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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Neil CorcoranPatti Smith|title= Do You Mr Jones?Year of the Monkey|rating=4|genre=Biography|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, ''Anything is possible: Bob Dylan with after all, it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the Poets coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and Professorsageing are faced head on, as it the shifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Walton_Ask|title=Ask For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating= 43.5|genre= EntertainmentAutobiography|summary= Bob DylanMalcolm Walton's receipt book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the Nobel Prize for Literature late 1950s and early 1960s, but he has chosen to write it in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the literary world book a different approach to take stock the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle and look at begins with his work and reputation first discovery of the Salvation Army band with a fresh eyehis grandfather. This volume catapults him into a love of essays was first published in 2002music, initially taking piano lessons, and is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Selflater delving into his true love – the trumpet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784706809</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Kyncl and Maany PeyvanMoore Bientot|title= Stream PunksA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleEntertainment|summary=Robert Kyncl is The news of the Chief Business Officer death of YouTube. He has written an exceptionally interesting book about YouTube and his role within it. You don't have to be Sir Roger Moore in your late 40s, or from Eastern Europe, to identify with his childhood recollections of May 2017 came as a time when there great shock: he was nothing one of those people you knew would go on TV, and no other options for entertainmentforever. It's amazing how far we've come – I still remember There was just one small glimmer of light in the hype around channel 5 appearing, and now I have more channels than I could ever watch on Sky and have both Netflix and Amazon Prime, and yet often choose sadness - the free (ignoring news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the adverts bit) alternative finished manuscript of YouTube instead. Kyncl actually worked at Netflix and his book, ''regularÀ bientôt…'' television too, before coming over to YouTube, so he knows the industry wellhis publishers. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545926</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Maslanka Sherlock|title=Sherlock: The Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Who doesn't love a good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that buzz we get from the Aha! 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 ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book'', based on the popular TV series.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Corcoran_Dylan|title=Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Bob Dylan's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people in the literary world to take stock and look at his work and reputation with a fresh eye. This volume of essays was first published in 2002, and is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Kyncl_Stream|title=Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross-trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it until I read this book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_Swing|title=We Can Swing Together: The Story of Lindisfarne

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song

|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=My memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seens seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781556008</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Watkins|title= Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Who on earth would be a manager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, a ruthless streak, an opportunity to embrace the chances and accept that it's not going to last, evidently. Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the fine line, and for part of the time, quite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, part of the time was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753541971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Mourby|title=Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=The debate is never-ending about how much of the author's life we can find in their pages, and what bearing every circumstance of their lot had on their output. Things perhaps are heightened when they do a Hemingway or a Greene and travel the world, but so often they have had a cause to stay in one place and write. Does that creative spirit survive in the walls and air of the room they worked in, and do those four walls, or the view, feature in the books? And does any of this really matter in admiring the great works of literature? Well, this volume itself kind of relies on that as being the case, but either way it's a real pleasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781855</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Neal ManningWatkins_Lets|title=Star WarsLet's Make Lots of Money: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|summary= From struggling post-punk musician to Who on earth would be a manager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop star? Anybody with an ego, from Silicon Valley innovator a ruthless streak, an opportunity to university professorembrace the chances and accept that it's not going to last, Thomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique careerevidently. Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the fine line and, often reinventing himself on for part of the waytime, quite successfully. This memoir is based on As his extensive notes and journalsmemoirs suggest, part of the time was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781952</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Kendrick_Scrappy|title=Scrappy Little Nobody

|genre=AutobiographyEntertainment|summary=Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the examples of people who clearly didn't deserve to be a celebrity, 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's become a way of staking a claim to importance for female comics. They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, but enough have to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the bookstore. 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a strict comic – not all of her 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>1471156834</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan RopekRopek_Tragic|title= Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic's Chris Wood |rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Chris Wood was a member of Traffic, the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, he also played keyboards, bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the songs and one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from the name of one of his compositions for their fifth album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910773190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon Morris|title=The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Theo Guignard|title=LabyrinthDan Ropek

|genre=Children's Non-FictionEntertainment|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I Chris Wood was a youngster, it's remarkable that all member of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. NoTraffic, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-group formed by Steve Winwood in books1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, but they were availablehe also played keyboards, if you'd gone beyond 'join bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the dots'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – songs and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' one or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencetwo instrumentals. But This biography takes its title from the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format name of one of the maze bookhis compositions for their fifth album. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony FletcherDolby_Sound|title= In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles charts, and Otis Redding was on the verge Speed of shooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, 'the wicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0190252944</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSound|author=Chris Paling|title=Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial LibraryThomas Dolby

