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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Van der KistePatti Smith|title=A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Year of the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskMonkey|rating=54|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about On the Beatles had been said and certainly there's been no shortage coast of books about what went wrongSanta Cruz, what happened to Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the money monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and even what went rightunexpected moments. But what IIn a stranger's words, ''ve never seen before Anything is a possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey'miscellany' . As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - all those little facts which loss and ageing are so hard 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=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to track down the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but he has chosen to write it in the form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: hewould give the book a different approach to the music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's a man mantle and begins with an eye for detail and his first discovery of the ability to bring everything together into a very readable wholeSalvation Army band with his grandfather. It's This catapults him into a wonderful collection love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the small factstrumpet.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moore Bientot|title=A Bientot...|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>Roger Moore|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on forever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julian PalaciosMaslanka Sherlock|title= Syd Barrett & Pink FloydSherlock: Dark GlobeThe 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 were few sadder casualties of really is nothing to compare to that buzz we get from the Aha! moment, when everything falls into place and the sixties music scene than Syd (real name Roger) Barrettsolution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to the test with ''The original songwriting genius and front man of Pink FloydSherlock Puzzle Book'', he burnt out all too soon. A few months in based on the spotlight were followed all too soon by a pathetic postscript of a stuttering solo career, and over three decades as a largely housebound reclusepopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason FryCorcoran_Dylan|title=Star Wars Rogue OneDo You Mr Jones?: Mission FilesBob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran

|genre=Confident Readers Entertainment|summary=Out Bob Dylan's award of several books Ithe Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 've seen to tie-in to for having created new poetic expressions within the seventh official cinema movie great American song tradition' proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people in the ''Star Wars'' universe, this – literary world to take stock and the resulting review – is the greatest source of spoilers. What you get is a surprisingly mature look at the background his work and events to ''Rogue One'' for such a juvenile book, reputation with some fine stills photographs, and a fresh eye. This volume that introduces all the main characters and gears you up to understand and enjoy a lot of the events of the film. So if you don't want to know those essays was first published in advance2002, look away and is now. But certainly consider this as reissued with a purchase for reading once you've watched itnew foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasfilmKyncl_Stream|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Art of ColouringStream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating=34.5|genre=CraftsEntertainment|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is aroundI watch quite a lot of YouTube. While I've not had the chance of seeing it yet, play music videos when I'm dead chuffed it takes place at want to listen to a central point of the main arc of filmsparticular song I don' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere t already have in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]my collection. Yes, I use it does to find out how to do what things, with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'new trilogy' didll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross-trainer and have much more gloss and many more technologies than watch some behind the scenes interviews with the films set after cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if itis Netflix, but what is not to like? Wellwatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, the expected expenditure exclusively on tie-YouTube. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in books my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''one'' collector's card is a little steepuse YouTube. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in didn't know a whole lot about the vernacular, why not take site it literally and use until I read this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>book.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=JVDK_Swing|title=We Can Swing Together: The Story of Lindisfarne

|summary=You know those questions you get It all began with a group of youngsters in celebrity interviews - North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'which extinct being would you most like to see brought back to life?Si' WellCowe, IRay 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction''d like , soon changing the name to see Jimmy Savile brought back, so that he could get his comeuppance''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. It's not just As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the damage he did to children name again - and young people, dreadful as that was - it's 'Lindisfarne'' (with the shadow he cast over name taken from an island off the entertainment industryNorthumberland coast) was born. We know that he wasn't alone in what he did, but somehow there's a whole era More than forty years on and with numerous changes of entertainment which has been tarred by personnel the same brushband is still very much around. John Van der Kiste has turned They might not be touring or producing much in the spotlight away from Savile and on to five way of new material, but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the great DJs of original members on his fourth stint with the music industrygroup.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Tim McDonaghJVDK_ELO|title=Star WarsElectric Light Orchestra: 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 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>}}{{newreviewSong by Song|author=Marc Myers|title= Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and PopJohn Van der Kiste

