1980s, Keith Richards got a series of strange phone calls from Mick Jagger. 'Mick would ring and [...]

Prince Matt Thorne Faber & Faber, 562pp, £18.99 Whether or not you've paid any attention to Prince in the past 20 years, you'll probably know three things about him. First, [...]

How Soon Is Now? The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music (1975-2005) Richard King Faber & Faber, 624pp, £ 17.99 Does the word 'indie' mean anything now? Richard King [...]

Girl in a Band Kim Gordon Faber & Faber, 273 pp. 14.99 £ Every time Kim Gordon did an interview with Sonic Youth, she was asked the same question: 'What's […]

A Prince Among the Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures Prince Rupert Loewenstein Bloomsbury,272pp, [pounds sterling]20 One of the best things about being in the Rolling [...]

The Rise and Fall of EMI Records Brian Southall O Omnibus Press, 344PM £9.95 Making my way to an EMI Christmas lunch in 2007, I was told: 'There won't be [...]