David Buckley

“The Stranglers are the biggest-selling and longest-lasting ban from the punk era. Drawing on exclusive photographic material, extensive interviews with the band members themselves, and with those who have worked with them during their twenty-four year career, David Buckley’s biography tells the complete and uncensored story of one of the most creative and controversial bands in rock history.”

Coronet Books Blurb, 1997

“A worthy addition to the history of punk and new wave”

The Times

 “Buckley has a shedload of sex, drugs, rock’n’roll and black magic for his material”

 The Guardian

 “Buckley has produced a wonderfully terse and entertaining account of a band seemingly out of control from the word go”

 Record Collector

 “I didn’t realize I was such a psychopath.  It’s all true!”

 J.J. Burnel (1997), after reading this book

“The most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written”

Ebury Publishing Blurb, 1999

This Sunday Times bestseller was revised in 2000 and 2005 and David is currently working on a fourth edition, coming soon.

“The best of Bowie’s umpteen biographers”

 The Guardian

 “Fascinating portrait of a fascinating artist. If you like Bowie … this is the one to read”

 Marc Almond

“R.E.M.’s public image has always been tightly controlled, icons of anti-celebrity rock, who became huge celebrity rock stars, they were, according to the story, the first U.S. post-new-wave band who were both commercially successful and cool.  Drawing on exclusive interviews with Mike Mills, Peter Buck and other members of R.E.M.’s nuclear family, Fiction re-evaluates the music and career of a group who sold almost no records for the first half of their existence, then became the biggest rock group in the world in the second half.”

Ebury Publishing Blurb, 2002

“Craftsman-like reading of the R.E.M. story”

 Uncut

 “Buckley has created a straightforward and enjoyable document … this is as good as it gets”

 The Record Collection

“Roxy Music were the first – and best – of the art-rock bands.  Led by the hippest working-class man in London, Bryan Ferry, they rebelled against the denim-clad anonymity of the early 1970s and turned the decade into a huge glam-rock party.  Together with arch-experimentalist Bryan Eno, Ferry dreamed up a witty, glamorous, romantic, avant-garde pop songs such as “Love is the Drug” and “Virginia Plain” and performed them in the most trashy and decadent manner.  And he decorated the band’s albums with the longest-legged models in rock history.

He also fell passionately in love with one of them – Jerry Hall – an affair that ended sadly, and publicly, when she left him for Mick Jagger.  The band broke up, got back together, broke up, and got back together again, while Ferry continued to release solo records regardless.

Here, for the first time, is the band’s whole story.  The author has interviewed all the major players, including Ferry himself, and the result will long remain the definitive history of a brand that changed popular music forever.“

Carlton Books Blurb, 2005

“A truly global superstar, Elton John is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time.  His 300-date Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is further testament to his enormous worldwide popularity, and he is loved for his outrageous personality and witty outspokenness as well as for his music, and his widely respected for his dedication to charity work and LGBT activism.

Drawing on many first-hand interviews with his close associates and musical collaborators, this is a page-turningly entertaining story.  It provides a fascinating and revealing portrait of one of the most admired pop artists ever, and offers a new perspective on an extraordinary man whose influence is felt around the world.”

Carlton Books Blurb, 2019

“Kraftwerk: Publikation is more than the ultimate biography of a unique group; it’s a book that stands beside Kraftwerk’s own innovative albums as an apt and well-crafted artefact in its own right.

As pioneers of electronic music Kraftwerk became the living, performing, embodiment of a stripped-down and unique brand of German rock.  Records such as Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine, and Computer World were brilliant inventions that owed no debt to the prevailing music trends of their day.  Nothing about the classic Kraftwerk lineup of Ralf, Florian, Karl and Wolfgang was conventional and now for the first time, a definitive account of their 40-year-plus history celebrates their trail-blazing credentials.

With contributions from Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos as well as other musicians form the world of electronica, PUBLIKATION offers a fascinating window in to the long life of a truly inimitable band.  This new edition updates the Kraftwerk story with reviews of recent concerts at art installations around the world.”

Omnibus Press Blurb, 2015

“… a spirited, admiring effort”

 Mojo (****)

 “This book is evidently a master work equally torn out of, and inspired by, a love and desire for understanding and recognition of its subject.  Unlike any other music biography that I have ever read”

 Andy McCluskey, OMD

 “The new Kraftwerk biography really is wonderful, isn’t it?”

 Alexis Petridis, chief rock and pop writer, The Guardian (on Twitter)

“The Indispensable consumers’ guide to the music of David Bowie.

An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by Bowie from his early singles, through the Ziggy Stardust era, the Eno/Berlin trilogy, the solo years, Tin Machine and his most recent work, including The Next Day.

Features include:

A detailed album by album, track by track analysis…

A separate section on compilations of early material and hits collections…

Eight page colour section

A David Bowie timeline”

Omnibus Press Blurb, 2015