Books by Dave Thompson

Featuring honest and open first-hand accounts, Come and Get These Memories is more than just a behind-the-scenes look at Motown Records at its peak: Eddie and Brian set the record straight on both their personal and professional lives and offer a revealing slice of pop-music history.

BETRAYAL Nothing has the power to cut you open like betrayal does. Humans have betrayed each other since the dawn of time, and if you're holding this book, it's likely it's touched your life too. What you hold in your hands is a raw and real account of one man's journey through a betrayal of Hollywood proportions. Instead of the drama, what you get is the golden lessons, finely distilled, into simple and practical steps you can take right now to navigate the initial chaos, heal your heart, and step forward into a bright new future.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WANT TO WRITE A BOOK. MOST DON'T. HERE'S WHY. If you're a coach, practitioner, expert, speaker, personal brand or entrepreneur, you know the value of writing, publishing and launching a best-selling book. Credibility, authority, leads, speaking engagements, media appearances, new business opportunities - a book is like a golden handshake to take you to the next level. So why, with so much at stake, do so many highly talented, hard working, ambition people struggle for years to finish their book? In this book, coach and founder of the Inspirational Book Writers Program Dave Thompson examines the 12 major obstacles that stop people from writing their book and launching it to the world. This book takes you into the heart of the book writing journey, bringing you awareness so you can navigate your way to great success with your book.

The greatest gift you can give the world is to fully express yourself, in all your ways; passionate, determined, a little quirky, fun or otherwise. Because when you cast your inspirational message, ideas or methodology into the hands of the people that need them most, that?s when we uplift the consciousness of the world.Writing and publishing an inspirational book:? Will give you an opportunity to fully express yourself, put to bed old stories and experience a personal breakthrough of epic proportions. ? Makes solid business sense. An inspirational best-selling book positions you as an authority in your industry, making you the go-to celebrity with the ability to charge premium prices. ? Creates much BUZZ and EXCITEMENT around your brand in the marketplace, attracting loads of attention and generating new leads and enthusiastic, raving fan customers.Use this book as the kick up the butt you need to write your book, before it?s too late. Now is the time.

Back in print for the first time in some two decades, The Industrial Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition includes the full text of a book first published at the dawn of the Industrial Music boom of the mid-1990s.Featuringbiographies and discographies of every Industrial band functioning at the time, together with retrospectives, features, exclusive interviews and more, ""The Industrial Revolution"" has long been regarded as the essential guide to a musical form that promised, at one point, to become the dominant force of the decade.Covering the entire spectrum of industrial rock bands, The Industrial Revolution remains a spellbinding introduction to... and a reminder of... the moment when experimental left field music was poised on the very edge of mainstream superstardom. Complete and unabridged.

It was one of the most memorable hit singles of the late 1960s, an hypnotic, walking bass led swirl through an unreleased Bob Dylan song, that seemingly confirmed in the public eye that the critics had been saying for a year or more. That, in an age already awash with "super groups," the combination of singer Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and his Trinity was poised to become the most singularly innovative union of them all. It didn't work out like that. Today, they're probably best remembered for a sixties hit that was reworked for the theme to TV's Absolutely Fabulous. But still, the Driscoll-Auger Trinity remains among the most imposing partnerships of the late 1960s. This is their story.

A wild ride through the first (pre-Tommy) near-decade of the Who, alive with incident, anecdote and argument. From the days of the Detours to the highlights of the Who, SEARCHING FOR THE YOUNG MOD REBELS documents the art, the energy and the sheer determination that transformed four Shepherds Bush Mods into one of the greatest rock'n'roll bands in history.

From Simple Minds to Stargaze, from Marilyn Manson to Morrissey, from Peter Gabriel to the Polecats, The Freakiest Show is a guide to ever known cover of a David Bowie composition recorded or performed since 1964, and updated to include the 2018 Howard Stern tribute, the 2019 Bowie Alumni tour and much more.Every officially released Bowie album, single and out-take is recreated through the music of his fans, friends and admirers, fro Kenny Miller in 1965 to a cast of thousands in 2018-2019, and documented with 300+ exclusive reviews and both new and archive interviews.Newly (2019) revised this fully illustrated edition also includes a listing of every known cover, anonymous soundalikes, and a guide to every cover Bowie himself recorded or performed.

Nobody Told Me is the long awaited autobiography by Jim McCarty, a founding and current member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Yardbirds, a founder member of Renaissance, Together and Box of Frogs, and an internationally respected songwriter. Open, honest, modest and affecting, Jim looks back on his long and remarkable career with both a keen eye for detail and his trademark sense of humour. From the birth of the British R&B boom to the latest incarnation of his much beloved band,Jim tells of his life on and off stage, alongside some of the most legendary musicians in rock history - including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page (who also contributed the book's introduction).From the Yardbirds, the story unfolds across Together, Renaissance and Illusion, collaborations with the Pretty Things and the British Invasion All Stars, Box of Frogs, Stairway and more.

STOP LIVING A BORING LIFE AND START LIVING OUTRAGEOUSLY Are you staring down the barrel of a job (or life path) that you know is going to suck?

