Think twice if you give a book some chances to steal your time. Would all be wasted milk without surrender and thrill. Oh well, these non-fiction books promise to be high quality time thief units. After „Beatles and Drugs“ I never thought I would come across another gorgeously entertaining book about the Fab Four, but here it is, beautifully translated into German, a highlight of spring‘s releases of The C.H. Beck Verlag. The one and only, good-humoured Gregor DJ Mundt will do a whole show around Craig’s book on May 4th in Stuttgart’s last pirate radio station. And the other ones? In parts reviewed here, like Jan’s Krautrock journeys, in parts offerings for the back of the mind of some of you guys, in case you wanna dive deep into the sound worlds of Mark, Bill, or the second part of an exhilarating, exhausting installment of Jamaican music history.
Ben Wardle: Mark Hollis – A Beautiful Silence
Craig Brown: One, Two, Three, Four – Die fabelhaften Jahre der Beatles
Jan Reetze: Der Sound der Jahre
Philip Watson: Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
Noel Hawks & Jah Floyd: A History of The Jamaican Recording Industry – Rock Steady To Rockers From Treasure Isle To Studio One
