Books published by Outline Press Ltd

Drawing on extensive interviews with the surviving members of the band, What s Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean? finally tells the full story of one of the great cult bands of the 60s.

A candid memoir by a much-loved singer and songwriter, the late, great Dan Hicks, best known for the songs 'I Scare Myself and 'Canned Music , recorded with His Hot Licks. Elvis Costello has indeed written a foreword for it!

A vivid cultural history of Ibiza, from its origins as an island mecca for bohemians to its modern-day reputation as a club-goer s paradise.

A joyful reappraisal of the Bee Gees at the peak of their powers, at the time of their wildly successful but unfairly maligned soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, the album that turned them from has-beens to the musical phenomenon of the 70s.

A revealing exploration of The Man Who Fell To Earth, Nicolas Roeg s classic 1976 film starring David Bowie as an alien who comes to our planet in search of water.

A comprehensive oral history of speed guitar playing, drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of key players, past and present.

The first serious exploration of one of the most successful and enduring acts of the 60s-and the band that created the blueprint for popular culture in the twenty-first century.

Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of Elektra Records, the label that brought the world The Doors, Love, The Stooges, Tim Buckley, and more.

A unique insight into the work of one of Britain's most original and influential songwriters-and an unprecedentedly revealing and instructive guide to how songs and records are made.

One chanter, three drones, three regulators, thirteen keys, too many near-extinctions to mention and 300 years of heroes: that, with a frisson of fairies on moonlit knolls, is the Irish uilleann ('ill-in') pipes. The Wheels Of The World presents an epic tale of triumph and survival, where the soulful heart of a nation has been kept alive across ages by a slender thread of guardians - blind men, eccentrics, self-aggrandisers, noble heroes, bloody-minded revivalists and at least three people compared to Jimi Hendrix. Uilleann piping is Ireland's equivalent to the story of the blues in America, save that here the trail of legends and lore is richer and deeper by far. It is the sound of 18th-century blues - a microtonal virtuoso machine wielded by misfits and geniuses, often one and the same. This is the story of a continuum, from John McSherry, a 21st-century icon, backwards in time through Paddy Keenan, Liam O'Flynn, Finbar Furey, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Patsy Touhey - at the dawn of recorded sound - and thence to find a litany of unrecorded legends before them. It is also a snapshot of professional Irish traditional musicians, after the gold rush of the late 20th century, keeping calm and carrying on.

A startling evocation of the social and artistic revolution that took place in Los Angeles in 1965-66 and gave birth to The Byrds, Love, The Doors, and more

A vivid and revelatory first-hand account of one of the most evocative periods in popular music, written by one the era's greatest songwriters.

Career-spanning biography of one of the most acclaimed and innovative musicians of the past three decades.

From 1958 to 1963, Neil Sedaka sold 25 million records - more than anyone except Elvis Presley. He thought he could do no wrong, but a year later he was all but off the charts, swept away by The Beatles and the British Invasion - a blow he never saw coming. The deejays stopped playing his records, and the public stopped buying them.