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Books with extra thrust.
On what would have been his 78th birthday, #GregLake in the Manticore rehearsal room with #emersonlakeandpalmer in 1973
📷Peter Keen (from elpbook.com)
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's the seventy-fourth anniversary of the wedding of #FrankSinatra and #AvaGardner.
📷 from 'Marriage On The Rocks', 1965
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
How it all began… 6 November, 1975 at @glenmatlock.bsky.social's college. #iwasateenagesexpistol
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A week to go – tickets include a copy of the Classic edition of the book #fatboyslim
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy birthday to the witty, urbane and talented [email protected]
Cowboys are his weakness…
📷 James Bareham (2002)
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
wishing many happy returns to #AdamAnt, with fond memories of #thebloomsburytheatre in 2008
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Now shipping, Lawrence Impey's Police Lineup – the birth of a #supergroup captured on #b/w film before they were famous
policelineupbook.com #stewartcopeland #andysummers #sting
Stewart Copeland: This is how to treat your bass player
YouTube video by Rocket 88
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The ascent of piano rock'n'roll, from #fatsdomino to #littlerichard, #jerryleelewis, #brianauger – from a 1969 episode of #themonkees TV show
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
#MarkHollis a perfect silence is now (ironically) an audiobook
Also, markhollisbook.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#fatboyslim revising for his very successful Q&A last night at @theatreroyalbtn.bsky.social
fatboyslimbook.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
💔

📷Gregory Harris
October 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
HBD #VickiePerks, have you still got that #Fuzzbox?
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Sending birthday wishes to one-time Charlie's darling, #thethreedegrees singer #SheilaFerguson, a true vintageblackglamourbook.com star
October 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Btd in 1938, #EddieCochran, without whom rock'n'roll would be a different place
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's Stingo's birthday. He always made for a good pic – this one was taken at the first ever classic #police lineup photo session, in his basement flat in Bayswater, August 11th, 1977, by photographer Lawrence Impey (from policelineupbook.com)
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So long #liverpoolpoet Brian Patten, you showed us that poetry wasn't all flowers and ancient heroes;
Be quieter–
I really do need to escape;
take the route you might take
if ever this hurrying is over.

#booksky💔
September 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
More stories from #NormanCook AKA #FatboySlim can be heard at the Brighton Theatre Royal launch for the fatboyslimbook.com book on Oct 14th
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Buon Compleanno, #Zucchero
📷 Gianluigi Di Napoli
September 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sadly departed, the lovely #DannyThompson
📷 Nick White
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Born 23rd September 1930, the great #RayCharles – making modern sounds in Country & Western music 62 years before #CowboyCarter
📷 Hugh Bell (1962)
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy birthday to #lolcreme, once of #10cc, then #godleyandcreme and now #theproducers, but here (1977) with #kevingodley and #petercook promoting #thegizmo
www.10ccbook.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fifty five years since #JimiHendrix had his last cup of tea.
📷 Monika Dannemann, Sept 17, 1970 at the Samarkand Hotel, W11
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
£22b for AI – but this is priceless to us… #books #printing #BookSky #itaintovertilthefatboysings the #fatboyslim book on print fatboyslimbook.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM