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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]]==Entertainment==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Colin Grant|title=I & I: The Natural Mystics|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Just mention the word reggae, and the name that nearly always springs to mind is that of Bob Marley and the Wailers. The music has always been very much a product of the Jamaican culture, nurtured in years of turbulent history. In this book Colin Grant, born in Britain of Jamaican parents, goes back deep into its roots, and in the process examines the childhood lives of the Wailers’ three main personalities, namely Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Neville Livingston, better known as Bunny Wailer, to provide an account of the group – but much more than that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Robinson|title=The Rum Diary !- A Screenplay|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Kemp has lied his way onto a failing newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rica, as the only candidate for the job, and in a semi-comatose state induced by too many miniatures from the hotel minibar, stumbles into a conspiracy of epic proportions, via classic bar room brawls and nightclub mayhem. On the way he (almost) writes horoscopes and bowling championship stories, meets the fantastically erotic girlfriend of the evil businessman, and teams up with a protoINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-Nazi out of his mind on a cocktail of hootch and LSD, and a photographer side kick. There is no question that this is Hunter S Thompson territory, especially when all the above is combined with a witty, slow-talking hero who in spite of his alcoholic haze sees clearly through the exploitation of a third world country by its massive first world near neighbour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555697</amazonuk>}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick O'SheaPatti Smith|title=Amy Winehouse: A Losing GameYear of the Monkey

|summary=At On the risk coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of stating the obviousmonkey - one packed with mischief, this sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is a sad book. Writing this review some five months possible: after her deathall, now it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the immediate smoke has clearedcoast of Santa Cruz in solitude, it is apparent from this book (as well as other general sources) that she was reflects on a gifted performer, with a jazz voice which could have qualified year that brings huge shifts in her for a lengthy career long after scores of aspiring Xlife -Factor contestants had given up singing loss and opted for less glamorousageing are faced head on, more steady careers. After all, her idols had been not only near-contemporaries like Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott, but also those of an earlier generation such as it the classic 1960s girl groups, as well as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, with whom she was thrilled to record a duet four months before she diedshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859654826</amazonuk>1526614758

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian LynneWalton_Ask|title=A Dancer in Wartime: One Girl's Journey from the Blitz to Sadler's WellsAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=43.5

|summary=At eight years old, Gill Pyrke was driving her parents crazy, as she couldnMalcolm Walton't sit still and was nicknamed ''wriggle-bottom''. Her mum took her s book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to see the family GP Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950s and told him in great detail how annoying she was. The doctor asked if early 1960s, but he could talk has chosen to Gill alone and put on some music. She started to dance around and climbed on to his desk. He prescribed ballet classes. She started off write it in a Bromley dance class where one of her classmates was later to be the famous ballerina Beryl Grey. This story is lovely and funny, and has lots of elements form of a dream storynovel, yet is told claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a very down different approach to earth style which makes it very convincingthe music memoir. The same could be said His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle and begins with his first discovery of the whole Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of Gillian Lynne's memoir of her early yearsmusic, initially taking piano lessons, starting out on a brilliant career in danceand later delving into his true love – the trumpet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185996</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jermaine JacksonMoore Bientot|title=You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother's Eyes|rating=4Bientot.5|genre=Biography|summary=It is inevitable that the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson in the two years since his sudden passing will be merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet for those which comprise and are based on first-hand knowledge of his life and death, there will surely be few if any to rival this account by his brother Jermaine and ghostwriter Steve Dennis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Kermode|title=The Good, the Bad and the MultiplexRoger Moore|rating=4.5

