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Member	Item		Review/Comment
TopPopper 19th Nov 2015		Book Daily Star Top British Teams Football Album - Rovohurst (1980)	See the set of Aston Villa stickers here.
TopPopper 16th Nov 2015		Book Tony Jasper - 20 Years Of The British Record Charts 1955-1975 (1976)	We can change the date - do we know the month in 1976? Incidentally, it's good if you can, to include a scan of the printing history page, which is usually next to or just after the inside title page. It helps clarify any uncertainties like this.
TopPopper 16th Nov 2015		Book Mark Shipper - Paperback Writer (1980)	Looks like it. Amended accordingly...
TopPopper 15th Nov 2015		Book Various Authors - The Complete Book Of The British Charts Singles And Albums (1st Edition) (2000)	I've got this too - I'll check the edition later. When I got it I threw out my Guinness books for this 'all in one' - EPs too, here!
TopPopper 10th Nov 2015		Book Various Authors - Not 1982 (1981)	I used to have this when I was a kid. I thought it was marvelous. There was another the following year - think it had a yellow cover.
TopPopper 9th Nov 2015		Book Anthony Scaduto - Bob Dylan (1972)	Advert for this book on the back of this magazine.
TopPopper 9th Nov 2015		Book Jeremy Pascall - The Beatles Story (1974)	Thanks. So they are different from the regular issues which were stapled?
TopPopper 8th Nov 2015		Book Jeremy Pascall - The Beatles Story (1974)	Book or magazine? If it's stapled, I'd say magazine, so could go on Magazine World.
TopPopper 8th Nov 2015		Book Various Authors - The Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles 1952-1977 (1977)	I guess this is the first ever edition? Don't think I've seen it before.
TopPopper 7th Nov 2015		Book F. W. Gaisberg - Music On Record (1946)	Well, that's cleared that one up then.
TopPopper 7th Nov 2015		Book Chris Ingham - The Rough Guide To The Beatles (2006)	Another one for your list, JPGR&B. This book is anything other than a 'rough' guide, being a really thorough survey (and sometimes evaluation) of pretty much every aspect of the Beatles, from their promo films to their solo albums.
TopPopper 7th Nov 2015		Book Daily Mirror - The Beatles: How Our Boys Conquered America (2014)	Is this a book? It looks like a magazine, I think.
TopPopper 1st Nov 2015		Book Various Authors - Manufacturing Consent (1994)	It's a cliché, but everyone should read this book.
TopPopper 28th Oct 2015		Book Darrell Huff - How To Lie With Statistics (1954)	A really fine little book. You might well pass it by if you saw it in a bookshop, but it's a genuine eye-opener. Pity my copy is so worn.
TopPopper 27th Oct 2015		Book Helen Weller - British Hit Singles 11th Edition (1997)	Scrub that suggestion - the book title keeps changing anyway. I'll leave my comment visible anyway, in case someone else has the same thought - but I think a list is the way to go.
TopPopper 27th Oct 2015		Book Helen Weller - British Hit Singles 11th Edition (1997)	Can I suggest that all editions of this book be listed simply as "Guinness British Hit Singles", and then they will all appear together. The edition number could be added either as a sub-title, or just in notes.
TopPopper 18th Oct 2015		Book Clinton Heylin - Revolution In The Air (2010)	Review I bought this partly because of its title - I hoped for a Dylan version of "Revolution In The Head". It's not quite that, but it is a song-by-song study of the genesis and development of each of Dylan's known songs, including many obscure to me, and not on his albums ("Gates of Hate"; "Troubled And I Don't Know Why"; "Phantom Engineer" and so on). It's fascinating to read, and the author has an entertaining style. However, he does seem to have some odd views here and there - for example describing "When the Ship Comes In" as a sister song to "The Times They Are A-Changin'" - there's no clear link to this listener's ears, let alone such a close one. Also, he is quite pedantic about factual matters in Dylan's true-life songs, such as "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol", for example taking pains to castigate Dylan for the fact that the real Hattie Carrol was not "killed by a blow, lain slain by a cane", but died of a coronary, and that Dylan missed a T out of William Zantzinger's name. This pattern repeats too often and is a little irritating - in volume 2 for example, he explains (with song lyric quotes to prove the point) how Dylan's version of events in the song "Hurricane" is inaccurate, since when the boxer was stopped by the police, they initially let him go on his way. He makes no allowance for the deliberate creativity or drama in Dylan's narrative, which is a pity. Make allowances for these quirks, and this book plus volume 2 are fascinating documents, detailing Dylan's songbook not just in the 60s but bang up to date. Four out of five for me. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
TopPopper 17th Oct 2015		Book Stuart Payne - Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down (2004)	The covers shown here are printed directly onto the board. There is an additional paper dust cover, with a different design. Mine is sadly lost.
TopPopper 9th Oct 2015		Book David Hately - Paul McCartney's Rupert And The Frog Song (1986)	Paul's first number 1 for about 30 years!
TopPopper 9th Oct 2015		Book Various Authors - The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away (1975)	If I was Pete Best, I'd be hacked off. The blurb calls Stu the Fifth Beatle but doesn't even mention Pete, who was a full band member for a long while, and recorded with them in Germany and at Abbey Road, not to mention all those Cavern gigs. It just says the group were looking for a drummer until the "advent" of Ringo Starr, while Pete is on the cover of this very book!
TopPopper 7th Oct 2015		Book Roger Hargreaves - Mr. Men (2011)	Cool. Looks like a compendium of stories which were first published in the little square paperbacks - a later series of stories, not the original set. My lad has the Mr Messy in the Snow one.
TopPopper 5th Oct 2015		Book Various Authors - Bob Dylan: From A Hard Rain To A Slow Train (1982)	That has to be the strangest back cover I've seen!
TopPopper 5th Oct 2015		Book Travis Elborough - The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster (2005)	Some of these old ladies are still running. I've seen a couple in the east of the city. Great buses, but the new versions are also marvellous.
TopPopper 3rd Oct 2015		Book Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler (1981)	Made the changes. Agree, 'Books' is generally not needed, especially where the publisher is already listed without it. That said, I did upload one earlier with 'Books' in, as it just sounded right.
TopPopper 3rd Oct 2015		Book Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler (1981)	I think the title and sub-title should be merged into just the title.
TopPopper 3rd Oct 2015		Book C. J. J. Berry - First Steps In Winemaking (1981)	Someone should start a list of books with appropriately-named authors. Mr Berry could go first!
TopPopper 3rd Oct 2015		Book Peter Morris - Aston Villa (1960)	Crying into my beer tonight.
TopPopper 3rd Oct 2015		Book C. J. J. Berry - First Steps In Winemaking (1981)	I'm curious nboldock - why did you select this book from the many you must have, for uploading? I notice it's sold one and a half million - is it especially good?
TopPopper 28th Sep 2015		Book Fenton Bresler - Who Killed John Lennon? (1989)	As if Chapman or Yoko would have kept schtum about some doorman for all these years, if Chapman was just an innocent bystander. Chapman did it, he's a nut-job.
TopPopper 27th Sep 2015		Book Fenton Bresler - Who Killed John Lennon? (1989)	What's the issue? Mark Chapman did it. Yoko saw him.

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