REELIN IN THE YEARS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF A NORTHERN LIFE

When Mark Radcliffe was born in the late 1950s, Britain was trying to find its own version of the dangerously sexy Elvis ... we gave the world Cliff Richard but by the time Mark was old enough to recognise pop songs on the radio, the UK was exploding into the world's most exciting place to be for a young music fan. In this, his eagerly awaited new book, Mark Radcliffe takes a record from each year of his life, using the song as a starting point from which to reach out and pull together a wonderfully entertaining catalogue of memories and asides about British culture. And, as one would expect from this unique and popular broadcaster, the tunes he lists are not the usual suspects. From The Kinks, through Slade, Kraftwerk and Joy Division to Fleet Foxes and Elbow, Mark's selections bring forth a diverse collision of styles from eras uniquely defined by their musical genres and fashions right up to the present day.