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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen MossPatti Smith|title=Planet Earth IIYear of the Monkey|rating=54|genre= Animals and WildlifeBiography|summary=On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, 'Planet Earth II'Anything is possible: after all, it' is s the year of the official companion to monkey''. As Smith wanders the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head on, as it the same nameshifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Walton_Ask|title=Ask For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=3. Our understanding 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the world around us late 1950s and early 1960s, but he has reached chosen to write it in the form of a new levelnovel, courtesy of ground-breaking technology claiming in his prologue that gives us unparalleled access this would give the book a different approach to a diverse range of environments and a the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin'sneak peek'takes on Malcolm' s mantle and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Desertsa love of music, Grasslandsinitially taking piano lessons, Islands and Cities and showcases some of later delving into his true love – the amazing creatures that live in each onetrumpet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SeabrookMoore Bientot|title= The Song Machine: How to Make a HitA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore

|summary= The popular music business has always been about – well, business – and some might say that music comes news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a poor secondgreat shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on forever. Ever since There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the advent news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the 78 r.p.m. disc, record companies have competed with each other and sought new ways finished manuscript of marketing their goods. The songwriterhis book, or if you like the person or partnership at the controls of ‘the song machine’''À bientôt…'', has long been to his publishers. Just a few months later a vital link in the chaincopy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away. In today’s climate of increasingly free music, how much does this still hold true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959045X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenMaslanka Sherlock|title=Only Fools and HorsesSherlock: The Peckham ArchivesPuzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe

|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in the world of one of the countryWho doesn's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yest love a good puzzle, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up especially those really fiendish ones that get the BBC schedules than brain working extra hard? There really is really pukka, but very few people failed nothing to succumb compare to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through buzz we get from the open bar hatchAha! moment, when everything falls into place and the solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to the test with ''thatThe Sherlock Puzzle Book'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be based on the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthpopular TV series. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABCorcoran_Dylan|title= Minecraft Exploded BuildsDo You Mr Jones?: Medieval FortressBob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary=If you have ever marvelled at the creative architecture designed by the talented members Bob Dylan's award of the Minecraft community and been inspired to give it a go yourself, then ''Exploded BuildsNobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' might be the perfect book for youproved highly controversial. It is aimed at those of us who have the ambition but lack inevitably led some people in the necessary expertise literary world to design such stunning buildingstake stock and look at his work and reputation with a fresh eye. ''Medieval Fortress'' will guide you every step This volume of the way essays was first published in 2002, and is now reissued with detailed diagrams and customisation options, allowing you be king of you own castle in no time at alla new foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528417X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruno VincentKyncl_Stream|title=Danger Mouse: DeclassifiedStream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=There is nothing else for it but I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to declare my love for ''Danger Mouse'' (and no, a particular song I don't mean the musician/producer, or the remake, which I've not sampled)already have in my collection. What I didn't know at use it to find out how to do things, with the time instruction videos they seem to call 'breaking have for pretty much anything. At the fourth wallgym, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the chutzpah cross-trainer and energy of watch some behind the storytelling, and primarily scenes interviews with the simple and simply brilliant character design made it one cast of my go-favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to sources for entertainmentwatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, and about the only thing that would get the exclusively on YouTube. Having a new smart TV switched to ITVadds an extra, apart from ''Blockbusters''. The dates on the front of this volume prove we're referring easy way to the genius original series, but these contents seem watch without having to me fully newplug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. Taking it that they are, has the idea stood the test of timeSo yes, I like YouTube and will people be on board for what is surely I use YouTube. But I didn't know a much-belated tribute gift whole lot about the site it until I read this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545225</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon CallowJVDK_Swing|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3We Can Swing Together: One-Man BandThe Story of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up It all began with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting group of one genre after anotheryoungsters in North Shields. In this book Rod Clements, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present daySimon 'Si' Cowe, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''After The BallDowntown Faction'', soon changing the name to ''Brethren'' when they were joined by Charles Ksinger-songwriter Alan Hull. Harris, is regarded as As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the first modern popular song name again - and ''Lindisfarne'' (well, it with the name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was modern born. More than forty years on and with numerous changes of personnel the band is still very much around. They might not be touring or producing much in 1891) – the first way of millionsnew material, but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the original members on his fourth stint with the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John LydonJVDK_ELO|title= RottenElectric Light Orchestra: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsSong by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=34.5

