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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · 16h

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL: In the Studio + @thetimes.com

Day 2 recording the Audiobook. Ahead of news of a major exclusive feature & interview in this weekends Saturday Times!

geni.us/ThisAintRock...

#thisaintrocknroll #davidbowie#Nazis#FascismWhite @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 5d

To mark the launch of his powerful, timely new book THIS AIN'T ROCK N ROLL, award-winning author @danielrachel.bsky.social has a series of events lined up including an unmissable Rough Trade East date with @billybragg.bsky.social + @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social

Mon 24 Nov: dice.fm/partner/dice...

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 6d

What if the Beatles hadn’t split up but took their late stage conflicts and turned them into one more album?

Part history; part reality-informed fantasy. Beatles fans should enjoy how @danielrachel.bsky.social compiles the Lost Album of the Beatles.

#NowReading

Paperback copy of The Lost Album of The Beatles by Daniel Rachel lying on a wooden table. The cover features the subtitle “What if the Beatles hadn’t split up?” with the word “Beatles” in colourful, blocky letters. Below is a photo of the four Beatles dressed in bright 1970s outfits, posing playfully with raised fists.

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · 9d

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL Billy Bragg!

To celebrate the publication of my new book about Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich

Join lively conversation w/anti-fascist activist
@billybragg.bsky.social
Moderated by esteemed journalist Miranda Sawyer

@roughtrade1976.bsky.social
24.11.25

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 24d

Some thoughts on 'This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll' by @danielrachel.bsky.social due out next month through @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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A vital, chilling, and impactful documentation of pop music’s incessant obsession with Nazism and the culture's willingness to look the other way...

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Aug 1

SOME MIGHT SAY....COOL BRITANNIA IS BACK....

I'll be discussing Then & Now on BBC World Service Sunday 8.30am

Buy the current Amazon No.1 Bestseller
Don't Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia
www.amazon.co.uk/.../14091807...

#Oasis #coolbritannia #liamgallagher

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our friends @waterstones.bsky.social are running 25% off online pre-orders for some of our upcoming gems...

Use code SUMMER25 for money off the Manics, Elvis, Curepedia and more: www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

@danielrachel.bsky.social @simonprice.bsky.social @keithcameron2.bsky.social

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · Jul 20

Reading a breathless - and nonsensical - story in the Guardian about the return of 90s Cool Britannia, when @danielrachel.bsky.social offers an excellent counterpoint:

"The decade exploded because of the desperation and repression creative people felt and engineered into their work," Rachel added. "We may be living through a similar pattern of events, particularly with the troubling rise of rightwing rhetoric across the globe, but if Cool Britannia is to be repeated the seeds will not be found in glossy Netflix-commissioned sitcoms or attention-grabbing social media influencers.
"They will be bubbling in the underfunded, underpaid, backstreets of the UK where our country's greatest artists have always risen from."

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jul 18

A Great Night in the House of Fun!

A Madness film premiere & 2 Tone chatter.

Thank you to everybody who came to Rock 'n' Roll Book Club at The Ivy House

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story
geni.us/TooMuchTooYo...?

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Louder Than Words Festival @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social · Jul 10

Author @danielrachel.bsky.social new book provides a much-needed critical examination of pop music's relationship with fascism, shedding new light on an urgent subject

Join Daniel in conversation at #Louder2025 Sat 15th Nov, 8pm @innsideuk #Manchester

All tickets: tinyurl.com/28rp8r9b

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social · Jul 7

Night boat to Nunhead anyone? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2-tone-nig...

2 Tone Night w/ Daniel Rachel in conversation + New Madness Film Screening

First UK showing of a brand new Madness documentary plus a conversation about 2 Tone with Penderyn Prize winning author Daniel Rachel.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jul 4

HELLO! GOOD TO BE BACK!

To celebrate their return to the live stage

ISLE OF NOISES Without doubt the finest book I've read about songwriters-Noel Gallagher

DONT LOOK BACK IN ANGER 'The tumult, the triumph & the toilery of the 90s-Shaun Keaveny

OASIS: KNEBWORTH-The Sunday Times Bestseller

#Oasis

Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jun 30

IT'S MADNESS...A UK PREMIERE!

Come & join the Nutty Boys for the British premiere of Prince of Ska, Kings of Pop feat Suggs, Bedders, Lynval Golding, Rhoda Dakar: one of the country's greatest ever singles' band

2 Tone Night w/Daniel Rachel
Thu 17 Jul
#madness #2tone #suggs #toomuchtooyoung

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yes, click on box in bottom corner that says Version. Chose, English - enjoy!

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jun 18

PRINCE OF SKA, KING OF POP!

I'm really thrilled to have contributed (and worked as consultant) on this documentary about Madness starring Suggs, Bedders, Clive Langer, Dave Robinson, Rhoda Dakar , Lynval Golding and more!

www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

Madness - Prince du ska, roi de la pop - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE

Cuivres éclatants, rythmes bondissants, synthétiseurs fous : retour en images sur la déferlante britannique Madness, par laquelle le ska punk a conquis la pop.

www.arte.tv

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Jun 17

An Evening With:

My first chance to discuss This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll' leads to conversation with Lee Brackstone about The Beatles, Joy Division &Sid Vicious!

Thank you for a great evening
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@wnbooks.bsky.social
@thesociallondon.bsky.social

geni.us/ThisAintRock...

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're part of this literary showcase on Monday night
@thesociallondon.bsky.social, with some top author readings alongside our imprint siblings @wnbooks.bsky.social and Phoenix.

Very limited FREE tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/white-...

Would love to see you there...

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · May 29

Here's @danielrachel.bsky.social and WR publisher
Lee Brackstone explaining more about why THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL is such a necessary book on a challenging subject.

geni.us/ThisAintRock...

‘This has been a tremendously difficult book to write. But I believe necessary. As a teenage music fan, I struggled to reconcile rock ’n’ roll’s rebellious attitude with my understanding of the horrors committed by the Third Reich. The swastika links both as an emblem of Nazi oppression but also a leitmotif for rock ’n’ roll defiance. Today, the global rise of fascism challenges the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in the Second World War. If rock ’n’ roll is to remain at the vanguard of the revolutionary spirit it needs to confront its shortcomings, stand against persecution, and address its historical failings.’ Daniel Rachel

‘Rock ‘n’ roll is an artform born out of rebellion, a primal urge towards transgression, and unfortunately (sometimes) an arch-stupidity which has seen its most prominent architects indulge iconography that now, more than ever, feels troubling and baffling. This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll is a historical account of how Nazi imagery has infected and influenced popular music from the schoolboy preoccupations of John Lennon to certain contemporary hip hop artists. For almost seventy years the most venerated musicians and performers on the planet have flirted with the dubious and delirious aesthetics of fascism; in this book Daniel Rachel, a writer acclaimed for books which celebrate rock’s resistance to racism, asks why and how this happened, drawing together all the various threads in a parallel history which maps rock ‘n’ roll against the crimes of the Third Reich.’ Lee Brackstone

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · May 29

The new book from @danielrachel.bsky.social, THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL, is a meticulously researched and sensitively told history of pop music’s enduring and problematic fascination with fascism.

Out this October, with an introduction from @billybragg.bsky.social geni.us/ThisAintRock...

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Resident Music @resident-music.com · May 29

DANIEL RACHEL
This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, & the Third Reich
*Signed* Hardback
Preorder: www.resident-music.com/productdetai...
A sadly prescient, shocking, & absorbing account of pop music's complicated history with fascism
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@danielrachel.bsky.social

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · May 29

I'm super excited to announce my new book:

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich

'A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music’s complicated history with fascism & the imagery surrounding it'
30.10.25

geni.us/ThisAintRock...

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Apr 16

ON MY TELEVISION!
A cameo appearance in a great documentary...

Tonight on Sky Arts, 9pm: @paulineblack.bsky.social : A 2 Tone Story

#theselecter #paulineblack #2tone

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Economics Teacher @busecon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Absolutely. The late 70’s/80’s probably lent it itself to more political and Economics in songs.
“Walls Come Tumbling Down’ by @danielrachel.bsky.social is a Fanta book. Also his one on Two Tone is brilliant

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Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social · Mar 18

VIA VENEZIA!

A 2-minute 2-Tone film from Italy...with dancing, debating and destruction!

To celebrate the Italian publication of Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story

#ska #reggae #2Tone #thespecials #theselecter #madness #theBeat

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · Feb 27

"Terry Hall’s vocals were often recorded in two separate takes, one bored and one angry, then mixed together ... They embody the small-town feeling of stretches of boredom shattered by sudden violence." Ian Penman on @danielrachel.bsky.social's Too Much Too Young. harpers.org/archive/2025...

An Unstoppable March, by Ian Penman

The story of 2 Tone

harpers.org

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