|summary=I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in a selfFrom struggling post-important way that I would start at the beginning of the books for young children and not stop til the endpunk musician to pop star, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them''from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, I said, pointing at the large-print shelves. ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of Thomas Dolby has had a need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and remarkable if not for any other reason. Since then I've needed librariesunique career, and going to them has been second nature. On 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; and of course it saved a fortune often reinventing himself on books for study and fun. I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of 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 knowledge of them to actually working in oneway. Which This memoir is where Chris Paling comes inbased on his extensive notes and journals. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bruce SpringsteenMorris_Legion|title= Born to Run|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= No you haven't stumbled into a music review from the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots Legion of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a funny business''. By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157792</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewComic Book History|author=John Van der Kiste|title=A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskJon Morris

|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=You might As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have thought to admit one thing, namely that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly therevillains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's been no shortage worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of books about what went wrongall things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, what happened to the money and even what went right. But what Igot mardier as a result (although recently he've never seen before is s become a nanotech genius – but let'miscellany' s not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see- all those little facts which are so hard to track down and this through plant pot because he is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: hethe embodiment of cold? And that's a man with an eye for detail and just some of the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. Itbetter-known enemies of ''Batman''s a wonderful collection , one of the small factsbetter goodies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julian Palacios|title= Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= There were few sadder casualties of You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the sixties music scene than Syd (real name Roger) Barrettbad goodies can be. The original songwriting genius and front man of Pink FloydAnd if you can't, he burnt out all too soon. A few months in this is the spotlight were followed all too soon by a pathetic postscript of a stuttering solo career, and over three decades as a largely housebound recluseperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason FryFletcher_Midnight|title=Star Wars Rogue OneIn the Midnight Hour: Mission FilesThe Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher

|genre=Confident Readers Entertainment|summary=Out of several books I've seen to tie-Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in to the seventh official cinema movie mid-sixties there were three major names in the ''Star Wars'' universe, this – and the resulting review – is the greatest source soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of spoilers. What you get is a surprisingly mature look at cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the background and events to ''Rogue One'' for such a juvenile book, with some fine stills photographssingles charts, and a volume that introduces all Otis Redding was on the main characters and gears you up to understand and enjoy a lot verge of shooting into the events of stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The other was the film. So if you donman from Alabama, 't want to know those in advance, look away now. But certainly consider this as a purchase for reading once youthe wicked Pickett've watched it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasfilmPaling_Reading|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Art of Colouring|rating=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is around. While I've not had the chance of seeing it yet, I'm dead chuffed it takes place at a central point of the main arc of films' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star WarsReading Allowed: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]. Yes, it does do what the 'new trilogy' did, True Stories and have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after it, but what is not to like? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''one'' collector's card is Curious Incidents from a little steep. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewProvincial Library|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Pop Pickers and Music Vendors: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Roger ScottChris Paling

|summary=You know those questions you get I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in celebrity interviews a self- important way that I would start at the beginning of the books for young children and not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them'which extinct being would you most like to see brought back to life?' , I said, pointing at the large-print shelves. Well''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of a need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for any other reason. Since then I'd like ve needed libraries, and going to see Jimmy Savile brought back, so that he could get his comeuppancethem has been second nature. It's not just On the dole I made sure I could use the damage he did free Internet they provided to children 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, and young peopleof course, dreadful as that was - it's the shadow he cast over the entertainment industrysaved a fortune on books for study and fun. We know that he wasnI't m not alone in what he didsharing the warmth of both their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, but somehow there's was still a whole era huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of entertainment which has been tarred by the same brushthem to actually working in one. John Van der Kiste has turned the spotlight away from Savile and on to five of the great DJs of the music industryWhich is where Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Tim McDonaghSpringsteen_Born|title=Star Wars: Galactic Atlas|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At the time of writing this review, people are eagerly tapping away at phones, laptops and screens everywhere Born to find out what they can about ''Rogue One'', the ''Star Wars'' film that's the first live action cinema effort to be off to one edge of the canon, and is five whole weeks away. Perhaps, however, there is a chance that all the many books being released that mention the ability to tie in to ''Rogue One'' will let slip something important. The volume at hand ''includes a map from…'' said movie, and all the maps here initially seem to feature a huge amount of information. Could valuable secrets be herein?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279982</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRun|author=Marc Myers|title= Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and PopBruce Springsteen|rating=4.5

|summary= This book developed No, you haven't stumbled into a music review from a series of columns the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the same title which appeared in last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a funny business'Wall Street Journal'. By his own admission, it isn' over t the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a period of five yearsproject like this, in which forty-five songs (what an appropriate number) from the years 1952 writer has made one promise, to 1991 were put under show the microscope and examined through interviews with the artistsreader his mind.'' ''In these pages, songwriters and others who created themI've tried to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>080212559X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen MossJVDK_Beatles|title=Planet Earth IIA Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste

|genre= Animals and WildlifeEntertainment|summary=You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly, there''Planet Earth II'' is the official companion s been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series of the same namemoney and even what went right. Our understanding of the world around us has reached But what I've never seen before is a new level, courtesy of ground'miscellany' -breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access all those little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a diverse range of environments man with an eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands and Cities and showcases some s a wonderful collection of the amazing creatures that live in each onesmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>