FRANK ZAPPA, THE STRICTLY GENTEEL GENIUS RIDES AGAIN
This book investigates and evaluates the career and music of Frank Zappa. When David Jacobs turned to the camera on Juke Box Jury and said "We should stamp out this kind of music" the youth of the 1960s knew that this was something special and innovative. Frank re-invented himself many times during his career, his love of serious music emerging ever powerful as he grew older; much of his later work was composed on the synclavier. Frank first played drums then moved to guitar, purchased a recording studio and produced pop songs for the surf craze. The Muthers changed into The Mothers of Invention and shook the world of music. This book reviews every track on all the officially released albums and includes chapters on the composers and writers who are known to have influenced Frank. The many musicians and their recording before and after their terms with Frank Zappa are also detailed. Frank Zappa is one of the foremost musicians of the 20th century, his music will last forever.
A STRICTLY GENTEEL GENIUS RIDES AGAIN ISBN 1 899882 70 7 Paperback 210mm x 150mm £9.99

PHIL LYNOTT, THIN LIZZY ROCKIN' VAGABOND
This is the story of Phil Lynott. It is not just a biography it is an investigation into the words and music of the man.
Born illegitimate in Birmingham in 1949, he was raised in Ireland where he joined a pop band named The Black Eagles. Phil Lynott was different he was a half-caste born of an Irish mother and a black American father. Phil learned to cope with being different and adjusted to his surroundings and attitudes.
He travelled to London with the first line-up of Thin Lizzy and by a stroke of luck met John Peel the top underground disk jockey on the ferry across the Irish Sea.
This book examines the lyrics and poems of Phil Lynott and attempts to locate influences. Phil wanted to mix heavy rock with quality songs and lyrics in the manner of many of his predecessors such as Bob Dylan and The Beatles. He succeeded but never reached the pinnacle of the UK pop charts.
Phil Lynott died in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1986 but the music lives on. In his latter years he had turned his attention from drink to drugs losing most of his long time friends as the drugs changed his personality. Phil deserves to be remembered as one of the great innovators of rock and although the claim that he was the first great Irish rock star may be a misnomer, his heart was never far from Ireland.
PHIL LYNOTT, THIN LIZZY, ROCKIN' VAGABOND ISBN 1 899882 21 9 paperback 210 x 150 mm Price £9.99

THE JACK KEROUAC DIGEST
ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION DATE SEPTEMBER 2000. A biography plus a comprehensive digest of all Jack Kerouac's most renown books. The digests allow you to recall the books and the characters. It enables the Kerouac enthusiast to remind themselves of the books that they had forgotten in the years since they first read them.