|summary= This book developed from a series of columns My memories of the same title which appeared pop music in the ''Wall Street Journal'' over a period of five yearsearly sixties revolve around guitars and drums, in which forty-five songs (what an appropriate number) from the years 1952 to 1991 were put under sometimes the microscope and examined through interviews piano with the artists, songwriters only occasional excursions into strings and others who created thembrass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>080212559X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Moss|title=Planet Earth II|rating=5|genre= Animals Pop music rarely stands still and Wildlife|summary=''Planet Earth II'it wasn' is t long before the official companion basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series of the same nameexperiment, with other groups following where they led. Our understanding of the world around us has reached a new levelAmongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access Roy Wood. Wood wanted to a diverse range of environments and a develop the group''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands s sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and Cities and showcases some because the rest of the amazing creatures that live in each onegroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SeabrookWatkins_Lets|title= The Song MachineLet's Make Lots of Money: How to Make a HitMy Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|summary= The popular music business has always been about – wellWho 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, business – an opportunity to embrace the chances and some might say accept that music comes a poor secondit's not going to last, evidently. Ever since Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the advent fine line and, for part of the 78 r.p.m. disctime, record companies have competed with each other and sought new ways of marketing their goodsquite successfully. The songwriterAs his memoirs suggest, or if you like the person or partnership at the controls part of ‘the song machine’, has long been a vital link in the chaintime was achievement enough. In today’s climate of increasingly free music, how much does this still hold true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959045X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenKendrick_Scrappy|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesScrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick|rating=43.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the world examples of one of the countrypeople who clearly didn's most famous t deserve to be a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and well-loved sitcoms – by those who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even if thirty. But more recently it was sort-'s become a way of killed off staking a claim to importance for Christmas 2003female comics. YesThey've not all written autobiographies, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkaas Bridget Christie proved, but very few people failed enough have to succumb to its charms provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at one time or anotherthe bookstore. I2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham'm sure there have s been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of at it, and we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she'that'' drop through the open bar hatchs not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and ''some of them thatare just don'' chandelier scene, t – but this is much more meaty. Purporting has to be 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 worthsame bracket. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABRopek_Tragic|title= Minecraft Exploded BuildsTragic Magic: 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 The Life of us who have the ambition but lack the necessary expertise to design such stunning buildings. ''Medieval Fortress'Traffic' will guide you every step of the way with detailed diagrams and customisation options, allowing you be king of you own castle in no time at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528417X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Chris Wood|author=Bruno Vincent|title=Danger Mouse: DeclassifiedDan Ropek|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=There is nothing else for it but to declare my love for ''Danger Mouse'' (and noChris Wood was a member of Traffic, I don't mean the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician/producer, or the remakebest known for his flute and saxophone work, which I've not sampled). What I didn't know at the time to call 'breaking the fourth wall'he also played keyboards, the chutzpah bass guitar and energy contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the storytelling, songs and primarily the simple and simply brilliant character design made it one of my go-to sources for entertainment, and about the only thing that would get the TV switched to ITV, apart or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from ''Blockbusters''. The dates on the front name of this volume prove we're referring to the genius original series, but these contents seem to me fully new. Taking it that they are, has the idea stood the test one of time, and will people be on board his compositions for what is surely a much-belated tribute gift book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545225</amazonuk>their fifth album.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon CallowDolby_Sound|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary= Orson WellesFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, the noted actorfrom Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, director and producerThomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, was one of those larger than life characters whose impact often reinventing himself on the world of stage and screen during his lifetime was inestimableway. Simon Callow has found the task of condensing This memoir is based on his story into a single volume is impossible, extensive notes and this is the third of three solid instalmentsjournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter DoggettMorris_Legion|title= Electric ShockThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopOddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris

|summary= For many of usAs much as I like comics – and I do, it must be difficult whether superhero ones or not – I have to imagine admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a life without recorded musicbit pants. Millions 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 us must have grown up with, even to, all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a very varied soundtrack consisting vat of one genre after another. In this bookrandom chemicals and changed colour, Peter Doggett takes and got mardier as a marvellous broad sweep 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 history embodiment of cold? And that's just some of popular music from the end better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the nineteenth century baddies related to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming servicesbad goodies can be. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The BallAnd if you can't, by Charles K. Harris, this is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millionsperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John LydonFletcher_Midnight|title= RottenIn the Midnight Hour: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsThe Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher|rating=34.5

|summary= Picking up this book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make of John LydonTamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the man who became notorious mid-sixties there were three major names in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rotten' soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of the Sex Pistols. Was he the iconoclast a cult name who if some of the tabloids were to be believed was rarely bothered about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come to destroy, or merely to use troubled the showbusiness system singles charts, and end up becoming part Otis Redding was on the verge of what shooting into the stratosphere when he had set out to fightdied in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, or both – or what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859653412</amazonuk>'the wicked Pickett'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nev SchulmanPaling_Reading|title= In Real LifeReading Allowed: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital AgeTrue Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceEntertainment|summary= Nev (I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but itcertainly didn's pronounced Neev) is t put me off returning. I once declared in a man who knows about self-important way that I would start at the darker side beginning of online datingthe 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'', I said, pointing at the large-print shelves. Known for his documentary ''CatfishI hope not'' , was the response – but little me was only aware of a film which showed an online flirtation going sourneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, Nev and not for any other reason. Since then began making a tv show of the same nameI've needed libraries, travelling America and going to offer advice to those in online relationships, and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona)them has been second nature. Now On the go-dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they provided to expert in online relationships pay me back for millenials, my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a generation who have never known a world without FacebookSenior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, Twitter, Instagramand of course, it saved a fortune on books for study and other online places where interactions can formfun. Here, he takes his investigation to the page – exploring relationships I'm not alone in sharing the era warmth of social mediaboth their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, delving deeply into the complexities but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of dating them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes 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 story. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettSpringsteen_Born|title= James Dean: Rebel Life|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= James Dean was in a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was Born to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fast, die young' character, although as 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 his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sue Perkins|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>}}{{newreviewRun|author=Stephanie Milton|title=Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of SecretsBruce Springsteen|rating=3.5

|summary=Ready to take your Minecraft game to the next level? Then No, you just might need haven't stumbled into a music review from the advice 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 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 professionalfunny business''. By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but 'The Survivors' are an elite group of gaming experts who are proficient in survival skills. They are breaking their cover to share their most precious secrets with us; valuable insider knowledge on a project like this, the best ways writer has made one promise, to survive and prosper in show the most inhospitable online environmentsreader his mind. Minecraft proudly present their latest official book: ''The Survivors' Book of Secrets'In these pages, I've tried to do this.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanJVDK_Beatles|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as a shock to meBeatles Miscellany: we were much of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed Everything You Always Wanted 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 the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of Know About the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Witt|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, Beatles but dealt a major blow Were Afraid to the beleaguered music industry. Where people once amassed physical collections, they now had the choice 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>}}{{newreviewAsk|author=Justin Richards|title=Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible ThingsJohn Van der Kiste|rating=4.5

|summary=Is it any wonder You might have thought that The Doctor's use of a diary is mentioned merely as a joke? Let alone just about everything which could be said about the fact it would come in whatever time unit (if any) Time Lords actually useBeatles had been said and certainly, there's the problem been no shortage of it not ever being chronologicalbooks about what went wrong, and the fact he would never seem what happened to have the time to fill it in. O tempora, o mores indeedmoney and even what went right. But if the human observer of what I've never seen before is a 'Doctor Whomiscellany'' would want a full year book, completely filled in - all those little facts which are so hard to track down 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. Itis where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a brick of a book, of course, given the depth of the subject, but well worth 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 of 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 partnerships. The only solo writer in 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 with an account of the group's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first eye for detail and foremost, as the title says, ability to bring everything together into a biography of Davies himselfvery readable whole. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the groupIt'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 wonderful collection of the man as we are ever likely to getsmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>