I’ve just read a great review of this book by John Carey - he loved itIf you're even slightly interested in the piano, can I recommend 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank' by T E Carhart?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099288230/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
All words, though...
apparently it's veeerrrrrrry detailed. And only vol 1Big history of Island Records coming very soon. It looks good but expensive.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/island-book-of-records-vol1/
Mean, moody, magnificent.This should have been subtitled "We were all bastards'. I'm enjoying the descriptions of a musical 'movement' that I was briefly a part of, but it also reminded me why I would never have survived a career in the music industry.
Stephen