Stevie

Wow - how good was that! Thanks for putting that up.

Brilliant - huge respect for Paul Mason - you could tell it came from the heart. If anyone has the facility to copy this to disc for me, I'd be grateful - more than happy to cover costs, post etc.

Still available to buy from amazon, but instead of showing number in stock it's stating 'usually dispatched within 1 to 4 weeks'. Looks like the first batch went quickly ;-)

Interesting read. On the subject of price guides I notice a couple of surprises on Tim's latest list, namely Al Apollo at £200 and Sonny Til at £150. Have prices gone up on these?

I asked earlier in this thread - who is running the R&B room?

Anyone know who's running the R&B room?

This sounds like it should be a fantastic book. Two of the best contributions that I have read on the subject are by the late Dave McCadden and were published in Manifesto issues 14 and 15. They were entitled 'You can't mean it' and 'Have you ever had a girlfriend'. Both are great stories but the latter one cracks me up every time I read it. Daves writing always had a great balance of fact and humour and it would be good to see these stories included if the necessary permissions can be obtained.

Agreed - the best book on the subject to date. Personally I would like to read a book that relates to the 'darker side', which was as much a part of the history as the records. Any book which fails to acknowledge this is only telling half the story and most authors choose to either ignore it or claim it never existed. Pete McKenna's 'Nightshift' embraced it, and was an enjoyable read but may have been lacking factually.