|summary= Picking up this book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make My memories of John Lydon, the man who became notorious pop music in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rotten' of early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the Sex Pistolspiano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Was he the iconoclast who if some of the tabloids were to be believed was about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come to destroy, or merely to use the showbusiness system Pop music rarely stands still and end up becoming part of what he had set out to fight, or both – or what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859653412</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nev Schulman|title= In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary= Nev (itwasn's pronounced Neev) is a man who knows about t long before the darker side of online dating. Known for his documentary ''Catfish'' – a film which showed an online flirtation going sourbasic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, Nev then The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began making a tv show of the same name, travelling America to offer advice to those in online relationshipsexperiment, and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona). Now the go-to expert in online relationships for millenials, a generation who have never known a world without Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and with other online places groups following where interactions can formthey led. HereAmongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, he takes his investigation Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the page – exploring relationships in group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the era rest of social media, delving deeply into the complexities of dating in a digital age, and continuing the dialogue his show has begun about how we interact with each other online – as well as sharing insights from group didn't really share his own storyenthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettWatkins_Lets|title= James DeanLet's Make Lots of Money: Rebel My Lifeas the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary= James Dean was Who on earth would be a manager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, a sense ruthless streak, an opportunity to embrace the 1950s what Sid Vicious was chances and accept that it's not going to last, evidently. Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the 1970s – fine line and, for part of the ultimate 'live fasttime, die young' characterquite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, although as the star of three classic movies part of the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in histime was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sue PerkinsKendrick_Scrappy|title= Spectacles|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= A dash of drama, a sprinkling of gossip and a smattering of laugh-out-loud funny make for the best sort of memoir.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918551</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrappy Little Nobody|author=Stephanie Milton|title=Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of SecretsAnna Kendrick

|summary=Ready to take your Minecraft game to the next level? Then you just might need Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the advice examples of people who clearly didn't deserve to be a professionalcelebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and by those who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it'The Survivors' are an elite group s become a way of gaming experts who are proficient in survival skillsstaking a claim to importance for female comics. They are breaking their cover 've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, but enough have to share their most precious secrets with us; valuable insider knowledge on provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the best ways to survive and prosper in the most inhospitable online environmentsbookstore. Minecraft proudly present their latest official book: 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and we'The Survivorsve also got Anna Kendrick. Now she' Book s not a strict comic – not all of Secretsher films are designed to make you laugh, and some of them that are just don't – but this has to be in the same bracket.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanRopek_Tragic|title=David BowieTragic Magic: Starman: A Colouring BookThe Life of Traffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsEntertainment|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as Chris Wood was a shock to me: we were much member of an age and Traffic, the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he'd always seemed so ''vital''left The Spencer Davis Group. But A gifted musician best known for his final albumflute and saxophone work, ''Blackstar''he also played keyboards, seemed to foretell his death bass guitar and was contributed backing vocals as well as having a commercial success, coming in at number one hand in writing several of the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, songs and one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what name of a more relaxing memory one of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>his compositions for their fifth album.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen WittDolby_Sound|title= How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= In the digital age, new technology made recorded music a free-for-all. It was good news for the consumer, but dealt a major blow to the beleaguered music industry. Where people once amassed physical collections, they now had the choice Speed of file-sharing instead. This book describes how everything changed from the mid-1990s onwards. It is however written more with the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover in mind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSound|author=Justin Richards|title=Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible ThingsThomas Dolby

|summary=Is it any wonder that The Doctor's use of From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, Thomas Dolby has had a diary is mentioned merely as a joke? Let alone the fact it would come in whatever time unit (remarkable if any) Time Lords actually use, there's the problem of it not ever being chronologicalunique career, and often reinventing himself on the fact he would never seem to have the time to fill it inway. O tempora, o mores indeed. But if the human observer of ''Doctor Who'' would want a full year book, completely filled in This memoir is based on his extensive notes and annotated with everything they would want to know about the Doctor in relation to the human calendar, then they have it at last with this lovely hardback. It's a brick of a book, of course, given the depth of the subject, but well worth the time taken to read itjournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johnny RoganMorris_Legion|title= Ray DaviesThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: A Complicated LifeOddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters of the last 150 years, from Gilbert As much as I like comics – and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartneyI do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barryadmit one thing, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnershipsnamely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The only solo writer in Penguin but the same league is Ray Daviesworld's worst Mafioso, front man with a hobby of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an account Oscar of the group's tortuous thirtyall things by playing a two-year historybit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, it is also first and foremost, got mardier as the title says, a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the groupembodiment of cold? And that's guitarist and only other constant member just some of the linebetter-upknown enemies of ''Batman'', other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book one of the man as we are ever likely better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to getthe bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesFletcher_Midnight|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongIn the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher

|summary=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, Tamla Motown groups and equally like to take away. Here before me is a brandsingers apart, spanking new collection of journalism by in the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so mid-sixties there's no photo of were three major names in the authorsoul music field who mattered above all. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like James Brown was something of a letch, what can I say cult name who rarely bothered about this – or troubled the beauty's third large dose of essayssingles charts, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not Otis Redding was on the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what verge of shooting into the target isstratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. So much like that test you do – you know The other was the oneman from Alabama, that formulates decisions about 'the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge numberwicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David WillsPaling_Reading|title=The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, [[CelebrityReading Allowed: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde|the modern celebrity]] – they don't make them like they used to. Anodyne, uniform in (lack of) thought and body shape, and far, far too prominent in the lives of too many for too little. If they're ever expected to multi-task it will entail them being much acclaimed for doing one day job to a mediocre standard, as well as reading out someone's voice-over for a BBC3/Channel 4/Channel 5 clip show – oh, and if someone deems them really talented they get to mime to someone else's record, in a lip dub smash or whatever the heck they're calling it. Followed by panto. It is a shameful reflection on us, and on the real celebrities we used to have, such as Frank Sinatra. By the time he was starting in film he was well-known for a character True Stories and singing talent that was making him a star already, even if, as this book proves, he had more or less the looks of Curious Incidents from a young Lee Evans. By the time he was finished he'd acted straight, comic, romantic, criminal, sung his heart out, danced – even learnt the drums for one role. He had Golden Globes, an Oscar – and he directed one film as well as produced several others. In an age when the world is up in arms at the passing of anyone remotely famous, what tribute can we give to a great such as he was?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655772</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewProvincial Library|author=Tim Parks|title=Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of BooksChris Paling|rating=34.5

|summary=BooksI once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, eh? – who here doesn't just love them? (And if you donbut it certainly didn't, please exercise greater mouse control as you click awayput me off returning.) Some I once declared in a self-important way that I would start at the beginning of us love books about the books for young children and not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and that includes a lot of us here then do it all over again with them'', I said, pointing at the Bookbaglarge-print shelves. And who better to turn to regarding books than [[:Category:Tim Parks|Mr Tim Parks]], who writes them, writes about them, educates about them, translates them''I hope not'', teaches was the translation thereof, blogs professionally about them… He tells us he has response – but little me was only aware of a split personality in that different worldly territories know him need for large font for different thingsmy fellow whippersnappers, whether that be essays, travel writing, seriously serio-comic fiction, or just and not for being 'that bloke who never exactly set the world on fire but does do a definitely reliable turn every time any other reason. Since then I've tried him'needed libraries, and going to them has been second nature. ThisOn the dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, being the pick and of four yearscourse, it saved a fortune on books for study and fun. I' web posts for m not alone in sharing the ''New York Review warmth of Books'', is his clearest statement in book form about both their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and yes, it knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is yet again a pretty reliable turnwhere Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma MarriottSpringsteen_Born|title=The World of PoldarkBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen

|summary=Back in No, you haven't stumbled into a music review from the seventies I watched ''Poldark'' on television: it was enjoyable1970s, but I'll confess that if Im talking about The Boss'd missed an episode it wouldn't have worried me too muchs autobiography. When the gentleman rebel reappeared in 2015 I had no intention Lots of watchingbooks have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, but a friend saw worked with him and by others who have only read the first episode and said how good it wascuttings. I caught up on iPlayerOver the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, almost for politeness - and was hooked. It wasn't just the story - exactly – but perhaps I'm more in tune with telling it now that I was forty years ago - from his own perspective. As he puts it was the quality of the production which kept me watching week after week. When Emma Marriott: 's book landed on my desk the temptation to 'just have Writing about yourself is a quick lookfunny business'' proved far too much for me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence By his own admission, or how itisn's all about t the capture and killing of one animal by another. Shewhole truth, discretion holds him back but ''s long had in a pointproject like this, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingthe writer has made one promise, and lions sleeping off to show the heat without munching on a passing wildebeestreader his mind.'' 's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. In these pages, I doubt she will be tuning in 've tried to the series do this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it.''s not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Richards and Dan GreenJVDK_Beatles|title=Doctor WhoA Beatles Miscellany: The Dangerous Book of MonstersEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=Well, thankfully I You might have never thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had to sit through been said and certainly, there''Jaws 19''. Of all the perks invented for the heady days s been no shortage of October 2015 by the middle film in the ''Back books about what went wrong, what happened to the Future'' trilogy, that was one of the least invitingmoney and even what went right. But what I've never actually seen that middle film, either – really liked the original and still do, had the middle one pass me by totally, then saw the third so often as a cinema steward (shows my age!) I was word perfect on the script. The threesome before is one of a most wholesome kind – the restoration of family values through grabbing hold of your own destiny by the horns, the application of science 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard to save the day over brawns track down and shooting people up, the habitually dung-filled comeuppance of the baddies throughout time – itthis is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's no wonder that a man with an eye for detail and the trilogy is much lovedability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. And as itIt's a wonderful collection of the most pictorial and detailed guide to their creation on paper imaginable, this volume will follow it into many heartssmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299703</amazonuk>