MANCHESTER MUST DANCE (HB)

Pickering has lived through decades of rapid change in popular music. As an influential DJ he introduced house music into the legendary Hacienda. He signed Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records before working with Kasabian, Gossip and Calvin Harris at Sony. His Mercury Prize-winning, multi-million-selling group M People transformed the music industry's attitude to dance music. As he tells his remarkable story he introduces an array of friends and collaborators, many of whom would become important – and sometimes notorious – figures in music history.