Great Lost Albums

Mark Billingham, David Quantick, Martyn Waites (Tania Carver) , Stav Sherez

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Little Brown
30 September 2014

Rock & Pop music; Fiction & Literature; Humour

We can all name the classic rock and pop albums of the last fifty years. But what about the great lost albums? The albums that fell behind the back of the musical sofa? The albums that, in a very real sense, have been completely made up by the authors of this book?

It took a bestselling crime writer or three to hunt down these fifty lost classics, and an award-winning TV comedy scriptwriter to buy them a pint and make them write it. From the 60s to the 00s, with track listings and full histories, Great Lost Albums reveals the recordings that - just perhaps - never existed, but really should have done.

Albums include:

Bob Dylan's legendary collaboration with Liberace

Joy Division's 'musical theatre' period

Coldplay's IKEA Sessions, including 'Conscious Uncoupling (See Leaflet for Details)' and 'In my Place (There's a Lovely HEMNES Shelving System)'

The Who's magisterial, abandoned rock opera 'Bingo Wizard'

Kraftwerk's hastily deleted Christmas album, featuring the melancholic classic 'I Wish to Return this Item'

...and many, many more.

By: Mark Billingham, David Quantick, Martyn Waites (Tania Carver), Stav Sherez
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780751557060
ISBN 10: 0751557064
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.markbillingham.com

Mark Billingham is a number one bestselling author and a former stand-up comedian. Martyn Waites is better known as his pseudonym, international bestselling crime writer Tania Carver. Stav Sherez writes crime fiction for Faber and is a former music journalist. David Quantick is a music journalist (N.M.E., Q) and radio and TV comedy writer, who has contributed to shows such as BAFTA award-winning The Thick of It, Veep and The Day Today.

Reviews for Great Lost Albums

One of the central tragedies of this hilarious collection of fantasy albums is that I will never ever get to hear Don't Make Me Funky (You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Funky) by James Brown or the imagined wonder of Trans-Polar Express by Kraftwerk. And I really really want to... Essential reading for the long-suffering music fan -- Phill Jupitus A shocking treasure-trove of hidden gems. It gets funnier and funnier -- Mark Ellen