Alex James - Over the Rainbow : Tales from an Unexpected Year (Book) Hayley Williams the sounds of 1978 witnesses

the sounds of 1978 witnesses the original punk template fractured into a dazzling day-glo riot of sub-genres: new wave

It’s only when Kuti and his backup singers break through the hypnotic funk that the song transcends melodic ecstasy

Multi-instrumentalists Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber have been friends since their Vienna schooldays

and once bass) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) - formed in 1997 in Detroit

Alex James - Over the Rainbow : Tales from an Unexpected Year (Book) Hayley Williams the sounds of 1978 witnessesJoyfully chaotic a memoir of Blurs comeback year Guardian 'Warm and funny a gorgeous book The Times A raucous, behind the scenes account of the year Blur got back together. There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, Id suddenly realised, they did still. 'One