Read The Quotes Then Buy The Book

“a glorious wallow in unabashed musical nostalgia...”
Roger Bing - Croydon Advertiser, October 98

“the oddest (certainly most specialised) music book to emerge for some little while...”
Ross Fortune - Time Out, January 99

“this ‘record’ is a nostalgic treat...”
Mark Davison - Surrey Mirror, January 99

“plenty of ernest research obviously went into the early rock’n’roll and beat years...”
Pat Gilbert - Mojo,  February 99

“a fascinating account of the sound of the suburb...”
Patrick Humphries - Record Collector, March 99

“a must-have for all those who supported live music in Croydon over the last thirty years and a cracking good read for music fans everywhere...”
Waterstone’s Bookshop.

"Being an expatriate living in Chicago, I found the book to be wonderful reading. Especially being a musician and being Roy Budd's unknown brother, which is quite funny really as I'm mentioned in there a few times, but as 'Roy's brother' or as 'his brother Ian'. "Ian??"

But it is a great book and if anyone really wants to know about the history of British rock, buy it!"
P. Budd - web book review, amazon.co.uk (June 99)