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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=LucasfilmPatti Smith|title=Star Wars Rogue OneYear 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: Art after all, it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of ColouringSanta 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 shifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Walton_Ask|title=Ask For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton

|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'Malcolm Walton' s book is around. While I've not had clearly a memoir about his introduction to the chance Trad Jazz scene of seeing it yetthe late 1950s and early 1960s, I'm dead chuffed but he has chosen to write it takes place at a central point of in the main arc form of films' storylinesa novel, and not some nebulous place elsewhere claiming in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|his prologue that galaxy far, far away]]. Yes, it does do what this would give the 'new trilogy' did, and have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after it, but what is not book a different approach to like? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin'one'' collectortakes on Malcolm's card is a little steepmantle and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring aboveThis catapults him into a love of music, in the vernacularinitially taking piano lessons, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>later delving into his true love – the trumpet.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteMoore Bientot|title=Pop Pickers and Music Vendors: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and A Bientot...|author=Roger ScottMoore|rating=4.5

|summary=You know The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those questions people you get in celebrity interviews - 'which extinct being knew would you most like to see brought back to life?' Well, I'd like to see Jimmy Savile brought back, so that he could get his comeuppancego on forever. It's not There was just one small glimmer of light in the damage he did to children and young people, dreadful as that was sadness - it's the shadow he cast over the entertainment industry. We know news that a matter of days before his death he wasn't alone in what he didd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, but somehow there's 'À bientôt…'', to his publishers. Just a few months later a whole era of entertainment which has been tarred by the same brush. John Van der Kiste has turned the spotlight away from Savile copy landed on my desk and on I didn't even bother to five of the great DJs of the music industrylook as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Tim McDonaghMaslanka Sherlock|title=Star WarsSherlock: Galactic AtlasThe Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersEntertainment|summary=At the time of writing this review, people are eagerly tapping away at phones, laptops and screens everywhere to find out what they can about ''Rogue One'Who doesn't love a good puzzle, the ''Star Wars'' film especially those really fiendish ones that's get the first live action cinema effort brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to be off compare to one edge of that buzz we get from the canonAha! moment, when everything falls into place and is five whole weeks awaythe solution reveals itself. Perhaps, however, there is a chance that all the many books being released that mention the ability If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to tie in put your grey cells to the test with ''Rogue One'' will let slip something important. The volume at hand Sherlock Puzzle Book''includes a map from…'' said movie, and all based on the maps here initially seem to feature a huge amount of informationpopular TV series. Could valuable secrets be herein?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc MyersCorcoran_Dylan|title= Anatomy of a SongDo You Mr Jones?: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B Bob Dylan with the Poets and PopProfessors|author=Neil Corcoran

|summary= This book developed from a series of columns Bob Dylan's award of the same title which appeared Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition''Wall Street Journal'' over a period of five years, proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people in which forty-five songs (what an appropriate number) from the years 1952 literary world to 1991 were put under the microscope take stock and look at his work and examined through interviews reputation with the artistsa fresh eye. This volume of essays was first published in 2002, songwriters and others who created themis now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>080212559X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen MossKyncl_Stream|title=Planet Earth IIStream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeEntertainment|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'Planet Earth II'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 the official companion Netflix, to the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary watch series of the same namewith new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Our understanding of the world around us has reached Having a new levelsmart TV adds an extra, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a diverse range of environments and a ''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worldssmall phone screen. The book looks at six vastly different environments: JunglesSo yes, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands I like YouTube and Cities and showcases some of I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the amazing creatures that live in each onesite it until I read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SeabrookJVDK_Swing|title= We Can Swing Together: The Song Machine: How to Make a HitStory of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5