|summary=I've been there, and so, despite all number The news of free press screenings, has Mark Kermode. When a major cinema chain I probably shouldn't name, but will - Odeon - moved from their smelly inner-city fleapits to a major new development far from any convenient bus routes, they started their multiplex life with the best intentions, having an arthouse film every week, on death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a Wednesday, and an offer great shock: he was one of free entry courtesy those people you knew would go on forever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the local newspaper. This was brilliant for me sadness - or would have been, if theythe news that a matter of days before his death he'd managed to keep up with my expectations. I lost track of delivered the number finished manuscript of weeks they had the wrong film on the projectorhis book, and particularly how many times they started the right one without glimpsing that it was being shown on the wrong-sized screen''À bientôt…'', through the wrong lenses, not matching with the gate, or even upside downto his publishers. The projectionist of course had eleven other screens to worry about, pressing Just a few months later a button for each copy landed on my desk and never needing (or wanting?) I didn't even bother to watch a movie. Kermode is correct in that if we must still think of cinemas in the parlance of theatres, and film-showings look as performances, the projectionist can ruin a show just as a bad actor can a stage playthough I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946038</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert RossMaslanka Sherlock|title=Marty FeldmanSherlock: The Biography of a Comedy LegendPuzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Some years agoWho 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, I was given a Penguin edition of Wildewhen 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 's 'The Picture of Dorian GraySherlock Puzzle Book'', with what looked like an uniquely fearsome face based on the front cover. A year or two later, I saw a photograph of Marty Feldman and was convinced he must have inspired it if not actually been the modelpopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857683780</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick HastedCorcoran_Dylan|title=Do You Really Got MeMr Jones?: The Story of The KinksBob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran

|summary=Bob Dylan'People s award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in America talk about 2016 'The Beatles, for having created new poetic expressions within the Stones, The Who.great American song tradition' For me it's 'The Beatles, the Stones, The Kinksproved highly controversial.' Those words, quoted It inevitably led some people in the book, are those of Pete Townshend of The Who himselfliterary world to take stock and look at his work and reputation with a fresh eye. He is certainly not alone in his verdict that, at the height This volume of the swinging sixties essays was first published in Britain2002, the Muswell Hill quartet were No 3 in the premier music league. Patchy chart success since their heyday has done nothing to diminish their reputation, or that of leader Ray Davies as one of the most gifted British songwriters of the last fifty yearsand is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849386609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus GrayKyncl_Stream|title=Route 19 Revisited: The Clash Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and London CallingMaany Peyvan

|summary=When I began reading these 500 pages or so, 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 initial feeling was – collection. I use it to find out how could anybody write a book THIS long on one album? Soonto do things, it became clear that I had been slightly misled by with the titleinstruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. Although 'London CallingAt the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, long feted as prop it up on the cross-trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the best LP (now a CD, naturally) ever made by one cast of punkmy favourite shows. And sometimes I's most seminal groups, ll treat it as if it is the focal pointNetflix, this volume also charts in detail the history and development of the Clash to that pointwatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, their subsequent career (and decline)easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and their legacyI use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it until I read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524201</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara SinatraJVDK_Swing|title=Lady Blue EyesWe Can Swing Together: My Life With Frank SinatraThe Story of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=Thanks It all began with a group of youngsters in North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', soon changing the name to the memoir 'Mommie Dearest' Brethren'' when they were joined by her adopted daughter Christina, the enduring image of movie star Joan Crawford is one of an alcoholic, sadistic monstersinger-songwriter Alan Hull. Spoto clearly believes that this portrait is As a US-based group had a gross exaggeration, similar name they opted to change the name again - and is at pains to rectify ''Lindisfarne'' (with the name taken from an island off the balanceNorthumberland coast) was born. Having previously written biographies More than forty years on and with numerous changes of Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe among others, he clearly knows personnel the subject of cinema inside out, and has written a band is still very thorough chronicle of Crawford's careermuch around. The impression They might not be touring or producing much in the reader is left withway of new material, howeverbut they still perform, is that in looking at her family life and art he has perhaps striven too far to present her as a person more sinned against than sinningwith Rod Clements, a legendary talent, beauty and above all a grossly maligned adoptive motherone of the original members on his fourth stint with the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931274</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith RichardsJVDK_ELO|title=LifeElectric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=Nearly forty years agoMy memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, Keith Richards was considered sometimes the next most likely rockpiano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn'n'roll star t long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to succumb to drugsexperiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The man has defied all the odds in staying aliveMove and their lead guitarist and songwriter, and continuing Roy Wood. Wood wanted to do develop the group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he has been doing for almost half a century. In wanted by cost limitations and because the process, he has earned the sometimes grudging, sometimes unqualified respect rest of those who would once never given him the time of daygroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297854399</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher IsherwoodWatkins_Lets|title=Diaries Volume 1Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|genre=AutobiographyEntertainment|summary=In January 1939 Christopher Isherwood left England for America Who on earth would be a manager in the company larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of poet WH Auden. This hefty volume covers his diaries from that date until August 1960pop? Anybody with an ego, when he celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday. A 49-page introduction setting out the background leads us into the entries, which are divided into three sections – The Emigrationa ruthless streak, an opportunity to embrace the end chances and accept that it's not going to last, evidently. Tom Watkins is just one of 1944; The Post-war Years, several to 1956; and The Late Fifties. After these we have a chronology walked the fine line and glossary, or to put it more accurately a section for part of brief biographies the time, quite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, part of the main characters mentioned, these two sections comprising over a hundred pages altogethertime was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555824</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric SiblinKendrick_Scrappy|title=The Cello Suites: In Search of a Baroque MasterpieceScrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick

|summary=At the end of the 20th century Eric Siblin was Celebrity autobiographies. It's a rock and pop critic for genre long tainted by the 'Montreal Gazette'. This, he says, was, a job which filled his head 'with vast amounts examples of music, much of which I people who clearly didn't want deserve to be there'. Aware that there were vast horizons crying out a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and by those who did so little but managed to be explored, he went churn out one night to hear five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it's become a recital from the Boston cellist Lawrence Lesser, featuring the solo cello suites way of Bach. The contrast between hearing one solitary performer playing staking a simple wooden cello claim to importance for an audience a fraction of the size could female comics. They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, but enough have hardly been more different to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the stadium style gigs he had been covering regularly until thenbookstore. About three years earlier, he 2016 we had reviewed Amy Schumer winning a show by U2GoodReads award, noting that for the 52Lena Dunham's been at it,000 fans who attended and we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she'wanted s not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to see more than four Lilliputian musicians making huge noises...technology blew everything out make you laugh, and some of proportion.them that are just don' The inevitable hate mail soon rolled t – but this has to be inthe same bracket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546787</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsay ReadeRopek_Tragic|title=Mr Manchester and the Factory GirlTragic Magic: The Story Life of Tony and Lindsay Wilson|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Mr Manchester, as Tony Wilson came to be known, could have been the next John Humphrys. Instead he ended up becoming the next Malcolm McLaren – or, perhaps, a far less successful version of Richard Branson. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in English he became a trainee news reporter for ITN, and for much of his life he worked as an anchorman for regional evening news programmes. Yet he is less remembered for this than for his championship of alternative music and punk rock, founding of Factory Records and involvement with the Hacienda Club. Although he loved the Beatles and folk music in general, he disliked much of the contemporary music scene until he saw the Sex Pistols live in the summer of 1976.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654567</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTraffic's Chris Wood|author=Larry Stempel|title=Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical TheaterDan Ropek|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Stempel is an associate professor of music at an American university so I would imagine that this book is primarily a labour of love. In the Preface Stempel bemoans the loss of important research material over the years, whether it be musical scores, playbills or similar. It happens. It is a fact of life. Simply thrown away or discarded as being considered not important. It's only a musical, after all. A bit light and frothy. Stempel thinks otherwise - and takes his time telling us exactly why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393067157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Doggett|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles|rating=5

|summary=When four young Liverpudlians got together to make music in the early 1960sChris Wood was a member of Traffic, they can have had no idea of their future impact on the world around them. Likewise they would surely not have had an inkling of the extraordinary business minefield which their existence as a group would create, and which would leave the scars long formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after they had gone their separate ways, even after two of them had diedhe left The Spencer Davis Group. As at least one of them ruefully commentedA gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, they must have provided several lawyers' children with a very expensive education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532360</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Davies|title=Teenage Revolution: Growing Up in the 80s|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Born in 1966he also played keyboards, Alan Davies grew up in Essex, the son of a staunchly Conservative-voting father bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a mother who died hand in writing several of cancer when he was only six. It was a childhood dominated at first by 'Citizen Smith' and the other TV sitcoms, 'Starsky songs and Hutch', 'Grease', Barry Sheene, the Barron Knights, and Debbie Harryone or two instrumentals. The book begins at 1978, ''This biography takes its title from the year I started venturing out more'', and finishes at 1988, when he graduated from Kent University to find that stand-up comedy could be an alternative to finding a job where he would have to do what he was toldname of one of his compositions for their fifth album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141041803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clinton HeylinDolby_Sound|title=Still on the Road: Songs The Speed of Bob Dylan, 1974-2008Sound|author=Thomas Dolby

