Alas, we're not mentioned but here's the brilliant Englishman's list of this year's best music books.
After a list of all the faded hair metal giants' memoirs (these books sell so well!) here is the final graf:
Pete Doggett's patient and exhaustive There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter Culture (Canongate £25) has the courage not to sneer at the fraught, often contradictory link-up between late Sixties rock stars such as John Lennon and the radical, if not revolutionary culture that they informed. As ever, the best music books reflect the fact that pop exists in a wider context than mere celebrity solipsism.