For ten years, the Fruits de Mer record label has been releasing some of the most exhilarating, and eminently collectible, records of the 21st century. Now, for the first time, the full story of this remarkable phenomenon is told. Featuring over 50 exclusive interviews and a wealth of rare and unseen photos, The Incomplete Angler is a celebration of modern record collecting, and the people who make it possible. Includes behind the scenes stories and interviews with Sendelica, Us and Them, Crystal Jacqueline, Cranium Pie, the Chemistry Set, Astralasia, Stay, Beautify Junkyards, Soft Hearted Scientists, the Pretty Things, Schizo Fun Addict, Jack Ellister, the Bevis Frond, Anton Barbeau, Alison O'Donnell and more. Also includes a full discography, including collectible variants and coloured vinyl releases.

Mixing glam and post-punk influences, fronted by androgynous Brett Anderson, Suede thrust indie-rock into the charts with singles like "Metal Mickey" and "Stay Together" and in the process catalysed the Brit-pop revolution that would follow. This is the only book to document in detail Suede's nineties-long musical career - their classic albums analysed track by track

Writing a book about Otway-Barrett that ends in 1979 is like writing a book about the Beatles that ends in 1963. Or would it? What if that book was actually written in 1979, at a time when true pop stardom still seemed to be in reach, and then abandoned, forgotten, tucked away in a folder, and only rediscovered by utter chance, when its author, close to 30 years older than when it was written, was looking for something else entirely? That would be They Did It Otway, a book that traces John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett from their earliest musical (or otherwise) strivings, through to the release of John's Where Did I Go Right? and Willy's Call Of The Wild, and Any Moment Now, that great golden bird was going to swoop down and transport Otway, at least, to Las Vegas and beyond. They Did It Otway was written, with John and Willy's full co-operation, before history was rewritten, and it emerges all the more incredible for it.

In the beginning, there was Space Rock. Not quite in the very beginning, of course; sundry creation myths notwithstanding, nothing springs from absolutely nothing. But Space Rock has been with us 50 years, and it will surely be with us for at least 50 more. To the first Floyd fans, it is "Astronomy Domine"; to mid-period Gong fans, it is the Flying Teapot trilogy. To the festival faithful, it is "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout'; to the Hawkwind fans who still flock to see them, it was and is it all. Space Rock embraces all these things; Space Rock thus became all these things. And if the basics are blurred, ask Daevid Allen, Syd Barrett, Tim Blake, Edgar Broughton, Arthur Brown, Can, Robert Calvert, Chrome, the Deviants, Mick Farren, Faust, Edgar Froese, Gong, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Hillage, Kraftwerk, Legendary Pink Dots, Man, Michael Moorcock, Pink Fairies, Popol Vuh, Pressurehed, Quiet Sun, Ramases, Klaus Schulze, Sky Cries Mary, Sphynx, Tangerine Dream, Steve Took, Nik Turner, Twink AND MORE!

Newly revised (2017) edition of a book first published in 2004, WHEELS OUT OF GEAR is a vibrant exploration of the 2-Tone, Mod and Oi! movements of the late 1970s and early '80s, set against the turbulent backdrop of Thatcher's Britain. To a soundtrack provided by the Specials, the Jam, the Angelic Upstarts and more, Britain reeled beneath a firestorm of brutal, and constantly escalating political confrontation. Wheels Out of Gear is an unflinching portrait of this tumultuous time, a stoy which Uncutmagazine described as "a fine book that is as much social history as musical biography," and Record Collector called "a fascinating and essential account of what happened, the way we remember it."

Throughout the 1990s, Brit-in-America Dave Thompson was among that hardy handful of journalists writing and fighting to introduce the US to the glories of Britpop - Oasis, Suede, Blur, Pulp, Elastica, Supergrass, Sleeper and many, many more. This collection brings together around 100 reviews and interviews as published between 1993-1999 in a wealth of American magazines, from mainstream newstand publications to underground fanzines and local free sheets. Unseen since their original publication two decades back, they trace Britpop from its earliest beginnings through to the end of the last century, highlighting all the major releases (and many minor ones too) in both Thompson's own words, and those of their makers. A musical time machine whisking you back to the days of Parklife, Morning Glory, Dog Man Star and so much more. Includes index.

Those We Have Loved is an epic odyssey through the bleakest backwaters of English Football League history, the story of the 30 sides voted, or otherwise removed, from the competition between 1888-1988. Colourful contemporary match reports, in-depth background detail and modern analysis combine to tell the alternate history of English football; the story of lives lived for the most part at the lower end of the League, but every one tinged with glory and triumph alongside the final tragedies. Fully revised and updated to note the rebirth of at least a few of the clubs featured, it is a reminder that many of those we have loved are still beloved today. Featuring: Aberdare, Accrington Stanley, Ashington, Barrow, Bootle, Bradford PA, Burton Swifts/United/Wanderers, Darwen, Durham, Gainsborough T, Gateshead, Glossop NE, Leeds City, Loughborough, Merthyr Town, Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Nelson, New Brighton/Tower, Newport, Northwich V, South Shields, Southport, Stalybridge, Thames, Wigan Borough, Workington

Newly revised for the band's 40th anniversary, a new 2017 edition of the ultimate story of the ultimate post-punk band. Combining the chaos and vocal rasp of the Sex Pistols with a Bowie-esque glamour, the Psychedelic Furs hit the big time in the U.S. when John Hughes wrote a movie based on their early single "Pretty in Pink." Poised to join U2 and Simple Minds in the premier league, they withdrew behind their shades, remaining a cult act, but one with a hugely devoted following.