|summary= It all began with a group of youngsters in North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The popular music business has always been about – wellDowntown Faction'', business – soon changing the name to ''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the name again - and some might say that music comes a poor second. Ever since ''Lindisfarne'' (with the advent of name taken from an island off the 78 rNorthumberland coast) was born.p.m. disc, record companies have competed More than forty years on and with each other and sought new ways numerous changes of marketing their goodspersonnel the band is still very much around. The songwriter, They might not be touring or if you like the person or partnership at producing much in the controls way of ‘the song machine’new material, has long been a vital link in but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the original members on his fourth stint with the chaingroup. In today’s climate of increasingly free music, how much does this still hold true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959045X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenJVDK_ELO|title=Only Fools and HorsesElectric Light Orchestra: The Peckham ArchivesSong by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are My memories of pop music in the world of one of early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the country's most famous piano with only occasional excursions into strings and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003brass. Yes, there have been specials since, Pop music rarely stands still and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. Iit wasn'm sure there have been books t long before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchbasic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar The Beach Boys began to postexperiment, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherother groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, from them Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the police – group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them because the rest of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>group didn't really share his enthusiasm.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABWatkins_Lets|title= Minecraft Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary=If you have ever marvelled at the creative architecture designed by the talented members of the Minecraft community and been inspired to give it a go yourself, then ''Exploded Builds'' might be the perfect book for you. It is aimed at those of us who have the ambition but lack the necessary expertise to design such stunning buildings. ''Medieval FortressLet'' will guide you every step s Make Lots of Money: My Life as the way with detailed diagrams and customisation options, allowing you be king of you own castle Biggest Man in no time at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528417X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPop|author=Bruno Vincent|title=Danger Mouse: DeclassifiedTom Watkins

|summary= For many of us, it must Who on earth would be difficult to imagine a manager in the larger than life without recorded music. Millions , here today gone tomorrow world of us must have grown up pop? Anybody withan ego, a ruthless streak, even an opportunity to embrace the chances and accept that it's not going tolast, a very varied soundtrack consisting of evidently. Tom Watkins is just one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from several to have walked the end fine line and, for part of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball'time, by Charles Kquite successfully. HarrisAs his memoirs suggest, is regarded as part of the first modern popular song (well, it time was modern in 1891) – the first of millionsachievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John LydonKendrick_Scrappy|title= Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsScrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick

|summary= Picking up this book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the examples of John Lydon, the man people who became notorious in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rottenclearly didn' of the Sex Pistols. Was he the iconoclast who if some of the tabloids were t deserve to be believed was about a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and by those who did so little but managed to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it's become a way of staking a claim to destroyimportance for female comics. They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, or merely but enough have to use provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the showbusiness system bookstore. 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and end up becoming part we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a strict comic – not all of what he had set out her films are designed to fightmake you laugh, or both and some of them that are just don't – or what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859653412</amazonuk>but this has to be in the same bracket.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nev SchulmanRopek_Tragic|title= In Real Tragic Magic: The Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Ageof Traffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceEntertainment|summary= Nev (it's pronounced Neev) is Chris Wood was a man who knows about member of Traffic, the darker side of online datinggroup formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. Known A gifted musician best known for his documentary ''Catfish'' – a film which showed an online flirtation going sourflute and saxophone work, Nev then began making a tv show of the same name, travelling America to offer advice to those in online relationshipshe also played keyboards, bass guitar and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into contributed backing vocals as well as having a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona). Now hand in writing several of the go-to expert in online relationships for millenials, a generation who have never known a world without Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, songs and other online places where interactions can formone or two instrumentals. Here, he This biography takes his investigation to its title from the page – exploring relationships in the era name of social media, delving deeply into the complexities one 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 his own storycompositions for their fifth album. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettDolby_Sound|title= James Dean: Rebel LifeThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary= James Dean was in a sense From struggling post-punk musician to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fastuniversity professor, die young' characterThomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, although as often reinventing himself on the star of three classic movies of the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in way. This memoir is based on hisextensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sue PerkinsMorris_Legion|title= Spectacles|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= A dash The Legion 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>}}{{newreviewRegrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Stephanie Milton|title=Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of SecretsJon Morris|rating=3.5

|summary=Ready to take your Minecraft game As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the next level? Then you just might need the advice of villains in them are a professionalbit pants. 'What is The SurvivorsPenguin but the world' are s worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an elite group Oscar of gaming experts all things by playing a two-bit killer who are proficient just fell in survival skills. They are breaking their cover to share their most precious secrets 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 us; valuable insider knowledge on the best ways to survive and prosper gimp in the most inhospitable online environments. Minecraft proudly present their latest official book: see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'The Survivors' Book , one of Secretsthe better goodies.You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283335</amazonuk>t, this is the perfect primer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanFletcher_Midnight|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me: we were much of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was a commercial success, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is In the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Witt|title= How Music Got FreeMidnight Hour: 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 Life & Soul 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>}}{{newreviewWilson Pickett|author=Justin Richards|title=Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible ThingsTony Fletcher