|summary=Heylin is also obviously a fan, a very knowledgeable and obsessive one to boot. He has never met or directly interviewed his subject (who is known to guard his privacy quite fiercely most of the time), but his research materials include official recording sessionographies and interviews conducted by others. All this is naturally invaluable information for his analysis and history of all the 600-plus songs the man is known to have written or coFrom struggling post-written from 1974 punk musician to almost the present day. In terms of his discographypop star, that spans the albums from ‘Blood on the Tracks’, released in 1975 and commonly regarded as probably his best post-1960s set, Silicon Valley innovator to ‘Together Through Life’university professor, which appeared in 2009.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010110</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marina Hyde|title=Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=I have what is perhaps Thomas Dolby has had a regular-sized interest in A and B-list celebrities. I can name the off-spring of many an actressremarkable if not unique career, tell you who the spokespeople for certain brands are, write a list of celebs with publicly declared devotions to certain religions, even win often reinventing himself on the odd pub quiz thanks to knowing the birth names of various performersway. I know all sorts of things about this rather small subset of society, but I know the ''what'' more than the ''why'', and that's exactly the problem, according to this book. After all, if more of us sat down to wonder about what it actually ''This memoir is'' that the likes of Geri Halliwell based on his extensive notes and Nicole Kidman bring to the UN, we might seriously question how and why they ever got involved in the first placejournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532050</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob ChapmanMorris_Legion|title=Syd BarrettThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: A Very Irregular Head Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris

|summary=Roger BarrettAs much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, who later acquired namely that the moniker 'Syd' (let's make him Syd from now on) was born villains in Cambridge in 1946them are a bit pants. What is The fourth of five children, he was Penguin but the only one to inherit any lasting artistic talentworld's worst Mafioso, which came from with a hobby of waddling along like his father Max. The latter was pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a senior pathologist, member vat of the local Philharmonic Societyrandom chemicals and changed colour, gifted singer, pianist and watercolour painter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571238548</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michele Monro|title=Matt Monro: The Singergot mardier as a result (although recently he's Singer|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=In terms of British chart statistics and record sales, Matt Monro never quite fulfilled his full potential. When measured against the achievements of contemporary ballad singers like Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck, he fell some way short. Yet the former Terry Parsons was become a regular fixture on nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the light entertainment circuit, and overseas, particularly gimp in Latin America and the Philippines, see-through plant pot because he was undoubtedly one is the embodiment of Britaincold? And that's most successful exports everjust some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', and at one point he was of the biggest selling artist in Spainbetter goodies. His idol Frank Sinatra, You can imagine how awful the baddies related to whom he was often comparedthe bad goodies can be. And if you can't, often said that Matt was this is the only British singer he ever really listened toperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566182</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Don FelderFletcher_Midnight|title=Heaven And HellIn the Midnight Hour: My The Life in the Eagles, 1974 - 2001& Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher

|summary=In terms of record sales Tamla Motown groups and income from live tours, hardly anyone matched the Eagles' rate of success during the 1970s. Yet the constant search to better themselves with each recordsingers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in-fighting, the drugs and egos, soon got the better of themsoul music field who mattered above all. They say it is tough at the top, and nobody is better equipped to tell the often painful story than their former guitarist Don Felder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753826771</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Birch|title=Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Ian Dury James Brown was always one something of the most individual, even contrary characters in the musical world. In a branch of showbiz where people often relied on good looks as a short cut to stardom, he was no oil painting. During the pub rock era, he and his group, the Blockheads, ploughed a lonely furrow which owed more to jazz-funk than rock'n'roll, and his songs extolled the virtues of characters from Billericay or Plaistow rather than those from Memphis cult name who rarely bothered about or California. Alongside the young punk rock upstarts with whom he competed for inches in troubled the rock press, he was comparatively middle-aged. As if that was not enoughsingles charts, in his own words childhood illness had left him a permanent 'raspberry ripple'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283071036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Simpson|title=Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian's|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The mere mention of Alastair Sim conjures up visions of pictures made during the 1950s when a more gentle humour Otis Redding was the order of the day. Yet the man hated and did his best to avoid publicity, claiming that the person the public saw on screen revealed all that anybody needed to know about him. How he would have fared twenty years later in the age of a more intrusive press, one cannot but wonder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752453726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Clayton|title=The Richard Beckinsale Story|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=A generation probably knows Richard Beckinsale only from repeats on the UK Gold TV channels, and from occasional mentions in the context verge of 'how great he would have been if only…' In 1978 The Sunday Times Magazine tipped the 30-year-old sitcom favourite as a rising major star of the 80s who would blossom shooting into one of the great all-round stage actors. One year later, stratosphere when he was deaddied in an aeroplane crash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752454404</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Val Doonican|title=My Story, My Life: Val Doonican - The Complete Autobiography|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=In the 1960s, if Harold Wilson other was the personification of politics and the Beatles the collective icon of youth culture, Val Doonican was similarly at the very apex of light entertainment. He may no longer have such a high profile – but he's outlasted them both. Over four decades he has refused to bow to passing fads and fashions, remained true to himself, and in the process he has never really put a foot wrong. As he says towards the end, 'When you find out what it is you do best, and what the public wants man from you, then stick with itAlabama, and do it as well as you can.' With the possible exception of his contemporary and long-time professional and personal friend Rolf Harris, it's difficult to think of another person in showbiz who comes across as more genuinely likeable, and more a genuine case of 'what you see is what you getwicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906779619</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo BerryPaling_Reading|title=The Ultimate DVD Easter Egg GuideReading Allowed: How to Access the Hidden Extras on Your DVDTrue Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|summary=Consider the Easter Egg - at least I once made a comical faux pas in the way DVD collectors meana library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. Sometimes I once declared in a pointless hidden addself-on, important way that is there I would start at the beginning of the books for no reason. Sometimes they can be a priceless bonusyoung children and not stop til the end, seemingly gifted by then do the disc producers to same for those in for the knowolder children – ''and then do it all over again with them'', I said, costing - pointing at least in the case of some animated instances large- many thousands of poundsprint shelves. Some oik on set with ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of a camcorderneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, they are and notfor any other reason. Since then I've needed libraries, and going to them has been guilty several times of clicking away in directions second nature. On the dole I made sure I could use the menus don't seem free Internet they provided to encourage on the off-chance pay me back for my council tax; later I find something (or, was intent on finding out if a PCSenior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, just sweeping the PC mouse over any and every title card in case of course, it highlights something previously invisible)saved a fortune on books for study and fun. Forcing several titles I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and chapters by going straight 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 case they're something secret one. Which is not a hobby I like to admit towhere Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752875205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Giddins and Scott DeveauxSpringsteen_Born|title=JazzBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen

|summary=At first glance this 700-page volume might look No, you haven't stumbled into a little dauntingmusic review from the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Do not be dauntedLots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. If you want a small pocket book which merely scratches at Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the surface and can probably be digested in record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a sitting or two, look elsewherefunny business''. On By his own admission, it isn't the other hand, if you want an extremely readable and comprehensive book on jazz which can not only be read cover to coverwhole truth, discretion holds him back but also retained as ''in a work of reference project like this, the writer has made one promise, to use again and againshow the reader his mind.'' ''In these pages, I doubt if 've tried to do this can be bettered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068617</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick HornbyJVDK_Beatles|title=An EducationA Beatles Miscellany: The ScreenplayEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=Adroit marketing? WellYou might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly, yes. there''An Education'' has s been published, no shortage of coursebooks about what went wrong, what happened to coincide with the film's general release in the UK. Hardly surprising since our national appetite for nosiness seems insatiable and cosy background details prop up every telly series money and film these dayseven what went right. As well as the screenplay, Nick Hornby has provided an introduction But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard to track down and diary of the filmthis is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's successful premiere at a man with an eye for detail and the Sundance Festival in Utahability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. Beyond trivia, I think this fascinating little book presents an excellent It'how to' guide for wannabes from one s a wonderful collection of Britain's most respected screen and novel writersthe small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044748</amazonuk>