|summary=Is it any wonder that The Doctor's use of a diary is mentioned merely as a joke? Let alone the fact it would come in whatever time unit (if any) Time Lords actually use, there's the problem of it not ever being chronological, Tamla Motown groups and the fact he would never seem to have the time to fill it in. O tempora, o mores indeed. But if the human observer of ''Doctor Who'' would want a full year booksingers apart, completely filled in and annotated with everything they would want to know about the Doctor mid-sixties there were three major names in relation to the human calendar, then they have it at last with this lovely hardbacksoul music field who mattered above all. It's a brick James Brown was something of a book, of course, given cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the depth of the subjectsingles charts, but well worth and Otis Redding was on the time taken to read it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johnny Rogan|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters verge of shooting into the last 150 years, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartney, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnershipsstratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The only solo writer in other was the same league is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the groupAlabama, 's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first and foremost, as the title says, a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the groupwicked Pickett's guitarist and only other constant member of the line-up, other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book of the man as we are ever likely to get.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesPaling_Reading|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongReading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|summary=OhI once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take awaybut it certainly didn't put me off returning. Here before me is I once declared in a brandself-important way that I would start at the beginning of the books for young children and not stop til the end, spanking new collection of journalism by then do the same for those for the wonderful Marian Keyes older children – but ''and then do itall over again with them's a proof copy', I said, so there's no photo of pointing at the authorlarge-print shelves. Even if over the years ''I have stopped reading her novelshope not'', I have always turned to was the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is response – but little me was only aware of a lucky manneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for sureany other reason. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can Since then I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essaysve needed libraries, web columns and other journalism? going to them has been second nature. On the dole I can start with agreeing that made sure I am not could use the target audiencefree 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, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target issaved a fortune on books for study and fun. So much like that test you do – you know I'm not alone in sharing the one, that formulates decisions about warmth of both their heating system and the age and commonality of all things in space very thing they were born to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on provide – you can narrow things down quite readily herebooks, and but there was still come up with a huge numberstep up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David WillsSpringsteen_Born|title=The Cinematic Legacy of Frank SinatraBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen|rating=45

|summary=OhNo, [[Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde|the modern celebrity]] – they donyou haven't make them like they used to. Anodyne, uniform in (lack of) thought and body shape, and far, far too prominent in stumbled into a music review from 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 standard1970s, as well as reading out someoneI'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 elsem talking about The Boss's record, in a lip dub smash or whatever the heck they're calling itautobiography. Followed Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by panto. It is a shameful reflection on usfolk who knew him, worked with him and on by others who have only read the real celebrities we used to have, such as Frank Sinatracuttings. By Over the time last seven years he was starting in film he was well-known for a character and singing talent that was making him a star already, even if, as this book proveshas been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he had more or less the looks of puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a young Lee Evansfunny business''. By his own admission, it isn't the time he was finished hewhole truth, discretion holds him back but ''d acted straight, comicin a project like this, romantic, criminal, sung his heart out, danced – even learnt the drums for writer has made one role. He had Golden Globespromise, an Oscar – and he directed one film as well as produced several othersto show the reader his mind. '' ''In an age when the world is up in arms at the passing of anyone remotely famousthese pages, what tribute can we give I've tried to a great such as he was?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655772</amazonuk>do this.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim ParksJVDK_Beatles|title=Where I'm Reading FromA Beatles Miscellany: The Changing World of BooksEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=3.5

|summary=Books, eh? – who here doesn't You might have thought that just love them? (And if you don't, please exercise greater mouse control as you click away.) Some of us love books about books – everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and that includes a lot certainly, there's been no shortage of us here at the Bookbag. And who better to turn to regarding books than [[:Category:Tim Parks|Mr Tim Parks]], who writes them, writes about themwhat went wrong, educates about them, translates them, teaches what happened to the translation thereof, blogs professionally about them… He tells us he has a split personality in that different worldly territories know him for different things, whether that be essays, travel writing, seriously serio-comic fiction, or just for being money and even what went right. But what I'that bloke who ve never exactly set the world on fire but does do seen before is a definitely reliable turn every time I've tried himmiscellany'. This, being the pick of four years- 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' web posts s a man with an eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It''New York Review s a wonderful collection of Books'', is his clearest statement in book form about books, and yes, it is yet again a pretty reliable turnthe small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701793</amazonuk>